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Hoyer slams McCarthy's defense of Trump tweets: 'Baloney'
BY MIKE LILLIS - 07/16/19 01:34 PM EDT
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McCarthy said Trump was highlighting the liberal policy preferences of the four outspoken freshmen, not targeting them because of their ethnicity.
"I believe this is about ideology," McCarthy said. "This is about socialism versus freedom and it's very clear what the debate is happening."
Hoyer, asked to comment on McCarthy's assessment, did not pause a moment.
"That's baloney. It has nothing to do with socialism," he said, lamenting that only a handful of Republicans have strongly denounced Trump's comments.
"[It's] dangerous and offensive to our people, and a message wholly at odds with the huge picture of Ronald Reagan that the leader has hanging in his office," Hoyer added, referring to McCarthy.
The back and forth came hours before Hoyer and House Democrats have scheduled a vote on a resolution condemning Trump's remarks as explicitly "racist." The resolution, sponsored by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), has united the Democrats, who are rallying behind the four progressives in the so-called "squad."
"This is a resolution based in who we are as a people, as well as a recognition of the unacceptability of what his goals were," Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said during a closed-door meeting of the Democratic Caucus in the Capitol.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/453322-hoyer-slams-mccarthys-defense-of-trump-tweets-baloney
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