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.”
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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.”
Carter told Fox News that her explanation rings hollow.
“Disparaging Charlie Kirk’s legacy, a God-fearing, honorable man, for boldly sharing his conservative beliefs is disgusting. The radical left has normalized meeting free speech with violence, and it must stop,” he said.
“No one who justifies the assassination of someone with different political views than them deserves to sit on a committee, and Ilhan Omar openly used language that incites violence toward her political opponents. Committees are for serious lawmakers, not hate-spewing politicians,” he said.
Carter sits on the House Budget Chair alongside Omar.
Last year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a resolution to censure Omar for antisemitic comments made about the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
