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My latest
@WNGdotorg
column fleshes out why the GOP has refused to fight on cultural issues and why that must change.
Maybe the GOP should not have run away from culture issues for decades.
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Biden's DOJ just recommended a reduced sentence for two left-wing terrorists who firebombed police cars during the 2020 riots to 18-24 months on charges carrying a max of 10 years.
Meanwhile, J6 defendants remain locked up in solitary confinement for walking into the Capitol.
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Kevin McCarthy is in serious trouble as a candidate for Speaker. Let me explain. 🧵 1/x
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If you committed a non-violent crime on J6, you go to jail for years.
If you're a powerful Democrat who broke federal law while fabricating the Russia hoax to sabotage Donald Trump, you get acquitted by a jury of your donors.
Fair trials in Washington D.C. do not exist.
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Jen Psaki said the White House encourages people to protest outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
Less than a month later, somebody was arrested outside Brett Kavanaugh's home with a gun and told police he wanted to kill him.
Does President Biden still stand by it?
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A ban on CRT in TN schools has been introduced and is expected to pass the legislature in the next week or so with Gov. Lee expected to sign it. Incredible work being done on the ground by concerned TN citizens.
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$40 billion is more than the entirety of what the U.S should be spending on shipbuilding this year to meet the China threat.
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The new era of criminalizing politics is worsening in the US. Yesterday more than a dozen DOJ law enforcement officials searched Jeff Clark’s house in a pre dawn raid, put him in the streets in his pjs, and took his electronic devices. 1/2
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Tomorrow
@GOPLeader
should announce that a new House GOP will immediately set up a modern day Church committee to investigate the FBI & other weaponized deep state arms.
@amrenewctr
will provide model legislation.
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I can understand those who are baffled that conservatives are entertaining removing Mike Johnson from being speaker in an election year with a small majority. I haven’t really weighed in bc I understand the pros and cons. But those watching from the outside need to understand the
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The House Freedom Caucus was made for this moment. They have the numbers to insist on a paradigm shifting, conservative speaker who will insist that the new majority does everything it can to save the country. They must not fail.
@freedomcaucus
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All because Jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud. This is not America, folks. The weaponization of govt must end. Let me be very clear. We stand by Jeff and so must all patriots in this country. 2/2
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By raiding Pres Trump’s home today, the FBI offered clear & convincing evidence that it is weaponized against the American people and self-government. The FBI must be broken into a thousand pieces. Investigated, defunded, abolished, rent asunder. And the GOP must wake up & fight!
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Finish them
.
@GovRonDeSantis
broaches repeal of Disney World's special self-governing status in Florida
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The country can no longer afford “mother may I” leadership. Governors, use your constitutional authorities and save the country. The border must be secured.
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Keep fighting
@realDonaldTrump
, ignore the naysayers! Proud to work for you, as you ensure the true voice of the American people is heard. No illegal votes!
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Rogers is the incoming chair of the Armed Services Committee. He had to be restrained. The cartel has hot heads in charge of our national security policies.
MIKE ROGERS started shouting something at GAETZ.
HUDSON had to physically retrain ROGERS, even grabbed him around the mouth to shut him up, prob thinking he was doing more damage
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The House is debating in a packed chamber. Not behind closed doors. Over the future of the country. This is what the end of cartel government looks like.
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Constituent: Please vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker.
Congressman: I will not give into pressure campaigns.
Constituent: But I voted for you and want you to know what I think.
Congressman: This is a vote of conscience.
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As I have said, I am proudly supporting & endorse Donald J. Trump for president in 2024. He is the only person I trust to take a wrecking ball to the Deep State. I’ve seen his willingness up close & behind closed doors. My friend & former boss is going to finish what he started.
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David French is the Colin Kaepernick of the evangelical church.
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I could not be more proud of the House conservatives holding strong against Kevin McCarthy to break DC's cartel government. Now is the moment to block out the noise from the compromised & bring it home tomorrow. It's now within your reach. Seize it!
