diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 92cd51cfbf6e4..c3c39150f23e9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -200,9 +200,6 @@ def write_version(filename: str = os.path.join(*[my_dir, "airflow", "git_version
     pandas_requirement,
     'mypy-boto3-rds>=1.21.0',
     'mypy-boto3-redshift-data>=1.21.0',
-    # XML to dict 0.13.0 breaks some EMR tests
-    # It should be removed once we solve https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/23576
-    'xmltodict<0.13.0',
 ]
 apache_beam = [
     'apache-beam>=2.33.0',