House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is threatening to remove several prominent Democratic lawmakers from their committee assignments should Republicans take control of the chamber in the midterm elections, a move that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said would be "purely for retaliation reasons."
McCarthy complained to Breitbart on Monday that Democrats "are picking and choosing who could be on a committee. Never in the history have you had the majority tell the minority who could be on committee." If able, McCarthy said he would remove Swalwell and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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In response to McCarthy, Swalwell told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday night that McCarthy is targeting him, Schiff, and Omar "because we're effective. Not for any other reason. This is the Trumpization of politics. ... He's doing it purely for retaliation purposes and he's not even offering a fig leaf as to why he's doing it."
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