On Thursday, House Democrats voted to remove committee assignments from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for allegedly endorsing conspiracy theories, racism, and violence against Democrats.
However, she he does not promote violence or racism. This all came from Greene expressing that she does not trust the government and falling in line with some of the things that the QAnon group believe. Liberals are after any person who supports President Donald Trump and does not believe that Joe Biden won the election fairly.
Republicans did not take action to remove Green, but the resolution passed 230-199, largely along party lines. She was removed from the House Education and Budget committees.
Eleven Republicans crossed the aisle in a rare rebuke of a colleague from their own party: Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Carlos Giménez (Fla.), Chris Jacobs (N.Y.), John Katko (N.Y.), Young Kim (Calif.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Chris Smith (N.J.) and Fred Upton (Mich.).
Republicans warned Democrats that the slope is slippery when it comes to taking unilateral action in order to dictate the minority’s committee roster, but they did not care.
“If any of our members threatened the safety of other members, we'd be the first ones to take them off of a committee,” said Democrat Speaker of the Houe Nancy Pelosi.
The debate over Greene’s fate has become emblematic of the larger brawl over the direction and future of the Republican Party in post-Trump Washington. The former president has moved to Florida, his Twitter account shut down, but retains enormous influence over GOP base voters drawn to the nationalist, no-apologies persona that defined his time in the White House — a mold Greene has assumed, with Trump’s enthusiastic support.
Democrats implored the GOP to hold members of Congress to what they think should be a minimal standard: that anyone who has endorsed political violence or embraced conspiracy theories like suggesting school shootings were staged or QAnon — whose supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 — has no business serving on committees.
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