Omar Targets American Funding For Israel After It Barred Her and Tlaib, Gets Amount of Aid Wrong

Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) (R) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) hold a press conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Aug. 19, 2019. Adam Bettcher/Getty Images

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said that funding from the United States to Israel is “predicated” on certain conditions and that the country indicated by barring her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) that it isn’t meeting those conditions.

Coming after a report that Democratic leadership is mulling retaliatory measures against Israel for barring the Congresswomen, Omar said at a press conference in Minnesota on Aug. 19 that “we the United States have a constructive role to play.”