GOP expresses pressure on Ilhan Omar in the middle of the controversy on the remarks of Charlie Kirk

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First on Fox: A republican of the House asks that representative Ilhan Omar, D-minn., To be bred by his assignments as a committee, accusing him of making derogatory comments towards Charlie Kirk after his assassination last week.
The representative Buddy Carter, R-GA., Presents a resolution on Monday to withdraw Omar from his two current committees: the Chamber’s Budget Committee and the Chamber’s Education Committee and the Workforce.
It is the main democrat of the latter’s subcommittee on labor protections.
This is part of the continuous repercussions of the murder of Kirk in Utah during a university speech event.
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Representative Ilhan Omar, with representative Rashida Tlaib by his side, speaks during a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 19, 2025. (Renee Jones Schneider / Star Tribune via Getty Images)
The Republicans forcefully responded to the Democrats whom they consider to death of Kirk lightly or rejecting it as a product of its conservative activism.
Omar, in particular, faced reactions on the right on an interview with the progressive media Zeteo, where she criticized Kirk’s past commentary and the republicans’ reaction to the shooting. However, she accused the Republicans of having released her words out of context, and she called the death of Kirk “mortifying”.
She told Kirk’s assassination after Kirk’s assassination which he had previously “minimized slavery and what blacks lived in this country by saying that Douete should not exist”.
“There are many people who talk about him who just want to have a civilian debate,” said the member of “the team”. “There is nothing more erased, you know, than to completely pretend that, you know, its words and actions have not been recorded and existing in the last decade.”

Charlie Kirk speaks at the University of Utah Valley on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, spoke as part of his “American tour” when he was shot in the neck and killed. (Trent Nelson / The Salt Lake Tribune; Getty Images)
She criticized the republican personalities who pursued the Democrats for their rhetoric, adding: “These people are full of s —. And it is important for us to call them while we feel anger and sadness, and you know, you know, empathy, that Charlie said:” No, it should not exist “, because it is a word or something new.”
“”As, I have empathy for his children and his wife and what they go through, “continued Omar.
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Later, she posted on X in the middle of the reaction, “when I do not agree with Charlie Kirk vehemently on his rhetoric, my heart breaks for his wife and children. I only wish violence on anyone. Hate on a daily basis.”

The representative Buddy Carter, R-GA., Is addressed to the supporters of President Donald Trump during an event organized by Vice-President JD Vance on August 21, 2025 in Peachtree City, in Georgia. (Images Megan Varner / Getty)
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Carter, however, told Fox News Digital, “the denigration of the heritage of Charlie Kirk, an honorable man fearing God, for having boldly shared his conservative beliefs is disgusting. The radical left has normalized to meet freedom of expression with violence, and it must stop.”
“Person who justifies the assassination of a person with different political opinions that they deserves to sit on a committee, and Ilhan Omar has openly used a language that encourages violence against his political opponents. Committees are intended for serious legislators, and not for politicians who denounced hatred,” he said.
Carter, who currently presents himself in the American Senate, sits on the Chamber’s Budget Committee alongside Omar.
Fox News Digital contacted the Progressive Minnesota office to comment but did not hear at the time of the press.