House Republicans held the debut press conference of the Sharia Free America Caucus on Tuesday, warning that Islamic law is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, and that its influence poses a growing threat to American law and culture.
The caucus, co-chaired by Representatives Keith Self (R-TX) and Chip Roy (R-TX), levels sharp criticism at what lawmakers described as the spread of Sharia-based practices through immigration and cultural accommodation. Supporters say the group will focus on preventing Sharia law from gaining any foothold in U.S. governance, while critics have condemned the effort as discriminatory toward Muslims.
At the press conference, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) described “radical Islam” as a “cult that has taken over every second of every day,” framing the caucus’s work as a defense of the American way of life. Co-chair Roy emphasized the constitutional implications, stating, “Sharia is a direct threat to our Constitution and Western values and seeks to replace our legal system and erode our basic freedoms.”
Self highlighted the growth of Muslim communities in Texas, pointing to 20 new mosques in North Texas over the past two years. “First of all, it would be simply, ‘We want a community.’ Then the police can’t come in. And the contracts, the covenants of the area say that you may buy if you’re the right kind of person, you may sell to the right kind of person,” he said, describing what he called a creeping influence of Sharia principles.
The caucus also supports legislative measures, including “No Sharia Legislation,” designed to prevent special immigration benefits for individuals advocating Sharia law, and backing Texas’s Proposition 10, a March ballot measure aimed at restricting Sharia influence in the state. Self noted the Trump administration’s recent designation of Muslim Brotherhood branches as terrorist organizations as a milestone for the caucus’s objectives.
Prominent members, including Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), emphasized the caucus’s mission as a defense of constitutional governance rather than a target against religious communities. Donalds declared, “Sharia has no place in America. We will not surrender our freedoms,” while Miller said she would “stand firmly against this radical ideology that seeks to uproot the constitutional principles and Christian values on which our nation was founded.”
While the caucus’s rhetoric is fiery, its leaders acknowledge that translating concern into law will be key. By focusing on policies grounded in historical American jurisprudence, Republicans aim to ensure their legislative efforts align with constitutional authority while addressing what they see as an ideological threat.
As debates over immigration, national security, and religious freedom intensify, the Sharia Free America Caucus positions Republicans to proactively safeguard constitutional governance and protect American legal and cultural norms. How the caucus addresses the issue at hand will dictate its success in that mission.

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School choice advocate Erika Donalds said that students will be better off when parents have better access to what their kids are learning and when schools are held accountable for veering away from what should be taught.
Donalds, the wife of Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL), sat down with The Daily Wire&#8217;s Tim Rice and Mary Margaret Olohan for an interview at Turning Point USA&#8217;s 2025 AmFest, the first one held without the group&#8217;s late founder, Charlie Kirk.
Donalds began by saying that she was excited to see so many people of all ages attending breakout sessions at the conference that were devoted to reforming education — and how fixing what was wrong with education in the United States played into saving the republic as well.
&#8220;President Trump is doing exactly what he promised the American people,&#8221; Donalds said of President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to first dismantle the Department of Education as a federal entity and then return power to the schools and the states. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to return that power not just to the states, but expand school choice and give power to the parents to make decisions on behalf of their children.&#8221;
Donalds praised Education Secretary Linda McMahon, saying that she had been instrumental in delivering on Trump&#8217;s promises.
The conversation turned to charter schools — several of which Donalds has had a hand in founding — and she said that they can serve as valuable school choice options, especially in areas where private schools are too expensive or otherwise inaccessible. She said that even with advances in school choice, she saw a major role for charter schools to partner with Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) and to offer more &#8220;modular style&#8221; classes.
In her home state, Donalds noted, charter schools were already adapting to the changing educational landscape by offering &#8220;individual courses and extracurricular activities that families can access using their ESA dollars.&#8221;
Responding to a question from Olohan, who noted she was homeschooled for a time herself, Donalds said that the number of families homeschooling in the United States was higher than it had ever been — and that even more families indicated that they&#8217;d like to homeschool if they could. Donald made it clear that one of her goals was to help families remove as many of the barriers preventing potential homeschoolers from moving forward as possible.
Rice then raised the issue of artificial intelligence — and how the knee-jerk reaction is often to keep AI out of schools because students will obviously use it to cheat — but Donalds argued that she believed there was certainly room for AI in education.
There should certainly be guard rails in place, Donalds argued, but AI could be used to find gaps in education and help children to succeed who might otherwise fall through the cracks.
&#8220;We need guardrails and we need parents to have visibility into what&#8217;s going on in the AI used in their classrooms,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Once those guardrails are in place, I believe AI can absolutely help with the abysmal academic results in this country.&#8221;
She went on to explain that AI could help a child struggling with reading by identifying the particular concept that was causing the hang-up and tailoring a curriculum to the child&#8217;s needs. The same could be done with other subjects, she said, giving the example of a child having difficulty with algebra and saying that AI could identify where they were going wrong — even if it was a skill they should have picked up in elementary school.
The remainder of the interview focused on ideological and cultural issues seeping into the education system and how expanding parental rights and access to resources and curriculum were the best guard against that.
&#8220;We want to make sure that when students are graduating 12th grade that they are civically literate,&#8221; Donalds said, arguing that if America&#8217;s young people did not understand how the founders had built the country or why the government had been set up the way that it had, they would be unable to defend it in the future.

