Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> agreed to “look into” questions from Republican lawmakers about the Biden administration’s application of the FACE Act during a congressional appropriations hearing on Tuesday. 
Garland told Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) during a budget request hearing for the Justice Department that he would hand over data on the DOJ’s prosecution FACE Act charges if that information existed. Republican lawmakers have argued that the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that criminalizes the use of force or threats of force that prevent someone from accessing an abortion facility, has been weaponized against pro-life activists. 
“My colleague, Congressman Chip Roy, has twice requested a copy of the Freedom of Access to Entrance of Clinics Act prosecution data,&#8221; Clyde said. &#8220;He first asked for it in October 2022 and then again two months ago on February 16. He has yet to receive this data. My question to you is when will this data be provided by the Department of Justice?”
Garland replied that he would be “very happy to look into this,” but added that he was unfamiliar with the specific request. He said the DOJ would provide the data if it “exists.”
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The DOJ has repeatedly stonewalled my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepChipRoy</a>’s requests for FACE Act data.
Joe Biden’s DOJ is desperate to hide the truth about its weaponization of this law against pro-life Americans.
Today, I pressed AG Garland to commit to finally providing this information. <a href="https://t.co/ETM5Kamyjy">pic.twitter.com/ETM5Kamyjy</a>
&mdash; Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rep_Clyde/status/1780303690697498844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-call-for-repeal-of-weaponized-face-act-after-conviction-of-peaceful-pro-lifers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began a renewed push</a> for access for FACE Act data after six pro-lifer activists were convicted in February over a peaceful demonstration at an abortion facility in Tennessee in March 2021. Upon sentencing in July, they could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and up to 10.5 years in prison after the Biden administration accused them of conspiring against rights secured by the FACE Act.
After the hearing, Clyde said that Biden’s Justice Department had purposely been hiding the data. “The DOJ has repeatedly stonewalled my friend<a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy"> @RepChipRoy</a>’s requests for FACE Act data,” Clyde posted to X. “Joe Biden’s DOJ is desperate to hide the truth about its weaponization of this law against pro-life Americans.”
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Roy, alongside Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), have repeatedly pushed for the FACE Act to be repealed. Lee has noted that the FACE Act, which supposed to be used to protect churches and pregnancy centers as well, appears to only be used to target pro-life activists and not pro-abortion activists. 
“Both AG Garland and Assistant AG Clarke have now agreed to release FACE Act data,” Roy’s press office said Tuesday. “Will the DOJ finally stop stonewalling this information? Or are they afraid it will expose just how much the FACE Act has been weaponized against Americans?”
Earlier this month, four more pro-lifers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-pro-lifers-face-prison-time-after-being-convicted-in-federal-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were convicted</a> in Tennessee over a peaceful pro-life protest. They face up to six months in prison and thousands of dollars in fines upon sentencing.

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Republican lawmakers slammed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> on Wednesday over a “weaponized” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Department</a> after four more Christian pro-lifers face prison time after they were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-pro-lifers-face-prison-time-after-being-convicted-in-federal-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> of FACE-Act related charges on Tuesday.
The four, Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Paul Place, face up to six months in prison and a $10,000 fine after they were found guilty of violating the FACE Act by Middle District of Tennessee Magistrate Judge Chip Frensly. Critics say that the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that criminalizes the use of force or threats of force that prevent someone from accessing an abortion facility, has been used to target pro-lifers.
In the aftermath of the convictions, some lawmakers again renewed calls for repeal of the FACE Act, saying that it had been weaponized.
“Biden&#8217;s DOJ is weaponized against pro-life demonstrators,” Rep Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said, commenting on the Tuesday trial. “This is not acceptable. Congress must repeal the FACE Act.”
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Biden&#39;s DOJ is weaponized against pro-life demonstrators.
This is not acceptable.
Congress must repeal the FACE Act.<a href="https://t.co/AOhLu4Tyb4">https://t.co/AOhLu4Tyb4</a>
&mdash; Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1775524854411727042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“I am a proud cosponsor of [Rep. Chip Roy&#8217;]s FACE Act Repeal Act of 2023,” Biggs <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1775524855590330502" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. “Let&#8217;s get it done.”
