{"id":23597,"date":"2026-06-04T01:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/max-miller-rebuked-for-accusing-rashida-tlaib-of-associating-with-hezbollah\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:17:27","slug":"max-miller-rebuked-for-accusing-rashida-tlaib-of-associating-with-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/max-miller-rebuked-for-accusing-rashida-tlaib-of-associating-with-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Miller rebuked for accusing Rashida Tlaib of associating with Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) accused Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) of advocating for the terrorist organization Hezbollah during remarks on the House floor Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s attack on the Palestinian-American congresswoman came during debate over a proposal she introduced that would block U.S. forces from entering Lebanon, a center of Hezbollah operations.<\/p>\n<p>In stressing the danger Hezbollah poses to U.S. allies in the Middle East, Miller characterized Hezbollah as \u201cbutchers that you like to hang out with to a certain extent,\u201d referring to Tlaib.<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib protested Miller\u2019s comments, prompting a shouting match between the two on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou advocate for terrorists on a daily basis,\u201d Miller told Tlaib.<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib requested Miller\u2019s remarks be taken down, and his comment was ultimately stricken.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which will likely fail due to opposition from Republicans and some Democrats, was an effort to restrict U.S. involvement in Israel\u2019s military campaign in Lebanon. The House passed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/03\/iran-war-powers-house-trump-00949175\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war powers resolution<\/a> earlier Wednesday requiring the White House to get approval from Congress before launching new strikes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) accused Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) of advocating for the terrorist organization Hezbollah during remarks on the House floor Wednesday. Miller\u2019s attack on the Palestinian-American congresswoman came during debate over a proposal she introduced that would block U.S. forces from entering Lebanon, a center of Hezbollah operations. In stressing the danger Hezbollah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}