Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., harshly criticized “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar on Saturday for being a “complete fraud” while discussing her criticism of fraud investigations and scrutiny of significant discrepancies in her financial disclosures.
“Not only should her accountant be fired, but that girl should be fired, she doesn’t deserve to be in Congress,” Emmer told “The Weekend Show.”
He added: “Frankly, if she is found to have personally participated in and benefited from any such fraud, even through publicity and attempts to fend off investigations, she should be held accountable to the fullest extent.”
Emmer’s comments were specifically aimed at the controversy surrounding Omar’s financial disclosures, which recently came under scrutiny after a filing appeared to significantly inflate her net worth.
Tom Emmer calls for Tim Walz and Keith Ellison to ‘serve jail time’ if fraud cover-up charges are true
Rep. Ilhan Omar poses for a photo in her office on Capitol Hill on Dec. 10, 2025.
(Getty Images)
Omar’s office denies she is a millionaire and blames the discrepancy on a major accounting error after congressional financial disclosures showed her assets were as high as $30 million, sparking questions from Republicans and congressional watchdogs.
Read it on the Fox News app
A redacted filing reviewed by The Wall Street Journal shows Omar and her husband’s assets range from $18,004 to $95,000, down sharply from an earlier disclosure that estimated their holdings were between $6 million and $30 million.
“The revised disclosure confirms what we have said all along: the congresswoman is not a millionaire,” Omar spokesperson Jaclyn Rogers told the Journal, adding that the document was corrected “as soon as the discrepancy was discovered.”
Ilhan Omar’s office says she’s ‘not a millionaire’ after $30M application revised to less than $100K: report
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer gives a television interview at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2025.
Fox News Digital previously reached out to Omar’s office for additional comment but did not receive a response.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., was similarly critical of Omar during a Sunday appearance, telling “Fox & Friends Weekend” that he has been pushing for the House Ethics Committee to investigate the matter.
“We shouldn’t do this [investigate it] Oversight Committee member, but because she was a person of interest in the Somalia fraud case, I’ve been trying to understand that,” Cuomo said.
Click here to download the Fox News app
“Now that this financial disclosure form has changed, I think the ethics committee has a lot of questions for her and we’re going to continue to push them to make sure she has to answer those questions.”
Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Original source of the article: Top House Republicans accuse Omar of ‘complete fraud’ amid financial disclosure dispute