Federal agents searched the Minneapolis residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5) on Monday as part of an investigation into allegations that she falsified her application for U.S. citizenship, according to reporting on the raid.
Separately, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro confirmed Wednesday that the Department of Justice is investigating Omar over inconsistencies in her financial disclosure filings.
In May 2025, Omar listed her household assets in a range of roughly $6 million to $30 million. In March 2026, she filed an amended report reducing those assets to between $18,004 and $95,000, and listing her businesses as having no net value after liabilities. Omar has attributed the discrepancy to an accounting error.
When reporters asked her about the discrepancy, Omar responded, “I think you’re stupid for asking me anything,” and added, “I don’t have to tell you Jack s***.”
President Trump addressed the matter publicly on Wednesday, questioning whether the reduction in reported assets was intentional. He suggested the initial $30 million figure, rather than the later lower figures, might have been accurate, and questioned how Omar’s household could afford its home, vehicles and a residence in Washington, D.C. if her and her husband’s reported wealth was as modest as the amended filing states. Trump noted that, to his knowledge, Omar’s husband earns relatively little.
Pirro discussed the investigation during a Fox News interview Wednesday. Asked by anchor John Roberts about the House Ethics Committee declining to pursue the matter after $30 million “magically appeared” and then “magically disappeared” from Omar’s disclosures, Pirro said:
“Well, I can tell you that is subject of an investigation as well, and it doesn’t matter — it doesn’t matter what the House does. It doesn’t matter, you know, what this agency or that does. We are looking at the facts, based upon the facts; we’ll follow them wherever they take us.”
When Roberts asked whether the investigation was being conducted by her office, Pirro confirmed it was.
Omar now faces two separate federal inquiries: one into the citizenship application allegations that prompted Monday’s search, and another into the financial disclosure discrepancies now under review by the U.S. Attorney’s office in D.C.
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