Roy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-call-for-repeal-of-weaponized-face-act-after-conviction-of-peaceful-pro-lifers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a bill in the House last year that would repeal the FACE Act and a companion bill was put forth in the Senate by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). Roy again <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1775499543003463931" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Congress to take up his measure on Wednesday, saying that Congress should pass it “immediately.”
Edl, Place, and the Zastrows (brother and sister) were charged by the DOJ after they participated in a sit-in at the Carafem abortion facility in Mt Juliet, Tennessee, on March 5, 2021. On that day, a group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside Carafem. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic to not get abortions.
Photos were displayed at the trial showing the four sitting in front of the door to Carafem, but the defendants&#8217; lawyers argued that the DOJ never proved they had actually blocked anyone from entering or actually inhibited the activities of the staff of the facility.
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Responding to the news of the convictions on Tuesday, Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) blasted the Biden administration for its targeting of pro-life activists.
“More than 5,000 illegals enter our country every day and the Biden Administration has no idea where they are,” he posted on X. “If you’re a pro-life activist, Biden’s DOJ definitely knows where you are.”
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More than 5,000 illegals enter our country every day and the Biden Administration has no idea where they are. 
If you’re a pro-life activist, Biden’s DOJ definitely knows where you are. <a href="https://t.co/pEcEtuF7xv">https://t.co/pEcEtuF7xv</a>
&mdash; Rep. Barry Moore (@RepBarryMoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBarryMoore/status/1775531658453676301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) also slammed Biden over the prosecution of the pro-lifers.
“Biden&#8217;s DOJ is prosecuting Christians for peacefully praying outside abortion clinics, which is their First Amendment right,” she wrote. “Meanwhile, 10 million illegal aliens walked into our country, including known terrorist &#8216;gotaways&#8217; &amp; Biden&#8217;s DOJ has no idea where they are. AMERICA LAST!”
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Biden&#39;s DOJ is prosecuting Christians for peacefully praying outside abortion clinics, which is their First Amendment right. Meanwhile, 10 million illegal aliens walked into our country, including known terrorist &quot;gotaways&quot; &amp; Biden&#39;s DOJ has no idea where they are. AMERICA LAST! <a href="https://t.co/KJv920JTik">https://t.co/KJv920JTik</a>
&mdash; Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1775526614048088128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), a member of the House Oversight Committee, called the whole thing “gross.”
“Instead of securing the border and protecting Americans, Joe Biden is going after Pro-Lifers &#8211; gross,” Burlison said.
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Instead of securing the border and protecting Americans, Joe Biden is going after Pro-Lifers &#8211; gross. <a href="https://t.co/3ezrAyjetc">https://t.co/3ezrAyjetc</a>
&mdash; Rep. Eric Burlison (@RepEricBurlison) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepEricBurlison/status/1775538503335485589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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 In January, six other pro-lifers who were at Carafem in March 2021 were convicted of similar charges and could be sentenced to over 10 years in prison and leveled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines.

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) blasted New York Attorney General Letitia James over the weekend as she prepares to begin seizing assets belonging to former President Donald Trump if he can&#8217;t pay a nearly half-a-billion dollar bond as he appeals the ruling of his civil fraud case.
&#8220;Obviously, I believe in the rule of law. And, obviously, I believe that you have got to follow that where it leads,&#8221; Roy told CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper during a Sunday interview on &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
&#8220;However, here&#8217;s the problem. This lawfare, if you want to use that framing and phraseology, this targeting of the former president, whether you&#8217;re talking about impeachment, which was done, whether you&#8217;re talking about all of these cases, there&#8217;s multiple cases, all of that is having an inverse effect, right?&#8221; he said. &#8220;The average hardworking American is out there are saying, what are you doing? All of this politics is going on.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, when you play these lawfare games, then you&#8217;re going to win stupid prizes,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And the fact is, right now, the former president is gaining in popularity against a feeble current president destroying our country, attacking Israel, undermining our country with open borders.&#8221;
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&#8220;And President Trump is actually gaining popularity because they&#8217;re just focusing on trying to go after him. I think we&#8217;re seeing the product of that in real-time. And what we need to right now is to focus on the issues the American people care about, secure the border, stop spending money we don&#8217;t have.&#8221;
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President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice announced on Saturday the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center — to the surprise of some congressional Republicans.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Saturday <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> that the new national resource center “will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.” Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), commonly referred to as “red flag” laws, allow authorities to confiscate firearms from a person whom a court deems to be a risk to himself or others. ERPOs also prevent a person from buying or possessing a gun for the duration of the order.