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House Republicans are calling for arrests following bombshell allegations that former President Barack Obama and his team sought to gin up intelligence to create a narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
On &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) outlined just what crime may have been committed in response to what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/years-long-coup-gabbard-teases-release-of-more-details-on-obama-russia-intel-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed</a> a &#8220;treasonous conspiracy&#8221; by high-level officials to undermine President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.
&#8220;There needs to be criminal prosecution and arrests,&#8221; Luna <a href="https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1946957017920540711" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;Lying under oath, putting out a false intelligence report — that’s a violation of 18 U.S. Code 1001.&#8221;
Convictions could lead to several years in prison and financial penalties, Luna noted.
After calling for FISA reform, the congresswoman added, &#8220;There needs to be arrests. This is not partisan. This is simply illegal, what they did, and we’re simply upholding the law.&#8221;
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who is running to become Florida governor in the 2026 election, agreed with Luna during their joint appearance.
&#8220;There need to be arrests on this matter. People need to go to jail on this because this is about the republic,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;This is not about one president — it is about the presidency and the continuation of our country.&#8221;
Gabbard said uncovered documents linked to the controversy were part a criminal referral being sent to the Department of Justice and FBI, but it will be up to federal prosecutors to open up a case.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no question in my mind that this intelligence community assessment that President Obama ordered be published which contained a manufactured intelligence document — it&#8217;s worse than even politicization of intelligence,&#8221; Gabbard said during a &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375881194112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> of her own.
She continued, &#8220;It was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama and his team&#8217;s objective, which was undermining President Trump&#8217;s presidency and subverting the will of the American people.&#8221;
Democrats have shrugged off the controversy.
&#8220;I actually hope that DOJ takes this to court. They won’t, because they know that the howls of laughter from that court will be heard in four time zones,&#8221; Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, <a href="https://x.com/jahimes/status/1946741445861474718" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;Watch for DOJ action. Not gonna happen. And when it doesn’t, I hope all the MAGA very online people ask why.&#8221;

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‘This Is Simply Illegal’: House Republicans Demand Obama Russia Hoax Arrests

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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) made it clear on Monday that he was not going to simply step into the trap laid for him by NBC News host Kristen Welker when she asked about a conversation she&#8217;d had with President Donald Trump on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;
Welker took an exchange from Sunday&#8217;s show regarding whether or not illegal immigrants were entitled to due process simply because they were physically in the United States — a question Trump had said he was not sure about — and asked Donalds how he would respond to the same question. Donalds, instead of answering the question directly, gave a response that exposed the framing of the question as an attempt to force him into suggesting that Trump&#8217;s answer had been out of line.
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Welker read the text of the Fifth Amendment and then pressed Donalds for a response: &#8220;The Constitution says any person, not citizen and therein lies the debate and the root of my question. I mean, does &#8216;any person&#8217; just apply to citizens in your mind or does it apply to citizens and non-citizens? Secretary of State Marco Rubio says it applies to citizens and non-citizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be very clear,&#8221; Donalds began, taking a jab at former President Joe Biden and his administration&#8217;s open borders policies. &#8220;First and foremost, when the framers wrote our Constitution, they never envisioned that there would be an executive that would allow millions of people to come into the country illegally.&#8221;
&#8220;Number two, more importantly, you have a situation right now — is it okay for any administration to not follow the law, abuse border security laws, let millions of people in, and then hide behind a court system to say, &#8216;Well, now they’re here, so now we have to go through a lengthy process&#8217;?&#8221; he asked.

