In a shocking new move, Democrats plan to vote on a measure to strip pro-Trump congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of all of her committee assignments if Republican House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy fails to do so himself.
Taylor-Greene has come under fire from many sides over some of her past comments which many have viewed as promoting conspiracy theories and potentially also even violence against Democrats.
As The Hill reports:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) spoke with his counterpart, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), about Greene’s fate Wednesday morning, with Hoyer suggesting afterwards that the GOP leader is not ready to remove the controversial conservative firebrand from a pair of top committees.
“I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning, and it is clear there is no alternative to holding a Floor vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from her committee assignments,” Hoyer said in a statement. “The Rules Committee will meet this afternoon, and the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow.”
The proposal, sponsored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), would remove Greene from two plum committee assignments — Budget, and Education and Labor — for the remainder of this Congress.
In spite of some previous uncertainty about whether or not leader McCarthy would be able to work out a deal to potentially shield Greene from losing her assignments, it appears that the vote will now proceed tomorrow as scheduled:
I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning, and it is clear there is no alternative to holding a Floor vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from her committee assignments. The Rules Committee will meet this afternoon, and the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow.
— Steny (Wear a Mask) Hoyer (@LeaderHoyer) February 3, 2021
Greene, for her part, appears to be unbowed by the ceaseless attacks by both Republicans and Democrats against her, and fired back against her critics in an impassioned Twitter thread:
No matter what @GOPLeader does it would never be enough for the hate America Democrats.
As much as he genuinely tries to work with @SpeakerPelosi for the good of this country, she refuses to see the hypocrisy of her own conference. pic.twitter.com/3q6XsH3SdE
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 3, 2021
They are only set out to destroy Republicans, your jobs, our economy, your children’s education and lives, steal our freedoms, and erase God’s creation.
And the bloodthirsty media are their henchmen who help them by relentlessly attacking anyone in their path.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 3, 2021
We know who they all are.
We owe them no apologies
We will never back down.
We only serve the ONE who created us ALL, and we only bow to HIM.
And we know who we are, free and saved by HIS grace.
No matter what.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 3, 2021
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