New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman denied that pulling the alarm was a delaying tactic, but McCarthy compared it to the actions of Jan. 6 rioters.
“I was rushing to make a vote, I was trying to get through a door. I thought the alarm would open the door,” Bowman told reporters. “I didn’t mean to cause confusion… I didn’t know it was going to trip the whole building.”
Bowman pulled the fire alarm as Democrats were reviewing the text of a surprise continuing resolution that had just been shared by Republicans. The stopgap funding bill, which would keep the government open through Nov. 17, but without aid for Ukraine, ultimately passed the House 335-91. Every Democrat except Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, the co-chair of the House Ukraine Caucus, supported the measure.
“This is the United States Congress, not a New York City high school,” New York Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This action warrants expulsion & I’m introducing a resolution to do just that.” Bowman was elected in New York’s 16th District in 2020 after defeating Rep. Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary. He was recruited to politics by the Justice Democrats, and like other candidates favored by that political action committee — most notably New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Bowman is outspoken and willing to aggressively expand the government’s reach in pursuit of social justice.
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