Kevin McCarthy Plans to Oust Ilhan Omar From House Committee for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Comments

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Nov. 19 that when he becomes speaker of the House next year, he will remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her remarks that many deemed anti-Semitic.
“We watch anti-Semitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow in the halls of Congress,” McCarthy said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas on Nov. 19.
“I promised you last year that as speaker, she [Omar] will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” he told a cheering audience….}