A vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in response to controversial comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar is set to slip past Wednesday amid intensifying pressure from the left both inside and outside the Democratic Caucus
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that the vote would now likely happen Thursday and be updated to include language rejecting anti-Muslim bias.“People are working through the draft. Not everyone has seen the draft,” said Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries . “I support the notion that we need to respond and we’re figuring out the appropriate way to respond.
The resolution is being taken up after senior Democrats, including some prominent Jewish lawmakers like Reps. Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey of New York, have publicly criticized Omar and demanded she apologize. But an array of prominent liberal allies like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and outside progressive groups have rallied to the Minnesota Democrat's defense.
Liberals had pushed for language condemning Islamophobia after Omar was recently targeted in a poster displayed at an event sponsored by the West Virginia GOP, which appeared to link her to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The poster included a photo of the World Trade Center buildings on fire and a photo of the freshman Democrat below it.
Pelosi and Omar spoke over the weekend as staffers for Pelosi and other top Democrats began crafting the resolution.
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