“The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence,” Garland said.
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Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center
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The resource center, which was launched with a new <a href="https://erpo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, is described as “a resource for implementers” that will “provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
The National ERPO Resource Center website also provides a state-by-state guide for red flag laws across the country, along with specific information on each state’s ERPO law. Currently, 21 states and the District of Columbia have red flag laws on the books.
Republicans in the House and Senate were surprised to learn of the DOJ&#8217;s new gun-control resource center. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1771521716805669016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reposted</a> the DOJ’s announcement on X and asked, “What the hell is this evil?”
“A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes,” Massie added.
“Oh, really?” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1771521734358757641" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the DOJ announcing the resource center.
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) simply <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1771553244180869500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the DOJ’s post, “Nope.”
Dana Loesch, a Second Amendment advocate and critic of red flag laws, said the DOJ’s National ERPO Resource Center “is an attack on due process.”
“This won’t apply to Hunter Biden, illegal aliens, or cartel members that Dems fight to arm. This is an attack on due process and ignores existing law that provides a way to adjudicate someone ineligible,” Loesch <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1771544901030727689" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “All previous tragedies were preventable without removal of due process.”
President Biden has fought to implement more gun control on a national level, issuing an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-unveils-effort-to-crack-down-on-firearm-industry-enhance-background-checks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> last year expanding background checks for firearm purchases. Biden has also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vows-ban-assault-weapons-come-hell-high-water" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> “to ban assault weapons again come hell or high water and high capacity magazines.&#8221;

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX) announced on Friday that the cremation of the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-lawmakers-demand-d-c-doj-investigate-bodies-of-aborted-babies-uncovered-by-pro-life-activists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DC 5</a>&#8221; &#8212; the five aborted babies&#8217; bodies uncovered by pro-life activists in Washington, D.C. &#8212; would be delayed.
Roy cited a press release from ACLJ (American Center for Law &amp; Justice) &#8212; a D.C.-headquartered nonprofit using legal means to push for the investigation of the deaths of the recovered babies.
&#8220;We contacted D.C. one final time in an attempt to resolve this issue and delay action on the disposition of the remains of these babies before we filed our lawsuit,&#8221; ACLJ posted Friday. &#8220;We have just received assurances that the D.C. government is standing down from today’s cremation.&#8221;
The full update can be viewed below:
<blockquote>UPDATE 02.09.2024: The ACLJ was preparing to file an emergency writ of mandamus on behalf of our client to force D.C. officials to follow <a href="https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/3-413" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the law</a> and allow for the proper burial of these babies. We contacted D.C. one final time in an attempt to resolve this issue and delay action on the disposition of the remains of these babies before we filed our lawsuit. We have just received assurances that the D.C. government is standing down from today’s cremation. What this means is that we were successful in preventing the Biden DOJ and D.C. from destroying the evidence of potential crimes and from simultaneously blocking the honoring of these young lives with a proper burial. The D.C. government also indicated to us that they will respond to Congress’ demands. We continue to hope that D.C. will in fact conduct a formal investigation into these babies’ deaths.</blockquote>
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🚨🚨🚨UPDATE on the DC 5:
This is a welcome development. We are so grateful for the work of <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ACLJ</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/PAAUNOW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PAAUNOW</a> &amp; everyone in the pro-life movement to prevent this evidence from being destroyed so that justice can be sought these children.
