Rep. Kevin McCarthy vowed during remarks at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting that if he becomes speaker of the House he will remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from her House Foreign Affairs Committee over her past remarks about Israel.
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"Last year, I promised that when I became Speaker, I would remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee based on her repeated anti-semitic and anti-American remarks. I'm keeping that promise,""We watch antisemitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow in the halls of Congress," McCarthy added in his remarks,Twitter added a text box offering "added context" below McCarthy's tweet.
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