A handful of Republicans may wind up saving Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., House Foreign Affairs Committee seat amid Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempt to remove her.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday that she was "not aware" that there was a trope about "Jews and money" when pressed about her old controversial comments., D-Minn., seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to fulfill his promise to eject her over what he described as antisemitic remarks.
However, the Foreign Affairs Committee is a standing committee, meaning a full House vote is needed for McCarthy’s resolution to remove Omar. In the tightly divided House, McCarthy can only afford to lose four votes to pass the resolution without any Democrats, and Reps. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Ken Buck, R-Colo., have so far signaled they will vote against it.
"There's a First Amendment in this country. We don't have to agree with everything that members say," Mace said."I am not a fan of Ilhan Omar. She's an anti-Semite. She's a bigot. She's a racist. She's a socialist. But that doesn't mean that we cancel people in this country. Republicans don't stand for cancel culture. And that's essentially what this is.
Spartz wrote a statement last week arguing against Omar’s removal, saying,"two wrongs do not make a right," and that"Speaker McCarthy needs to stop ‘bread and circuses’ in Congress and start governing for a change."
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