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The deal adds $4 trillion to the debt, hands away all leverage to the Biden admin for rest of his term, in exchange for freezing/then growing the current woke & weaponized regime, with only 2 yrs of caps designed to fail. Conservatives should fight it with all their might.
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Getting to study the Bible with him every week in the Cabinet was one of my highlights of those years. I love Ben and Candy very much.
Praying before making a big announcement for a very special friend.
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Today is for thanking those already gone public. Build the numbers of members who want change & publicly say they are against McCarthy today. Talk of the replacement candidate comes next & at the moment, thwarts the momentum needed to build the fight 6/6
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I like
@RepThomasMassie
and I have always respected him. Spent an hour and half with him at his request just last month in his office. But he is endemic of a particular type of congressman that has caused our complete failure for decades. 1/x
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You are going to hear nonstop how important it is to “clear the decks” for Trump over the next several months. The drumbeat is getting louder & w/out any real legislating to do, it is the
#1
priority of the leadership class. The DC cartel wants to finalize an entire spending
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JD is absolutely right to interpret these Ukraine provisions through the current prism of the unconstitutional & nonsensical Impoundment Control Act. Thankfully President Trump has called for challenging that law but the Dems will use this to try and tie his hands in the initial
I just sent the below memo to every one of my Republican colleagues in Congress.
Buried in the bill’s text is an impeachment time bomb for the next Trump presidency if he tries to stop funding the war in Ukraine.
We must vote against this disastrous bill.
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The American people think it’s 11:59 pm for this country. Most GOP in Congress think it’s about 6 pm and most GOP staff think it’s lunchtime.
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When it’s all said and done, the truckers are going to be a major part of saving the country.
Freedom Convoy spokesman Benjamin Dichter joins Tucker Carlson to discuss the huge trucker protest as it makes its way to Ottawa.
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Here is what I think should transpire in the House since Leadership lacks the votes for this CR:
1) Pull the CR immediately and stop whipping it.
2) Hard reset from the debt limit back to the January agreement to return spending to pre COVID levels of $1.47 trillion instead
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Conservatives will have a difficult (I would say impossible) time explaining a vote for McCarthy back home for many reasons, but mainly for being a peace-time leader when we are in a cold civil war who will manage the GOP away from conflict instead of seizing it by the throat 4/x
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In other words, the fundamentals present a cartel-busting vote, and all you need is a few members to go public. We already have that in
@mattgaetz
@bobgood
@chiproytx
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Big win. 49 states to go:
VICTORY: Idaho becomes the first state in the nation to ban critical race theory indoctrination in public schools. Governor Brad Little signed the bill into law, which will prohibit schools from promoting race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation. A historic win!
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🚨Our fellow
@wokal_distance
has been locked out of his Twitter account for "hateful conduct." The offensive tweet was apparently when he stated that a person with male anatomy is in fact...drum roll...a male. Stay tuned 🚨
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It starts with the fundamentals. The vote for Speaker is not behind closed doors. It is on the floor of the House of Representatives. There is no lying back home about how one voted. And all Dems vote against the GOP nominee, always. 2x
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House conservatives will not need a majority to prevail. They merely need to block & veto until they get an acceptable candidate. Exactly how many depends on the final slim majority, but it will not be a lot. 3/x
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Any GOP voting for a new "national hymn" that will immediately be pushed as the black national anthem has no idea what time it is in this country. If you want an indication of whether the GOP is ready for the majority, today's vote on HR 1301 in House Judiciary is a bellwether
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Maybe the GOP should not have run away from culture issues for decades.
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No DC cartel speaker! You can’t replace Kevin McCarthy with a just as bad Steve Scalise. That changes nothing. All of the effort in January & in the last week by the mighty House conservatives to bring real change will be for naught. Vote no on the floor! Break the cartel.
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Don’t be fooled. Mike Johnson is not separating Ukraine from Israel. He is bringing all these bills to the floor on the same procedural rule. He is both caving on Ukraine & making members who support Israel vote for both. Procedural dishonesty. Bring the rule down.
