House Democrats found themselves in an increasingly chaotic week as they rushed to address charges that Rep. Ilhan Omar is making anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter, only to find they can’t agree on the wording of a resolution condemning those remarks.
Comments from Omar, D-Minn., prompted Democrats to prompted leaders to write a resolution aimed at countering an emerging narrative that a wing of the new Democratic majority is anti-Semitic. But the resolution won’t name her, and late Tuesday, Democrats came under new pressure to add language condemning anti-Muslim remarks.
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