Their lives mattered. The fight continues <a href="https://t.co/tf4AVWWWWI">pic.twitter.com/tf4AVWWWWI</a>
&mdash; Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1756036643004338250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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ACLJ <a href="https://aclj.org/pro-life/doj-and-dc-officials-collude-to-destroy-evidence-of-potential-infanticide-and-illegal-partial-birth-abortions-aclj-takes-legal-action-to-defend-the-sanctity-of-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contends</a> that the babies&#8217; bodies must be investigated before they are humanely buried. The nonprofit says the bodies could uncover &#8220;evidence of potential infanticide and illegal partial-birth abortions that could have been committed by a known late-term abortionist.&#8221;
&#8220;In March 2022, the bodies of five pre-term babies were discovered by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;These children were apparently from the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C., a facility operated by the late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo.&#8221;
&#8220;Instead of ensuring that the horrific deaths of these children were properly investigated, the police made the assumption that each child died as a result of a legal abortion,&#8221; the post continued. &#8220;They made this assumption without conducting any medical evaluations or autopsies whatsoever. In fact, some doctors have examined pictures of these babies and found evidence that would support the conclusion that these children were killed through illegal and egregious partial-birth abortions.&#8221;
Progressive Anti Abortion Uprising (PAAU) founder Terrisa Bukovinac and pro-life activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anger-erupts-after-biden-doj-gets-5-pro-life-activists-convicted-thrown-in-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren Handy</a> claim they received the babies&#8217; bodies from a worker at the abortion clinic before they were to be incinerated at a medical waste facility, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/us-congresswoman-demands-late-term-abortionist-medical-license-revoked-ignored-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last year.
&#8220;Lauren and I will carry the memories of these children with us forever and we will never stop fighting for their justice,&#8221; Bukovinac said.
Following the discovery, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-anna-paulina-luna-the-firebrand-conservative-who-wasnt-supposed-to-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Anna Paulina Luna</a> (R-FL) called for Santangelo&#8217;s medical license to be revoked.
&#8220;We are so grateful to Rep. Luna for her courage and we demand that Congress follow her lead by conducting hearings for these children, holding their killer to account, and by passing a national ban at viability to ensure these crimes against humanity never happen again,&#8221; Bukovinac added.
Last year, the Biden Department of Justice successfully convicted five pro-life activists, including Handy, for demonstrating at the Washington Surgi-Clinic, which the DOJ said violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE Act.
Handy and the others  &#8212; John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, William Goodman, and Herb Geraghty &#8212; face 11 years behind bars and were thrown in jail to await their sentences. The activists also each face fines totaling around $350,000.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-real-fascism-anger-erupts-after-biden-doj-targets-more-pro-life-protesters-who-now-face-decade-behind-bars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘This Is Real Fascism’: Anger Erupts After Biden DOJ Targets More Pro-Life Protesters, Who Now Face Decade Behind Bars </a>

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A coalition of pro-life leaders are urging House Republican leadership to take up legislation that would repeal the FACE Act in the wake of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-demonstrators-found-guilty-face-up-to-11-years-in-federal-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conviction of six pro-lifers</a> over a peaceful demonstration at a Tennessee abortion facility.
The letter, first <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/07/exclusive-conservative-leaders-call-jordan-johnson-repeal-face-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained by The Daily Signal,</a> asks House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) to take up legislation to repeal the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that criminalizes the use of force or threats of force that prevent someone from accessing an abortion facility.
“In the aftermath of additional pro-life activists being convicted by the Biden administration under the FACE Act for peacefully protesting outside an abortion business, we respectfully urge you to take immediate legislative action to protect peaceful pro-life activists from the Biden administration’s weaponized Department of Justice and an unconstitutional law,” the letter, headed up by conservative group Advancing American Freedom, said.
The letter is signed by Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America, Tom McClusky of CatholicVote, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society, Ryan Anderson of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Lila Rose of Live Action, and Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America.
The letter noted that the FACE Act has been used almost exclusively to prosecute pro-lifers though the law is also supposed to protect churches and pregnancy centers.
“We believe that the FACE Act is unconstitutional,” the letter said. “It wrongly usurps police powers reserved to the states by the Constitution and allows the Department of Justice to swoop in to punish its political enemies, rather than equally applying the law. Additionally, the FACE Act protects abortion, when taking the life of the unborn is no longer and never rightly was a constitutional right.”
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Calls to repeal the FACE Act <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-call-for-repeal-of-weaponized-face-act-after-conviction-of-peaceful-pro-lifers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have amplified</a> after Chet Gallagher, Coleman Boyd, Heather Idoni, Cal Zastrow, Paul Vaughn, and Dennis Green face over ten years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after being convicted of violating the FACE Act and conspiracy and against rights secured by the FACE by a jury in federal court in Nashville.
