The White House isn’t standing by Rep. Steve King’s racist comments, with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying that King’s recent statements were “abhorrent.”

King last week wondered aloud in an interview with The New York Times why terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” are considered “offensive.” He later insisted that his comments were “completely mischaracterized,” although this was far from his first offense.

King’s remarks were widely condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike, and the House on Tuesday voted to denounce white supremacy in response; the vote was nearly unanimous, with the only dissenting congressman being Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush , who thought they should have gone further by censuring King, reports CNN. In addition to the rebuke, King was also stripped of his committee assignments.

But Sanders turned things around on Democrats Wednesday, saying that “the Republican leadership unlike Democrats have actually taken action when their members have said outrageous and inappropriate things.”

When I asked whether Trump supports the House's condemnation of Steve King, Sarah Sanders called his racist comments "abhorrent."
Adding: "The Republican leadership unlike Democrats have actually taken action when their members have said outrageous & inappropriate things." 1/2

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) January 16, 2019

In 2014, Trump touted King as a "special guy, a smart person, with really the right views on almost everything."
Their ideologies are so in sync, Trump said, "We don't have to compare notes." 2/2https://t.co/l67Hml47vb https://t.co/RRdP360qDF

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) January 16, 2019

While she didn’t cite specific examples, she may have in mind Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s remark about Democrats preparing to “impeach the motherf—er,” referring to Donald Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later said in response that she “wouldn’t use that language” but that she’s “not in the censorship business” and that it wasn’t “anything worse than what the president has said.”