Democratic lawmakers demand Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, resign: ‘Can no longer fulfill her duties’
in the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which she is a member, into disarray.
“This type of rumor-mongering is disrespectful to Senator Feinstein’s lifetime of public service and, frankly, ageist and cruel at a time when she just lost her husband,” the congressman said in a statement. However, Khanna now joins a growing chorus of voices on the left calling for Feinstein’s resignation.
“I think what the people around Dianne Feinstein are doing, allowing, being part of this farce of having a lack of a senator in such an important job is really wrong,” he continued. Jon Cooper, a fundraiser for Obama and the former national finance chair of Draft Biden 2016, also called for Feinstein to step down before the Senate reconvenes next week.
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