Trump administration officials and a bipartisan group of lawmakers reaffirmed the Holocaust would “never again” occur at the annual commemoration for the Days of Remembrance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as Republicans and Democrats face growing accusations of antisemitism.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony has been held every year since 1979, commemorating the six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust and honoring the U.S. troops who fought in World War II.
“We recommit to taking action together,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said, “in the effort to combat antisemitism, and Holocaust denial cannot be a Democratic issue or Republican issue. It is an American issue.”
Lawmakers used their speeches to condemn growing antisemitism in the country and honor a Nuremberg trials prosecutor with the Congressional Gold Medal, avoiding partisan finger-pointing.
But Trump-appointed administration officials didn’t receive the same response when they praised President Donald Trump as the
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