Ilhan Omar just called 75 million Americans stupid.
Even as her own district sits mired at the center of the biggest welfare theft in American history, she’s more worried about trying to smear Trump.
But Trump just signed the executive order targeting the billion-dollar fraud network that flourished in her own backyard that has her lobbing her most vile smears yet.
Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Minnesota Welfare Fraud and Calls Out Ilhan Omar by Name
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order creating the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance.
The target: housing, food, medical care, and cash assistance programs that have been systematically looted by fraudsters operating in Democrat-run states.
Trump made clear this wasn't subtle.
"If we found half of the fraud taking place in this country – and I think you have a chance of doing that – we would have much more than a balanced budget," he said from the Oval Office. "The theft is incredible."
He also looked directly at Vance and raised something that's been hanging over Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District for years.
Omar, he suggested, may have married her brother to secure his immigration status – which would mean she's in Congress illegally.
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He asked Vance to look into it.
That was the moment Omar decided to call Trump's supporters stupid.
Ilhan Omar Brother Marriage Allegations and the Immigration Fraud Investigation She Won't Talk About
Omar took to X with a response that told you everything about her strategy: attack.
She called Trump's comments "unhinged." She called his followers stupid. And she smeared him with a reference to Jeffrey Epstein – claiming Trump is "clearly implicated in the worst ped*phile cover-up case."
The problem? Trump cut ties with Epstein roughly 15 years before Epstein died in 2019.
Omar knows this. She doesn't care.
Because when you can't answer the question, you change the subject.
Here's what she still hasn't answered: Who is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi?
Omar legally married Elmi in 2009. She divorced him in 2017. In her 2017 divorce filing, she swore under penalty of perjury that she hadn't seen Elmi since 2011 and didn't know how to contact him.
Photographs posted to her own Instagram account show her with Elmi in London in 2015.
Rep. Nancy Mace moved to subpoena Omar's immigration records at a House Oversight hearing in January. The motion was blocked – by both Democrats and Republicans.
Washington protected its own.
Meanwhile, Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed in December that Homeland Security Investigations is actively reviewing Omar's immigration files. Sen. Ted Cruz outlined exactly what she'd face if the allegations prove true: federal marriage fraud carries up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and deportation.
Feeding Our Future Convictions and the $19 Billion Minnesota Fraud Scandal in Ilhan Omar's Backyard
Omar wants to talk about Epstein. Trump wants to talk about $19 billion.
That's the estimated amount Stephen Miller – Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff – says has been stolen from taxpayers through Minnesota's welfare system, which he called the "single-greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history."
The Feeding Our Future scheme alone – a fake charity billing the federal government for meals it never served to children – produced over 50 federal convictions. Of 87 people charged in that scheme, all but eight are Somali-Americans.
The fraud ran directly through Omar's district.
Her own deputy district director, Ali Isse, publicly defended Feeding Our Future when the Minnesota Department of Education flagged it for serious deficiencies in 2021.
A former campaign official for Omar, Guhaad Hashi Said, pleaded guilty to running a fake food site that billed taxpayers $3.2 million.
Several individuals connected to the fraud scheme donated to Omar's campaigns. She returned those contributions – after the FBI raids began.
Vance explained what the fraud actually cost real families.
"You had autistic kids in Minneapolis who weren't getting the benefits they needed because Somali fraudsters were literally stealing out of their pockets," he said during the signing ceremony.
The autism fraud tells you everything about how the scheme worked. Minnesota billed the federal government just $1 million for autism therapy services in 2017. By 2024, that number had exploded to over $220 million — with federal prosecutors now saying the bulk of that increase was fraudulent. A housing stabilization program launched in 2020 was similarly gutted.
Minnesota shut down its entire housing stabilization system over the fraud.
The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud nationwide. Trump's new task force – with Vance at the helm, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson as vice chair, and representatives from Treasury, Justice, HHS, Agriculture, and Homeland Security – is coming for all of it.
Minnesota is just the beginning.
Omar's Play Isn't Working Anymore
For years, the script held. Raise the fraud allegations and watch officials back down, terrified of being called racist.
"When you raise your hand and call this into question, you get handed the racism card," said David Gaither, a former Minnesota legislator who spent 13 years running an adult education center for Somali immigrants. "You're shamed and put into a corner."
That era is over.
Trump isn't backing down. Vance is chairing the task force personally. Homan is pulling immigration files. Mace went to the hearing floor and demanded subpoenas. The White House fact sheet cited Minnesota by name, called out Democrat-run states by name, and described the fraud as "theft from American taxpayers and eligible beneficiaries."
Omar's response to all of this is to call the people who voted for accountability "stupid."
That tells you exactly how worried she is.
She can call Trump supporters stupid from her X account all she wants.
But Vance is chairing the task force personally. Homan is pulling her immigration files. The Justice Department has a new National Fraud Enforcement division with prosecutors who don't care about the racism card.
The woman who can't explain her own marriage is about to have to explain a lot more than that.
Sources:
- Jeff Mordock, "Trump officially creates task force to investigate theft benefits fraud," The Washington Times, March 16, 2026.
- "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud," The White House, March 16, 2026.
- Kelly Sadler, "Ilhan Omar's tangled web of Somali fraud," The Washington Times, December 8, 2025.
- "Three More Plead Guilty in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme," U.S. Department of Justice, August 4, 2025.
- "Cruz says Rep. Ilhan Omar could face jail time, deportation if marriage allegation proves true," Fox News, December 12, 2025.
- "Ilhan Omar Under Investigation for Immigration Fraud: Trump Border Czar," Newsweek, December 11, 2025.
- "Rep. Nancy Mace Moves To Subpoena Ilhan Omar And Alleged Brother/Husband In Minnesota Fraud Probe," Rep. Nancy Mace press release, January 8, 2026.
