- Kevin McCarthy, House Minority leader, seeks to be elected House Speaker next year.
- If elected, he has promised to remove Rep. Adam Schiff from the committees and two other Democrats.
- Schiff called him a “very weak” leader.
Rep. Adam Schiff criticised Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, for promising to remove three Democrats form their committee assignments if he is elected speaker.
McCarthy is determined to get rid of Rep. Ilhan Ozmar, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Reps. Adam Schiff & Eric Swalwell who sit on the House Intelligence Committee from their respective assignments. USA Today.
McCarthy stated Sunday that he would keep his promise. Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures”Maria Bartiromo was asked by Maria Bartiromo if he could deliver on his promise to remove Omar, Schiff, Swalwell from committees.
Schiff responded to McCarthy’s potential undertaking in a Sunday episode ABC’s “This Week.”
“Well, I’m sure he will.” Marjorie Taylor Greene’s wishes for him to do. Schiff stated that he is a weak leader at this conference and will follow the wishes of the lowest common factor.
McCarthy will need 218 votes from the House to become House Speaker in order to succeed Nancy Pelosi. It is possible. This could prove to be a problemRepublicans are the best! A narrow margin of victory in this midterm season.
Some Republicans have criticized McCarthy — including Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who said that McCarthy has been “Support the insurrectionists“And Rep. Liz Cheney who called McCarthy The “leader of pro-Putin wings”Next year, neither Kinzinger or Cheney will be in Congress.
Greene SupportMcCarthy called McCarthy’s efforts a “bad tactic” for Republicans to oppose him. His leadership has seen him promise he will reinstate her on committee assignmentsDespite her extreme-right ideologies.
Schiff is also a member of the inquiry committee into the January 6th rebellion. He said: “It will be chaos with Republican leadership. Unfortunately, the Republicans are now embracing the insane caucus.
Insider reached out to Schiff and McCarthy representatives but they did not immediately reply.
