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House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) told Breitbart News Daily in an exclusive interview on Thursday that freshman Democrats who have “embraced socialism” continue to perpetuate a fraud on the American people.

U.S. military support for the Saudi Arabia-led Sunni coalition fighting the Iran-allied Shiite Houthis to restore the internationally recognized government has exacerbated the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen, experts told a House panel on Wednesday.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) suggested Wednesday evening that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was motivated by Islamophobia when calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her latest anti-Semitic remarks.

Though Democrats claim they are protecting criticism of Israel, Ilhan Omar’s target was not Israel, but the American Jewish community.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) criticized remarks made by Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and said he isn’t close to removing her from her spot on the committee. Engel said Omar has

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) lashed out at Democrats in a tweet Tuesday, while prominent members of the party refuse to “accept” Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s “prejudices about the Jewish people.”

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Ted Yoho (R-FL) wrote an open letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday criticizing the Trump administration for taking “no meaningful action” to protect the Uighur Muslims from abuse by China.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) doubled down Sunday on her comment last week accusing pro-Israel Americans of “allegiance to a foreign country,” repeating that view on Twitter and defying calls from fellow Democrats to apologize.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday for suggesting that pro-Israel politicians hold “allegiance to a foreign country” and demanded the freshman congresswoman apologize for her “vile anti-Semitic slur.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is being accused of antisemitism again after accusing pro-Israel Americans of “allegiance to a foreign country” at an event on Wednesday evening in Washington, DC.

Ilhan Omar’s real problem may not just be Jews, or Israel, but America. She consistently portrays America’s role in the world as evil, even blaming it for terror.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday praised Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for grilling Elliot Abrams, the U.S. special representative for Venezuela, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Venezuela, saying that her line of questioning “feels like justice.”

WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) clashed with the U.S. special representative for Venezuela on Wednesday, accusing the Department of State (DOS) official of deeming “massacre” and “rape” during the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s a “fabulous” U.S. achievement despite him repudiating the assertion.

“Growing dissatisfaction” within the Venezuelan military is spreading in the chaos-ridden South American country, a top U.S. Department of State (DOS) official testified before a House panel on Wednesday.

House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Wednesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could face “further action” from Democrat leaders if she continues expressing prejudiced views.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Wednesday snapped at Capitol Hill reporters when asked about her controversial statements regarding the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Wednesday morning hit back at President Donald Trump’s call for the Minnesota Democrat to resign for tweeting anti-Semitic troupes, accusing the president of trafficking in “hate” his “whole life.”

Jewish leaders in Minnesota said they had spoken to Ilhan Omar about her views last year — and she had failed to learn anything.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says she is “proud” of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after her fellow freshman congresswoman apologized for suggesting Republicans take bribes in exchange for supporting Israel.

President Donald Trump weighed in again Tuesday on the controversy surrounding antisemitic remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who apologized Monday at the behest of Democratic leaders but kept her committee posts.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) tweeted Tuesday that one of the hardest things about being the “first” Muslim woman to serve in Congress is that “people hear you differently,” before taking the time out to bash the “institution.”

President Trump on Ilhan Omar: “I think she should be ashamed of herself. I think it was a terrible statement and I don’t think her apology was adequate.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democratic Party leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives will allow Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to retain her committee seats, including her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite her antisemitic comments Sunday alleging that Jews had bought Congress’s support for Israel.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) used her “apology” for antisemitic rhetoric Monday to attack House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — barely an hour after she had issued a statement acknowledging her offensive remarks.

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for tweeting anti-Semitic tropes Sunday evening, calling the freshman lawmaker’s comments about the role of so-called “Jewish money” in U.S. politics “shocking.”

Dan Shapiro, who served as President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017, called on fellow Democrats to denounce the anti-Israel and antisemitic views of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday morning.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) launched a new antisemitic volley on Twitter, using an offensive Jewish stereotype that even fellow critics of Israel found abhorrent.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) took to Twitter Tuesday afternoon to deny that she and fellow first-term Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are antisemites.

First-term Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) struggled to explain Tuesday what she had learned about antisemitism recently, dodging a question at an event at the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) think tank in Washington, D.C.

It is alarming enough that people who hold anti-Israel views, and use antisemitic rhetoric, are elected to Congress — but that is up to the voters in their district. The decision to put Ilhan Omar on the House Foreign Affairs Committee was Speaker Pelosi’s alone.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) told an interviewer Tuesday that she “almost chuckle[s]” at the idea that Israel is a democracy because it is a “Jewish state.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to the House Foreign Relations Committee, and the radical “Justice Democrat” is already drawing mockery for her position on Venezuela.

It didn’t take long for Jewish and Israel-related groups to react to the appointment of anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Leader McCarthy condemned Ilhan Omar’s appointment: “Anti-Semitism has no place in Congress and certainly not on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”

A top U.S. Department of State (DOS) official, while testifying before a House panel on Thursday, cautioned Turkey that military action against the American-allied Kurds in northern Syria is “unacceptable.”

WASHINGTON, DC — Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah has established “large caches of military equipment and explosives” in Bolivia and deployed jihadis to Peru, the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) top counter-terrorism official Nathan Sales cautioned lawmakers on Wednesday.