Washington – Almost a week after the murder of Charlie Kirk, emotions are running in Capitol Hill, with many legislators of the Republican party publicly regretting by his friend and blaming the Democrats and the media for the shocking death of the conservative activist.
The resolutions to honor Kirk, and punish their opponents, are flying by Congress. Representative Nancy Mace, RS.C. and Buddy Carter, republican of G-G., Both who apply for a higher position in 2026, have written grief resolutions to strip Democratic representative Ilhan Omar of his committee assignments after she criticized the “words and actions” after Kirk immediately after the shooting.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of F-Fla., Which was close to Kirk, is calling the representative Andre Carson, a Democrat of Indians, who triggered a personnel member who published an appointment again on social networks saying that Kirk was “a victim of the violence that prompted.”
And Republican representative Chip Roy, who is postulated to the Attorney General in Texas, is asking for the creation of a special committee to investigate the “money, influence and power behind the assault of the radical left to the United States” in the light of Kirk’s death.
On Tuesday, Tyler Robinson was formally accused of UTAH prosecutors aggravated by serious crimes, two charges of witness manipulation and other crimes; He has not yet had a lawyer designated to represent him. While the investigation is ongoing, the mother of the suspect told the investigators that Robinson had become “more political and had begun to lean further to the left, increasingly oriented to rights rights,” prosecutors said, seeking the death penalty.
Robinson also told his father that he had carried out the shooting because Kirk “spreads too much,” the father told researchers, according to accusation documents.
There have also been numerous efforts of the Republicans to lionize Kirk in the Capitol, to mixed results. In addition to its movement to censor Omar, which will obtain a floor vote this week, Mace has also offered a resolution for Kirk to be in honor in the Capitol roundabout. Luna sent a letter to Johnson urging him to put a statue of Kirk in the Capitol. Representative Andy Ogles, R-TEN., He has offered another to posthumously grant Kirk the Gold Medal of Congress. (President Donald Trump has already said that he will give Kirk the presidential medal of La Libertad).
A moment of silence for Kirk on the floor of the house hours after the murder of September 10 gave way to a game of shouts between Democrats and Republicans. Meanwhile, the Democrats, including all the main leaders of the party, were largely absent from a prayer vigil for Kirk on Monday night led by the speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
This week, the leaders of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives will celebrate a floor vote on a resolution that condemn Kirk’s murder; honor the “life, leadership and legacy of Charlie Kirk”; And ask Americans “to reject political violence, discuss respectful debate, defend US values and respect each other as American colleagues.”
The leaders on both sides of the hallway urge their members to reduce the political temperature in an institution that has seen their share of political violence in the last 15 years, since the murder attempts of Gabby Giffords and Steve Scalise to the attack on January 6 and two attempts in the life of President Trump last year.
But in the strident house of representatives, that message is not reaching everyone.
In addition to retaliation against Omar, Mace has been tweeting without stopping about Kirk’s murder, specifically asking for the layoffs of individual educators in universities and other schools that have criticized Kirk on social networks.
“Good morning everyone, except teachers from all over the country who celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk. That their careers end up as fast as their humanity did,” Mace published in X.
“There is no unit with those who love us dead,” he wrote in another publication.
Representative Derrick Van Order, Republican of Wisconsin, has done the same, retweeting dozens and dozens of positions about people who criticized Kirk or celebrated his death, in addition to attacking against the press and his Democratic colleagues, while asking for remuneration.
Van Order has also approached the press in person, telling a group of reporters outside the Capitol a day after the shooting that “each of you here” is “responsible for that murder.”
When a NBC News reporter replied that the shooter and a reason had not yet been identified, they intervened order: “Do you know what? Leave it. Leave it.”
The suspect in Kirk’s shooting had not yet been arrested at that time.
Talking with journalists on Tuesday, president of Caucus Democrat Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Said that “each leader has the obligation to reduce the temperature at this time.” But he highlighted Mace and order as members who “are not doing their part” to cool things, and added that the speaker Johnson “needs to address them.”
And the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., had hard words for Mace, who said he was taking Kirk’s shooting for his own political benefit.
“Does Nancy Mace want to give a lecture to Ilhan Omar and the Democrats about courtesy? Are you joking? It’s not a serious effort,” Jeffries told journalists. “It is an effort to bring donors to their governor campaign.”
Omar, in an interview with Mehdi Hasan in his Zeteo place, criticized Kirk’s defenders who have said that the activist was simply participating in the “civil debate.”
“There is nothing more effective than completely pretending that their words and actions have not registered and there are more or less …”, Omar told Hasan. “These people are full of s —, and it is important that we call them while we feel anger and sadness.”
Omar, like other Democrats in the Minnesota delegation, was a friend of the late president of the House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman, who was killed by an armed man in June along with her husband and her dog. The same gunman shot and wounded state senator John Hoffman and his wife.
Johnson has urged legislators to “reject temperature.” Former constitutional lawyer, the speaker said he is a firm defender of freedom of expression, but that employers have the right to fire workers for saying things that do not represent their employer.
“We do not censor and silence the disadvantaged views. People in the United States are allowed to say follies,” Johnson explained.
“Now, said that, if I am an employer or I am a government agency, and I have someone in my job that is online celebrating the atrocious murder of an innocent person, a young husband and father,” he said, “I can make the decision that they do not deserve to work for me, they should not represent my company or my agency, and I have all the rights to do so. And I think that is appropriate.”
In a statement on Tuesday that responds to the criticism of the position of its staff, the Carson office said the congressman has repeatedly condemned all political violence, but that “each chamber employee has a right of the first amendment to share their personal points of view.”
His office said the publication has been eliminated, but that the staff member found “comments and misogynistic, violent and hateful threats.” Carson’s office said it has also received multiple death threats, which have been reported to the Capitol Police. “That is also unacceptable,” said the office.
“Congressman Carson condemns all political violence, and asks all Americans to do the same,” said his office.
Senator Kevin Cramer, RN.D., told NBC News that everyone must do “a self -reflection” and work to “regulate our hearts.”
“We are at a time when the impulse of a tragedy is to blame someone else, and in a political situation, blame an opponent or an adversary, or what you think like an enemy,” Cramer said. “And I think there is enough responsibility for everyone to support it.”
The day after the shooting, the representative Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., He was talking to journalists about how legislators need to mitigate their rhetoric when he listened to another member in the steps of the nearby Capitol speaking aloud and animated about Kirk.
He paused for several seconds to look at the legislator and listen: it was Mace.
He continued: “And so is some of the, part of the problem, you know, we have to discover how to reduce the temperature.”