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NBC Host Lays Trap For Byron Donalds. He’s Not Taking The Bait.

NBC Host Lays Trap For Byron Donalds. He's Not Taking The Bait.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and first lady Casey DeSantis played golf and had lunch with President Donald Trump on Saturday amid speculation that she is preparing to launch a bid to become the state&#8217;s next governor.
The three spent the time together at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach, an administration official told Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.
When asked by reporters on Friday about running for governor, Casey DeSantis said, “To quote the late and great Yogi Berra: ‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it.’”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis had lunch and golfed with President Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club today, a White House administration official confirms to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>.
“Well, I would say one thing,” Florida’s First Lady told…
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1895937192759083398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
The news comes after Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) announced this week that he was running to become the state&#8217;s next governor, a choice he made after Trump encouraged him to run in a social media post where he said that Donalds had his support.
DeSantis touted Casey as his potential replacement, and poured water on electing Donalds, when asked last week about Trump&#8217;s endorsement.
“We have such a narrow majority that to be trying to campaign other places and missing these votes, I think, is not something that’s advisable at all,” he said. “And so the reality is we’ve achieved victories in Florida. We need to start achieving those victories up there.”
DeSantis said that Donalds “hasn’t been a part of any of the victories that we’ve had here over the Left, over these last years.”
“He’s just not been a part of it,” he said. “He’s been in other states campaigning, doing that, and that’s fine, but okay, well then deliver results up there. You know, that’s what I want to see. I want to see them delivering results for the people of Florida. We deliver it here all the time for the people of Florida, and that’s what we need to be doing.”
He warned that the state could easily revert back to being a swing state if it was not managed effectively, despite the massive surge in Republican registration there in recent years.
“People ask me all the time about our wonderful first lady, who has done a fantastic job as first lady of Florida,” DeSantis later added.
“I will tell you this — you’re talking about somebody like her — I won by the biggest margin that any Republican’s ever won a governor’s race here in Florida, she would do better than me, like there’s no question about that, that would happen,” he said. “And she’s somebody that has, I think, the intestinal fortitude and the dedication to conservative principles that, you know, anything we’ve accomplished, she’d be able to take to the next level.”
DeSantis said that former conservative icon Rush Limbaugh had once told him that the only other person he would rather see run Florida other than him was Casey.
“His eyes are lighting up because Rush would always say the spouses are more liberal, and it pulls the office holder to the left,” he said. “And on this case, he’s saying, like, that is not true. And so at the end of the dinner, he put his finger in my chest. He’s like, the only person I would rather have as my governor than you is her. And he pointed to her, and I was like, that’s a pretty good endorsement there.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) says that First Lady Casey DeSantis would win by even larger margins than he did during his 20-point victory in 2022 and that she would be able to take the state to the &#8220;next level.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7DMKcGbSdd">pic.twitter.com/7DMKcGbSdd</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1894190514192171285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

