‘Squad’ Member Calls on House Leadership to Remove Boebert From Her Committee Assignments

Rep. 👤Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) is urging House leadership to hold Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) accountable for her controversial comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

In a statement released on Tuesday, Bowman, a member of the “Squad,” suggested the “cultural climate under Trump laid the foundation for and created a dangerous precedent that has emboldened members of the Trump Party to launch blatantly Islamophobic and xenophobic attacks” on Omar and others.

He added, “The fact is that Congresswoman Omar is a Black, immigrant and visibly Muslim woman with power—and this is too much to handle for people who refuse to live in a society that celebrates diversity and abhors white supremacy. The question that we as leaders are called to answer is whether we will tolerate this kind of vile behavior and learn from history in order to protect our future.”

Bowman vowed to “work to root out Islamophobia and discrimination of any kind.”

He continued, “I’m urging House leadership to hold 👤Lauren Boebert accountable by removing her from her committee assignments, advancing a resolution of condemnation, and taking all other appropriate measures to ensure our message that Islamophobia, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia will not stand is loud and clear.”

Bowman’s statement came just days after a video surfaced showing Boebert telling an alleged story of an encounter she had with Omar, as IJR reported.