WH Blasts House GOP for Giving ‘Most Extreme MAGA Members’ Committee Assignments

The White House is criticizing House Republicans for giving “extreme” lawmakers committee assignments. On Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Talor Greene (R-Ga.) was given a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee. Meanwhile…

Bradley Cortright·Jan 18, 2023·3 min read

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WH Blasts House GOP for Giving ‘Most Extreme MAGA Members’ Committee Assignments — IJR

Additionally, Sams urged McCarthy to “reveal transparently once and for all what secret deals” he made to secure enough support to become speaker.

Greene and Gosar were both removed from their committee assignments while Democrats were in the majority.

Greene was removed from her committee assignments in 2021 over her past comments that appeared to support the killing of Democrats.

She had also endorsed conspiracy theories.

In a 230-199 vote in February 2021, the House voted to strip her of her committee assignments with most Republicans opposing the move.

Before the vote, Greene said, “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret.”

“When I started finding misinformation, lies, things that were not true in these QAnon posts, I stopped believing it,” she continued. “Any source of information that is a mix of truth and a mix of lies is dangerous.”

Gosar was censured and stripped of his committee assignments in November 2021 after he shared a video depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging a sword at President Joe Biden.

The House voted 223-207 to remove him from his committees.

Gosar said in a speech on the House floor before the vote he did not mean for the video to be a threat and added, “If I must join Alexander Hamilton, the first person attempted to be censured by this House, so be it. It is done.”