Ron DeSantis Holds Election Night Event In Tampa

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touted his wife Casey DeSantis this week when asked at a press conference about who may replace him as the state&#8217;s governor in the 2026 elections.
The matter came up when a reporter asked DeSantis about President Donald Trump endorsing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) to be the state&#8217;s next governor.
&#8220;We have such a narrow majority that to be trying to campaign other places and missing these votes, I think, is not something that&#8217;s advisable at all,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so the reality is we&#8217;ve achieved victories in Florida. We need to start achieving those victories up there.&#8221;
DeSantis said that Donalds &#8220;hasn&#8217;t been a part of any of the victories that we&#8217;ve had here over the Left, over these last years.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s just not been a part of it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s been in other states campaigning, doing that, and that&#8217;s fine, but okay, well then deliver results up there. You know that&#8217;s what I want to see. I want to see them delivering results for the people of Florida. We deliver it here all the time for the people of Florida, and that&#8217;s what we need to be doing.&#8221;
DeSantis said that he wants to back someone who is going to &#8220;be able to continue and build off the success that we&#8217;ve had here in Florida.&#8221;
He warned that the state could easily revert back to being a swing state if it was not managed effectively, despite the massive surge in Republican registration there in recent years.
&#8220;People ask me all the time about our wonderful first lady, who has done a fantastic job as first lady of Florida,&#8221; DeSantis later added.
&#8220;I will tell you this — you&#8217;re talking about somebody like her — I won by the biggest margin that any Republican&#8217;s ever won a governor&#8217;s race here in Florida, she would do better than me, like there&#8217;s no question about that, that would happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And she&#8217;s somebody that has, I think, the intestinal fortitude and the dedication to conservative principles that, you know, anything we&#8217;ve accomplished, she&#8217;d be able to take to the next level.&#8221;
DeSantis said that former conservative icon Rush Limbaugh had once told him that the only other person he would rather see run Florida other than him was Casey.
&#8220;His eyes are lighting up because Rush would always say the spouses are more liberal, and it pulls the office holder to the left,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And on this case, he&#8217;s saying, like, that is not true. And so at the end of the dinner, he put his finger in my chest. He&#8217;s like, the only person I would rather have as my governor than you is her. And he pointed to her, and I was like, that&#8217;s a pretty good endorsement there.&#8221;
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) says that First Lady Casey DeSantis would win by even larger margins than he did during his 20-point victory in 2022 and that she would be able to take the state to the &#8220;next level.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7DMKcGbSdd">pic.twitter.com/7DMKcGbSdd</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1894190514192171285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote>

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DeSantis Touts Wife Casey When Pressed About Who Will Replace Him In 2026

In response to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting</a> that a supervisor at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FEMA</a> ordered relief workers to skip houses with signs supporting President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a>, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/byron-donalds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Byron Donalds</a> (R-FL) said the agency should be torn out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and report directly to the White House.
FEMA has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fema-fires-official-who-told-hurricane-relief-workers-to-skip-trump-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired the official</a>, identified as Marn’i Washington, after The Daily Wire revealed through messages and whistleblowers that she told federal employees under her supervision to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid during a of the damage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-hurricane-milton-makes-landfall-over-florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused by Hurricane Milton</a> last month.
&#8220;I want to make sure I ask you about something reported by The Daily Wire,&#8221; &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; anchor Shannon Bream said during an interview with Donalds that aired on Sunday. &#8220;They broke a story a couple of days ago about FEMA. My home state, as well as where you serve — Florida — and your district has been hit very hard by numerous big storms the last couple of years. Daily Wire [was] reporting that people were told when they&#8217;re out canvassing in central Florida looking for people who may need help, that FEMA workers were told to avoid homes that had Trump symbols or Trump flags.&#8221;
Bream noted that FEMA responded to The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting, saying, &#8220;We are horrified that this took place and therefore have taken extreme actions to correct the situation&#8230;&#8221; Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis &#8220;says he&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-desantis-warns-biden-to-preserve-all-evidence-on-fema-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launching an investigation there</a>,&#8221; she added. &#8220;What extreme actions do you think should be taken? Is that something Congress gets involved with?&#8221; Bream asked.
&#8220;Anybody involved with that should be fired immediately, not asked to resign, not brought in front of a congressional hearing, they should be fired immediately,&#8221; Donalds exclaimed. &#8220;We are not going to have a country where we&#8217;re going to decide who gets help and &#8230; who doesn&#8217;t based upon who you support politically or what you look like or anything else.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByronDonalds</a> lays out the Republican agenda, as President-elect Trump prepares for his return to the White House. <a href="https://t.co/1wRqGuVpbg">pic.twitter.com/1wRqGuVpbg</a>
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Then-President Jimmy Carter <a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/strategic-plan/about-fema#:~:text=On%20April%201%2C%201979%2C%20President,civil%20defense%20and%20emergency%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">established</a> FEMA in 1979 to assist with civil defense and emergency management. More than two decades later, the agency was brought under DHS upon its creation after the 9-11 terrorist attacks in 2001. But now, according to Donalds, that needs to change.
&#8220;When it comes to FEMA, my recommendation for the Trump transition team is that FEMA becomes a standalone agency that directly reports to the White House. You have to get it out of Homeland Security. That agency is a massive labyrinth with a bunch of different departments,&#8221; he said. &#8220;FEMA should be a direct report agency to the White House because when disaster recovery needs to take place, we need quick answers out of FEMA, not bureaucratic ones that go through the labyrinth of federal departments.&#8221;
Donalds added: &#8220;My district dealt with this firsthand a couple years ago during Hurricane Ian. It was very hard to get answers out of FEMA, still somewhat hard to get answers out of FEMA. I think if you talk to any governor, they would agree with this. FEMA needs to be a direct-report agency to the White House. That way, the people of America, when disaster strikes, they know that this has the first priority of the president. The president has eyes on it, and they&#8217;re going to get the help that they need immediately.&#8221;

