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The idea that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has essentially given aid and comfort to those who supported an insurrection against the United States government, would accuse anyone of being un-American is as rich as it is Orwellian.

With a party-line vote, the House has removed Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, the latest disgrace for a chamber where Speaker Kevin McCarthy has ceded control to his party’s militant fringe.

Tory Alicia Kearns, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested the video-sharing platform is linked to China’s efforts to build a “tech totalitarian state”

Two conservative Republicans cricitised the House’s vote to remove Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the 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. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee last month.

‘The way that we see this it’s a political stunt’, White House says in response to vote against Rep Ilhan Omar

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans voted Thursday to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, following through on a GOP promise to oust the Minnesota Democrat from a prized position.

‘I am an American ... who was sent here by her constituents to represent them in Congress,’ Rep Ilhan Omar said ahead of vote to remove her from committee

The vote marks the latest reprisal in an escalating partisan tit-for-tat over committee assignments.

Republicans have cited the Minnesota Democrat's past controversial comments about Israel. Omar, who herself has faced anti-Muslim bigotry since taking office, called the move "purely partisan."