Has Ilhan Omar's committee assignment changed since 2023 or 2024?
Executive summary
Yes — Representative Ilhan Omar’s committee assignment did change: she was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2023, and by mid‑2025 she is listed as serving on the House Education and the Workforce Committee (including ranking roles on two subcommittees) according to her official House biography [1] [2] [3].
1. The February 2023 removal: what happened and the vote
House Republicans moved and passed a resolution in early February 2023 to strip Omar of her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, a largely party‑line action that Republicans tied to past remarks they characterized as antisemitic; multiple contemporary accounts document the vote and the Republican leadership’s rationale [1] [2] [4].
2. The assignment she had been given at the start of the 118th Congress
Before the removal vote, House Democrats had finalized committee assignments that included Omar on the Foreign Affairs Committee for the new Congress, a process reported in January 2023; Speaker Kevin McCarthy publicly pledged a challenge to that assignment which preceded the February removal vote [5].
3. The record for 2024: no documented reversal in the sources provided
The reporting assembled here does not show a separate committee reassignment or restoration in 2024; sources document political fights and investigations around Omar in 2024 but do not report a return to Foreign Affairs or another committee move during that calendar year [6] [7]. Because the available sources do not record committee changes in 2024, it is not possible on this record to assert there was a mid‑2024 reassignment.
4. By 2025 Omar is listed on a different committee — Education and the Workforce
Omar’s official House “Committees and Caucuses” page, captured in mid‑2025, lists her as serving on the House Education and the Workforce Committee and as ranking member of subcommittees on Workforce Protections and Health, Employment, Labor, Pensions (HELP), showing that her committee portfolio had shifted from Foreign Affairs to Education and the Workforce by that time [3].
5. Competing narratives and political context around the committee fight
Coverage after the removal emphasized sharply different frames: Republicans characterized the action as accountability for prior remarks, while Democrats and some Jewish and pro‑Israel groups called the maneuver partisan retribution and warned about hypocrisy given past removals of Republicans by Democrats — these contrasting interpretations are documented across contemporaneous reporting [2] [8] [4]. Observers also flagged that committee assignment battles became a broader tool of partisan discipline in the 118th Congress, a context reflected in later commentary and summaries [9] [10].
6. What the sources don’t show and the honest limitation
The assembled sources clearly document the February 2023 removal and a 2025 committee listing on Education and the Workforce, but they do not provide a day‑by‑day timeline of every committee transaction between those points nor an explicit report of a formal reassignment date in 2024; therefore reporting cannot confirm any specific committee status changes that might have occurred in 2024 beyond the absence of coverage indicating restoration to Foreign Affairs [1] [3] [6].