Controversial U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene could lose her committee assignments following a vote by her colleagues Thursday.
The Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives says congress will meet to vote on a resolution that would see Greene stripped of her education and budget committee assignments.
“I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning, and it is clear there is no alternative to holding a Floor vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from her committee assignments,” Steny Hoyer tweeted Wednesday.
“The Rules Committee will meet this afternoon, and the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow.”
The vote comes as a formal reproach against the newly elected Georgia representative, who has been the subject of controversy over her history of racist comments, ardent support for QAnon, and endorsement of far-right conspiracy theories that claim several mass school shootings were fake and that Jewish space lasers caused the 2018 California wildfires.
Greene took aim at House Democrats on Wednesday following the news, singling out U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a flurry of tweets that claimed Democrats were out to “steal America’s freedoms” and “erase God’s creation.”
“No matter what @GOPLeader does it would never be enough for the hate America Democrats,” she tweeted.
Earlier this week, Hoyer said it was his “hope and expectation that Republicans will do the right thing and hold Rep. Greene accountable,” urging House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to remove the Greene himself, or trigger a House vote.
McCarthy met with Greene Tuesday night, but it is unclear what was discussed or what the outcome of the meeting was.
Bi-partisan pressure has been mounting for Republicans to take action against Greene, underscoring the party’s difficulty to form a unified voice in the aftermath of former GOP leader Donald Trump’s presidency.
U.S. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell called Greene a “cancer for the Republican Party,” denouncing her “loony lies” on Monday.
“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9-11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” he said.
“This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”
More to come.
— With files from the Associated Press
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