“She obviously has to come to grips with the fact that when you are here, you’re on a broader stage and things you say resonate far beyond your local community,' Democrat Gerry Connolly said of his colleague Ilhan Omar.
As the House prepares to vote on a resolution to rebuke alleged anti-Semitic comments that freshman Democrat Ilhan Omar has made for the second time since taking office, a colleague on the Foreign Affairs Committee is warning a third strike could be the tip of the iceberg for Omar losing her committee seat.
The scheduled vote will likely be pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told other lawmakers it will be updated to include text condemning"anti-Muslim bias," according to a Democratic aide. He viewed the punishment as “swift and appropriate,” but warned that her anti-Semitic comments have already given fuel to the fire for Republicans who have demanded her removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee."I think she's inviting others to have a lot more power to that argument and I hope she’s worried about it," Connolly said.
"[Republicans] waited, what, 20-something years before acting on Steve King's hateful remarks on white supremacism," Connolly said of King's long history of making alleged racist comments. Omar’s office did not respond to Newsweek’s request for comment, and she declined to speak with reporters.
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