Defend or rebuke? House GOP Faces Difficult Vote Over Greene

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., attends a ceremony memorializing U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick ((Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans will be forced to go on the record defending or rebuking congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican has drawn bipartisan condemnation over her embrace of far-right conspiracy theories, as well as her past endorsement of calls for violence against Democrats. A vote Thursday will determine whether Greene is stripped of her committee assignments. Democrats issued an ultimatum earlier in the week, telling House Republicans to strip Greene of her committee assignments – or they would. But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ruled out taking action and instead accused Democrats of a “partisan power grab.”

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