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House Democrats shut down a resolution condemning Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s communist regime and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s comments defending the late leader’s “literacy program.”

The House blocked the resolution introduced by Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart along party lines, with 189 Republican and independent members of the chamber voting in favor and 224 Democrats voting against. However, 16 members, including Democratic Reps. Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, were not present during the vote.

In an email from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office, he blasted his absent colleagues, writing, “Rep. Shalala and Rep. Mucarsel-Powell’s constituents deserve to know why the representatives they sent to Washington did not even bother to vote on an important resolution to condemn Senator Sanders’ comments & the Castro regime.”

The California Republican continued in a statement to the Washington Examiner, "America is the beacon of freedom for the entire world, a shining light on the hill. That's why it's so embarrassing that Democrats now embrace socialism and its disastrous consequences. Democrats should have taken the opportunity today to stand for freedom, but instead, they shamefully decided to stand by Bernie's reckless praise of Fidel Castro's Cuba."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...ocid=spartanntp

Political gamesmanship on both sides.