House Republicans are pushing to hold Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar accountable for her controversial remarks following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week.
In a statement, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused Omar of defending political violence and failing to condemn the killing of Kirk, calling the lawmaker’s actions “abhorrent.” Mace said Omar’s comments “demeaned Charlie Kirk, belittled his grieving family, and all but blamed him for his own assassination.”
“If you mock a political assassination and celebrate murder, you don’t get to keep your committee seat—you face consequences,” Mace added.
To formalize the response, Mace has introduced a resolution stating that Omar’s conduct “in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk is reprehensible and affects the dignity and integrity of the proceedings of the House.” The move signals a rare, concerted effort by House Republicans to impose disciplinary action on a sitting member for public statements deemed offensive and politically incendiary.
The resolution specifically seeks to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from both the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House Budget Committee, while also calling for her formal censure.
Echoing that effort, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) introduced a parallel resolution urging Omar’s removal from the same committees. In a statement, Carter condemned Omar’s remarks as “disparaging Charlie Kirk’s legacy, a God-fearing, honorable man, for boldly sharing his conservative beliefs,” calling her comments “disgusting.”
“The radical left has normalized meeting free speech with violence, and it must stop,” Carter added, framing the resolutions as a broader push to defend both Kirk’s memory and the principle of free expression.
Rep. Buddy Carter emphasized the gravity of Omar’s remarks, stating, “No one who justifies the assassination of someone with different political views than them deserves to sit on a committee, and Ilhan Omar openly used language that incites violence towards her political opponents. Committees are for serious lawmakers, not hate-spewing politicians.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Axios that he had not yet reviewed the resolutions and did not indicate whether a vote was forthcoming. Meanwhile, Rep. Nancy Mace said she intends to force a vote on her resolution this week, adding that she had not consulted with House leadership.
Former President Donald Trump publicly voiced his support for holding Omar accountable, telling the New York Post, “I think she’s a disgraceful person… a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote — I know it’s people from her area, maybe all over the world. They got here, and they vote her in. It’s hard to believe, but I think she’s a disgusting person.”
Mace’s resolution references several posts Omar shared or reposted on X following Kirk’s assassination. One video cited in the resolution stated, “Charlie Kirk is dead, and before the body got cold, the far-Right propped his corpse up as a cudgel for their holy war,” and claimed, “Don’t be fooled, these people don’t give a single s**t about Charlie Kirk, they are just using his death to further their Christofascist agenda.”
The video went on to describe Kirk as “a reprehensible human being” who “enacted his political agenda by preying on weak minded people,” simplifying complex socioeconomic issues, demonizing out-groups, and mobilizing his followers against them. It further labeled him a “stochastic terrorist, an adamant transphobe,” accused him of denying the genocide in Palestine, supporting the subjugation of women, and, in his final moments, allegedly promoting racist dog whistles.
The resolution frames Omar’s sharing of such content as deeply inappropriate for a House member and argues that her conduct undermines both the dignity of Congress and the principles of civil political discourse.
