| | | "That's why AOC and her gang are playing the race card against Nancy Pelosi."
Yes, they are. The Dems came down pretty hard on her for that.
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House resolution will condemn Trump's 'disgusting' attacks on AOC, Tlaib, Omar and Pressley
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
Published 1:55 p.m. ET July 15, 2019
WASHINGTON – House Democrats plan to introduce a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s attacks on four of its most outspoken progressive members after he told the women to "go back" to where they came from.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the resolution Monday in a letter to those in her caucus, writing that, "the President went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about Members of Congress."
"Let me be clear, our Caucus will continue to forcefully respond to these disgusting attacks," Pelosi wrote. "The House cannot allow the President’s characterization of immigrants to our country to stand."
Congressional Democrats have been quick to back freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. after they were seemingly targeted by a number of posts by the president, though he didn't mention any lawmakers by name.
All four are American citizens. Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York City, Pressley was born in Cincinnati and Tlaib was born in Detroit. Omar was born in Somalia. Her family fled that country's civil war when she was 8-years-old and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in the U.S. and settling in Minneapolis in 1997, according to her biography.
They are some of the president's most vocal critics in the House and have become known as the "squad" — sticking together even when they seem to go against the rest of their party on key votes and issues.
The resolution is to be sponsored by Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., who was born in Poland and moved to the U.S. when he was a young boy. Pelosi said other Democrats who immigrated to the U.S. would also be sponsoring it.
A vote on the resolution will force Republicans to choose whether to denounce the president's comments or stick beside him.
Trump wrote on Sunday that it was "so interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe" now telling the U.S. how to run its government.
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