Republicans like Rep. Mike Waltz are accusing President Biden of caving to the left on Israel, as progressives like Rep. Ilhan Omar take a victory lap. (Getty Images)
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., suggested to Fox News Digital that the president was motivated by threats to his re-election bid from the progressive left.
"Joe Biden is putting his fear of a hundred thousand progressives in Michigan ahead of the security of the U.S. and Israel. This is politics at its worst and sends a disgraceful message to our allies," Waltz said.
Biden's announcement also caught heat from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who called it a "dangerous mistake."
"This shortsighted move will call into question U.S. reliability around the world," he said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital by the committee.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, May 7. (AP/Ramez Habboub)
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said on X, "We have to keep standing for what is right. Organizing is working. Protesting is working."
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The college protests here have garnered bipartisan criticism from virtually all Republicans and a significant number of Democrats, but progressives have continued to show strong support for the students and other activists on campus.
Comments by Omar, for example, referring to some Jewish students as "pro-genocide," have earned her a GOP-led censure resolution, filed by Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., on Tuesday. She made the remarks during a recent visit to Columbia University's anti-Israel encampment.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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