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The WPA Act would establish a fully-funded federal jobs program, targeted to support communities with exceptionally high unemployment rates. The program would be fully paid for by a 0.1% tax on Wall Street stock trades.

The jobs encompass a wide range of important community services, including infrastructure, child care, elder care, and health care. At $17 an hour minimum, these jobs provide a genuine opportunity for economic security in communities that need it most.

WASHINGTON, – As American taxpayers foot the $17 billion annual bill in direct federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry – while facing the increasingly frequent, dangerous, and costly effects of climate change – Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today reintroduced the End Polluter Welfare Act. First introduced by Sanders in 2012, this critical legislation closes tax loopholes, eliminates corporate handouts to the oil, gas, and coal industry, and would save American taxpayers up to $170 billion over the next 10 years.

WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement following the applications for arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli leadership for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:

WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement following reports that the Israeli army is evacuating the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah in preparation for a military ground operation. 

WASHINGTON– Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Barbara Lee (CA-13), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Gwen Moore (WI-04), Summer Lee (PA-12) and Maxwell Frost (FL-10) announced the reintroduction of the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair or CROWN Act in the House of Representatives, a bill to outlaw discrimination on the basis of hair texture. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) also announced reintroduction of the CROWN Act in the Senate. 

WASHINGTON–Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement after voting on a series of foreign aid supplemental bills. 

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT)  introduced the Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2024 creating an Office of the Inspector General within the judicial branch and empowering the inspector general to conduct investigations of alleged violations of the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.