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    Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy outside the White House

    If It's "Not a Negotiation," Don't Treat It Like One

    Democrats—and media outlets—must do a much better job framing the debt ceiling fight and providing its proper context.

    Robert Reich
    Feb 02, 2023

    On Wednesday afternoon, President Joe Biden met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the debt ceiling.

    Unfortunately, the meeting reinforced McCarthy’s and the Republicans’ message that raising the debt ceiling is a negotiable issue that should be dealt with by reducing spending.

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    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn

    The GOP's Latest Bigoted Attack on Ilhan Omar Is Slanderous,  Despicable, and Dangerous

    This latest escapade by Republicans should be seen for what it is—a further assault on basic norms of political pluralism—and it should be denounced for this very reason.

    Jeffrey C. Isaac
    Feb 02, 2023

    Ilhan Omar is again in the news, a convenient target for reactionary Republicans, i.e., virtually all Republicans, seeking to discredit the left. The current Republican effort links her with two other Congressional liberal Democrats, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell who, like her, are being removed from their committee assignments by MAGA House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi’s 2021 removals of Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. McCarthy’s act of retribution comes as no surprise, since he promised this back in November 2021. It is no less dangerous for this.

    As numerous commentators have noted, Greene and Gosar were sidelined by Pelosi because they explicitly promoted violence against House Democrats (it is worth noting that both also have been featured at anti-Semitic events and avidly supported the January 6, 2021 insurrection). Schiff and Swalwell are now being sidelined because of their roles in the impeachment of Donald Trump. And Omar is being sidelined because . . . she is Ilhan Omar, and thus low-hanging fruit for Trump’s Republican avengers and their many xenophobic and racist supporters.

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    Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as she delivers remarks on the House floor

    I Am Muslim. I Am an Immigrant. I Am From Africa. Is Anyone Surprised I Am a GOP Target?

    I will continue to speak for the families who are seeking justice around the world—Whether they are displaced in refugee camps looking to find a home somewhere, or whether they are hiding under their bed somewhere like I was, waiting for the bullets to stop.

    Ilhan Omar
    Feb 02, 2023

    The following are the remarks, as prepared for delivery on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in opposition to a Republican resolution barring her appointment to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on February 2, 2023.

    Who gets to be an American? What opinions do you have to have to be counted as American? That is what this debate is about, Mr./Madame Speaker. There is this idea that you are suspect if you are an immigrant. Or if you are from a certain part of the world, of a certain skin tone, or a Muslim.

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