WASHINGTON – Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she is confident House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will take "decisive action" this week against Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., for her anti-Muslim remarks about Omar last month.
"I've had a conversation with the speaker, and I'm very confident that she will take decisive action next week," Omar said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." It is unclear what Pelosi's "decisive action" would include. Omar said that Boebert should be stripped of her committee assignments and that House leaders should rebuke her to send a "clear and decisive" message.
"I think it's important for us to say this kind of language, this kind of hate cannot be condoned by the House of Representatives," Omar said. "If the Republicans are not going to be adults and condemn this … we are going to do that."
Representatives for Omar's and Pelosi's offices did not immediately respond to e-mailed questions and requests for further comment Sunday.
Omar has been calling for Boebert to be disciplined after video surfaced of the Colorado Republican suggesting at an event in her district over the Thanksgiving break that Omar was a suicide bomber.
"You know, we're leaving the Capitol and we're going back to my office and we get an elevator and I see a Capitol Police officer running to the elevator," Boebert told the crowd. "I see fret all over his face, and he's reaching, and the door's shutting, like I can't open it, like what's happening. I look to my left, and there she is. Ilhan Omar. And I said, 'Well, she doesn't have a backpack, we should be fine.' "
Boebert apologized "to anyone in the Muslim community I offended" but has declined to publicly apologize to Omar. Instead, the Republican has doubled down on her Islamophobic attacks on Omar, accusing her of "anti-American and antisemitic" rhetoric.
"Make no mistake: I will continue to fearlessly put America first, never sympathizing with terrorists. Unfortunately, Ilhan can't say the same thing, and our country is worse off for it," Boebert said in a video she posted to Instagram after a Monday phone call between the two.