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MEXICO CITY – Earlier this month, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05) traveled to Mexico City for the Panamerican Congress to meet with Mexican civil society organizations, labor unions, members of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s cabinet, and progressive legislators from around the Western Hemisphere. During her visit, she discussed many of the most pressing issues facing us today, including immigration, gun trafficking and violence, food security, workers’ rights, climate change, and the impacts of Trump’s tariffs.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) led a letter with nearly 50 House Democrats calling on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to immediately reverse the Department of Education’s decision to resume charging interest for nearly 8 million borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, beginning August 1. The abrupt policy change threatens to saddle working families with over $27 billion in unnecessary interest charges in just 12 months. 

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)  and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) introduced a resolution in recognition of World Drowning Prevention Day. The resolution highlights the urgent global crisis of drowning, which claims over 236,000 lives every year, and calls for concrete action to save lives through evidence-based prevention strategies. 

WASHINGTON – Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) reintroduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, legislation to eliminate President Trump’s enormous new handouts to the fossil fuel industry contained in the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” along with existing polluter welfare for the fossil fuel industry. First introduced by Sanders in 2012, the bill eliminates more than $190 billion in tax loopholes and federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry over the next 10 years.

WASHINGTON, DC — Representatives Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Jerrold Nadler (NY-12) and Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) introduced the End Prescription Drug Ads Now Act, legislation that would ban prescription drug advertising in all forms.

WASHINGTON — Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Chair of the Promoting Peace & Security Taskforce of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), issued the following statement on H.R. 4016, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2026, which passed on a party-line vote:

Today, the U.S.-Africa Policy Working Group convened a meeting to examine the growing debt challenges facing many African countries. Members of the Working Group heard from leading experts, including Mr. Tim Hirschel-Burns, Policy Liaison for the Global Economic Governance Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center; Dr. Brahima Coulibaly, Vice President & Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution; and Mr. Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network.