House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is being charged with “hypocrisy” after removing two Democratic lawmakers from committee duty.
McCarthy on Thursday kicked Delegates Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) out of the intelligence committee, a move that critics say was little more than payback for Democrats who kicked the boot to Delegates Marjorie Taylor Greene (R – Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) from their commissions in 2021.
“Integrity is more important,” McCarthy wrote in a letter to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.) and then posted it online.
Critics were quick to point out that McCarthy placed Greene, a conspiracy theorist who spoke at a white nationalist event last year, on both the oversight committee and the Homeland Security committee. He also gave two commission assignments each to Gosar and Rep. George Santos (RN.Y.), the legislator called on by his own party to resign after his long list of lies was exposed.
They called him out on Twitter:
