2026-05-08T10:17:40-04:00 / 福克斯新闻频道
奥马尔前高级助手称《膳食法案》“从未通过”，尽管他此前曾撰文称奥马尔“撰写并通过”了该法案
作者：安德鲁·马克·米勒，福克斯新闻
发布于美国东部时间2026年5月8日上午10:17
众议员沃尔特·哈德森： 奥马尔议员“极有可能”卷入数十亿美元的欺诈案
明尼苏达州众议员沃尔特·哈德森在《威尔·凯恩秀》节目中，就奥马尔议员需向明尼苏达州欺诈调查委员会提交有关“喂养我们的未来” alleged欺诈计划的文件截止日期等议题发表了看法。
【福克斯新闻独家报道】 明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔尚未就明尼苏达州一个顶级调查委员会要求其提供与大规模欺诈丑闻可能关联的信息的请求作出公开或私下回应，但她的一名前高级助手近日发给该委员会的一封邮件，揭示了其团队可能对该事件的看法以及他们指责的对象。
“作为2019年至2022年期间伊尔汉·奥马尔国会办公室的地区主任，我饶有兴趣地阅读了您在《议会日报》中有关H.R.6187——《膳食法案》的评论，”奥马尔前地区主任肯德尔·基利安在福克斯新闻数字频道周三下午获取的一封邮件中写道，收件人为明尼苏达州众议院欺诈预防与州机构监督委员会主席克里斯汀·罗宾斯。这封邮件同时也发给了该委员会的民主党首席代表戴夫·平托。
基利安写道：“如果您的引述准确无误，您曾说‘她在2020年3月通过了《膳食法案》’。鉴于您2018年才当选，我觉得有必要向您解释法案如何成为法律，但一个人无法单方面通过立法，这让我感到惊讶。”
共和党长期以来一直认为，与奥马尔发起的《膳食法案》相关的疫情时期学校餐食豁免权，为大规模“喂养我们的未来”欺诈计划创造了条件。联邦检察官称该计划涉案金额约2.5亿美元。
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基利安随后向罗宾斯解释称，由于该更大规模法案获得通过时，共和党掌控着参议院和白宫，因此他们“对法案的执行负有责任”。罗宾斯此前曾在国会担任立法主任。
“您称伊尔汉·奥马尔议员单方面通过了这项立法（并监督其执行）的描述是错误的，”基利安说道。基利安进一步试图将奥马尔与该立法切割，称批评人士一直援引的该法案“甚至从未通过”。
“再次说明，需要向一名州众议员解释这一点很奇怪，但或许您需要一些帮助，”基利安的邮件写道。他声称罗宾斯正处于“困惑之中”，因为“《膳食法案》中的类似立法内容被纳入了《家庭第一新冠疫情应对法案》”。
伊尔汉·奥马尔被要求解释明尼苏达州的欺诈行为是如何“彻底失控”的
明尼苏达州众议员克里斯汀·罗宾斯在华盛顿特区美国国会山举行的一场听证会上发表开场陈述，她与明尼苏达州众议员沃尔特·哈德森一同作证，内容涉及特朗普政府决定冻结加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、伊利诺伊州、明尼苏达州和纽约州低收入家庭的100亿美元儿童保育资金的相关议题，摄于2026年1月7日。(奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社)
“虽然最初的《膳食法案》（从未通过）与奥马尔倡导、明尼苏达州众议员悉尼·乔丹后来推动的全民学校餐食立法更为相似，但《家庭第一新冠疫情应对法案》（由麦康奈尔支持、特朗普签署）新增了豁免权，为‘喂养我们的未来’欺诈案的大部分行为提供了便利，”基利安写道。“欺诈行为并非发生在奥马尔起草的任何法案之下，而是在更广泛的新冠疫情立法框架下，以及利用特朗普政府批准的美国农业部紧急豁免权实施的。这些灵活政策，加上监管不力和资金快速扩张，为后来‘喂养我们的未来’欺诈计划的实施创造了条件。”
基利安用加粗字体写道，《家庭第一新冠疫情应对法案》并非由奥马尔“主要发起”，“因此声称如此完全不准确”，并在邮件结尾表示，或许委员会应该传唤特朗普总统，而非奥马尔。
尽管《膳食法案》本身并未作为独立法案获得通过，但国会官网将其列为与更广泛的《家庭第一新冠疫情应对法案》相关的立法。后者于2020年成为法律，其中包含类似的学校餐食豁免条款。罗宾斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，这位奥马尔前助手对奥马尔所起作用的说法是“撒谎”，她认为《膳食法案》的核心目的——扩大美国农业部的豁免权——已被纳入该更广泛的法案。
