{"id":546180,"date":"2023-02-01T03:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gops-santos-omar-battles-collide\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T03:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:06:32","slug":"gops-santos-omar-battles-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gops-santos-omar-battles-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"#GOP\u2019s Santos, Omar battles collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e2cbad9cb8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e2cbad9cb8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gops-santos-omar-battles-collide\/#GOPs_Santos_Omar_battles_collide\" >GOP\u2019s Santos, Omar battles collide<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GOPs_Santos_Omar_battles_collide\"><\/span>GOP\u2019s Santos, Omar battles collide<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/santosgeorge_omarilhan_013123gn_split.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. George Santos\u2019s (R-N.Y.) decision to step away from committee assignments is colliding with another controversy over committees: House Republicans\u2019 quest to block Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs panel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is no public indication that GOP leadership pushed Santos to step down to make it easier to block Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Santos said that he made the decision to step aside on his own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But Santos has connected the two situations, and both demonstrate the stumbling blocks the new GOP majority faces as it works to iron out its values and leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble started in mid-January, when the House GOP Steering Committee moved to assign Santos to the Small Business and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a>, Space and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> committees, despite bipartisan calls for resignation over fabrications about his background and questions regarding his personal and campaign finances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That prompted im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te criticism from Democrats, who blasted the judgment of seating Santos as Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) moved to block Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with California Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Then frustration started to bubble up among House Republicans. A few members indicated they would not support removing Omar over past comments that McCarthy says were antisemitic, and that she has apologized for. With a narrow majority, the math of removing Omar started to get complicated.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge of getting enough votes to remove Omar factored into Santos\u2019s decision to step aside, he told the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliegraceb\/status\/1620454623848058885?s=20&amp;t=jgI0OFfOyhSAQ0QW6EkY9g\">Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying true to my constituency and to what I believe in, Ilhan Omar must be removed from Foreign Affairs \u2014 that is out of the question. So if I was going to distract or take away from that opportunity that was the decision,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Santos informed House Republicans during a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday morning that he would\u00a0recuse himself\u00a0from his panel assignments \u201ctemporarily\u201d and \u201cuntil I am cleared,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement came one day after he met with McCarthy and asked if he could step away from his panel assignments \u2014\u00a0a move the Speaker called \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said the \u201cdrama\u201d around Santos was related to the Omar issue.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cJust all the controversy surrounding him and then while we\u2019re working to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the holdouts on Tuesday said the Santos situation did not affect their thinking on Omar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t affect me, no,\u201d Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said when asked if Santos\u2019s announcement changed his thinking. \u201cI don\u2019t know what the connection [is].\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Buck staked his opposition\u00a0to kicking Omar off the Foreign Affairs panel last week, voicing concerns about a \u201ctit-for-tat\u201d when dealing with committee assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said Santos\u2019s decision did not move the needle for her at all when it comes to Omar\u2019s committee assignment. She has said that Omar has the right to express her own opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotally different argument,\u201d she told The Hill when asked about Santos\u2019s decision to step aside from committees.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But after Santos\u2019s decision to bench himself from committees, McCarthy\u2019s odds of booting Omar from the Foreign Affairs panel ticked up.<\/p>\n<p>A compromise resolution released on Tuesday included language that described a process for members to the House Ethics Committee to appeal removal of a member to the Speaker, but Democrats say the language does not formally create that process.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) announced Tuesday that due to that language, she would support the effort to remove Omar after previously saying she was a \u201cno.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate Speaker McCarthy\u2019s willingness to address legitimate concerns and add due process language to our resolution,\u201d Spartz wrote in a statement. \u201cDeliberation and debate are vital for our institution, not top-down approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to my fellow conservatives, I think setting a precedent of allowing an appeal process for the Speaker\u2019s and majority-party removal decisions is particularly important to freedom-loving legislators who usually are on the receiving end of issues like this,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>With that change, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Tuesday that Republican leadership had the votes to block Omar.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Republicans say they are prepared to bring up the resolution Wednesday, assuming Democrats formally submit their names for the Foreign Affairs Committee before then.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy pledged in June 2021 that he would remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs panel after making remarks that were critical of the Israeli government and its supporters, especially on matters connected to Palestinian rights \u2014 some of which have drawn accusations of antisemitism. In 2019, she was forced to apologize after suggesting that AIPAC, a lobbying group that champions pro-Israeli policies, was paying Americans politicians to support Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The effort has largely been viewed as a GOP-led rebuke of the decision by House Democrats in 2021 to s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> Reps. Greene and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) of their committee assignments for promoting violence against Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In speaking out against the crusade, Democrats have cited McCarthy\u2019s decision to seat Santos on committees \u2014\u00a0despite his admitted fabrications and financial scrutiny \u2014\u00a0as they focus their attention on blocking Omar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hypocrisy just grabs you by the throat,\u201d Schiff said last week when asked about how the GOP has handled Santos and Omar. \u201cThis is a Republican speaker who is seating a human fraud, George Santos, on committees. A serial fabricator about every part of his existence. He\u2019s perfectly comfortable with it, he needs George Santos\u2019s vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Santos\u2019s sidelining, however, could only be temporary. McCarthy told reporters Tuesday that Santos will be seated on committees once he is \u201ccleared\u201d by the notoriously slow-moving House Ethics Committee. Two New York Democrats filed a complaint with the Ethics Committee that accuses Santos of failing to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voters have elected him, they\u2019ll have a voice here in Congress, until he answers all those questions,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cAt that time he\u2019ll be able to be seated on committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But two other first-term New York Republicans who have called for Santos to step down from Congress altogether \u2014 Reps. Nick LaLota and Anthony D\u2019Esposito \u2014 are showing no signs of warming to Santos as he steps down from the two panels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a classic case of someone quitting right before they were going to get fired,\u201d LaLota and D\u2019Esposito said in a joint statement. \u201cWhile we, and the overwhelming percentage of Long Islanders we represent, are relieved to see that Santos will not be undeservingly sitting on committees, he should still do the right thing and resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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