Another escalation by Democrats is going to backfire on them next year

Published January 12, 2022 12:10am ET



When Democrats removed Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, they created a new partisan battleground in Congress that they will come to regret soon enough. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to make sure of that in January 2023.

McCarthy has promised to kick three Democrats off committees they currently serve on. The most obvious one is Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose unrepentant antisemitism belongs nowhere near Congress, let alone the House Foreign Relations Committee. The other two are California Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff, both of whom sit on the House Intelligence Committee.

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