Rep. Ilhan Omar: Trump and GOP Saw Freshmen Coming ‘And So They Shut Down the Government’

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday portrayed the recent partial federal government shutdown as a preemptive response by President Trump and the Republican Party to the arrival in Congress of outspoken freshmen like herself and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Read