Barack Obama: “My Administration is committed to supporting these engines of growth.”

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

I think when we act on that basis, it doesn't always work out, but over time things do get better.

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

The effort, he said, “should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views.”