“We should punish and sanction Boebert by stripping her of her committees, by rebuking her language,” Omar said. “By doing everything that we can to send a clear and decisive message to the American public that if the Republicans are not going to be adults and condemn this, that we are going to do that.”
Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, listens as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, left, speaks during a bill enrollment ceremony for the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 17, 2021. The legislation, passed by the House and Senate earlier this week, would make June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images