The six were indicted by the Department of Justice after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-deliberates-fate-of-six-pro-lifers-facing-11-years-in-prison-over-peaceful-protest">a protest</a> that took place in a hallway outside of a Mount Juliet abortion provider on March 5, 2021. On that day, a group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside the Carafem Health Center Clinic. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic not to get abortions.
Legislation to repeal was previously introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and there have been efforts to renew congressional consideration.

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On Monday, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX) unleashed a harsh critique of bipartisan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> legislation combining border security reforms with money for foreign wars and other causes, calling it the “War, Debt, and Open Borders” bill.
Using the <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1754535034751762922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media platform X</a>, the Texas Republican warned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-border-never-closes-hot-takes-deliver-cool-reception-of-bipartisan-senate-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the $118 billion package</a> is geared toward getting President Joe Biden re-elected in a prospective 2020 rematch against former President Donald Trump. Roy also compared some of the <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">370-page measure</a>&#8216;s provisions to H.R. 2, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a border security bill</a> the GOP-led House passed last year that the Democrat-controlled Senate never took up for consideration, and another bill he introduced.
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THREAD on the “War, Debt, and Open Borders” BILL: The bill is NOT well-intended. It is also not a border security bill. It is, however, a bill designed by Democrats to boost Biden against Trump by helping Dems blame Republicans for open borders… (1/x) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SecureAmericaFirst?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SecureAmericaFirst</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1754535034751762922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Senate bill &#8220;is NOT well-intended. It is also not a border security bill. It is, however, a bill designed by Democrats to boost Biden against Trump by helping Dems blame Republicans for open borders,&#8221; Roy said, &#8220;a trap into which some GOP willingly walk in order to fund an insatiable desire for endless wars.&#8221;
Roy said the Senate bill &#8220;BORROWS&#8221; $118 billion to fund $60 billion for Ukraine, in addition to foreign aid for countries such as Israel and Taiwan, while allocating $20 billion for &#8220;alleged&#8221; border security — money he argued would &#8220;ensure&#8221; more border traffic, not less.
&#8220;The border &#8216;crisis&#8217; is a crisis not of resources or lack of authority, but rather the result of abuse of law by the President &#8211; the willing disregard of the text &amp; spirit of laws designed to maintain operational &#8230; control of the border &amp; secure our nation &#8211; in favor of using judge-made loopholes &amp; very limited exceptions (asylum &amp; parole) to establish a default of &#8216;encounter &amp; release&#8217; instead of &#8216;encounter &amp; remove,'&#8221; he said.
Roy implored Congress to &#8220;stop&#8221; the bill, which is expected to get its first vote in the Senate this week, and he touted H.R.2 and its &#8220;leaner, stronger little brother&#8221; that he introduced last year, and <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/29?s=1&amp;r=69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H.R. 29</a> as being put together by the House GOP &#8220;to close the loopholes &amp; force the executive to follow the law.&#8221;
&#8220;The Senate &#8216;deal&#8217; is designed to accept and perpetuate the Democrat scam of mass migration,&#8221; Roy said before listing out a series of takeaways from the bipartisan Senate bill, which Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas helped to put together, and how they compared to provisions in the House border security bills.
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… &amp; regardless, a rolling average of 4999 encounters (cartels control) can default some 1.8MM a year with no trigger, B) exempting children (UAC’s) &amp; family units from detention requirements increases likely abuse of children as the “ticket” to entry, &amp; makes worse… (7/x)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1754535083762164187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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…all while claiming to fix asylum by adopting a supposedly lower but nebulous standard while funding $ billions to Biden / Mayorkas to staff up asylum officers (not judges) to make instant determinations to beat a statutory 180 day detention clock (fast track asylum)… (9/x)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1754535101076312086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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…while continuing the abuse of parole with very limited “reform” (nothing re: Cubans, Haitians, Ven, Nic), in effect, encouraging its use (including through the CBP One App) to allow unabated flow through ports of entry still in the name of a “case by case” basis… (11/x)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1754535118071599517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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…and unlike <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HR2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HR2</a>, which empowered State AG’s, this bills forced all litigation into DC Federal Courts, decidedly less protective of the interests of Texas, e.g., in the 5th Circuit. Oh, and it fails to force completion of the wall… among many other things… (13/x)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1754535137084387412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In conclusion, this bill is a partisan &#8216;uniparty&#8217; war bill masquerading as border security that perpetuates open borders, massive debt, &amp; continued proxy wars&#8230; a &#8216;shiny object&#8217; not worthy of further comment beyond immediate burial in the grave,&#8221; Roy said, ending his thread with a &#8220;#SecureAmericaFirst&#8221; hashtag.
