Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), accusing him of being a “complete and total fraud” over his vow to take away Rep. Al Inexperienced (D-Texas) and others from committee assignments.
Ogles mentioned Thursday that he’s seeking to strip a few of his Democratic colleagues from their posts after they sang a music in help of Inexperienced on the Home ground. The Texas Democrat was censured over his protest of President Trump’s Tuesday evening speech to Congress.
Jeffries mentioned Ogles’s decision is “going nowhere.”
“I’m right here within the workplace. Simply completed up a phone city corridor assembly with my dynamic sister, our Legal professional Common Tish James. And my workforce informs me that some far-right extremists have launched a decision to attempt to throw Democratic Members of the Home off of our committees,” Jeffries mentioned in an announcement Thursday evening.
“That decision goes nowhere,” he continued. “You ain’t throwing nobody off of any single committee. These individuals are malignant clowns.”
“You are not throwing anybody off of any committee within the Home of Representatives,” the Democratic leader added. “Do not make me expose you to of us who do not know you.”
Inexperienced’s outburst throughout Trump’s handle got here after the president boasted of his 2024 presidential election win, calling it a “mandate” from the American voters. The Texas lawmaker fired again throughout the speech, standing up and yelling that Trump didn’t have a mandate to chop Medicaid.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned members to keep up decorum and ultimately requested the sergeant-at-arms to escort Inexperienced out of the chamber.
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) launched a decision to censure Inexperienced a day later. The measure was adopted with a 224-198-2 vote — together with 10 Democrats who voted in favor of it.
On Thursday, as Inexperienced stood within the Home chamber, a few of his fellow Democrats surrounded him when he began singing “We Shall Overcome.” Johnson as soon as once more referred to as for the members to keep up decorum.
Ogles, shortly after, mentioned he’s “drafting privileged resolutions to remove each of them from their committees.”
“If you want to act like a child in the Halls of Congress, you will be treated like a child,” Ogles mentioned.
Different Republicans want to do the identical. Home Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) mentioned the conservative caucus is submitting a measure to take away the “disruptive and disrespectful” Inexperienced from his committee assignments.
“We expect @SpeakerJohnson to bring it to the House floor for a vote next week,” Harris Harris mentioned.
The Hill has reached out to Ogles’s workplace for remark.