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“我指的是被纳入更大规模新冠救助法案的《膳食法案》，”罗宾斯解释道。“在相关法案部分，它链接到了伊尔汉提出的法案，并将其列为该法案所包含的法案之一，两者的措辞完全相同。”
国会官网是美国国会图书馆运营的官方立法数据库，将奥马尔提出的《膳食法案》（H.R.6187）列为与《家庭第一新冠疫情应对法案》（H.R.6201）相关的立法。
罗宾斯指出了多个奥马尔在给明尼阿波利斯选民的信息中为该最终获得通过的立法邀功，并提及她的《膳食法案》的例子。
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在奥马尔自己2020年9月的新闻稿中，她明确表示她“今年春天通过了”《膳食法案》的相关条款，并将其描述为“直接授权了这些学校餐食豁免权”的立法。
“伊尔汉的《膳食法案》旨在保护学生在学校停课期间获得学校餐食福利的权利，该法案作为《家庭第一新冠疫情应对法案》的一部分获得通过并成为法律，”奥马尔的竞选网站写道。
此外，在特朗普政府在2020年夏秋两季暗示将开始缩减或终止部分豁免权，使项目回归疫情前规则后，奥马尔公开予以反驳。
同年8月，她再次将自己在众议院发起的立法与整体局势联系起来，在给特朗普政府的一封信中写道：“3月，国会通过《膳食法案》和《新冠儿童营养应对法案》授权使用豁免权，以便在疫情期间继续为儿童提供学校餐食。”
“当然不是，这确实帮助了孩子们，”2020年12月，当被问及是否后悔支持《膳食法案》时，奥马尔说道。
基利安的邮件也与他一年前在领英上的一篇帖子内容直接矛盾，福克斯新闻数字频道查看了该帖子，其中他对该立法的意义描述截然不同。
“疫情期间我在伊尔汉·奥马尔议员的办公室工作时，她撰写并通过了《膳食法案》，这是一项为学校提供资金、为所有孩子提供餐食的重要法案，”基利安写道。
在同一篇帖子中，基利安将该法案描述为为更广泛的学校餐食政策“奠定了基础”，这与他在给议员的邮件中辩称该法案“甚至从未通过”并试图将其与疫情期间后来使用的框架切割形成鲜明对比。
基利安发给罗宾斯的邮件还附带了一则附言，链接了著名的《学校屋摇滚》动画《我只是一项法案》，该动画向儿童解释法案如何成为法律。
“这太可耻了，”罗宾斯在谈到这封邮件的语气时告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，并将此情况称为奥马尔的“走狗”来找她麻烦。
“我们没有收到这位国会女议员的官方回应，但他们有一位前地区主任，这是级别最高的职位之一，他将邮件发给了我和委员会的民主党首席代表，”罗宾斯说。“所以他显然是想让民主党反驳我，说‘罗宾斯不知道自己在说什么，这并非真正伊尔汉的法案，它从未通过’，这简直是胡说八道。”
值得注意的是，基利安的信件并未回应该委员会近期致奥马尔的信件中提出的具体问题，即奥马尔与被指控或卷入此案的索马里社区成员之间的多重关联。奥马尔尚未对这些问题作出回应。
该委员会要求奥马尔提交其宣传扩大联邦儿童营养项目准入的相关通信记录，包括与明尼苏达州教育部门和选民的电子邮件、短信和会议记录。
该请求还重点关注奥马尔公开宣传的一家明尼阿波利斯餐厅，该餐厅后来与欺诈丑闻有关联。罗宾斯提到了一次索马里语电视采访，奥马尔在采访中强调野生动物园餐厅是餐食分发点，并要求提供与该视频和餐厅参与相关的所有通信记录。
“在野生动物园餐厅和其他欺诈者敛财期间，她一直在努力保留这些豁免权，”罗宾斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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该委员会还要求获取奥马尔与一系列被指控或卷入“喂养我们的未来”案件的个人的任何接触记录，包括非营利组织创始人艾米·博克和数十名所谓的同谋，以及奥马尔从后来被指控参与此案的个人那里收到的政治捐款信息，要求提供“任何和所有”与这些捐赠者的通信记录。
在给福克斯新闻数字频道的回应中，基利安没有直接说明他最初的邮件是否与奥马尔议员或其办公室协调，而是将其描述为他个人的“观点”。他承认《膳食法案》中“非常相似的措辞”被纳入了最终成为法律的更广泛的新冠救助法案。
基利安还辩称，欺诈行为的责任在于实施该项目的人，将责任归咎于联邦和州官员，特别是州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹。
明尼苏达州欺诈调查委员会主席称瓦尔兹“多年来对欺诈警告视而不见”
