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House Republicans Move to Strip Ilhan Omar of Committee Seats After Kirk Comments
Daily Fetched ^ | September 17, 2025 | Jason Walsh

Posted on 09/17/2025 12:35:50 PM PDT by Red Badger

U.S. House Republicans are moving to strip “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her committee assignments in response to incendiary comments she made about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Omar caused outrage last week after she declared Republicans are “full of s**t” for accusing critics of Kirk of celebrating his death.

Officials across the country have now been reprimanded or fired in response to caustic remarks about the late father of two and conservative activist.

The resolution filed Tuesday by Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-NC) seeks to remove Omar from the House Budget Committee and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

She is also the top Democrat on the latter panel’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Citing House ethics requiring lawmakers to demonstrate “credibility,” Mace called Omar’s remarks “reprehensible” and said they negatively impact “the dignity and integrity of the House.”

Additionally, the North Carolina Republican asked colleagues to censure Omar “with a public reading by the Speaker.”

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Trending Politics reports: Mace’s move builds on an earlier commitment from Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), a U.S. Senate candidate, to strip Omar of her committee assignments for comments she made while speaking with former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan.

“But what I do know for sure is that Charlie Kirk was someone who once said, ‘Guns save lives’ after a school shooting,” Omar said. “Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police … downplay slavery and what Black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth should never exist.”

Omar then disagreed with commentators who framed Kirk as “just wanting to have a civil debate,” prompting Hasan to call their characterization a “complete rewriting of history.”

“Yeah,” Omar responded. “There is nothing more effed up than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”

She then accused President Donald Trump of “incit[ing] violence against people like me.”

Omar has responded to the fallout by calling Kirk’s death “mortifying” and accusing Republicans of taking her comments out of context.

“These people are full of s**t,” Omar told Hasan about Republicans in general. “And it’s important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness, and have, you know, empathy, which Charlie said, ‘No, it shouldn’t exist,’ because that’s a newly created word or something.”

She later tried to walk back her comments on X, writing:

“While I disagreed with Charlie Kirk vehemently about his rhetoric, my heart breaks for his wife and children. I don’t wish violence on anyone. My faith teaches me the power of peace, empathy, and compassion. Right-wing accounts trying to spin a false story when I condemned his murder multiple times is fitting for their agenda to villainize the left to hide from the fact that Donald Trump gins up hate on a daily basis.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charliekirk
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1 posted on 09/17/2025 12:35:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Ha ha!


2 posted on 09/17/2025 12:37:48 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Red Badger

She ought to be on a one way flight to Somalia.


3 posted on 09/17/2025 12:38:19 PM PDT by albie
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To: albie

Along with her husband-brother.


4 posted on 09/17/2025 12:39:05 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Red Badger
Kick her out of congress. There's enough "there, there" to oust her and deport her and her brother.

Stop half measuring. Pull the tooth and move on.

5 posted on 09/17/2025 12:39:11 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Red Badger

Just do it you RINO cowards.

Mike Johnson is a useless little rhymes with “tuck”.


6 posted on 09/17/2025 12:39:37 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Red Badger

Guarantee that at least five Republicans will vote to table the motion.

I’ll start off with Massie and Bacon.


7 posted on 09/17/2025 12:40:18 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc
Guarantee that at least five Republicans will vote to table the motion. I’ll start off with Massie

yep

8 posted on 09/17/2025 12:41:43 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

“move” Until the turd hits the water, all that this move is grunting.


9 posted on 09/17/2025 12:42:51 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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FTA-—Somali Rep Omar caused outrage last week after she declared
Republicans are “full of s**t” for accusing critics of Kirk of celebrating his death.

Now U.S. House Republicans are moving to strip “Squad” Democrat Omar (D-MN) from
her committee assignments in response to her incendiary comments wrt the murder of Charlie Kirk.


10 posted on 09/17/2025 12:43:53 PM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: albie

Speaking of which, what ever happened with the ‘Maryland Man”?


11 posted on 09/17/2025 12:44:10 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

Deport her she entered the US Illegally


12 posted on 09/17/2025 12:44:42 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Magnum44

As of September 17, 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held in a detention facility in Virginia under the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A federal judge has ordered that he remain in the country at least until an evidentiary hearing scheduled for October 6


13 posted on 09/17/2025 12:45:37 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

:)


14 posted on 09/17/2025 12:49:40 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

Is the fact she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother ever going to be addressed?


15 posted on 09/17/2025 12:59:27 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Red Badger

Let them cry, they took away MTG’s seats for less.


16 posted on 09/17/2025 1:00:49 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: blackdog

They were all too happy to toss their own congressman from New York out of the house for merely lying in his campaign. I forget his name now but just wondering how many Democrats would be expelled from congress for comparable malfeasance?


17 posted on 09/17/2025 1:00:52 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: RightOnTheBorder
Is the fact she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother ever going to be addressed?

It's on the docket, right after the Hillary case using an illegal server and sharing national intelligence.

18 posted on 09/17/2025 1:01:18 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Massie is a worm that far too many here on FR defend, no matter how much he supports democrats...


19 posted on 09/17/2025 1:01:46 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Probably not until election time...............


20 posted on 09/17/2025 1:02:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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