JAW-DROPPING: Five Republicans Help Tank Effort To Censure Dem Who Allegedly Assaulted ICE Officers

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From the Daily Caller: The House of Representatives killed a resolution to formally censure Democratic New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver on Wednesday afternoon over the congresswoman allegedly assaulting law enforcement at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in May.

Lawmakers initially voted 215 to 207 to table the resolution with Republican Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Mike Turner of Ohio, David Valadao of California, Mike Flood of Nebraska and David Joyce of Ohio joining Democrats to torpedo the censure effort. The resolution would have also booted McIver from her seat on the Homeland Security Committee, which oversees federal immigration authorities, including ICE.

Turner’s office quickly issued a statement clarifying that the congressman’s vote to table the resolution was an accident.

“Congressman Turner supports removing Rep. LaMonica McIver from the Homeland Security Committee. He intended to vote no to table and submitted a correction immediately,” the statement said.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) had sponsored the resolution that would have formally punished McIver for assaulting the ICE agent and would have booted her off the Homeland Security Committee.

Higgins ripped into the rogue Republicans who refused to support his resolution, writing on X:

“Media is asking me why the Republican Conference failed to pass my Resolution to remove a federally indicted Democrat from the Homeland Security Committee. I’m telling them to talk with these guys. They’re the Republicans who failed to stand with federal law enforcement: Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), Rep. Michael Flood (R-NE), Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), Rep. David Valadao (R-CA), Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-TX).”

“And by the way, every single one of these Republicans voted to EXPEL Republican George Santos from Congress in 2023. This is the swamp, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is the swamp.”

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) also voiced his outrage, writing, “I was prepared to debate this on the floor alongside @RepClayHiggins after we defeated tabling… yet inexplicably it was not defeated. She’s on the HOMELAND SECURITY committee & indicted for “forcibly impeding law enforcement officers.” NUTS!”

A defiant McIver released a statement blasting Higgins. She wrote, “Tonight, Clay Higgins moved to force a vote to censure me and remove me from @HomelandDems because I was doing my job.”

In another statement, McIver wrote, “The censure attempt against me has failed. Rightfully so. It was a baseless, partisan effort to shut me up. I was not elected to play political games—I was elected to serve. I won’t back down. Not now. Not ever.”

Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) wrote, “Republicans just FAILED in their attempt to censure my colleague @RepLaMonica — simply for doing her job and conducting oversight of an ICE facility. What a ridiculous waste of time that Congress should be using to work for the American people.”

Homeland Security posted a video of the wild incident that McIver was charged over back in early May.

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