“随后由特朗普政府时期的美国农业部负责监督。然后是瓦尔兹州长等州长。坦率地说，瓦尔兹州长……理应接受与本次福克斯调查相同程度的审查，”基利安写道。“归根结底，是瓦尔兹州长搞砸了这件事。”
基利安进一步试图将该立法与欺诈行为本身切割，辩称“欺诈行为并未发生在真正的公立学校”，而是“非营利组织所为”，并补充说“伊尔汉的法案聚焦于前者”。
但同样的豁免权也允许餐食分发范围远超学校食堂，包括后来与欺诈计划有关联的餐厅和社区地点等非学校场所，这引发了人们对这两个体系在实际操作中如何区分的质疑。
基利安还将《膳食法案》是否“通过”的不一致之处归结为“随意”或不精确的措辞，没有直接调和他在邮件中称该法案“甚至从未通过”与他此前将奥马尔描述为“撰写并通过”该法案的说法之间的矛盾。
奥马尔的办公室没有回应福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求。
奥马尔被要求在5月5日前回应委员会的要求，但她并未遵守，至今尚未作出任何公开回应。
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奥马尔错过截止日期后，委员会试图传唤她提供信息，但被委员会内的民主党人以党派投票否决。
“每次都是同样的剧情，”罗宾斯在投票后在X平台上发帖称。“欺诈发生，信息被压制，混乱仍在继续。”
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2026-05-08T10:17:40-04:00 / Fox News
A former top Omar aide claims the MEALS Act ‘never even passed’ despite previously writing that Omar ‘wrote and passed’ it
By Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News
Published May 8, 2026 10:17am EDT
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Minnesota state Rep. Walter Hudson discusses Rep. Ilhan Omar’s deadline to turn over documents to the Minnesota Fraud Committee regarding the ‘Feeding Our Future’ alleged fraud scheme and more on ‘The Will Cain Show.’
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has not publicly or privately responded to a top investigative committee in Minnesota’s request for information on her possible ties to the massive fraud scandal, but a recent email from one of her former top staffers to the committee sheds light on how her camp may view the situation and who they blame.
“As the District Director for Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from 2019-2022, I read with interest your comments in Session Daily regarding H.R.6187 – MEALS Act,” former Omar District Director Kendal Killian wrote in an email, obtained by Fox News Digital, Wednesday afternoon to the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee Chair Kristin Robbins. The email was also sent to Rep. Dave Pinto, the lead Democrat on the committee.
