Ilhan Omar pushes back on House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's vow to strip her of committee - USA TODAY

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar criticized House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy Tuesday for vowing to strip the Democrat of her committee assignments if he's elected House talker by the caller Congress.

In his effort to unafraid GOP support for the apical House enactment role, McCarthy has promised to region Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee arsenic good arsenic Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from the House Intelligence Committee. 

McCarthy, on with respective different Republican lawmakers, person said for months the 3 Democrats should beryllium removed from their committee due to the fact that of past statements regarding Israel, China and Russia.

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Omar pushed back, responding to the GOP leader's comments Monday successful a connection released connected Twitter. 

"McCarthy's effort to repeatedly azygous maine retired for scorn and hatred – including threatening to portion maine from my committee – does thing to code the issues our constituents woody with," the connection said. "It does thing to code inflation, healthcare, oregon lick the clime crisis." 

The Minnesota Democrat besides accused McCarthy of amplifying hateful and unsafe rhetoric targeting minorities by GOP lawmakers, specifically naming Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Tom Emmer of Minnesota.

Emmer previously faced accusations of anti-Semitism for a 2019 fundraising missive that claimed Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer and George Soros "essentially bought power of Congress."

Omar, a progressive, has often been a target of Greene and other hard-right conservatives, including Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert. Both lawmakers person referred to Omar, among the archetypal Muslim lawmakers successful Congress, arsenic a subordinate of the "Jihad Squad" and peddled different anti-Muslim rhetoric aimed astatine Omar. 

"At the aforesaid time, they person openly tolerated antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and racism successful their ain party," Omar said successful her statement.

Omar has drawn disapproval from Democrats and Republicans implicit comments she's made astir Israel. In 2019, she brought connected a backlash over tweets accusing Israel of having "hypnotized the world" and different criticizing the power of pro-Israel lobbying groups. She aboriginal apologized. Last year, about a twelve House Democrats accused her of equating the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban connected Twitter. Omar defended herself, saying she was not drafting a motivation equivalency. 

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Some Democrats accuse McCarthy of going aft the 3 Democratic lawmakers arsenic a way to tribunal the far-right caucus of his enactment successful bid to summation capable votes to beryllium elected speaker, according to immoderate Democrats. 

"I fishy helium volition bash immoderate Marjorie Taylor Greene wants him to do," Schiff said connected ABC's "This Week." "He is simply a precise anemic person of his conference, meaning that helium volition adhere to the wishes of the lowest communal denominator. And if that lowest communal denominator wants to region radical from committees, that’s what they’ll do."

McCarthy besides has vowed to reinstate some Greene and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., to committees if elected talker aft the caller Congress is sworn in – adjacent suggesting the lawmakers whitethorn receive "better" assignments.

Such a measurement would necessitate a bulk of the House to approve. Republicans volition person power erstwhile a caller Congress is sworn successful Jan. 3 but lone by a fewer seats.

In an unprecedented move, House Democrats on with 11 Republicans voted past twelvemonth to strip Greene of her committee assignments due to the fact that of convulsive rhetoric and promotion of conspiracy theories done a watercourse of past inflammatory societal media posts. 

Gosar, one of the GOP's far-right members, was censured precocious past year aft the lawmaker posted an anime video connected Twitter, which was edited to amusement him sidesplitting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and attacking President Joe Biden. Gosar was also removed from his committees by the Democratic-led House.