Post Politics Now: GOP using committee spots to reward and punish in the new House – The Washington Post
Today, a clearer picture is emerging about which Republicans are being rewarded with plum committee spots — and which Democrats might be denied posts in the new GOP-led House.
Four of former president Donald Trump’s staunchest and most controversial allies — Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Paul A. Gosar (Ariz.), Scott Perry (Pa.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.) — appear headed to the House Oversight Committee, which is expected to make investigations of President Biden and his family its leading priority. Republicans are also angling to deny Democratic Reps. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (Calif.) seats on the House Intelligence Committee and to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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The latest: Trump campaign seeks his prompt return to Facebook
A lawyer for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has formally asked Facebook’s parent company to allow him to return to the platform, arguing that a two-year-old ban in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has “dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse.”
In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive at Meta, and other company officials, the lawyer noted that Facebook instituted a ban on the former president that was scheduled to come up for review after Jan. 7 of this year. The lawyer, Scott Gast, requested a meeting “to discuss President Trump’s prompt reinstatement to the platform.”
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