Killian wrote, “If the quote is accurate, you said, ‘She passed the MEALS Act in March 2020.’ Given that you were elected in 2018, I find it surprising that I need to explain to you how a bill becomes law, but one person cannot unilaterally pass legislation.”
Republicans have long argued that the pandemic-era school meal waivers tied to the MEALS Act, sponsored by Omar, helped create the conditions that enabled the massive Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, which federal prosecutors say totaled roughly $250 million.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has long been under scrutiny for allegedly marrying her Somali brother.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg)
Killian went on to explain to Robbins, who has previously served as a legislative director in Congress, that because Republicans controlled the Senate and the White House when the larger bill was passed, that they have “responsibility for implementation” of the legislation.
“So your characterization that Rep. Ilhan Omar passed this legislation unilaterally (and oversaw its execution) is off base,” Killian said. Killian went further in his effort to distance Omar from the legislation, claiming that the bill critics have been citing “never even passed.”
“Again, it is bizarre to have to explain this to a State Representative, but maybe you need some help,” Killian’s email says. He claimed that Robbins is suffering from “confusion,” because “similar legislative language to that in the MEALS Act was included in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.”
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Minnesota state Rep. Kristin Robbins delivers an opening statement as she testifies alongside Minnesota State Rep. Walter Hudson during a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Trump Administration’s decision to freeze $10 billion in child care funds for families with low incomes in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“While the original Meals Act (which never passed) was more similar to universal school meals legislation Omar championed and Representative Sydney Jordan in Minnesota later shepherded, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (supported by McConnell and signed by Trump) added waiver authority that facilitated much of the Feeding Our Future fraud,” Killian wrote. “The fraud was not committed under any bill authored by Omar, but rather under broader COVID-19 legislation and by taking advantage of USDA emergency waivers granted by the Trump administration. Those flexibilities, combined with weak oversight and rapid funding expansion, created conditions that were later exploited in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.”
In bold, Killian wrote that the Families First Coronavirus Response Act was not “chiefly sponsored” by Omar and “thus is grossly inaccurate to claim so” and ended the email saying that “perhaps” the committee should subpoena President Trump rather than Omar.
While the MEALS Act itself did not pass as a standalone bill, it is listed on Congress.gov as related legislation to the broader Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which became law in 2020 and included similar school meal waiver provisions. Robbins told Fox News Digital the former Omar staffer is “lying” about the impact Omar had, arguing the core purpose of the MEALS Act, expanding USDA waiver authority, was part of the broader legislation.
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“I’m talking about the MEALS Act that got incorporated in the larger coronavirus package,” Robbins explained. “In the related bills section it links to the Ilhan bill and lists it as one of the bills included in the Act, the language is identical.”
Congress.gov, the official legislative database run by the Library of Congress, lists Omar’s MEALS Act (H.R. 6187) as “related legislation” to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201).
Robbins pointed to numerous examples of Omar taking credit in messages to her constituents back in Minneapolis for the legislation that did ultimately pass and citing her MEALS Act.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks at Karmel Mall in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 28, 2026.(Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
In Omar’s own September 2020 press release, she explicitly says she “passed into law this spring” the MEALS Act provisions and describes them as legislation that “directly authorized these school meal waivers.”
“Ilhan’s MEALS Act, a bill aimed at protecting students’ access to school meal benefits during school closures, was passed into law as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act,” Omar’s campaign website reads.
Additionally, Omar publicly pushed back after the Trump administration signaled in the summer and fall of 2020, after the legislation passed, that it would begin scaling back or letting some of the waivers expire and return programs closer to their pre-pandemic rules.
In August, she again linked the legislation she sponsored in the House to the overall situation, saying in a letter to the Trump administration, “In March, Congress authorized the use of waivers in the MEALS Act and the COVID-19 Child Nutrition Response Act in order to continue to provide school meals for children during the pandemic.”
