Patriot Brief
Randy Fine is considering forcing a House vote to expel Ilhan Omar.
Fine cites Omar’s past controversies and rhetoric as grounds for expulsion.
The move is largely symbolic, as expulsion would require significant Democratic support.
This is one of those political moments that’s loud, provocative, and almost certainly going nowhere — but still revealing. Randy Fine knows the math. Expelling a member of the House takes a two-thirds vote, and Republicans don’t remotely have the numbers to make that happen. So this isn’t really about removing Ilhan Omar from Congress. It’s about putting her record, her rhetoric, and her controversies back under a spotlight she’s spent years daring people to shine.
Fine’s comments are inflammatory by design, and Omar’s defenders will quickly frame this as pure bigotry or political theater. But it’s also true that Omar has built her career on being a perpetual agitator, someone who thrives on confrontation and then fundraises off the backlash. That dynamic cuts both ways. If you spend years accusing colleagues and institutions of moral rot, you shouldn’t be shocked when someone finally decides to aim the same language back at you.
What makes this moment combustible is timing. Omar isn’t just a progressive lightning rod; she’s now tied, fairly or not, to a district and a state grappling with massive fraud scandals connected to programs she vocally supported. That context matters, even if it doesn’t meet the constitutional bar for expulsion.
In the end, this likely ends where most symbolic House threats do: nowhere. But it underscores how unserious Congress has become. Instead of accountability, we get escalation. Instead of resolution, we get fundraising emails. And instead of governing, everyone prepares for the next outrage cycle — because that’s what reliably keeps the lights on.
From Western Journal:
Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican from Florida, is reportedly considering a move that would force a vote to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, from her seat in the House of Representatives.
Fine told Axios on Wednesday that the potential action would be spurred by Omar purportedly marrying her brother, as well as her “general embrace of Muslim terror.”
“I don’t think she should be a citizen, let alone a member of Congress,” he told the outlet.
The threat was prompted by a fundraising email from the Omar campaign arguing that Fine himself should be expelled from Congress for saying that Muslims should be “destroyed.”
“I won’t send out fundraising emails calling for her expulsion,” Fine said to Axios.
“If I’m going to do that, you will see me bring the piece of paper. And I am actively considering that,” he said.
Axios noted that expelling a member from the House takes two-thirds of the chamber voting in favor of the move.
Republicans only narrowly control the House, so at least 85 Democrats would have to join the effort from Fine.
Omar, beyond being one of the most vocally progressive members of Congress, has also come under scrutiny in recent weeks amid fraud revelations from the Somali community in her Minnesota district.
Even as the MEALS Act, passed during the COVID lockdowns, was linked to $250 million in fraud through the Minnesota “Feeding Our Future” program, Omar defended her role in supporting the bill.
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