Another member of the House GOP, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), also posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop/status/1754300650496688196" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thread</a> to X, highlighting &#8220;damaging and dangerous provisions&#8221; from the Senate bill that he dubbed the &#8220;the Swamp&#8217;s latest amnesty disaster.&#8221;
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How can any legislator look their constituents in the eye after voting to affirm thousands of DAILY illegal crossings? <a href="https://t.co/mzCkF0z34k">pic.twitter.com/mzCkF0z34k</a>
&mdash; Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop/status/1754302105332977738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In case you were wondering, the State Department section includes billions more for Ukraine. 
Including&#8230;Ukrainian border security. 
Keep our border open, but send tax dollars to protect other countries&#39; borders. Funny how Swamp logic works. <a href="https://t.co/XDC1yVIXAf">pic.twitter.com/XDC1yVIXAf</a>
&mdash; Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop/status/1754304023107125534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Only one year? 
Common sense would say they should be inadmissible PERMANENTLY. 
But that&#39;s in short supply for those afflicted with Potomac Fever. <a href="https://t.co/DC38hVShFr">pic.twitter.com/DC38hVShFr</a>
&mdash; Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop/status/1754312678573474299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Limitations, exceptions, and excuses. That&#39;s what you&#39;ll find in the border emergency authority section of the bill. <a href="https://t.co/GQmYrfQvaR">pic.twitter.com/GQmYrfQvaR</a>
&mdash; Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop/status/1754316796243431894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Illegal aliens not from Mexico or Canada won&#39;t be counted toward total encounters. <a href="https://t.co/rAjCPmj9IV">pic.twitter.com/rAjCPmj9IV</a>
&mdash; Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop/status/1754326674286555187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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While the compromise bill&#8217;s fate is yet to be determined in the Senate, House leadership vowed the legislation would not pass the lower chamber, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1754319765894578181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">let alone get a vote</a>.
&#8220;Any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time. It is DEAD on arrival in the House. We encourage the U.S. Senate to reject it,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1754553761614168149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> a statement from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other top GOP brass in the House.
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Biden urged lawmakers to embrace the compromise Senate measure that took months to hash out.
&#8220;We’ve reached an agreement on a bipartisan deal that includes the toughest and fairest set of border reforms in decades. And it includes support for Ukraine and Israel and provides humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1754306352594198644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;I urge Congress to pass this bill immediately.&#8221;
Trump, who is the GOP frontrunner as he runs another campaign for a second term in the White House, criticized the Senate package. Like Roy, he suggested there was an election angle to consider.
&#8220;The ridiculous &#8216;Border&#8217; Bill is nothing more than a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border, just in time for our most important EVER Election,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111879769015903043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;Don’t fall for it!!!&#8221;

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Chip Roy Argues Senate Border Package Is A 'Trap', Designed To 'Boost' Biden

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Republicans in Congress have continued to call for the repeal of the FACE Act after six pro-lifers face over a decade in prison <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-church-meeting-is-now-a-conspiracy-pro-lifers-pray-outside-court-after-conviction-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after being convicted</a> of FACE Act-related charges in federal court in Nashville. 
The lawmakers have said in recent days that the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that criminalizes the use of force or threats of force that prevent someone from accessing an abortion facility, has been weaponized against pro-life activists. The six pro-lifers convicted on Tuesday face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and up to 10.5 years in prison after the Biden administration accused them of conspiring against rights secured by the FACE Act.
On Friday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) urged his colleagues in the House to take up a bill he introduced last year that would repeal the FACE Act. 
