Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he'll strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her House Foreign Affairs Committee assignment if he is elected speaker in the next term.
Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram provides updates on Kevin McCarthy's path to becoming House Speaker and Dems' search for new leadership on 'Hannity.', R-Calif., said on Saturday that when he is speaker of the House next year he plans to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her"antisemitic" comments.
McCarthy is the likely next speaker once Republicans take the majority in January, pending a vote for the position on Jan. 3. Republicans will have a slim majority, so he can only afford to lose a handful of votes. In a tweet before joining Congress, the Democrat claimed Israel had"hypnotized the world" and after being elected she submitted a resolution to the House comparing boycotting Israel to boycotting the Nazis. McCarthy also condemned remarks made by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene last year when she said,"Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star," which was seen as minimizing the Holocaust.
Democrats, who are currently in the majority, removed Greene from her committee assignments over the comments and other controversial ones she has made in the past.
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