27 Facts About Rashida Tlaib

1. Rashida Tlaib enjoys a salary of $4000 USD per month and has an impressive net worth.

2. Rashida Tlaib went to Harms, Bennett Elementary and Phoenix Academy for her primary and higher secondary education.

3. Rashida Tlaib was born on Jul4 24, 1976 to Palestinian parents in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.

4. Rashida Tlaib loves to talk about her two sons, Adam and Yousif.

5. Rashida Tlaib said that Fayez had made a mistake when she signed the affidavit declaring the exemption.

6. Rashida Tlaib is the first Palestinian-American woman ever to sit in the US Congress.

7. Rashida Tlaib said she does not think of herself as a single mother.

8. Rashida Tlaib has a lot of relatives still living in the West Bank.

9. Rashida Tlaib chose to wear a traditional Palestinian dress for her swearing-in ceremony.

10. Rashida Tlaib told the Detroit Free Press that they family spoke Arabic at home and that English was her second language.

11. Rashida Tlaib explained in an interview in August 2018 that her grandmother was determined that her son marry a woman from back home.

12. In 1998, at the age of 22, Rashida Tlaib married Fayez Tlaib.

13. Rashida Tlaib is one of the few members of Congress who openly support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

14. Rashida Tlaib was a strong, early supporter of the movement to abolish the Immigration Customs Enforcement agency.

15. Rashida Tlaib took the congressional oath of office on January 3, 2019, swearing in on an English-language translation of the Quran.

16. In 2012, Rashida Tlaib won reelection again to the Michigan House in the newly redrawn 6th District against fellow incumbent Maureen Stapleton.

17. Rashida Tlaib moved first to Nicaragua, then to Detroit, where he worked on an assembly line in a Ford Motor Company plant.

18. In 2018, Rashida Tlaib won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives seat from Michigan's 13th congressional district.

19. Rashida Tlaib will be filling the seat of the disgraced Democrat Congressman, John Conyers, the longest running member of the House before he.

20. Rashida Tlaib is a Democratic Socialist who supports the Palestinian right of return.

21. In 2018, Rashida Tlaib announced her intention to run for John Conyers's seat in Congress.

22. Rashida Tlaib is the second Muslim woman to serve in a state legislature nationwide, after Jamilah Nasheed of Missouri.

23. In 2012 Rashida Tlaib won reelection to the Michigan House in the newly redrawn 6th District against fellow incumbent Maureen Stapleton.

24. In 2010, Rashida Tlaib faced a primary election challenge from Jim Czachorowski in his first bid for office.

25. Rashida Tlaib faced a crowded primary that included several Latinos, including former State Representative Belda Garza.

26. Rashida Tlaib began her political career in 2004, when she took an internship with State Representative Steve Tobocman.

27. In 2018, Rashida Tlaib won the Democratic nomination for the US House of Representatives seat from Michigan's 13th congressional district.