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Byron Donalds Says FEMA Should Be Ripped Out Of DHS, Report Directly To White House

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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) slammed former President Barack Obama over the weekend for his recent claim that he left former President Donald Trump an amazing economy when he left office.
Donalds made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Dana Bash when asked to respond to Obama&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;Yes, it was pretty good, because it was my economy,&#8221; Obama claimed. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t something he did. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time.&#8221;
Donalds responded: &#8220;I was working in finance during Barack Obama&#8217;s administration. Let me tell you, the economy under his last &#8212; especially the last five years was growing at about 1 to 1.5 percent per year.&#8221;
&#8220;I think, at the time, President Obama was saying that this era of large economic growth is something of the past. We&#8217;re going to have a more consistent economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In his words, a consistent economy meant one that barely grew.&#8221;
&#8220;So, when Donald Trump came in, he brought his tax cut policy in, which cut taxes across the board for everybody in our country. Couple the fact that he did cut massive regulations from the Obama administration, and what did we see?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Economic growth in the United States went from 1-1.5 percent under Barack Obama to 3-3.5 percent under Donald Trump. Wages adjusted for inflation, like I said, because it&#8217;s the truth, increased for every subgroup of Americans in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;The wealth gap was closing. We were actually booming economically far more than we did under Barack Obama,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;So that&#8217;s a cool statement he made on the stump, but it&#8217;s not true.&#8221;
Bash was unable to argue with any points that Donalds made.
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I was working in finance during Obama.
Obama&#8217;s economy grew VERY SLOWLY (under 2%).
Trump&#8217;s economy grew at nearly 2X THE PACE, wages adjusted for inflation were up, &amp; the wealth gap was closing.
Why?
Successful tax-cuts. 
Successful regulation-cuts. 
Successful energy policy. <a href="https://t.co/hCt7iago2L">pic.twitter.com/hCt7iago2L</a>
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1845499139636756862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2024</a></blockquote>

