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This morning Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican congresswoman from Georgia, once again compared preparations taken against COVID to the Holocaust. These are sickening, reprehensible comments, and she should stop this vile language immediately, Schumer, who is the first Jewish Senate majority leader, said from the floor.
McConnell told CNN that her comments are “outrageous” and “reprehensible.”
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GOP begins to call out Marjorie Taylor Greene, with McConnell telling @tedbarrettcnn and @FoxReports that her Holocaust comments are outrageous and reprehensible Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 25, 2021
Greene, a frequent source of controversy for her party, sparked widespread backlash late last week when she compared Speaker Nancy Pelosi
The moderate Democrats said in a statement Tuesday that they “could never have imagined an attack on Congress and our Capitol at the hands of our own citizens.”
“In the hours and days following the attack, Republican and Democratic members of Congress condemned the violence and vowed to hold those responsible accountable so our Democracy will never experience an attack like this again,” the pair said.
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Manchin and Sinema touted the House s bipartisan passage last week of the bill to create a Jan. 6 commission, calling it a “critical step to ensuring our nation never has to endure an attack at the hands of our countrymen again.”
Bipartisan infrastructure talks between Senate Republicans and the White House are on life support, with the two sides $1.5 trillion apart on a final price tag and little agreement on how to pay for it.