Nancy Pelosi is struggling to unite her warring factions amid the Ilhan Omar controversy
The task of rewriting the resolution has now fallen to House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, the first Democrat to publicly rip Omar’s latest remark.
Democratic sources said some Jewish lawmakers, including Rep. Ted Deutch , were upset by leadership’s decision to expand the resolution to address all kinds of hate speech, which they felt watered down the repudiation of Omar’s comments. “We were just having a good discussion about the need for a powerful statement condemning anti-Semitism,” he told POLITICO. “That’s really all I’m focused on.”
Pelosi and her deputies have also faced a backlash from their rank and file, with lawmakers complaining they felt blindsided as the resolution was crafted and released without a single caucuswide email or conference call. Part of the challenge, other lawmakers say, is that a new generation of Democrats has arrived in Washington that eschews the top-down style of leadership that has defined House politics for decades.
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