AOC responds to removal of Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the removal of Representative Ilhan Omar from Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee during a speech on Thursday, February 2.

“There is nothing consistent with the Republican party’s continued attack except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

The House voted on a resolution to remove Omar from the committee on February 2 for “her use of an anti-Semitic trope.”

In 2019 Omar posted a since-deleted Tweet that implied American politicians support Israel because of money. Omar later apologized for the Tweet in a statement on Twitter.

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