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House GOP Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar Earmark to Save Shutdown-Averting Funding Bill

[Staff of Rep. Ilhan Omar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]

House appropriators moved Wednesday to strip a $1 million earmark requested by Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar from a must-pass funding package, after Republican lawmakers warned the carveout threatened to derail a carefully negotiated bill designed to prevent a government shutdown. The earmark, directed to a Somali-led organization in Omar’s district, had been included in…

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