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Why hasn’t the 25th Amendment been invoked against Biden? Every Cabinet member should be asked this.
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Mike Johnson's spending deal is nearly $100 billion more spending than available under a full year CR that triggered across the board cuts to nondefense (with defense being frozen). That's how bad this is & why Dems previously panicking bc we had them are now celebrating.
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If we’re going to save the country, it’s not going to be thru cosmetic conservatism. It has to be deep, structural, & relevant reform.
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Unfortunately, todays House CR fully funds Biden’s woke & weaponized bureaucracy on the heels of yet another credit agency warning. Nor does it even try to stagger the expiration dates to force a national debate on the border & DOJ’s excesses. Bad bill, bad strategy.
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Proud to support President Trump in 2024.
We're staring down woke & weaponized government & I trust no one more to crush it than him bc I've seen him on the job. There is unfinished business!
Hear more 👇
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I am excited for Mike Johnson as Speaker. When I was OMB Director & we sent budget cuts to Congress, Mike was one of the main leaders who wanted to pass them. He comes from the conservative movement & doesn't view the grassroots with skepticism. He can help bring real change to
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Not a coincidence when they chose to announce this but they didn’t need to be that careful. There could be funding to burn down every Republican home in America and the GOP wouldn’t defund it for fear of a shutdown.
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Mike Johnson still has potential but "suspending the rules" with Dems for a second time on a big bill to pass an NDAA that maintains our woke military & extends government spying on Americans for another year is spectacularly beyond the pale & pure cartel governance. His
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Indicators that we have lost civilian control of the military
Defense Secretary is hospitalized in intensive care. Total secrecy: the president, National Security Council, deputy secretary, and oversight committees are all kept in the dark. Hard to see how Austin keeps job. Also: Didn't anybody notice?
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It must drive neocons & their adjacents crazy that there is no support for funding Ukraine’s war on the Right. NATO is next. We’re coming.
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Pres. Trump was the most pro life president in history. Every decision that got to him he went with life, including funding of fetal tissue research w/ HHS on other side. 4 years of action at the federal level. So before everyone loses their mind, maybe we should remember that.
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Cartel is in full panic mode. They can’t let it go to the floor in the light of the day where they will be exposed. All of these last minute reports of sizable number of members willing to block are fake.
New — A senior House GOP member told me he has spoken to 20 members ready to vote against Jordan and block him on the floor.
Jordan has had positive conversations and pushing for TUESDAY vote, another source says
GOP meeting Monday.
“We can’t reward this behavior,” member says
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The Rules committee really came down to him. How do you set it up better? Thomas Massie, of all people, had the ability to send this deal back to the negotiating table & he flailed. That is how you judge someone. What do they do with the power given to them and them alone? 3/x
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You just freed up $4 trillion in new debt to fund mostly unconstitutional bureaucracy.
What’s a joke is thinking I will vote for something I believe is unconstitutional if I get enough phone calls asking me to.
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I think a lettuce could have negotiated a better deal.
Mike Johnson's spending deal is nearly $100 billion more spending than available under a full year CR that triggered across the board cuts to nondefense (with defense being frozen). That's how bad this is & why Dems previously panicking bc we had them are now celebrating.
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The American people won’t be secure unless Congress defunds the weaponization of the Department of Justice. It must be a priority in the funding battle this month.
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You didn't hit a nerve. We're actually appreciative of the free advertising of what we all know to be true--you're weaponizing the federal government against more than half the country. Keep going.
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1 out of 4 Medicaid $$ is improper ($100 billion/year) much of it going to states providing care to illegal aliens, abortions, gender transitioning & force feeding vax mandates. So yes, reform is necessary to ensure the program exists for the vulnerable rather than a woke agenda.
The former Trump budget director – who is now advising House Republicans on fiscal strategy – has a plan to slash over $2 trillion from Medicaid.
That could cause nearly 70 million people to lose services.
Most of them are seniors, people with disabilities, and children.
