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McCarthy will kick some Dems from committees if GOP wins House 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed to strip Democratic Reps. , Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff of their committee assignments s removed two members of his caucus from their committee assignments last year. 

His prospects of becoming speaker are looking more bright as now 26 House Democrats have announced retirement at the end of this Congress. Most recently Rep. Greg Perlmutter, Colo., announced he would not be seeking reelection.

‘The Democrats have created a new thing where they’re picking and choosing who can be on committees,’ he said. ‘Never in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who can be on committee. But this new standard that these Democrats have voted for…’

In 2020, the House voted 230 to 199 to kick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from the Education and Labor Committee and the Budget Committee. Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in stripping the congresswoman of her assignments for espousing QAnon conspiracies before being elected to Congress – including supporting calls online for Nancy Pelosi’s execution.

McCarthy vowed to strike back after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed two members of his caucus from their committee assignments last year

McCarthy vowed to strike back after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed two members of his caucus from their committee assignments last year

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., lost seats on the Oversight and Reform Committee and the Natural Resources Committee after posting a manipulated 5 anime girl best friends cartoon showing him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in November. 

McCarthy has said that Gosar and Greene will get their committee assignments back if Republicans regain power. 

Calls grew for Swalwell to be kicked off of the Intelligence Committee over his relationship with suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang. 

Swalwell has refused to confirm or deny sleeping with Fang before he was tipped off in 2015 that she was a Chinese agent. 

Rep. Ilhan Omar

Rep. Eric Swalwell

Rep. Adam Schiff

The California Republican said he would kick Swalwell and Schiff off of the House Intelligence Committee and Omar off of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Swalwell’s close relationship with Fang from 2012-2015 was first revealed to the public in a report from Axios in 2020, though Pelosi and Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy were both briefed on the matter in 2015. 

‘If Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there is no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security. He will not be serving there,’ McCarthy told Breitbart.

Swalwell in a tweet claimed that McCarthy was going after him because he’s ‘effective.’ 

‘McCarthy is targeting me for 1 reason: I’m effective. He wants to carry water (& sort Starbursts) for Trump’s Big Lie & not be called out.’

 ‘He’s projecting onto me b/c he’s incapable of facing down the Ku Klux Klan elements in his caucus. If he thinks he’s silencing me, he’s not,’ the California Republican continued. 

‘Ilhan Omar should not be serving on Foreign Affairs,’ McCarthy said. ‘This is a new level of what the Democrats have done.’ 

McCarthy has repeatedly called on Pelosi to remove Omar from Foreign Affairs over critical remarks she’s made about Israel. In July, Omar compared actions taken by the U.S. and Israel to those of Hamas and the Taliban. 

‘We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,’ she wrote on Twitter, prompting a renewed call for her ousting on the committee. 

In 2019, Jewish groups called for Omar to be removed from her committee spot for raising the issue of powerful pro-Israel lobby groups in Washington and linking their influence to donations.

At a public event in Washington Omar said she wanted to discuss ‘the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country.’  

That same year, she came under fire for saying that ‘some people did some things,’ referring to 9/11. At the time she said the Council on American-Islamic Relations ‘was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.’ 

McCarthy then turned to Schiff, chairman of the House Intel Committee. 

‘You look at Adam Schiff—he should not be serving on Intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the American public in the process and doesn’t have any ill will [and] says he wants to continue to do it,’ McCarthy said. 

The GOP leader then suggested that Afghanistan could have fallen to the Taliban so quickly because the Intelligence committee under Schiff was focused on President Trump’s impeachment. 

‘We’re going to reshape—think about what happened in Afghanistan. Why did Afghanistan collapse so fast? Was the Intel Committee under Adam Schiff focused on impeachment and not on the safety of America? Why are people coming across the border that are on a terrorist watch list? What are they doing about it? Their own members on that committee say it’s not happening when it’s true. We need to have an Intel Committee that looks at what’s happening around the world and keeps America safe.’ 

McCarthy also signaled he would move forward with forming a committee to investigate the Chinese Communist Party if he were to become speaker. 

‘I’ve looked and tried to get a committee on China,’ McCarthy said. ‘She [Pelosi] walked away from it when it took me eight months to get it—she walked away from it and you watch what’s happening today. Would we have the supply chain problem? We did a China task force—we didn’t stop. You read through the recommendations—and those are the things we are going to implement. But America would be stronger today had we been able to do that sooner.’ 

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