Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is expected to be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday afternoon by the new Republican majority, following years of threats by leaders and lawmakers to do so.
The resolution also disapproves of Omar’s critiques of Israel and her comparison of actions by the United States to those of
“These threats increase whenever Republicans put a target on my back,” she wrote. “They can continue to target me, but they will never stop me from fighting for a more just world.”Republicans had initially faced enough internal opposition to threaten the resolution’s passage. Some Republicans raised concerns that removing Omar from the committee was simply an act of retribution after Democrats stripped Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul A. Gosar of their assignments last term.
“I think we should actually have a process that Republicans and Democrats alike that … if somebody had done something of that level, that they could take the action,” he said. “We’re not going to be doing this to people [because] someone comes in saying, ‘I just dislike them.’”Jeffries said Thursday he was “certainly willing to have that conversation” but cautioned that it hinges on how the vote on Omar played out.
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