Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, both stripped of their House committee assignments in 2021 over their controversial views and online activity, have been appointed to panels in the new Congress now that the GOP is back in charge.

The Republican Steering Committee on Tuesday selected both Greene, R-Ga., and Gosar, R-Ariz., for the Oversight and Accountability Committee, the lower chamber’s primary investigative panel. Greene will also serve on the House Homeland Security Committee, and Gosar also has been assigned to the Natural Resources Committee.

In February 2021, a month into her first term, the Democratic-led House voted to boot Greene from the Budget Committee and Education and Labor Committee over her endorsement on social media of violence against Democratic lawmakers and conspiracy theories. Eleven Republicans also voted to remove her from the panels.

On the House floor just before the vote, Greene said she regretted believing misinformation and said her past comments “do not represent me.”

In November 2021, the House voted to censure Gosar and strip him of his assignments on the Oversight and Natural Resource committees after he posted an animated video on social media depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword and attacking President Joe Biden.

Gosar insisted on the House floor he does not “espouse violence towards anyone” and removed the video.

During House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's battle for the gavel earlier this month, several Republican lawmakers made their frustration clear that those with certain committees had more power than the rest 

On Tuesday, several of the holdouts in McCarthy's vote received committee assignments on high-profile panels, among them Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who will both join Greene and Gosar on the Oversight Committee.

The Oversight Committee’s new chairman, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has already launched requests for information on declassified documents found in searches of President Joe Biden's homes and former office.

In a statement Tuesday, Greene said the panel will investigate “waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement of the federal government, which is exactly what the American people are fed up with.”

“Joe Biden, be prepared,” she added. “We are going to uncover every corrupt business dealing, every foreign entanglement, every abuse of power, and every check cut for The Big Guy.”

The White House condemned the addition of the far-right Republicans to the oversight panel.

"With these members joining the Oversight Committee, it appears that House Republicans may be setting the stage for divorced-from-reality political stunts, instead of engaging in bipartisan work on behalf of the American people," White House official Ian Sams said in a statement to Axios. "Chairman Comer once said his goal was to ensure the Committee's work is 'credible,' yet Republicans are handing the keys of oversight to the most extreme MAGA members of the Republican caucus who promote violent rhetoric and dangerous conspiracy theories."

Meanwhile, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., the new chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, which Greene will sit on, has called for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his management of the southern border.

Greene said the border “is being invaded by millions of illegal aliens, criminals, and potential terrorists. Our People are being murdered by Chinese fentanyl flooding in from the cartels. Our Border Patrol and ICE agents have their hands tied and have been turned into a welcoming committee by the Biden administration. Cyber attacks continue on our nation's people and businesses along with many more threats to our homeland.

“It’s time for accountability with Republicans in charge,” she added.

Embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., also received assignments, to the Small Business Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee.

The freshman congressman has admitted to lying about major aspects of his biography, including his education and work history, but he has resisted calls, including by the Nassau County Republican Party, to resign. McCarthy has said he won’t push Santos to step down.

Federal and local prosecutors are investigating whether Santos committed any crimes involving his finances or lies on the campaign trail, according to multiple reports and the Nassau County, New York, district attorney’s office. Last week, a nonpartisan watchdog group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging Santos violated multiple campaign finance laws.

"In this country, you're still innocent till proven guilty," said Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. "There have been members who issues have come up in the past. They were allowed to be on their committees, who sat on committees and then the legal process takes hold, and we make adjustments."

McCarthy had vowed to retaliate against Democrats for stripping Greene and Gosar of their committee assignments when the Republicans regained the majority. He has recently confirmed he intends to block Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both California Democrats, from sitting on the Intelligence Committee.

McCarthy also plans to seek the removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the Foreign Affairs Committee. 

"Swalwell can’t get a security clearance in the private sector. I’m not going to give him a government security clearance," McCarthy told Punchbowl News earlier this month. "Schiff has lied too many times to the American public. He should not be on Intel."

McCarthy has promised to remove Schiff from the Intelligence Committee, which he has chaired the past four years, because he says he’s “lied to the American public time and again,” particularly about Donald Trump and Russia.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found “numerous links between the Russian government” and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign but did not find sufficient evidence the campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the election. The Mueller report also laid out several instances in which Trump may have obstructed justice, but Attorney General William Barr declined to bring charges.

Schiff was an impeachment manager in Trump’s first impeachment trial, in which the Senate acquitted the president of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over U.S. aid withheld from Ukraine while Trump pressured Kyiv to investigate Biden and his son Hunter. Schiff also was a member of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Schiff told MSNBC last week McCarthy is “certainly going to try” to block him from the Intelligence Committee “and he may very well succeed.”

“The tragedy is using the Intelligence Committee as his political plaything to placate Donald Trump, to placate Marjorie Taylor Greene, to exact revenge … for my leading the impeachment against Trump in the first trial,” Schiff said.

Republicans have repeatedly attacked Swalwell since it was reported in December 2020 that a suspected Chinese spy targeted Swalwell, as well as other politicians, by working as a fundraiser on his 2014 campaign. 

Swalwell says he severed contact with the woman immediately after receiving an FBI briefing in 2015 and has not been accused of any wrongdoing by law enforcement.

"It's purely only about vengeance," Swalwell told MSNBC last week. 

Swalwell argued that his situation and those of Taylor Greene and Gosar don't compare.

"If there is a colleague on the Democratic side who advocates for violence, for physical violence to enact your political will, I will be the first person to introduce a resolution to remove them from their committee," he said. "That's not what has happened here."

Omar has made multiple comments that angered both Republicans and members of her own party.

In 2019, she spoke of Israel’s political influence in the U.S., remarks critics decried as anti-Semitic because they believed they played on an old trope about Jewish Americans’ dual allegiance. Weeks earlier, Omar wrote in a tweet that the reason Israel enjoys widespread support in Congress was “all about the Benjamins,” which critics viewed as a reference to the anti-Semitic stereotype involving Jews and money.

And in a 2021 tweet, Omar accused the United States and Israel, along with Hamas, Afghanistan and the Taliban, of committing “unthinkable atrocities.” The post drew condemnation from Republicans and Democrats, who accused Omar of equating the U.S. and Israel with Hamas, a terrorist group, and the Taliban.

In response to McCarthy’s threats to block her from the Foreign Affairs panel, Omar, who is Muslim, issued a statement last month in which she accused Republicans of making “it their mission to use fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism to target me on the House Floor and through millions of dollars of campaign ads.”

Removing her from her committee assignment will “gin up fear and hate against Somali-Americans and anyone who shares my identity, and further divide us along racial and ethnic lines,” she said. “It is a continuation of a sustained campaign against Muslim and African voices, people in his party have been trying to ban since Donald Trump first ran for office.”

As speaker, McCarthy has the power to unilaterally keep Schiff and Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee. The full House would need to vote to block Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

It’s unclear if McCarthy will try to prevent the three Democrats from serving on other committees. The speaker told Fox News last week he won’t reject Democratic picks to a new select subcommittee created by Republicans to investigate potential bias by federal law enforcement against conservatives.

“We won’t play like them,” McCarthy said. “They want to put somebody on the committee, put them on the committee.”