House Republicans vote Rep. Ilhan Omar off Foreign Affairs Committee

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly voted Thursday to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the Foreign Affairs Committee, a move that follows Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s removal of Reps.
Fulfilling a pledge, Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s GOP-led House narrowly votes to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Subscribe to Continue Reading In a news conference after the vote, McCarthy noted that Omar, Schiff and Swalwell weren’t removed from all of their committees like some of his Republican colleagues were in the last Congress, and he pushed back on the notion that Thursday’s resolution was a “tit for tat” with House Democrats.
Y.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the panel will lose Omar’s valuable perspective as a Muslim woman who was born in Somalia and spent several years of her childhood in a refugee camp.