Ilhan Omar Faces Major Punishment For ‘Disparaging’ Charlie Kirk After Killing
Published 16 hours ago
on September 15, 2025
By Mark Steffen
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering severe punishment against “Squad” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she drew gasps and denunciations over her recent remarks about the late Charlie Kirk.
An effort to strip Omar of her committee assignments is being spearheaded by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), who is running for U.S. Senate, and said Omar and the “radical left have normalized meeting free speech with violence.”
The Georgia Republican introduced a motion on Monday that would see Omar pulled 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.
Critics of Omar zeroed in on her comments last week when she told former MSNBC anchor Medhi Hasan that Kirk’s death brought to mind his past positions on gun control.
“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.”
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