Republican members of Congress introduced legislation at the end of last month meant to target colleagues suspected of using campaign funds for personal and familial benefit.

The bill is known as the Oversight for Members And Relatives Act — also known as the OMAR Act — and was filed by Reps. Tom Tiffany and Tony Wied, both Republicans from Wisconsin.

The OMAR Act would prevent campaign funds from benefiting spouses of lawmakers and require that candidates disclose any payments made to immediate family.

Blaze Media, which broke the news of the bill, noted that Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, reportedly shelled out $2.8 million to a political consulting firm owned by her husband during the 2019-2020 campaign season.

That payment was almost 70 percent of her disbursement for the quarter.

“Public office should never be used to pad a family’s bank account,” Tiffany told Blaze Media.

No member of Congress should profit by routing campaign money to their spouse.

I will soon be reintroducing the OMAR Act to put a stop to these enrichment schemes after Ilhan Omar paid her husband’s consulting firm $2.8 million.https://t.co/bhG9Zm0qDy

— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) January 26, 2026

“For years, members of both parties have blurred ethical lines by paying their spouses with campaign funds and labeling it ‘campaign work.’”

The OMAR Act would meanwhile end the practice and return “integrity to a system that’s been abused for far too long.”

Wied added to Blaze Media that “members of Congress are sent to Washington to represent the interests of their constituents — not to line their spouses’ pockets with campaign funds.”

“We’ve seen far too many egregious examples of politicians exploiting loopholes for personal gain, and the American people are sick of it,” he continued.

“I’m proud to stand with Rep. Tiffany to introduce the OMAR Act and put a stop to these shady practices once and for all.”

Omar has provoked controversy for her net worth surging while in office — a development related to her husband’s private-sector work, according to a report from Fox News.

eStCru LLC, a winery in California, surged from between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024.

Rose Lake Capital, a venture firm based in Washington, D.C., meanwhile rose from between $1 and $1,000 in 2023 to an asset range of $5 million to $25 million the next year.

Omar also has outstanding student debt, credit card balances, and auto payments.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The fallout continues in Minnesota over the explosive allegations of fraud from last month.

One whistleblower is now going on record, saying that she was subjected to a smear campaign after reporting her concerns to the state, saying she was even accused of being a racist.

The most troubling part of these reports for leaders in Minnesota is that they support the idea that they knew this fraud was happening and did nothing to stop it. People need to be prosecuted for this.

FOX News reports:

Minnesota DHS whistleblower details ‘smear campaign’ after reporting fraud concerns to state

A Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) whistleblower said she has been raising red flags about fraud in the state since 2019, but has faced only unyielding retaliation in response, calling Gov. Tim Walz’s assertion that he was unaware of the problem “absolutely false.”

Faye Bernstein, who has worked for Minnesota’s DHS for two decades in contract management and compliance, said she was subjected to a “smear campaign” for trying to make leadership aware of illegal contracting practices. She said she was called “racist” and that her work responsibilities were diminished.

“There is just a continuous effort to stifle you, to shut you up. And it is impossible to overcome,” Bernstein said on “Saturday in America.”

Federal prosecutors estimate that up to $9 billion was stolen through a network of fraudulent fronts posing as daycare centers, food programs and health clinics. The majority of those charged, so far, in the ongoing investigation are part of Minnesota’s Somali population.

Rather than receiving thanks for speaking out about irregularities within the contracting process, Bernstein wrote in a letter obtained exclusively by “Saturday in America” that the “nearly unbearable retaliation” she faced also included being “trespassed from all DHS-owned or leased property” and investigated “at a great cost to the state.”

To make matters worse, the fraud allegations just keep coming.

OMG — Crosslake, MN mayor says last week a third audit was conducted of Minnesota and they discovered 14 HIGH-RISK programs that could estimate another BILLION dollars in fraud alone!

“Fraud is impacting every citizen in the state of Minnesota and city budgets.”

Wow. pic.twitter.com/YaewIr9sOZ

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 9, 2026

A lot of people have a lot of explaining to do and at the end of the day, some people need to go to jail. The public was defrauded of billions upon billions of dollars. There is no excuse for any of it.

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Zohran Mamdani has been Mayor of New York City for a little over a month and during that time, 18 homeless people in the city have died from exposure.

Mamdani policy forbids NYC police from dismantling homeless encampments and forcing homeless people indoors. That policy may sound good to leftists on paper but it is killing people.

This is the same reason that Mamdani has failed the tests of snow removal and trash pick-up. He does not want to do the ‘work’ parts of being mayor. He is too busy making videos about taxing the rich. That’s the fun part for him about being mayor, and what he thinks his real job is.

The New York Post reports:

NYC outdoor death toll climbs to 18 — as shelter worker recalls finding latest deep-freeze fatality: ‘I couldn’t help him’

The death toll from the city’s brutal cold spell climbed to 18 over the weekend — with a shell-shocked shelter worker stumbling upon the latest fatality of the historic freeze, he told The Post.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed the 18th outdoor death Monday morning, during an unrelated press conference celebrating the opening of the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in Brooklyn.

“Each loss of life is a tragedy. We will continue to hold their families in our thoughts,” he said.

The latest person to die was an 86-year-old homeless man, later identified as Charles Williams, according to sources and City Hall officials. His body was found just after 9 a.m. Saturday on the street at East Gun Hill Road and Seymour Avenue in The Bronx.

Adam Faad, 26, said he felt helpless after finding the unresponsive man on the sidewalk.

Faad, a security worker at a homeless shelter who was volunteering at one of the city’s “warming centers” on Saturday, said he spotted the man, who looked asleep, on the street while on his way to his mosque.

Is this what Mamdani meant by the warmth of collectivism?

18 (Eighteen) 18 frozen to death on the streets of NYC. This never happened before. What kind of Nero is in charge here? https://t.co/PMdBKrwBoI

— Myron Magnet (@MyronMagnet) February 10, 2026

Socialism has a corpse count from just the cold. https://t.co/g9af3W1eJt

— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) February 10, 2026

If a moderate Democrat or a Republican was in office there would be outage and calls for hearings regarding 18 deaths of homeless New Yorkers. Since DSA rules the roost, crickets… https://t.co/ji33edh00X

— EnforceNYC (@enforcelawsNYC) February 10, 2026

It’s absolutely shameful. All of these deaths were avoidable.

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