Congress was right to boot Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs


The removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the Foreign Affairs Committee by House Republicans is the latest sign of the bitter partisan divide in Congress. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and others cited Omar’s past comments about Israel and the 9/11 attacks, which even fellow Democrats condemned, as the reason for her ouster.

Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker says Congress sent the right message by booting the Minnesota congresswoman from the Committee.

These progressives have used Black people and poor people in our country long enough to further their aggressive agenda of progressivism that doesn’t work anymore. It is Omar who stands in the way of what really helped people of color that are on the lower rung. She promotes abortion. She would not even think to say even after the child is born, that baby should not be killed. She stands in the way of school choice for money to follow children to schools parents want. She stands in the way of every idea that would actually help people that are on that bottom rung. 

So Washington is in a brighter day, now that she is out of hereAnd we hope that Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, continues with his…courage. And we hope he continues with that courage because we have reforms that need to be done. We need to reform Social Security so it’s more personalized, so that people can own their futures. We need to reform all of the departments here in Washington, D.C. so that taxpayers will be free from paying for a pet project of all of these progressives and aggressive liberals who are hurting this country. 

This is a first step – Omar’s off the committee. And now we can look for ways to get some of these other progressives off of committees, including foreign affairs committees, when they so hate America. 

This is a good day. Black History Month is about celebration of unity, and how Black people have built this country, helped build this country to its greatness, not an opportunity to tear it down. This is an opportunity for us to celebrate our greatness together so that we will be e pluribus unum, not led by people who have a disdain for this country and a disdain for Israel.