(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) traded barbs over Twitter on Wednesday after Zeldin called Omar’s appointment to the House Foreign Affairs Committee “crazy.”
“Just learned Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar was also put on this committee [with] oversight of US foreign policy,” Zeldin, the new ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, tweeted Wednesday.
“Crazy to watch what House Dems are empowering/elevating,” he tweeted.
Omar, sharing a screenshot of Zeldin’s tweet from another Twitter user who called the comment an “Islamophobic dog whistle,” responded late Wednesday.
“Don’t mind him, he is just waking up to the reality of having Muslim women as colleagues who know how to stand up to bullies!” the freshman lawmaker tweeted.
