Ilhan Omar makes STUNNING admission about DHS shutdown
Source: Blaze Media · Bias: Right
Summary
While Democrats have mainly tried to blame Republicans for the damaging effects of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has admitted her own party's culpability.Omar was speaking at a town hall event on Tuesday when she said that Americans were under heightened terror alert, and the shutdown was placing them under needless threat.'Ilhan Omar admits Democrats are holding DHS hostage as terrorists want to kill Americans.'"As many of you know, Democrats said we are not going to pass the appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security unless they agreed to 10 reforms, simple things like unmasking [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents when they were patrolling our communities," Omar explained.The partial shutdown is in its 47th day after the federal funding lapsed on Feb. 14."So far, the Republicans and the president have refused to say ‘yes’ to any of those reforms," Omar continued. "Which means the department doesn’t have the resources to be able to pay for not just ICE and [Customs and Border Protection], but they don’t have the resources to pay for [Transportation Security Administration] agents. They don’t have the resources to fund the Coast Guard, to fund our cybersecurity employees."She added, "In a time when our terror alarm is higher than usual."Video of Omar's comments were posted to social media by RNC Research with the caption: "Ilhan Omar admits Democrats are holding DHS hostage as terrorists want to kill Americans."The DHS shutdown has led to massive lines at some airports after a TSA workforce shortage resulted from paychecks being delayed.While Omar is trying to warn Americans that the DHS shutdown puts them under greater threat of terror attack, she also previously said that there were conversations underway to dismantle DHS.RELATED: Ilhan Omar rants that Trump wants to sleep with his daughter and calls his supporters 'stupid' Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel has said that terror threats against the U.S. have more than doubled from 299 incidents in 2020 to 640 incidents in 2025.Omar is facing a challenge for the Democratic primary against her re-election campaign after keeping the seat since first elected in 2018. Julie Le is a former DHS attorney who was removed after complaining to a judge that she was overworked and said the system "sucks" and her job also "sucks."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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