Press Releases

MINNEAPOLIS—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement on President Biden’s executive order announcement to cancel $20,000 in student loan debt for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for those without Pell Grants who have incomes of up to $125,000 per year. It also includes a cap of 5% of monthly income. 

MINNEAPOLIS—Rep. Ilhan Omar issued the following statement on the House vote on the Inflation Reduction Act.

“I am proud that, after months of negotiating and advocating for a bold bill that delivers real solutions to Minnesotans, today we have the opportunity to pass legislation that meets this moment. This is a major victory to the progressive movement, who for over a year now have pushed for a bold bill that addresses the major issues facing our country like climate change and healthcare.

MINNEAPOLIS—Rep. Ilhan Omar issued the following statement after the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act.

“The Inflation Reduction Act is a historic bill. With the Senate’s passage, we are one step closer to passing the biggest climate bill ever, lowering drug prices, taxing wealthy corporations, and more. The bill includes a much needed tax on corporate buybacks of their own stocks, averts a benefits cliff by extending health care subsidies for 3 years, allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and would reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar voted to protect Minnesota communities and save lives by voting to ban assault weapons. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 would prohibit the sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and high capacity magazines. These weapons are designed to inflict wounds that are more lethal and injurious than the wounds inflicted by non-assault weapons.

WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Education and Labor today passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act. The bills sponsored by Rep.

WASHINGTON—Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced the National Advisory Council on Unpaid Meal Debt Act, to establish a commission to address unpaid school meal debt in child nutrition programs.

WASHINGTON – In order to combat right-wing attacks on women’s reproductive health freedoms, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) voted to defend Minnesotans’ right to access birth control in the House Thursday.  Passed in response to the Supreme Court’s religious extremist decision overturning Roe v.

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reintroduced the No Shame at School Act, to prohibit school districts from publicly identifying and shaming students who are unable to pay for school meals or hiring debt collectors to recover unpaid school meal debt. Additionally, this bill requires schools to attempt to directly certify a child with unpaid meal debt and allows schools to be retroactively reimbursed for meals served to a child.