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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar regained their committee assignments with their new House majority after the two Republicans were ousted by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has vowed to exact revenge on Democrats for ousting Republican lawmakers from House panels in the 117th Congress, and in retaliation he would strip left-wing lawmakers from their preferred committees.
McCarthy announced that Greene would serve on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, which is likely to investigate DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the southern border crisis.
He announced that Gosar will also have a seat on the House Oversight Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, which he previously served on.
The Oversight panel will now have the two far-right lawmakers helping with anticipated investigations into the Biden administration.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene received new committee assignments Tuesday from Speaker Kevin McCarthy after Nancy Pelosi ousted her from her panels in the last Congress.
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also said he plans to follow through on his threat to bar far-left representatives from sitting on the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees.
Democrats, now in the minority, can do nothing to stop the new appropriations.
In a statement about his new committee assignments, Green warned President Joe Biden to “be prepared.”
“We are going to uncover all the crooked deals, all the foreign entanglements, all the abuses of power and all the check cuts for The Big Guy,” Greene said in his statement Tuesday.
He also referred to his assignment to the Homeland Security panel.
“Our southern border is being invaded,” he wrote. ‘Our Border Patrol and ICE agents have their hands tied and the Biden administration has turned them into a welcoming committee. Cyberattacks continue against our nation’s people and businesses along with many more threats to our homeland.”
“We will investigate the Biden administration’s violations of our laws and fund (and defund) programs to defend our border and American sovereignty.”
Greene was expelled from the Budget and then Education and Labor panels in February 2021 for a series of offensive comments she made before she was elected to Congress, including promoting conspiracy theories about the Jewish people.
The Democratic resolution to remove her from her committee was also supported by 11 House Republicans.
Paul Gosar will also have a seat on the Oversight panel, as well as the Natural Resources Committee, which he previously served on.
Gosar was censored and stripped of his committee seats in the last Congress after he posted on social media a bizarre animated video showing violence against progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden.
“They promised me that if I wanted to stay in Natural Resources and Oversight, I could stay,” Gosar said of his future under the new GOP leadership.
McCarthy also vowed to follow through on Republican threats to remove Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee, as well as bar Ilhan Omar from serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Republicans warned that Democrats would regret deciding who serves on which committees in the future.
Speaker McCarthy, however, told Punchbowl News that he has already made the case against the three far-left representatives winning seats on these high-profile committees.
McCarthy will prevent Eric Swalwell (left) and Adam Schiff (right) from serving on intelligence committees. The Spokesman claims that Swalwell ‘cannot obtain security clearance in the private sector’ and that Schiff has ‘lied to the American public too many times’
“It’s not like it’s anything new,” McCarthy said. ‘Remember, this is what Nancy Pelosi did, this is the type of Congress that she wanted to have.’
“Swalwell can’t get security clearance in the private sector,” he added of his fellow California lawmaker. ‘I’m not going to give you a government security clearance.’
He continued: ‘Schiff has lied to the American public too many times. She shouldn’t be at Intel.
The three legislators say they have not engaged in any wrongdoing and should not be removed from their committees.
However, Swalwell has faced questions about his links to a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
The woman helped Swalwell raise money for his 2014 campaign, and while the California Democrat said he cut all ties to the alleged spy, it was shown that he was still friends with her on Facebook long after an FBI briefing on her links with China.
Omar, for his part, has shared a large number of anti-Semitic comments and sentiments, which have even been criticized by other Democrats.
McCarthy will also take steps to prevent Rep. Ilhan Omar from serving on the Foreign Affairs panel.
He is a key member of the so-called Squad, a group made up of the most progressive left-wing Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib.
After the rules package was approved Monday night, the next big fight is shaping up to be a partisan fight on the floor over committee assignments, after more than a week of Republican wrangling and chaos over who should be the president and what rules should govern the House in the 118th Congress.
It took 15 rounds of voting last week for Republicans to finally decide they were okay with handing McCarthy the president’s gavel.
McCarthy has vowed since 2021 to block Swalwell, Schiff and Omar from the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees.
Multiple Democratic leadership sources say the plan is to keep appointing Schiff and Swalwell to Intel and Omar to Foreign Affairs, according to Punchbowl.
Freshman representative George Santos, who has been accused of being a pathological liar, will also receive committee assignments despite being under criminal investigation and being called to resign.
McCarthy, as chair, can unilaterally block Schiff and Swalwell from sitting on the Intel panel, but the House will have to act fully against Omar on Foreign Affairs.
The three Democrats claim they have done nothing wrong and that Republican leaders are unfairly targeting them.
Republicans have long said they planned to remove Omar, a Somali-born progressive, from the Foreign Affairs Committee if they won a majority in the House.
Omar, who has been in Congress since 2017, claims that the Republicans “made it their mission to use fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism to attack me on the House floor and through millions of dollars in campaign ads.” “.
Schiff, who led the House’s first impeachment trial against Donald Trump, attacked McCarthy for threatening to block him from the Intelligence panel, claiming the new president “will adhere to the wishes of Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
McCarthy and Democratic leader Jeffries have yet to determine the proportions of the House committees as of Monday night, which could be a process that takes several days on its own.
The deal was delayed because of the floor fight McCarthy faced during the presidential vote last week.