WASHINGTON – Republican Speaker hopeful Kevin McCarthy is vowing to stop Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar from serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee just days after the GOP won control of the U.S. House.
"Last year, I promised that when I became Speaker, I would remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee based on her repeated anti-semitic and anti-American remarks," McCarthy tweeted with a video of his speech at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas over the weekend. "I'm keeping that promise."
McCarthy's reignited push was met with a scathing statement from Omar, in one of the first partisan flashpoints of the incoming Congress. The Minnesota Democrat said "McCarthy's effort to repeatedly single me out for scorn and hatred — including threatening to strip me from my committee — does nothing to address the issues our constituents deal with."
