The White House has taken issue with the appointment of far-right Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar as members of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, the lower chamber’s main investigative committee.
White House spokesman on these matters, Ian Sams, has defended that Joe Biden’s Administration is willing to «work in good faith to meet the legitimate oversight needs of Congress», although he has accused the Republicans of «handing the keys» of the committee to some of their most extremist congressmen.
«With these members joining the Oversight and Reform Committee, it appears that House Republicans may be setting the stage for political stunts far removed from reality, rather than engaging in bipartisan work on behalf of the American people,» Sams has said, as reported by The Hill.
In this line, Sams has lamented that both the newly appointed Taylor Greene and Gosar, as well as Scott Perry — who has also announced that he will be part of the committee — belong to the most extremist wing of the ‘Make America Great Again’ ideology, a slogan adopted by former President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign and on the basis of which he justified measures of ultranationalist tinge.
For the White House spokesman, the Republican Party has bowed to these «more extreme» congressmen who do nothing but promote «violent rhetoric and dangerous conspiracy theories». The clearest case is that of Taylor Greene, who has repeatedly supported the false theory that Trump won the 2020 elections.
When trying to understand these appointments, Sams has hinted that they could be part of the promises that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, made to the most extremist wing of his party in order to obtain the necessary votes to become the highest authority in the lower house.
In fact, Sams’ words come just one day after the White House also asked McCarthy to release to the public the details of the agreements he negotiated with the nearly 20 Republican representatives who, in more than 15 votes, opposed his nomination as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
