Several Democratic members of Congress in the progressive “Squad” declined to clap for President Joe Biden when he entered the House chamber for his State of the Union address.
Most members of Congress stood up and clapped when the president entered the chamber, but members of the progressive group, some of whom were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs, did not.
Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Summer Lee (D-PA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) all declined to clap for the president, unlike other Democrats. While most of them stood up as the president entered, Tlaib remained seated.
The donning of the Palestinian keffiyehs was a symbolic act against the president’s support for Israel in the war in Gaza.
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