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Amazing report from
@MZHemingway
on the ongoing corruption at the FBI. The agency may not be salvageable. (With the correct Mollie this time!)
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I'm sorry but such neutrality is not going to save the country. The hour is too late & we need statesmen who wear on their shoulders the full weight of responsibility for history, whether as Bonhoeffer said, we are the victors or the vanquished. 12/12
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All GOP Senators should support the Kaine amendment 101 to strike the Manchin earmark. No other pipeline or state gets such special corrupt consideration & it was include to ensure Manchin votes for the bill. It only requires a majority. VOTE YES.
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This story from Cassidy is a total fabrication. I’m not a Mormon and this interaction with Mark never occurred.
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Defending life is the most important issue to me. Whenever there was a federal decision to be made, I personally saw President Trump decide for life. Every time. President Trump is navigating choppy waters carefully in a post-Roe sea of possibilities to save life very few ever
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No time for defeatism on the inevitability of this terrible bill passing. Trust the Mighty 20 who changed the House in January. There are three conservatives on the all-important Rules Committee for a reason. Good night.
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Imagine with me if
@GovRonDeSantis
was gov of Texas. Today the border would be totally secure bc an invasion would be declared, illegal aliens would be turned back at the border, and the flow would stop. AZ would follow. No gimmicks.
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Totally false
Fact check 🧵
1. the Debt Limit Deal eliminates 2023 funding for the Biden regime to hire new IRS agents to target Americans.
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Your path to the dark side is now complete. You have become your enemy. Have a good day, Thomas.
Russ Vought was Trump’s budget director the year they urged Congress to spend $2.2 trillion for the CARES Act and the Fed created $5 trillion out of thin air to monetize the biggest debt increase in history.
Glad to see you in the fight for fiscal responsibility
@russvought
!
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“At the classroom level, [Critical Race Theory] will only ensure that the next generation is filled with corrosive and demeaning ideas that they should be judged by the color of their skin, instead of the content of their character.”
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Let’s be honest. Finland and Sweden are international welfare queens.
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House members who voted for the McCarthy-Massie debt bomb should NOT defend their vote. They should say they were wrong & misled by the claims of “leadership.” That is the road to redemption. Not continuing to lie.
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It is very important for House Republicans who are opposed to the debt limit package to oppose the rule on the floor. You can't have your finger prints on this at all. Do not vote with the cartel procedurally or on policy. Make Majority Leader Jeffries bring the votes.
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Ignore the Biden Administration's debt limit deadlines. They went into hurry-up offense because conservatives seized the initiative in the House of Representatives. This will play out over the next 7 or 8 months. Oh, & Republicans, stop talking about Social Security & Medicare.
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I'm not going to take the bait like McCarthy and Massie are doing and criticize the Trump admin which I was proud to serve in. Our budgets proposed more spending cuts than ever before and the cartel always ignored them & jammed us in the midst of other priorities. 4/x
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Thank you Senator! This will be a huge step in battling CRT at the federal level. Now let’s get it attached to a must pass bill.
Cruz Introduces Bill to Block Federal Funding for Critical Race Theory via
@BreitbartNews
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Don’t threaten us with a good time!
If Trump follows through on what he's been saying lately, a second Trump term would make the first Trump term seem tame by comparison.
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Thomas doesn't bear the weight of responsibility for history. He is a vote no-be content congressman who when given actual power to govern for the first time (due to the courage of others BTW) caved, fell for cosmetic versions of his own proposal & attacked his allies. 2/x
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🚨More Dems vote for McCarthy’s debt explosion than GOP. Devastating for the Speaker 🚨
House officially passes the debt ceiling deal by a 314-117 vote
149 Republican yeas, 71 nays, 2 no votes
165 Dem yeas, 46 nays, 2 no votes
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Explains her losing her office today by McHenry and the brazenness of McCarthys moves. Cartel on cartel violence.
Wow — Kevin McCarthy just said Pelosi told him during his marathon speakership campaign that she would have his back if the motion to vacate came up
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.
