{"id":1833312,"date":"2023-02-02T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833312"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:58:22","slug":"aoc-has-epic-meltdown-over-ilhan-omars-committee-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-has-epic-meltdown-over-ilhan-omars-committee-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Has Epic Meltdown Over Ilhan Omar&#8217;s Committee Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-has-epic-meltdown-over-ilhan-omars-committee-removal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.), angrily rebuked congressional Republicans in a heated speech on Thursday at the House Floor. This was in response to a vote for boot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ilhan-omar-gets-boot-house-votes-off-foreign-affairs-committee-democrats-cite-racism\"><u>Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn<\/u><\/a>., Off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">New York Democratic lawmaker, Elizabeth Goldstein, declared to her fellow members that she believed the GOP was &#8220;targeting women of color&#8221; It voted to remove Omar. Republicans claimed that this was because of past antisemitic or anti-American comments.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez also accused GOP members of hypocrisy by elevating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from R-Ga. to high-profile assignments in committees despite her past history of controversial statements concerning Jewish people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-slams-aoc-she-says-gas-stoves-linked-brain-damage-dems-literally-insane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>TWITTER SLAMS AOOC AFTER SHE SAYS GAS OVES ARE LINKED to BRAIN DAMAGE : &#8216;DEMS are LITERALLY INSANE &#8216;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ezgif.com-gif-maker-3.gif\" alt=\"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., angrily rebuts the House GOP decision to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), angrily rejects the House GOP decision of removing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Screenshot\/CSPAN)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After she finished speaking, the congresswoman banged her notebook against a podium.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio Cortez reacted passionately to the decision to remove Omar from the committee shortly after a 218-211 party-line vote. &#8220;disgusting&#8221; The legacy of 9\/11 &#8220;targeting and racism against Muslim Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think one of the things that we should talk about here is also one of the disgusting legacies after 9\/11 \u2014 has been the targeting and racism against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/muslim-americans-find-common-ground-with-conservatives-over-school-politicization\"><u>Muslim Americans<\/u><\/a> She said, &#8220;Throughout the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez added, &#8220;And this is an extension of that legacy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ronny-jackson-torches-aoc-ridiculous-gas-stove-claims-no-scientific-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>RONNY JACKSON TORCHES AN OOC FOR &#8216;RIDICULOUS GAS Stove Claims: &#8216;NO SIENTIFIC EVIDENCE\u2019 FOR THIS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/640\/320\/aoc.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She then blasted House Republicans\u2019 claims that the vote was &#8220;consistent&#8221; Their previous position on the Minnesota Democrat\u2019s behavior. Ocasio Cortez also spoke of a past &#8220;threat&#8221; Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, a fellow congressman, shared his thoughts on her life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gosar-house-censure-resolution-aoc\"><u>Who was censured<\/u><\/a> Congress in 2021 to share a meme about anime cartoon characters killing each others that included AOC\u2019s likeness. Omar was criticized for using antisemitic tropes such as the assertion that pro-Israeli members were purchased and paid for by American Israel Public Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consistency? There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party\u2019s continued attack, except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body. I had a member of the Republican Caucus threaten my life and the Republican Caucus rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this Congress,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p>She continued to be angry. &#8220;Don\u2019t tell me this is about consistency! Don\u2019t tell me that this is about a condemnation of antisemitic remarks when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers and an entire amount of tropes, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/DOWNLOAD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ocasio Cortez declared at the end of her speech: &#8220;This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America! Don\u2019t tell me, because I didn\u2019t get a single apology when my life was threatened!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman then banged a notebook against a lectern and walked away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s opponents took offense at her invocations of color. They noted that White men like Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) were also removed from their respective committees as Republicans gained the majority.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Gabriel Hays works as an associate editor at Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.), angrily rebuked congressional Republicans in a heated speech on Thursday at the House Floor. This was in response to a vote for boot Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. New York Democratic lawmaker, Elizabeth Goldstein, declared to her fellow members that she believed the GOP was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1833317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8334,4384,5072,5202,5888,5863,5199],"class_list":["post-1833312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-aoc","tag-committee","tag-epic","tag-ilhan","tag-meltdown","tag-omars","tag-removal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}