Bay Area Congressman Eric Swalwell responded by calling the Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's decision to strip him of the assignment he's held for eight years 'political vengeance' and retribution.
Schiff also played a prominent role in the impeachment of former President Trump. He told reporters McCarthy's decision was political payback against him and Democrats, who removed Republican congress members Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar from their committee assignments in 2021 after embracing politically violent rhetoric on social media."In a bitter bargain to get the speakership, he is slowly undermining each part of the work of this institution," Schiff said.
Speaker McCarthy announced that he was planning to remove Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee during a press conference Tuesday night, citing concerns about national security.McCarthy alluded to a 2020 report in Axios that reported Swalwell was targeted by a Chinese spy as part of an influence campaign in 2014, before he served on the intelligence committee. The report said that after Swalwell was alerted to the woman's true identity, he cut off ties.
"I'm sorry. Swalwell, you all know, does not have, or should have the responsibility to serve on the Intel Committee," McCarthy said."The FBI said three times, all I did was two things: I helped them over and over, and I was never suspected of wrongdoing," Swalwell said. "It's purely political vengeance."
ABC News political director Rick Klein says after McCarthy's narrow battle for speaker, he likely had to make good on a promise to his party. "Call it retribution, call it payback, or call it the promise he made when running, I think he had to go and do this," Klein said of McCarthy."I think this is going to be something in the future that is set as a precedent," Klein said. "And if Republicans are in control they're going to deny some Democrats seats. And if the Democrats are in control they're going to deny Republicans some seats.
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