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Cuban State Sponsor of Terror Designation

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 29, 2024
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. OMAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my profound frustration at the continued Trump-era policies toward Cuba. For 65 long years, the Cuban people have suffered under the weight of an American embargo.

Now, Cuba's completely unwarranted designation as a state sponsor of terror is causing new waves of hardship for the people of the island.

It is also impacting our allies and friends. Mr. Speaker, I met with many ambassadors from close partners of the United States when I was in Cuba, and they were unanimously opposed to the state sponsor designation.

Trump and Pompeo created this designation, knowing it has no merit, and it was a political trap for the Biden administration.

Mr. Speaker, I call on President Biden to step out of that trap, finally, and stop this cruel and counterproductive policy. He should remove the state sponsor designation today.

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