The trio of Democrats – Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar – that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy booted from serving on high-profile committees decried the Republican leader&…
by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have decried the Republican leader’s actions as “political vengeance.”
“He struck a corrupt bargain in his desperate, and nearly failed, attempt to win the Speakership, a bargain that required political vengeance against the three of us,” the three said, referring to the tense negotiations that led tolate Tuesday that Schiff and Swalwell, both of California, would not be on the House Intelligence Committee, rejecting Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ plea over the weekend to reappoint them to the prominent panel.
The speaker went on to say that he was committed in the new GOP-led Congress “to returning the Intelligence Committee to one of genuine honesty and credibility that regains the trust of the American people.” McCarthy has long criticized Schiff, the former chair of the Intelligence Committee during the first impeachment against former President Donald Trump, for lying to the “American public again and again.” said removing him from the committee is “petty, political playback” for investigating Trump.
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