Censure of Ilhan Omar for comments after Charlie Kirk’s assassination

House Resolution 713 proposes to censure Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and remove her from the Committees on Education and the Workforce and on the Budget. The text states that Charlie Kirk, a defender of free speech, civil political discourse, and youth engagement, as well as a man of faith, husband, and father, was murdered on September 10, 2025, at the Utah Valley University campus while exercising his First Amendment rights. One day later, Ilhan Omar gave an interview in which she defamed Kirk and suggested that he was to blame for his own murder. On September 12, she reposted on the social network X a video that disparaged his character and that of those who mourned his death, claiming among other things that Kirk was a despicable human being, a stochastic terrorist, a staunch transphobe, a denier of genocide in Palestine, a misogynist, and that his dying words were coded racist dog whistles. The same video compared him to Dr. Frankenstein and blamed Kirk for his own murder. The resolution recalls that the rules of the House require its members to maintain conduct that reflects credibility and holds that Omar’s actions after Kirk’s murder are reprehensible, damage the dignity and integrity of the House, and do not comply with that principle. Consequently, it is resolved that Ilhan Omar be publicly censured on the House floor and removed from the aforementioned committees.

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