Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives have moved to strip congressman Steve King of his committee assignments.
The decision of the House Republican Steering Committee is to be ratified by the full caucus of House Republicans.
Mr. King, who has a history of making statements that critics have condemned as racist, said in a statement that his comments in an interview were “completely mischaracterised” and the committee’s decision was “a political decision that ignores the truth.”
King was first elected to Congress in 2002 and won re-election in November with just over 50 percent of the vote, sharply lower than the 61.2 percent he polled in 2016.
