WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent string of attacks on Somali immigrants — describing them as "garbage" and unwanted in the United States — has been met with muted pushback on Capitol Hill, where similar remarks in his first term were met with louder bipartisan rebukes.

Trump, at a Cabinet meeting last week and at a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, unleashed a series of insults at the Somali community and Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a vocal Trump critic.

"We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country," Trump said at a Dec. 2 Cabinet meeting. "She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people who work. These aren’t people who say, ‘Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’"

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