Showing posts with label Omar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Omar. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Trump escalates feud with Ilhan Omar, appears to suggest she is linked to ISIS - POLITICO

Omar, 43, is a Somalian-born Muslim and the first Somali American elected to Congress. She and her family fled the country when she was 8 years old and, after spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, the family moved to America. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/trump-ilhan-omar-isis-00762273 


 

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

FBI deploys more resources to ‘dismantle fraud schemes’ in Minnesota

Asked about her support of the Meals Act, a bill that changed school meal reimbursement rules during the pandemic and has been connected to systems of fraud, Omar told Fox News Digital, it has not contributed to the fraud and "it did help feed kids"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/fbi-minnesota-fraud-schemes-somalia


 

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Ilhan Omar Mocks Elon Musk For Embarrassing Mistake | HuffPost Latest News

"Hey Elon," the Democratic lawmaker wrote Tuesday while quoting Musk's viral post. "Every single person in this country deserves to know their rights. That's legal. Maybe you should brush up on our laws given the fact you're breaking them to steal American's sensitive data."…

Friday, May 12, 2023

Sanders, Omar Lead Charge to Ensure No Child Goes Hungry at School Again

"We cannot continue to prop up a grossly unjust economy in which the very rich get richer while millions of working families struggle to afford the most basic necessities of life, from paying for rent and medications to feeding their children," said Sanders. 

"Kids cannot learn if they are hungry and every child deserves a quality education free of hunger. What we've seen during this pandemic is that a universal approach to school meals works. We cannot go backwards. It is time for Congress to pass this legislation to ensure no student goes hungry again."

Saturday, April 8, 2023

House Progressives Revive Legislation to 'Cut Child Poverty by Nearly Two-Thirds'

Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Ill.) revived the End Child Poverty Act, which was first introduced by Tlaib and then-Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) in February 2022...


Saturday, February 4, 2023

Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar

Who remembers how, in 2018 and just days before the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history, a prominent US politician tweeted: "We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!"? The tweet was widely – and correctly – understood as dangerously antisemitic, particularly heinous in a period of rising anti-Jewish hatred. And whose tweet was this? If you thought the answer was Minnesota's Democratic representative Ilhan Omar then, well, you'd be wrong. The author was none other than the House majority leader at the time, Republican Kevin McCarthy...


Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Ilhan Omar is right about the Christian singing on a plane video

…As the backlash to Omar shows, Christian identity politicians and activists love to complain about persecution. They label Omar or anyone else who questions them as prejudiced. But in reality, Christians have enormous social and political power in the U.S. They can sweep politicians into office. They can force pregnant people to give birth. They can even force you to listen to them sing 30,000 feet up in the air…


Thursday, February 10, 2022

How Threats Against Politicians Are Surging - The New York Times

…Patrick W. Carlineo Jr., who had been gorging himself on right-wing talk radio before making the call to threaten Ms. Omar, also expressed regret when he appeared before a judge in 2019. 
"I was listening to the Glenn Beck show, then I listened to Rush Limbaugh, and they were talking about her on both shows, and I get a little carried away with the coffee in the morning," Mr. Carlineo said. "I just got all fired up."…


Tuesday, January 11, 2022

McCarthy plans to oust Schiff, Swalwell and Omar from panels - Axios

"McCarthy is targeting me for 1 reason: I'm effective. He wants to carry water (& sort Starbursts) for Trump's Big Lie & not be called out. He's projecting onto me b/c he's incapable of facing down the Ku Klux Klan elements in his caucus. If he thinks he's silencing me, he's not."


Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Rep. Lauren Boebert renews Islamophobic attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, rebuffs call for public apology - The Washington Post

"I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully, but not when that disagreement is rooted in outright bigotry and hate," Omar said. "To date, the Republican Party leadership has done nothing to condemn and hold their own members accountable for repeated instances of anti-Muslim hate and harassment. This is not about one hateful statement or one politician; it is about a party that has mainstreamed bigotry and hatred."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-lauren-boebert-renews-islamophobic-attack-on-rep-ilhan-omar-rebuffs-call-for-public-apology/2021/11/29/d9b56d5c-514e-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html


Sunday, October 4, 2020

Twitter bans posts wishing for Trump death. The Squad wonders where that policy was for them - CNNPolitics

The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as "The Squad" expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm or death to someone in light of President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis. Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts have all spoken out about the threats they receive on social media and say Twitter isn't doing enough about it....
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy-ban-the-squad-politics-trnd/index.html

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Ilhan Omar's actual comment about 'dismantling' systems in U.S. government - The Washington Post

Here the actual quote from the clip that circulated Tuesday of Omar’s news conference on systemic racism: As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality. So we cannot stop at criminal justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression, wherever we find it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/08/what-ilhan-omar-actually-said-about-dismantling-systems-us-government/

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Posts Spread Fake Omar Tweet Calling for 'Violence' - FactCheck.org

A fictitious tweet attributed to Rep. Ilhan Omar is circulating on social media. The congresswoman didn’t write that the “time for violence is now” over her disagreement with President Donald Trump’s actions on Iran.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/posts-spread-fake-omar-tweet-calling-for-violence/

Friday, August 30, 2019

Alabama Republicans are urging Rep. Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress - USA TODAY

A resolution passed by the Alabama Republican Party says Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar "has engaged in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism." Omar responded on Twitter by making reference to former Judge Roy Moore.....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/27/alabama-gop-rep-ilhan-omar-expulsion-congress/2135327001/

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Bernie Sanders To Israel: Ban Our Lawmakers? Then Don’t Take Our Money - HuffPost

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has suggested Israel should now decline the billions of dollars it receives in U.S. aid in the wake of its ban on Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering the country.....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-israel-ban-donald-trump_n_5d56565ae4b0eb875f21be7b








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