WASHINGTON (AP) — Comments by Republican Rep. Steve King about white supremacy are "abhorrent," the White House said Wednesday as bipartisan condemnation of King continued.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised a move by House Republicans to strip the nine-term Iowa lawmaker of his committee assignments.

King told The New York Times last week that, "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?"

The comments were widely denounced as racist.

The House on Tuesday approved a Democratic measure rebuking King, and a member...