<p>Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton introduced a bill on Tuesday that would ban federal funding from being used to launch President Joe Biden&#8217;s Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security.</p>
<p>Cotton was joined in the <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/download/disinformation-board-bill-text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> with support from a team of 18 co-sponsors among the Senate&#8217;s Republicans.</p>
<p>“The Biden administration wants a government agency dedicated to cracking down on what its subjects can say, an idea popular with Orwellian governments everywhere. This board is unconstitutional and un-American—my bill puts a stop to it,” Cotton said in a <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-defund-homeland-securitys-disinformation-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.</p>
<p>Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the bill&#8217;s co-sponsors, also called for the defunding of the Disinformation Governance Board in an op-ed published on Tuesday in the National Review.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have lived my entire life around people who fled from countries ruled by Marxist dictators. They came to America because it is a free country, as their homelands once were. Theirs is a cautionary tale, and we are fooling ourselves if we think that can’t change,&#8221; Rubio <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/defund-president-bidens-censorship-bureau/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;A government disinformation board led by a person who &#8216;shudder[s]&#8217; at the thought of &#8216;free speech . . . absolutists&#8217; is a step toward tyranny. It must be stopped. It has to be defunded. And I will do everything I can to ensure that this assault on our freedom does not stand,&#8221; the senator added.</p>
<p>Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, another opponent of the board, called for the abolishment of the proposed board.</p>
<p>&#8220;Congress must act now to abolish this censorship board and prevent any future President who doesn’t believe in the Constitution from ever trying it again,&#8221; he tweeted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Too late. Congress must act now to abolish this censorship board and prevent any future President who doesn’t believe in the Constitution from ever trying it again <a href="https://t.co/nLhZbKyzpe">https://t.co/nLhZbKyzpe</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1521253255954812936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In another Twitter post on Monday, Hawley argued that the board was unconstitutional.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Joe Biden won’t dissolve his unconstitutional Disinformation Board, Congress should. I will introduce legislation this week to eliminate the Board and forbid the government ever to create another one. It’s time to stand up for free speech,&#8221; the senator <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1521156527649968130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.</p>
<p>Nina Jankowicz has been selected as the director for the Biden initiative within the DHS. Conservatives have noted her comments regarding America&#8217;s free speech rights are concerning.</p>
<p>&#8220;I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities,&#8221; Jankowicz shared in a recent NPR interview.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last week I told <a href="https://twitter.com/NPRMichel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NPRMichel</a>: I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities…which are already shouldering…disproportionate amounts of this abuse.” <a href="https://t.co/GLqMwC3iYH">https://t.co/GLqMwC3iYH</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1518643449225953287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to Cotton, the full list of the bill&#8217;s co-sponsors includes John Boozman (R-Arkansas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Florida), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Mississippi), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Mike Braun (R-Indiana), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), Todd Young (R-Indiana), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), and Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota).</p>

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