“We must end this weaponized law NOW. [House Republicans] should take up Rep. Roy&#8217;s FACE Act Repeal(HR577) immediately,” Roy’s press account posted on X. 
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&quot;The TN case is part of a disturbing pattern of overcharging and using absurd amounts of law-enforcement resources to intimidate pro-lifers.”
💯%—we must end this weaponized law NOW<a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> should take up Rep. Roy&#39;s FACE Act Repeal(HR577) immediately <a href="https://t.co/GCx0JKqKGq">https://t.co/GCx0JKqKGq</a>
&mdash; Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1753436516582314274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/397835B6-A9C5-440F-A691-B52FE1AA50D9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a>, which was sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) in the Senate, was referred to as the “Restoring the First Amendment and Right to Peaceful Civil Disobedience Act.” 
“Free Americans should never live in fear of their government targeting them because of their beliefs. Yet, Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice has brazenly weaponized the FACE Act against normal, everyday Americans across the political spectrum, simply because they are pro-life. Our Constitution separates power between the federal government and the states for a reason, and we ignore that safeguard at our own peril,” Roy <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/2023/10/sen-lee-rep-roy-team-up-to-repeal-the-face-act#:~:text=October%204%2C%202023,protect%20access%20to%20abortion%20facilities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year when introducing the measure. “The FACE Act is an unconstitutional federal takeover of state police powers; it must be repealed.”
Other Republicans in the House have echoed support for taking up Roy’s legislation after the Nashville verdict, including Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-VA). 
“Being jailed for singing hymns and trying to protect innocent babies? I strongly support [Roy’s] FACE Act Repeal Act to protect these individuals from injustice,” he said.
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Being jailed for singing hymns and trying to protect innocent babies? I strongly support <a href="https://twitter.com/reproy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRoy</a>&#39;s FACE Act Repeal Act to protect these individuals from injustice. <a href="https://t.co/cSY5F5650t">https://t.co/cSY5F5650t</a>
&mdash; Congressman Bob Good (@RepBobGood) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBobGood/status/1752764286382817422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Proud to cosponsor<a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy"> @RepChipRoy</a>’s FACE Act Repeal Act. This law has been abused by the Biden administration to target peaceful pro-life activists,” Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) posted on X.
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Proud to cosponsor <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepChipRoy</a>’s FACE Act Repeal Act. This law has been abused by the Biden administration to target peaceful pro-life activists. <a href="https://t.co/IbkihOp8CQ">https://t.co/IbkihOp8CQ</a>
&mdash; Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1753116703116996621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Lee noted on X that the FACE Act, which is also supposed to be used to protect churches and pregnancy centers, appears to only be used to target pro-life activists and not pro-abortion activists. 
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“Bottom line: the Biden administration incarcerates people for praying at abortion clinics while ignoring violent acts at churches and pregnancy centers. So many camels. So much obsessive attention paid to harmless things mistaken for gnats,” Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1752468422225743939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1752468422225743939%7Ctwgr%5E89b339f5d4217e2c6f3dc847f36f7b2ef65690e0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2024%2F02%2F01%2Frepublicans-renew-call-to-repeal-face-act-as-more-pro-life-activists-face-prison-time%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Tuesday. 
The push comes after pro-lifers Chet Gallagher of Tennessee, Coleman Boyd of Mississippi, Heather Idoni of Michigan, Cal Zastrow of Michigan, Paul Vaughn of Tennessee, and Dennis Green of Virginia were convicted of conspiracy against rights and violating the FACE Act.
The six were indicted by the Department of Justice after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-deliberates-fate-of-six-pro-lifers-facing-11-years-in-prison-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a protest</a> that took place in a hallway outside of a Mount Juliet abortion provider on March 5, 2021. On that day, a group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside the Carafem Health Center Clinic. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic not to get abortions.

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on Tuesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> should continue to defend its southern border despite the Supreme Court’s decision to grant an emergency request from the Biden administration.
Roy said that the state had a duty to defend its citizens and should continue to do so after the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that razor wire placed at the border by the state, meant to deter illegal immigration, could be removed by federal agents. The razor wire was at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, a location that has experienced large surges of illegal immigrants. 
