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Ilhan Omar Smears U.S. Military Service Members

Omar has attacked the U.S. military in the past.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: (L-R) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) attend a news conference marking the 6th anniversary of the Trump administration's Executive Order 13769, also known as the Muslim ban, outside the U.S. Capitol on January 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. On January 27, 2017, President Trump enacted the ban, stopping people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) smeared the U.S. military with comments that she made this week about the Trump administration gutting USAID.

Omar made the remarks in Washington, D.C., on Monday while railing against Trump and Elon Musk for cutting wasteful government spending.

“I am exceptionally upset about the USAID,” she said. “I lived in a refugee camp for four years as a child, surviving civil war. It is the essential programs that USAID provided that kept my family and I fed and safe. It is the resources that so many people around the world rely on, and it is our soft power.”

Omar then attacked the U.S. military: “Oftentimes people interact with our country through the military — that does not create love for us, and it certainly does not keep us safe.”

“When the world interacts with Americans through programs that provide essential need, they get to see the heart and compassion of the American people,” she continued. “When someone is struggling because their bridge broke down, when USAID comes in and helps fix that bridge, that creates goodwill for the American people.”

“When people are dying of malaria, and there is medication through USAID, that creates goodwill for the American people,” she added. “When people are fleeing and they need just little bit of food, and USAID is there to provide that, that creates goodwill for the American people.”

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