Rep. Ilhan Omar dodged questions about the federal investigations targeting her Tuesday, claiming she has no idea what the probes are about — before refusing to address questions about whether her alleged brother and former husband is gay.
The Minnesota Democrat was confronted by a Fox News Digital reporter on Capitol Hill, where she offered few details about the investigations or the personal belongings federal agents seized during an October raid on her Washington, DC, home.
“We’re just wondering if the government is giving you your devices back, after you tried?” the reporter asked Omar.
“I’ve gotten most of it back,” the congresswoman replied.
Pressed on whether the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice were conducting separate investigations, Omar appeared unsure.
“I’m not sure,” she said. “You probably have more details on that.”
In a separate exchange, the reporter asked Omar whether federal authorities had told her what she was being investigated for.
“No, no,” Omar responded, according to Fox News Digital.
The reporter also pressed Omar on The Post’s previous reporting about her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who described himself as a “gay man” and a “gay person” in an academic paper published earlier this year.
Omar declined to answer and continued walking.
Elmi, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, described himself as “a gay man of the East African diaspora” in an August 2026 paper titled “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya.”
The congresswoman’s marriage to Elmi has faced scrutiny for years, with critics alleging that the two were secretly siblings and that their marriage was a sham designed to help him obtain immigration benefits. Omar has denied the allegations.
A 2016 investigation by federal authorities examined the allegations, but the case reportedly stalled after prosecutors determined that any potential criminal violations had fallen outside the five-year statute of limitations.
The renewed scrutiny comes as Omar faces multiple federal investigations.
Homeland Security Investigations agents raided her Washington home on Oct. 12 as part of a criminal probe examining whether Omar or her family members provided false information on immigration paperwork when they entered the US as refugees in the 1990s or during her naturalization process.
Agents seized electronic devices, her passport, and other materials during the search. Investigators also reportedly obtained a DNA sample and issued more than a dozen subpoenas, including to members of her family.
Omar arrived in the US as a refugee in 1995 and became an American citizen in 2000, and has characterized the investigations as politically motivated and denied wrongdoing.
Following the October raid, she took to X to blast the administration.
“I’m OK. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” she wrote. “For 10 years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and a smear campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”
