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Ilhan Omar: “The department Civil rights department is basically…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall

Published April 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:13:23

We also know that discrimination is going to be a problem, especially for special ed students, because the department, The department Civil rights department is basically dismantled. So folks that are making claims also are not getting it addressed in school districts. (1:13:23–1:13:33)

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Asserts that the Civil Rights Department within the Department of Education is dismantled.

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“A couple of days ago there were 97 people that died in one of the hospitals because of a short blockade that took place.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 24:28-24:40
“We know that upwards to $44 billion have already been spent [on the war in Iran].”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 24:47-24:54
“We know that over 300 service members are in critical condition and waiting to be airlifted to get the necessary medical attention that they…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 25:02-25:16
“We've all seen the Images of the 168 school children that were bombed in the first few minutes as the bombing started.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 25:36-25:48
“There are currently thousands of people that are killed and millions that are displaced in Iran.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 25:48-25:56
“The last Pentagon bill that we passed was over $800 billion.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 29:58-30:06
“21 million Americans will be disenfranchised [by the proposed bill].”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 30:24-30:27
“They've already cut a trillion dollars in funding for both [health care and SNAP] programs in the big ugly bill.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 31:08-31:15
“We have over $800 billion cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and there are about 130 billion dollar cuts to the Department of Education.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:12:59-1:13:12
“We believe in co-governance.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 00:26-00:30
“I always like to invite my colleagues at local and state level to join us at our town halls.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 00:29-00:37
“They [subsidies] are currently in the big ugly bill and fortunately, unless we pass legislation that stops that, those are going to go into…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 01:24-1:01:25
“Your work has strengthened families, supported working people and helped build a more equal Minnesota.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 13:11-13:18
“We went from having nearly 4,000 CPP agents and ICE agents in Minnesota to now having less than 4,400.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 20:30-20:41
“We typically would have somewhere between 150 to 200 [federal law enforcement agents] and majority of them doing investigations on the…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 20:46-21:14
“We are still asking for an independent investigation [into the killing of Renee Good and Alex Freddy].”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 21:56-22:08
“Our AG and Hennepin County District Attorney are still looking to collect any information that they can to see if there is a room for them…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 22:11-22:30
“We are obviously opposing the unconstitutional, illegal and unjustified war that we have waged against Iran.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 22:44-22:57
“There is a war Powers resolution that will come to the fore floor once we are back from our district and into Washington to vote in about…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 22:57-23:08
“We are floating a war powers resolution as well to stop the President from attacking Cuba as he's warned that he might do.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 23:40-23:55
“The oil blockade that is currently devastating the island [Cuba] and causing multiple deaths on the daily as ICUs are running out of energy…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 23:57-24:13
“We have over a dozen American soldiers that have lost their [lives] including a Minnesotan.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 24:53-25:03
“We know many of our bases are already also damaged.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 25:28-25:32
“Democrats said we are not going to pass the appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security unless they agreed to 10 reforms.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 26:39-26:52
“Our Senate partners on the Democratic side at least nine times have attempted to pass a DHS bill that would fund everyone else but ICE and…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 27:36-27:51
“The federal employees that would be funded by, by the rest of the DHS still continue to work without pay.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 28:34-28:44
“The SAFE act... is a bill that disenfranchises half of the population in the United States.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 28:49-29:10
“It's a bill that requires for people to show a proof of citizenship.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 29:09-29:15
“Majority of married women who have changed their names... might not have access to their original birth certificates.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 29:15-29:25
“There was another $150 billion in supplemental to the Pentagon.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 30:10-30:17
“Now they are asking for another $200 billion.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 30:17-30:21
“They are proposing more cuts to healthcare, more cuts to SNAP, more cuts to WIC.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 30:56-31:15
“Over the last five years, we brought over $65 million for projects all over the district.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 31:53-32:02
“We submitted 20 projects, and two of those projects are for the city of Spring Lake Park.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 32:33-32:41
“The first request is for $1.5 million to rehabilitate the Apple street water tower and the Arthur street water tower.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 32:40-32:51
“We also submitted a request for $1.2 million for Terrence Park Community Recreation building reconstruction.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 32:59-33:09
“Last year my staff was able to help over 1,000 participants constituents with issues like Social Security, immigration, taxes, health care…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 35:22-35:32
“Our team has been able to return $4.5 million to constituents, businesses and organizations in the district.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 35:31-35:40
“The chances seem to dwindle of [the SAVE Act] passing in the Senate in its current form.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 37:05-37:12
“We already have so many Americans who do not participate in our elections.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 37:45-37:53
“We haven't really heard anything [regarding concerns for food distribution].”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 40:18-40:21
“The administration says they are targeting us for fraud, even though there are a lot of states that have higher numbers of fraud than us.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 40:23-40:35
“There are states that have higher numbers of undocumented people or people who are on retainers to be deported or for removal.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 40:35-40:48
“Every time they have tried to go after us in holding government funds, we have successfully been able to have the courts release those funds…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 41:04-41:18
“I voted against the trillion dollar cuts in the big ugly bill.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 42:46-42:55
“Our community health care centers, all of them are going to be completely devastated when that bill goes into effect at the end of the year…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 43:32-43:46
“There is not going to be a level of property taxes that could be raised or any tax revenue that could be generated in Minnesota that is…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 43:46-44:06
“Our attorney general was able to sue them and won.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 46:15-46:21
“99% of the things that they say or try to have be done to us, we are defeating them in court.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 46:52-47:02
“We are much more fortunate than many of the states that are going to see these cuts.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 47:49-47:55
“That number [21 million] comes from the number of Americans that don't have a passport.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 50:38-50:43
“Hennepin county commissioners are also have a bill in front of the, the legislators. I think, I think it's 10 million or 10 billion to help…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 54:04-54:19
“We worked to pass legislation to protect people who have pre-existing conditions.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:00:57-1:01:05
“We worked very hard to not have the subsidies go away.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:01:04-1:01:11
“Our only path to addressing it is to have at least, if not both the House and the Senate, at least one of the chambers be one that will hold…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:01:33-1:01:53
“I serve as one of the vice chairs for Medicare for All caucus in Congress.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:02:11-1:02:18
“When I got to Congress, I think we had like 90 members that were signers and I think we're at 160 or more now.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:02:21-1:02:30
“We had four hearings my first year there.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:02:30-1:02:35
“Medicare for All, even when we explain what it does, we have over 75% of Americans that support the bill.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:02:56-1:03:05
“I tell the majority to pass the Medicare for All act and to get it done for the American people.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:03:10-1:03:17
“We have not seen any naturalized American or any person born in the United States, regardless of their background, not be allowed to enter.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:05:54-1:06:06
“I've seen people whose phones have been taken because they have memes about the president.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:06:11-1:06:17
“One of them was Minnesota, and he was held for eight hours. They still have his cell phone.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:06:33-1:06:38
“A lot of the waste and the fraud that we see is because those wraparound services are not within the institutions that the kids rely on for…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:13:48-1:14:00
“The safe act in itself is coded in this idea of election integrity disenfranchisement bill that is designed to make it hard for every single…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:16:46-1:17:09
“I support a progressive taxation. I support making sure that folks who are considered well to do in this country to pay their fair share.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:18:04-1:18:19
“Right now we have a regressive taxation where those that are struggling in this country are required to make pay multiple taxes, where those…”
Rep. Ilhan Omar | March 2026 Town Hall | Uploaded April 1, 2026 | 1:18:19-1:18:39