CBS Hosts Vice Presidential Debate

Byron Donalds Rips Obama Over His Economic Claims

Florida Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/byron-donalds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Byron Donalds</a> (R) on Tuesday rebuffed Left-wing commentator and lawyer Angela Rye during an appearance on popular New York City radio show &#8220;The Breakfast Club.&#8221;
Co-host Charlamagne tha God and Rye both insisted that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat&#8217;s presidential nominee, has nothing to do with the struggling economy. Rye, in particular, suggested Donalds was lying about his explanation, which was factually true.
&#8220;I would argue we&#8217;re not really thriving right now,&#8221; Donalds said of the current economic climate. &#8220;This inflation, which by the way was brought to us by Kamala Harris, has really slowed people down from being able to excel.&#8221;
&#8220;By Kamala?&#8221; Charlamagne questioned Donalds. &#8220;She&#8217;s vice president. There&#8217;s still a president.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, Charlamagne,&#8221; Donalds responded, before explaining that Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the near-2 trillion dollar &#8220;American Rescue Plan.&#8221; &#8220;She broke the tie that started this inflation that has hurt so many people in our country,&#8221; the representative said.
Rye interjected to suggest Donalds wasn&#8217;t being honest, quietly uttering that his statement is &#8220;not true.&#8221;
&#8220;You sure you want to go there?&#8221; Donalds asked Rye, before pulling out a stack of notes from his jacket pocket.
&#8220;He got notes!&#8221; Charlamagne, giving off a laugh, told Rye.
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Donalds told Rye that economic minds, including Larry Summers, a financial advisor to former President Barack Obama, warned that the legislation would create massive inflation. Donalds noted that he knew this, too, and therefore voted against the bill.
Donalds reiterated how wages adjusted for inflation were higher under Trump, and said Harris &#8220;broke the economy&#8221; and shouldn&#8217;t be hired again to try to fix what she broke.
Rye struggled to address Donalds&#8217; arguments and replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to do this, this morning.&#8221;
Donalds posted the clip to X this week, captioning the post: &#8220;On Mar 4, 2021, Kamala cast the TIE-BREAKING vote on the $1.9T American Rescue Plan. Democrat economists warned her it would cause inflation. And it did.&#8221;
&#8220;It caused 20+% inflation. It created a cost-of-living crisis. It crushed hardworking Americans,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Kamala broke our economy.&#8221;
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On Mar 4, 2021, Kamala cast the TIE-BREAKING vote on the $1.9T American Rescue Plan.
Democrat economists warned her it would cause inflation.
And it did..
It caused 20+% inflation. 
It created a cost-of-living crisis. 
It crushed hardworking Americans.
Kamala broke our economy. <a href="https://t.co/Zhu5QKLUNo">pic.twitter.com/Zhu5QKLUNo</a>
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1841113594949198177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Byron Donalds, Angela Rye

Byron Donalds Schools Lefty After She Insists Kamala Not To Blame For Economy

Rep. Byron Donalds Schools Lefty After She Insists Kamala Not To Blame For Struggling Economy

Charlamagne Tha God

Economy

Inflation

Kamala Harris

Former Clinton White House aide Keith Boykin claimed on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> that the American people are better off now than they were four years ago, prompting an audible reaction from Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL).
Both Boykin and Donalds — along with Republican commentator Scott Jennings and anchor Abby Phillip — participated in a panel discussion, and the topic turned to Tuesday evening&#8217;s vice presidential debate and potential questions about the state of the U.S. economy.
Jennings shared video of the exchange, captioning the clip, &#8220;Come for my point-by-point takedown of why Trump is more trusted on the economy, &amp; stay for @ByronDonalds&#8217; reaction to assertion &#8216;we are better off than we were four years ago&#8217; on @CNN.&#8221;
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Come for my point-by-point takedown of why Trump is more trusted on the economy, &amp; stay for <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByronDonalds</a> reaction to assertion “we are better off than we were four years ago” on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://t.co/8zSX0F0T9l">pic.twitter.com/8zSX0F0T9l</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1841147075926348264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I think if you look at it holistically, the two campaigns are having a debate about the economy,&#8221; Jennings began. &#8220;And Trump has things to say, Harris has things to say, and right now, according to all the polling, Trump is more trusted on the economy. Trump&#8217;s term in office, people look back on it more fondly than they look upon the Biden and Harris term, largely because of the economy and largely because of inflation.&#8221;
Jennings went on to say that one of the reasons Harris has been struggling on economic issues is that she has thus far failed to convince voters that if elected president, she would chart a different course than the one she navigated alongside President Joe Biden.
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&#8220;She may think that&#8217;s a good path, it&#8217;s just that the American people do not believe that, and it&#8217;s not even close,&#8221; he concluded.
Boykin jumped in then, claiming that Harris had laid out her economic plan in the debate — but Jennings stopped him, reminding him that Harris had not had an answer when she was asked directly in the very first question of the night whether she believed Americans were better off than they&#8217;d been four years earlier.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what though, people are better off than they were four years ago,&#8221; Boykin asserted. He kept going, but the camera panned to Donalds, whose eyes widened as he simply said, &#8220;Wow. Wow.&#8221;

