During a Zeteo town hall, Omar expressed condolences to Kirk’s family. However, conservatives online erupted over her comments afterward, when she said Kirk previously “downplayed slavery and what black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth shouldn’t exist.”<\/p>\n

“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate,” Omar said. “There is nothing more effed up than to completely pretend that his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so.”<\/p>\n

Mace said if Omar “mock[s] a political assassination and celebrate[s] murder, you don’t get to keep your committee seat, you get consequences.”<\/p>\n

“Ilhan Omar has shown us exactly who she is: someone who defends political violence<\/a> and refuses to condemn the loss of innocent lives when it doesn’t suit her agenda, even the cold-blooded assassination<\/a> of Charlie Kirk,” Mace said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The resolution would remove Omar from the House Budget Committee and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. She is the ranking member of the latter panel’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.<\/p>\n

Mace is the second Republican to introduce a resolution to censure Omar. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) filed a similar bill<\/a> just a few hours before Mace did, calling Omar’s remarks “false, vile, and disparaging.”<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump called Omar a “disgraceful person” on Monday when asked about her comments.<\/p>\n

“I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser,” the president said in the Oval Office. “It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know, they got her and they vote her in. It’s hard to believe, but I think she’s a disgusting person.”<\/p>\n

Omar said in a social media post<\/a> amid the backlash that “while I disagreed with Charlie Kirk vehemently about his rhetoric, my heart breaks for his wife and children.” The Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Omar for comment on Mace’s resolution.<\/p>\n

This is the fifth censure resolution targeting Omar since she came into Congress in 2019. She has faced two from Mace and Carter, two accusing her of antisemitic remarks, and one from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accusing her of “treasonous statements.”<\/p>\n

Omar was also part of a group censure effort in July 2021 that included Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for allegedly defending foreign terrorist organizations<\/a> and inciting antisemitic attacks.<\/p>\n

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None of those resolutions passed, and Omar has not been officially censured. However, in February 2023, the GOP-led House passed a resolution to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for comments deemed antisemitic.<\/p>\n

Republicans on social media and in Congress have vowed to get those who celebrated Kirk’s death fired from their jobs<\/a> or removed from posts. Some media commentators, including one from MSNBC<\/a> and another from the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, have also been fired due to comments they made about Kirk’s assassination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n