Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., lashed out at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling his attempts to personally whip votes against her retaining her committee assignments 'pathetic.'
Washington Times' Charlie Hurt and former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. discuss the increasing bipartisan concerns on the discovery of classified documents and House Democrats' outrage after being removed from committee assignments., D-Minn., lashed out at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Tuesday, describing his effort to personally whip votes against her retaining her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as"pathetic.
"The fact that this has become a sole focus for [House Speaker Kevin McCarthy] that he is personally whipping votes for it is really pathetic. Not the debt ceiling or all the actual priorities a Speaker should be fighting to deal with and whip votes for," Omar tweeted., R-S.C., wasn't planning to change her vote against the upcoming resolution to remove Omar from her committee assignment.
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