#The20Patriots
are now heroes. They damaged the DC cartel & delivered transformational reforms to Congress. Who will be the members that join them & make their number 30 on the next fight? Courage is contagious.
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"Conservative pressure campaign" is cartel speak for unwanted hearing from their voters on one of the biggest questions in years. It's noise. Block it out and keep calling.
New w/
@sarahnferris
@Olivia_Beavers
:
Republicans, including some of Jordan's supporters, are warning that a conservative pressure campaign meant to shore up support is instead backfiring, imperiling the Ohioan's speaker bid:
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Until I watched this, I really didn’t have a comprehensive picture of the coup. Must watch!
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Yes, we used available funds to ensure vaccines under Operation Warp Speed were ready by the end of the year, while Nancy Pelosi played politics in an election year. Should we not have?
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Enormously important paradigm shift back to the Founder’s Constitution! President Trump is the only one with the courage to take this fight on and deal with the original sin of our spending woes.
New: Trump is vowing to challenge the Impoundment Control Act – a 1974 law at the heart of his first impeachment.
He argues that "reasserting" impoundment authority will "restore critical negotiating leverage with Congress to keep spending under control."
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This is fantastic!
We are running a NextGen program
@America1stLegal
to train a new generation attorneys who know how to fight and win. Here are my remarks to the young recruits. Check it out.
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Galling. President Trump decided to do a big rescissions package of foreign aid cuts. Unfortunately Pompeo opposed & got State to spend all the $$ before it could be cut. Just pushed it out the door to thwart his boss. Our record was worse because of him.
Or how about your abuse of the CIA aircraft to meet political donors in NYC? Was that the most honorable fiscally responsible thing in the world, Holy Man?
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I’ll be on
@TuckerCarlson
tonight talking about the Left’s violent rhetoric against the forgotten men and women of this country as well as the launch of
@amrestorecenter
. Tune in!
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Mike Johnson should put a resolution on the floor reaffirming that we are one nation, under God. Make the Dems vote against it or be called Christian Nationalists.
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While we wait on text, let's take the numbers as the GOP is claiming w/o knowing the gimmicks (Dems are claiming higher spending). Deal provides $1.59 trillion in FY24 v. $1.602 in FY23. You gave Biden $4 trillion for $12 billion in cuts largely coming from unspent COVID$? 1/x
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Message to the non-20 GOP Members: Many of you were adjacent to that fight. Many of you in retrospect wished you were one of their number. You were amazed at what they accomplished. Now is your time. Join them. Be a lion.
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BREAKING: HFC just posted a HUGE number against McCarthy leveling a death blow to his speakership.
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Excited to announce that FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is coming on board
@amrenewctr
to help uncover the full extent of the FBI's weaponization against the American people.
@RealStevefriend
is going to play a huge role in maximizing the potential of the new Church committee!
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Kevin McCarthy is on the verge of striking a terrible deal to give away the debt limit thru Biden's term for little in the way of cuts. Nothing to crush the bureaucracy. They are lining up Democrats to pass it. The DC cartel is reassembling. Time for higher defcon.
#HoldTheLine
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The fact that Mike Johnson's House GOP is even plotting any reauthorization of the George Bush, Bill Gates-priority PEPFAR (foreign aid for HIV/AIDS in Africa and now Ukraine) is infuriating. It's not just about funding abortions. These groups hate America, we can't afford it
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Should have cut more but there were always competing interests. One of the reasons we were unsuccessful is members fooling around with dumb ideas like Massie's automatic CR. Members always want to build a better procedural mouse trap "to play chess”. It never works. 5/x
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The vast majority of the ho hum conservative professional class in DC have no idea what an existential threat this is to our country. They are blinded by their Trump Derangement Syndrome and comfortable lives.
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Yes, we insisted that CDC coordinate with other public health officials in other agencies and not make dumb decisions on their own.
Emails reveal new details of Trump White House interference in CDC Covid planning - POLITICO
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