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“Right now, I haven t heard any Democrats speaking out against what Maxine has said. And it’s time for Democrats to speak out when they see it on both sides. They only want to speak out on one side of the aisle, not on both. And that hypocrisy, I think, is starting to shine through.”
House Democratic leaders all rallied behind Waters, but their margin for defeating McCarthy’s resolution was extraordinarily tight. They can currently afford only two defections and still prevail on any vote in the face of unified GOP opposition.
Many centrist Democrats in swing districts are sensitive to any incendiary remarks about police after blaming progressive activists’ calls for “defunding the police” for their electoral losses last November.
Greene has dismissed the seven-page document as a “staff level draft proposal from an outside group” that she had never approved. And CNN reported that she and Gosar have scrapped the launch of the new caucus amid the GOP backlash.
Scalise, whose own career was nearly derailed by a 2014 race controversy, said Tuesday that he subscribes to the vision of America as a diverse melting pot and land of immigrants.
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“What makes America great is our diversity, all the people who come from all around the world, legally coming to America to seek the American dream, like my great-grandparents sought when they came from Italy,” Scalise said. “People come, and we’re a great melting pot in America. People of all faiths, of all beliefs know that this is the place, this is the bastion of freedom where anybody can come and if they seek that American dream. It’s there for them today.
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