Rep. Ilhan Omar insisted she will keep voting in Minnesota after brushing past questions on a federal probe into her marriage history and legal name.

Federal agents had already searched the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home, seized her cellphone, and issued grand jury subpoenas to family members when she cast an early ballot and cut short a brief exchange with reporters.

The Post reported that Omar, a Squad member first elected in 2018, spoke only for a moment after voting Friday, denied that the scrutiny would end her ability to cast a ballot, and then hurried away.

Asked whether this would be her last time voting, she gave a flat answer.

"No, and I’ll continue to vote."

Pressed on whether she had been briefed on warrants, she added another short line.

"They haven’t said anything."

The exchange came as the immigration probe moved from long-running allegations into concrete investigative steps, including a home search and DNA review tied to claims about her former husband and her path to citizenship.

Agents hit the D.C. residence weeks before she voted

On Oct. 12, federal agents searched Omar’s Washington residence. Homeland Security officers were photographed outside afterward. Her cellphone was taken. No charges have been announced.

The inquiry centers on allegations that Omar or her late father gave false information on immigration paperwork when the family fled Somalia in the 1990s. Investigators are also examining whether she married her brother to help him enter the country, lied about her birthday, and has lived under an alias, according to the reporting.

That same set of questions has driven earlier coverage of a DHS review of the alleged brother marriage and later steps seeking biological evidence from the home.

A federal filing listed her full name as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,” not the name voters know. Elmi is the surname of her former husband. The filing, as described in the coverage, suggested agents have evidence she was born with that name.

Prosecutors have also moved to collect DNA evidence tied to the immigration case, a step aimed at testing the long-circulating claim about her former husband’s true relationship to her.

Grand jury subpoenas went to members of her family. A separate Justice Department inquiry is reviewing her financial disclosures after she amended a filing that initially reported millions of dollars in assets and later blamed an accounting error.

Fitton says the old shield is gone

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, whose group filed an ethics complaint against Omar in 2019 alleging immigration fraud, told The Post the current pressure marks a change.

"Omar was protected, and now she’s not."

He framed the federal follow-through as overdue.

"It’s vindication for some of us who have been concerned about this kind of brazen corruption for years. And kudos to the Trump administration for following up on it."

Omar rejected that view. After voting, she took to X and attacked President Trump, labeled his party in crude terms, and called the Justice Department the “most corrupt DOJ in American history.” She also urged people to scrutinize Vice President JD Vance’s name instead of hers.

On her own identity, she posted a direct claim.

"Whether the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar."

She has denied wrongdoing and called the investigation politically motivated. Jonah Kaplan posted video and notes from the Minneapolis voting stop showing her leaving quickly after the short answers, tagging CBS accounts in the process.

Safe seat, rising legal heat

National Review noted that Omar represents a heavily Democratic D+32 district and won reelection with more than 74 percent of the vote in 2024, undercutting claims that the home search alone would decide her next election.

Legal exposure is a different question from ballot math. House Republicans have already discussed an expulsion push if DOJ establishes immigration fraud, and senior DHS figures have publicly raised the citizenship stakes tied to the same fact pattern.

Omar has also tried to turn the search itself into a campaign message, including a fundraising pitch built around the federal search, while still telling reporters on the sidewalk that agents “haven’t said anything” to her about warrants.

In Minneapolis, police separately said they are reviewing claims of illegal ballot harvesting by her supporters. The department stated it is “in the process of looking into the validity of those statements” and offered no further detail, per the Washington Examiner.

Paperwork, citizenship, and unanswered basics

The core allegations reach back to the 1990s flight from Somalia and the documents that followed. If false statements on immigration paperwork are proven, the reporting has noted, her path to naturalized citizenship could face challenge. That remains an open investigative question, not a completed case.

What is already on the record is narrower and harder: a searched home, a seized phone, family subpoenas, a federal filing using the Elmi name, DNA collection steps, an amended financial disclosure now under Justice Department review, and a congresswoman who answered two questions, declared she will keep voting, and left.

Voters in Minnesota’s 5th District can still mark ballots for her. Federal agents can still build a file. Those two facts now sit side by side, and only one of them depends on campaign rhetoric.

Public office does not freeze the immigration record that made the office possible, and when agents start seizing phones and subpoenaing family, defiance on a sidewalk does not close the file.