House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the bans would apply to Reps. Ilhan Omar, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell if he is elevated to speaker.
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” the bans would apply to Reps. Ilhan Omar , Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell .
“One thing I said from the very beginning, Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector,” McCarthy, 57, told host Maria Bartiromo, referencing the Bay Area representative’s“Why would we ever give him a security clearance in the secrets to America? So I will not allow him to be on Intel,” he said, a year after the GOP leaderThe congressman then took aim at Schiff, saying the Jan. 6 select House committee member “had lied to the American public time and again.
McCarthy cited Rep. Ilhan Omar’s “anti-Semitic comments” as the reason to keep her off of the Foreign Affairs committee.Schiff fired back at McCarthy on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday, claiming his fellow California representative’s predicted reign over the House would be “chaos.” “He will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator,” Schiff said. “And if that lowest common denominator wants to remove people from committees…that’s what they’ll do.”after the conspiracy theorist was rebuked by Democrats last year.
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