What recent legislation has Ilhan Omar sponsored or co-sponsored in 2025?

1. A peace department returns to the agenda

Rep. Omar reintroduced the Department of Peacebuilding Act on February 7, 2025, proposing a cabinet-level Department of Peacebuilding to coordinate violence-prevention, nonviolent conflict resolution and related programs across federal, state and local entities; Omar framed this as continuing the work of Dennis Kucinich, Mark Dayton and Barbara Lee ^{[1] [6]}.

2. Targeting global and domestic Islamophobia

On January 31, 2025 Omar joined Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Jan Schakowsky to reintroduce the Combating International Islamophobia Act, which would create a State Department Special Envoy to monitor and combat Islamophobia and require a comprehensive U.S. strategy to address anti-Muslim bigotry worldwide — language and quotes are in her office’s press release ^[2].

3. Syria sanctions rollback — an unusual bipartisan pairing

On June 27, 2025 Omar and Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced the Syria Sanctions Relief Act, a bipartisan effort to repeal existing sanctions programs for Syria; Omar argued lifting sanctions is timely if Assad’s rule ends and framed sanctions as blunt instruments that can harm civilians ^[3].

4. Reintroducing a police-accountability package after George Floyd anniversary

Building on the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Omar reintroduced a package of police-accountability bills on June 3, 2025 that includes creating a federal agency to investigate police misuse of force and a Protecting Our Protesters Act that would make police violence against protesters a federal crime; her release emphasizes systemic racism in policing as the rationale ^[4].

5. Climate and fossil-fuel subsidies in her legislative portfolio

Omar teamed with Sen. Bernie Sanders to reintroduce the End Polluter Welfare Act on July 25, 2025, seeking to eliminate federal subsidies and tax breaks for the fossil-fuel industry; the press release lists several Senate cosponsors and House supporters and frames the bill as reversing “giveaways” in recent federal legislation ^[5].

6. Other 2025 activity tracked on congressional record sites

Congressional tracking sites and Omar’s own communications show additional bill activity in 2025 and late 2025 — for example, sites list the Federal Worker Childcare Protection Act reintroduced and filed Oct. 8, 2025, and GovTrack/Congress.gov entries reflect her sponsorship and cosponsorship records ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}.

7. Political context and pushback — a headline-driven backlash

Omar’s 2025 legislative activity drew political attacks and a censure resolution from Republican members; H.Res.713 (a censure/removal-from-committees resolution) was introduced against her in 2025 and received a House vote later in the year, a development tracked by Congress.gov and GovTrack ^{[11] [12]}. Separate outlets and partisan sites have seized on the MEALS/child-nutrition controversy and other local scandals to criticize her, but those claims appear mainly on partisan or niche sites in the provided results ^{[13] [14]}.

8. What the sources do and do not show

Available sources clearly document the bills and press releases cited above (Omar’s office and Congress.gov) and site trackers (GovTrack, GovInfo) list resolutions filed against her ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7] [11] [12]}. Available sources do not mention some specific allegations found on partisan timelines or commentary being corroborated by mainstream congressional records; for example, the detailed claim that Omar “introduced the legislation that led to $250 million stolen” appears on a partisan timeline and commentary sites but is not substantiated in the congressional press materials or Congress.gov entries included here ^{[13] [14]}.

Limitations: this summary relies only on the provided search results; it does not attempt to catalogue every cosponsor list or lower-profile resolution in 2025, and it does not adjudicate contested allegations about local fraud beyond noting where those claims appear in the available results ^{[13] [14]}.