Kevin McCarthy says he will strip Democrats of top committee duties if GOP takes control of House

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) Is threat of removal several prominent Democratic lawmakers from their committee duties should Republicans take control of the chamber in the midterm elections, a move that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said. known as “purely for the sake of retaliation.”

McCarthy complained to Breitbart on Monday that Democrats “are picking and choosing who can be on a committee. Never in history have you had a majority tell a minority who can be on a committee.” If possible, McCarthy said he would remove Swalwell and Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Last year, two House Republicans were stripped of their committee duties: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona. Greene is removed from her committees after it was shown that she previously liked social media posts promoting violence against Democratic lawmakers and made racist and anti-Semitic comments in the video. Gosar is censored and was removed from his committees after he shared an edited anime video describes his killing of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) and assaulting President Biden.

In response to McCarthy, Swalwell to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday night that McCarthy was targeting him, Schiff and Omar “because we are effective. Not for any other reason. This is the Trumpization of politics. … He does the thing. it was purely for the sake of retaliation and he didn’t even give a single as to why he did it.”