Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) vowed revenge after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) indicated he would keep Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) off the House Intelligence Committee.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tore into a reporter Tuesday after she interrupted him during a press conference as he was speaking about his decision to reject Reps. Eric Swalwell (R-CA) and Adam Schiff (R-CA) from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The looming debt ceiling stand-off between lawmakers in Washington, DC, is evidence of corporate America's waning influence over an increasingly populist Republican Party.
A Rasmussen Reports poll found that American adults say there are "more important" issues for companies to focus on than promoting causes like diversity and environmentalism.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy reiterated Tuesday that he will block Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California from serving on the House committee that oversees national intelligence, saying the decision was not based on political payback but because "integrity matters, and they have failed in that place."
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is probing several senior State Department officials' ties to President Biden's University of Pennsylvania-affiliated think tank, which sits at the center of his classified-document scandal.