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Ilhan Omar Wants to Run Foreign Affairs — Colleague Says She's Not Even a Citizen

Incoming Minority Whip Tom Emmer went on Larry O'Connor's show this week and said what most of Washington has been whispering for years: Ilhan Omar is "no longer a citizen." Not a former citizen. Not a citizen under review. No longer a citizen — present tense, stated flatly, by a member of House Republican leadership, while the DOJ is reportedly "finalizing" proceedings against her.

Omar's response to all of this? She wants a bigger seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Republicans stripped Omar from that committee in 2023. The reasons at the time were her repeated antisemitic remarks and her pattern of siding with foreign interests over American ones. That removal was supposed to be a consequence. Now, with a new Congress forming, Omar is angling to get that seat back — or something even more prominent — on the very committee that oversees America's relationships with every nation on earth.

The timing is remarkable. Tom Homan, speaking about the federal case against Omar, called it "strong." Omar herself has acknowledged that the government seized her devices as part of the investigation, telling reporters she's "gotten most of her seized devices back." Most. Not all. The feds are still holding some of her electronics while she's out shopping for a committee gig that involves classified briefings on national security.

Hot Air reported on the developments this week, and the facts deserve to sit without decoration. A sitting member of Congress is under active federal investigation involving seized electronic devices. A senior Republican leader has publicly stated she is no longer a United States citizen. The DOJ is moving toward some kind of resolution. And her priority is climbing the committee ladder in foreign affairs.

The Foreign Affairs Committee isn't a ribbon-cutting assignment. Members receive classified intelligence briefings. They shape policy on allies, adversaries, sanctions, and military cooperation. The security clearance requirements alone should make Omar's application a non-starter while a federal investigation is open — and that's before you get to the citizenship question Emmer raised.

Democrats will frame this as a political attack. They'll say Emmer's statement was reckless, that questioning a colleague's citizenship is beneath the institution. This is the same caucus that spent four years questioning whether the sitting president was a Russian asset based on opposition research funded by his opponent's campaign. Their threshold for evidence-free accusations depends entirely on who's being accused.

What Omar conspicuously hasn't done is produce a simple, definitive rebuttal. No press conference with documents. No legal filing to shut the conversation down. No defamation threat against Emmer for what would be, if false, one of the most slanderous statements a colleague could make on national television. She's "gotten most of her seized devices back" and left it at that.

The committee assignments will be finalized in the coming weeks. Omar needs Democratic leadership to hand her a seat that comes with access to some of the most sensitive information the United States government produces.

The DOJ is still finalizing its case. Her devices aren't all returned. And Tom Emmer said it on camera.

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