CNN Guest Claims Americans Are Better Off Now Than 4 Years Ago, And Byron Donalds Can’t Hold Back

CNN Guest Claims Americans Are Better Off Now Than 4 Years Ago, And Byron Donalds Can't Hold Back

Joe Biden

WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Friday told hundreds of moms from across the country that Democrat policies are harming children, and that a second Trump administration will prioritize the rights of parents.
He spoke for an hour at a conference organized by Moms For Liberty just two blocks from the White House, which some pledged to “fight like a mother” to make his home once again.
Trump said that the Biden-Harris open border policies, which include letting any child across the border as long as they are “unaccompanied” by a parent, cruelly lead to Hispanic children being placed in vulnerable situations.
“Massive percentages of women are being raped and beat to hell coming up in the caravans,” he said. “Mothers give their daughters big bottles of birth control because they know it’s bad coming up.”
The loophole for “unaccompanied minors” persists even under Biden’s recent executive order tightening the border, and Harris’ Democratic National Convention platform reaffirms its commitment to it. Trump suggested that the exemption induced family separation, encouraging children to split off from their parents and come to the U.S. alone, where they are at the whims of traffickers. “We’re getting them to come up, telling them you’ll get free [things],” he said.
Nearly 500,000 “unaccompanied minors” have crossed the border, and Biden eliminated DNA testing requirements and reduced vetting, sending them to live with unrelated “sponsors.” About a third of children <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblowers-detail-how-85000-unaccompanied-minors-went-missing-after-biden-admin-dropped-them-off-with-sponsors">go missing</a> after being sent to live with sponsors.
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Trump said American children also suffer from the migrant influx. “They’re going into the classroom, carrying disease and they don’t even speak english. It’s crazy,” he said. “I thought New York had no money, yet they’re spending billions of dollars on illegal immigrants. … When you think that 21 million people came into our country, that’s bigger than New York. Nobody can take that.”
Trump said foreign leaders are getting rid of criminals in their society by dumping them on the U.S., and that American youth are “being killed by illegal aliens” &#8212; two words he said Democrats don’t want people to use because “they want to take away all the words so you can&#8217;t talk about the subject.” He said that two days ago, he was at the border with parents who had lost a child due to migrant crime.
He said he believes 85-90% of the country does not want to be flooded with illegal immigrants, and that he will deport them. “The highest deportation was a pretty moderate guy, but he hated that our country was being swamped, Dwight Eisenhower,” he said.
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Trump said he would restore rights to parents, citing the story of the Loudoun County transgender rape coverup broken by The Daily Wire in which the victim’s father was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-youngkin-grants-absolute-pardon-to-loudoun-dad-arrested-at-school-board-meeting">prosecuted</a>.
“You have these parents that get in fistfights at school board meetings, and they mean well. Especially in Loudoun County,” he said. “The parents truly love the kids. Some of these people on the boards, I think they don’t like the kids very much, with what they’re doing. You have to give the rights back to the parents. This administration, the FBI goes after the parents. We’ll change that on the first day.”
He also said he would ensure that girls can compete in sports without being thwarted by mediocre boys. “Who would want men playing in women’s sports?” he asked. “The Olympics was the best thing I’ve seen because you really see when these boxers come out, it was so ridiculous … it’s so demeaning to women.”
Parents are a key constituency for Republicans as Democrats have rapidly politicized public education, even fighting against merit and rigor — such as gifted and talented schools — in the name of “equity.”
Trump was introduced by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who attributed his own success to his mother vigilantly monitoring his treatment at the hands of New York’s public schools.
Moms for Liberty formed three years ago out of anger at extended school closures pushed by Democrats at the behest of teachers unions. It is now widely accepted that the moms’ position was the correct one.
Democrats have sought to simply act as if the misstep never occurred, but many at the Moms for Liberty convention believed that children are still suffering from a year of lost learning, and that Democrats should pay a price at the ballot box.
Yet one person wore a mask to Trump’s speech in 2024: a reporter camped in a press area, who was also one of the few not to stand for the national anthem.
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Trump at Moms for Liberty

