The House rejected a GOP-backed effort to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, with almost two dozen Republican lawmakers bucking their party's attempt to publicly rebuke the California Democrat.
Schiff blasted the resolution in a Tuesday letter to colleagues, obtained by NBC News, that called on Democrats to advocate against the motion which he said was an “attempt to gratify the former President’s MAGA allies” and a"terrible misuse of House precedent and resources."
“This is political payback. But they also hope to intimidate and silence, not just me but others, and in that they are going to be singularly unsuccessful," said Schiff, who is running for a Senate seat, told NBC News on Tuesday."Whatever happens with this resolution, I’m not gonna back down and I will continue to hold them and to hold Donald Trump accountable.”
As former President Donald Trump was arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana tweeted his
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