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Republican leader Kevin McCarthy defended two lawmakers stripped of their committee assignments for threatening Democrats, saying on Thursday they can expect to be reinstated if their party wins back the House.
A day earlier Rep. Paul Gosar was censured for posting a manipulated anime cartoon showing him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez.
And Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her assignments after posting messages that included anti-Semitic and Islamophobic comments, as well as sharing QAnon conspiracy theories.
McCarthy has been under pressure to take action against members who have used violent rhetoric, amid a growing number of threats against lawmakers in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.
But he shrugged off the matter, at a press conference, saying they could expect to get back their committee position if Republicans retake the House in the 2022 midterms.
'They'll have committees,' he said.
'The committee assignments they have now, they may have other committee assignments. They may have better committee assignments.'
House Minority Leader on Thursday said MTG and Rep. Paul Gosar would be