Trump Makes His Case To Parents In Moms For Liberty Speech, Citing Effects To Children Of Open Borders, Transgender Ideology

Immigration

Loudoun County

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) slammed ABC News host George Stephanopoulos, who was the Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton (D), during an interview over the weekend after Stephanopoulos yelled at and scolded Donalds for responding to his questions about former President Donald Trump&#8217;s remarks on Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; race.
Donalds made the remarks during a Sunday interview on &#8220;This Week&#8221; when asked about Trump&#8217;s remarks last week about Harris&#8217; racial identity.
Donalds said that the entire ordeal was a &#8220;phony controversy&#8221; that most people do not care about but added that in the past, even publications like the Associated Press had referred to Harris in headlines the &#8220;first Indian-American US Senator.&#8221;
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really matter. The president mentioned it,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;What he also talks about far more frequently is the fact that Kamala Harris is the person who created this massive inflation which is destroying black families, white families, Hispanic families. It&#8217;s her failure as border czar that has left our southern border wide open. More than 10 million illegal immigrants coming into our country. Record fentanyl coming into our country which has killed more Americans than at any other point in the history of our country with respect specifically to fentanyl.&#8221;
Stephanopoulos fired back at Donalds and accused him of having &#8220;just repeated the slur again&#8221; and demanded to know why Donalds was questioning Harris&#8217; racial identity.
&#8220;Well, George, first of all, this is something that&#8217;s actually a conversation throughout social media right now,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;There were a lot of people who were trying to figure this out. But again, that&#8217;s a side issue, not the main issue.&#8221;
Stephanopoulos exploded at that point, yelling on live television: &#8220;You just did it — you just did it again. Why do you — why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?&#8221;
He demanded that Donalds answer his question, to which Donalds responded: &#8220;George, now that you&#8217;re done yelling at me, let me answer. He talked about it on the stage yesterday in Atlanta for, what, two minutes? He spent more than 35, 40 minutes going after her record, talking about how radical of a senator that she was. She was the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. That is a fact. He talked about the job that she did as vice president of the United States. A job, I will add, which has been a failure for the American people. I know you guys like to glom on to this, that he talks about in jest or in a serious manner for about a minute or so. What you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris. That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re not covering, George.&#8221;
&#8220;So questioning somebody&#8217;s racial identity for a couple of minutes is OK?&#8221; Stephanopoulos asked.
Donalds again noted that prior mainstream media coverage, like the AP headline, is what started the entire conversation to begin with.
&#8220;I mean, George, we could have this conversation for the entire segment, but none of this matters to the American people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What matters to the American people is, are we going to have the same policies of the Biden-Harris administration that has been destructive of the American people? Or are we going to have the policies of the Trump administration which put America first, had low inflation, prosperous Americans no matter your race, no matter your color, no matter your creed, and a foreign policy that kept America safe?&#8221;
&#8220;Those are the facts that truly matter because this issue is going to come and go, the lives of the American people is what&#8217;s going to remain and that&#8217;s what matters more than anything else,&#8221; he added.
Stephanopoulos then accused Donalds of repeating it the issue, even though it was Stephanopoulos who had first brought up the matter and then repeatedly hounded Donalds over it.
&#8220;George, actually, I&#8217;m not the one who keeps repeating it,&#8221; Donalds responded. &#8220;George, you&#8217;re the one that&#8217;s bringing it up now.&#8221;
&#8220;Sir, you&#8217;ve done it — you&#8217;ve done it three times, every single answer you gave me,&#8221; Stephanopoulos claimed. &#8220;Every single answer you gave, you repeated the slur.&#8221;
Donalds responded: &#8220;George, you asked me the question three times.&#8221;
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Byron Donalds Blasts ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos For His Meltdown On Live TV

George Stephanopoulos

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