House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters Wednesday that he has spoken to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and that she will not attend a white nationalist event again.
But McCarthy, a California Republican who is poised to become House speaker if his party wins the majority in November, did not rescind an earlier suggestion that he give the controversial Georgia Republican committee assignments that Democrats stripped from her — and perhaps better than her original ones.
Greene last month came under fire for her attendance at the America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, organized by white nationalists. Speakers at the Florida event, which took place the same week in the same city as the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, made comments in praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine, among other controversial claims.
McCarthy told reporters he has chatted with Greene, but not yet Rep. Paul Gosar, who also spoke at the event. McCarthy declined to elaborate on the conversation or whether there would be repercussions for her attendance.
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“There’s no place for what has gone on with that organization by far,” he said. “There never will be in this party, and it will never be tolerated.”
Greene and Gosar have already been stripped of their committee assignments in response to threatening social media posts toward other members. After the two lawmakers were reprimanded, McCarthy suggested he may give them better committee assignments if Republicans win a majority in November.
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Asked if he stood by the suggestion, McCarthy dodged, saying they will “have the ability to be able to get committees based upon that time when it comes.”
House Republicans need to net five seats in the 435-member chamber to reclaim the majority the party lost in the 2018 midterm elections.
