Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called out the 23 Republicans who voted against a House resolution condemning bigotry on Friday.
“Where’s the outrage over the 23 GOP members who voted NO on a resolution condemning bigotry today? Oh, there’s none?” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Did they get called out, raked over, ambushed in halls and relentlessly asked why not? No? Okay. Got it.”
Twenty-three Republicans voted against the resolution on Thursday. The top-ranking Republican to do so, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), responded to Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet Friday.
“Here’s the outrage: your party put a sham resolution on the floor designed to protect the anti-Semitic hate and bigotry of @IlhanMN,” Cheney fired back at Ocasio-Cortez.
The House voted overwhelmingly to support the resolution, which “encourages all public officials to confront the reality of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry, as well as historical struggles against them, to ensure that the United States will live up to the transcendent principles of tolerance, religious freedom.”
The resolution was sparked by comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) last week in which she suggested that politicians who support Israel do so out of allegiance to a foreign country, which Republicans and some Democrats believed to be anti-Semitic.
The House resolution was originally expected to condemn anti-Semitism alone.