“House Democrats – led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) – are preparing a letter to House Republicans to insist they scrap Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from an upcoming hearing after controversial remarks about Covid sparing Jews and Chinese,” Punchbowl News reports.
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