“Absolutely not, it did help feed kids,” Omar said in December when asked if she regreted her support for the MEALS Act.
Killian’s email also directly contradicts his own words in a LinkedIn post from a year ago, reviewed by Fox News Digital, in which he characterized the significance of the legislation differently.
“When I worked in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s office during the pandemic, she wrote and passed the MEALS Act, a vital bill funding schools and feeding all kids,” Killian wrote.
In the same post, Killian described the bill as laying “the groundwork” for broader school meals policy, a contrast to his email to lawmakers in which he argued the legislation “never even passed” and sought to distance it from the framework later used during the pandemic.
Killian’s email to Robbins also included a P.S. with a link to the well-known Schoolhouse Rock “I’m Just a Bill” cartoon that explains to children how bills become law.
“It’s shameful,” Robbins told Fox News Digital about the tone of the email and referred to the situation as Omar’s “henchmen” coming after her.
“We have had no official response from the congresswoman, but they have a former district director, which is the most senior position, and he sent it to me and the Democrat lead on the committee,” Robbins said. “So he’s clearly wanting to have Democrats push back on me and say, ‘Robbins doesn’t know what she’s talking about, this wasn’t really Ilhan’s bill, it never passed,’ which is just BS.”
Notably, Killian’s letter does not address the specific questions the committee asked Omar in a recent letter, which the congresswoman has not responded to, related to the several connections between Omar and individuals in the Somali community charged or implicated in the case.
The committee asked Omar to turn over communications showing how she promoted expanded access to federal child nutrition programs, including emails, texts and meeting records with the Minnesota Department of Education and constituents.
The request also zeroed in on Omar’s public promotion of a Minneapolis restaurant that later became linked to the fraud scandal. Robbins cited a Somali-language TV appearance in which Omar highlighted Safari Restaurant as a meal distribution site and asked for all communications related to the video and the restaurant’s participation.
“She fought to keep the waivers in place during the time that Safari and the other fraudsters were making their money,” Robbins told Fox News Digital.
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The committee is also seeking records of any contact between Omar and a long list of individuals charged or implicated in the Feeding Our Future case, including nonprofit founder Aimee Bock and dozens of alleged co-conspirators as well as information about political donations Omar received from individuals later charged in the case, requesting “any and all” communications with those donors.
In a response to Fox News Digital, Killian did not directly say whether his original email was coordinated with Rep. Omar or her office, instead describing it as his personal “perspective.” He acknowledged that “very similar language” from the MEALS Act was included in the broader coronavirus relief package that became law.
Killian also argued that responsibility for the fraud lies with those who implemented the program, placing blame on both federal and state officials, particularly Gov. Tim Walz.
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“It was then overseen by the Trump USDA. And then governors like Walz. Frankly, Governor Walz…deserves the same level of scrutiny as this Fox inquiry,” Killian wrote. “At the end of the day, it was Governor Walz who [expletive] this up.”
Killian further sought to distance the legislation from the fraud itself, arguing that “no fraud took place at actual public schools” and that “the nonprofits did,” adding that “Ilhan’s bill was focused on the former.”
But the same waiver authority allowed meals to be distributed far beyond school cafeterias, including at non-school sites such as restaurants and community locations later tied to the fraud scheme, raising questions about how separate the two systems were in practice.
Killian also dismissed inconsistencies over whether the MEALS Act “passed” as a matter of “casual” or imprecise language, without directly reconciling his emailed statement that the bill “never even passed” with his prior description of Omar as having “wrote and passed” it.
Omar’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Omar was given a deadline of May 5 to respond to the committee, which she did not meet, and has yet to give any public response.
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After Omar missed the deadline, the committee attempted to subpoena her for the, information but was blocked by Democrats on the committee in a party-line vote.
“It’s the same story every time,” Robbins posted on X after the vote. “Fraud is committed, information is suppressed, and the dysfunction continues.”
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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