A House Republican has announced plans to introduce a resolution aimed at removing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from her committee positions after the progressive ‘Squad‘ member made ‘disgraceful’ comments regarding Charlie Kirk following his assassination last week.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., shared images of the proposed resolution on X, which calls for Omar’s removal from both the Committee on Education and Workforce and the Committee on Budget.
“BREAKING: We’re filing a resolution to strip @Ilhan of her committee assignments after her disgraceful remarks on Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” Mace wrote in her post.
The resolution claims that Omar ‘smeared’ Kirk and ‘implied he was to blame for his own murder’ during an interview with the progressive outlet Zeteo. It also accuses her of reposting a video on X that ‘disparaged the character of Charlie Kirk and those mourning his death.’
Mace’s proposed resolution represents a strong reaction from Republicans who have criticized Democrats for what they perceive as a dismissive attitude towards Kirk’s death, which they attribute to his conservative activism.
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Criticism of Omar intensified after her interview with Zeteo, where she addressed Kirk’s past statements and the Republican response to the shooting. She argued that Republicans misrepresented her comments, referring to Kirk’s death as ‘mortifying.’
In the interview, she stated that he ‘was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd,’ and previously ‘downplayed slavery and what Black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth shouldn’t exist.’
Omar concurred with interviewer Mehdi Hasan, who suggested that those portraying Kirk as merely wanting civil debate were engaging in a ‘complete rewriting of history.’
“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate,” Omar remarked. “There is nothing more effed up, you know, than to completely pretend that, you know, his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”
Omar also called out Republican leaders who have criticized Democrats for their rhetoric, stating, “These people are full of s—. 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.”
“I have empathy for his kids and his wife and what they’re going through,” Omar added.
In response to the backlash, Omar addressed her critics in a post on X, asserting that while she ‘vehemently disagreed’ with Kirk’s rhetoric, she does not ‘wish violence on anyone.’
“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,” she wrote.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