“They have a duty under the Constitution… and every other norm of leadership of any sovereign state, to protect your citizens, period, full stop. There is no exception to that,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chip-roy-urges-texas-officials-ignore-supreme-court-order-border-razor-wire-go-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;And if the Supreme Court wants to ignore that truth, which a slim majority did, Texas still had the duty, Texas leaders still have the duty, to defend their people.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s like, if someone&#8217;s breaking into your house, and the court says, &#8216;Oh, sorry. You can&#8217;t defend yourself.&#8217; What do you tell the court? You tell the court to go to hell, you defend yourself and then figure it out later,” he added. 
In a post to X, Roy said that political leaders would do more if the crisis were affecting Connecticut and not Texas. “Texas should do what it sees fit to secure the border in the face of federal abandonment,” he said. 
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If this were happening daily in Greenwich, CT and not Leakey, TX we’d see more politicians lifting a finger. 
Texas should do what it sees fit to secure the border in the face of federal abandonment <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TX21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TX21</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HR2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HR2</a> <a href="https://t.co/EJAosMCtJz">pic.twitter.com/EJAosMCtJz</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1749836737210130673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have both promised to continue fighting the Biden administration to curb the wave of illegal crossings.
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“This is not over,” Abbott <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1749580358583038371" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, responding to the ruling. “Texas’ razor wire is an effective deterrent to the illegal crossings Biden encourages. I will continue to defend Texas’ constitutional authority to secure the border and prevent the Biden Admin from destroying our property.” 
The case over the razor wire remains ongoing. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear arguments on February 7. 
“The Supreme Court’s temporary order allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America,” Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-responds-scotus-ruling-concertina-wire-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The destruction of Texas’s border barriers will not help enforce the law or keep American citizens safe. This fight is not over, and I look forward to defending our state’s sovereignty.”
The Biden administration has also sued Texas over placing barriers in the Rio Grande River and a new state law that allows the state to arrest illegal immigrants for trespassing.

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There is a big lie that we in the United States keep telling ourselves. It is particularly true on the political Right, but it&#8217;s true across the board.
Here’s the lie: We want our government to be fiscally responsible in some way, shape, or form. It&#8217;s clearly a lie because we keep electing politicians who eschew being fiscally responsible in any way, shape, or form, regardless of who runs the government.
The spending keeps going in one direction — and that direction is up. There&#8217;s a reason we are running a $34 trillion national debt at this point in time, and it is likely that that more debt is going to continue to accrue because nobody takes this problem particularly seriously.
And they&#8217;re not going to take that problem seriously until we run smack into a wall.
That is typically how fiscal crises work: A country spends too much money. They&#8217;re unable to rein it back in because there are too many people who become dependent on that spending of the money. Then, instead of creating some sort of plan to get out of debt, people just keep running up those debts, keep running up those deficits until the time comes we have to take extremely harsh remediating action.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1888-the-big-lie-americans-tell-ourselves-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
That is the high likelihood here. Why do I say this? Because yesterday the House Republicans, as well as the House Democrats, overwhelmingly passed yet another continuing resolution. And this is the way we now fund the government because we&#8217;re not able to actually have serious negotiations on any department level with regard to spending; we&#8217;re not able to negotiate over how much should be spent on defense or how much should be spent on education.
Instead, we wrap everything up into a ball and when we can&#8217;t get approval on a year-long budget, we go to continuing resolutions, which are the short-form budgets that continue the government spending. And we keep the drain running and the trend will run until the train runs completely off those tracks.
And by the way, the people who are telling you that the continuing resolution should have been pushed aside in favor of something harsher, in favor of a government shutdown, or in favor of a harder bargaining position with Joe Biden, are fibbing to you about the incentive structure. Unless you have a unified Republican control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, you&#8217;re not going to get the kind of spending cuts that make it worthwhile for you to risk your seats. Because I&#8217;ll tell you what happens: You do a government shutdown, you&#8217;re going to end up passing a continuing resolution anyway, and a bunch more people are going to lose their seats.
The easiest thing in Congress is to get lost in a crowd, to simply side with an overwhelming majority of people who say status quo, “Let&#8217;s just keep doing what it is that we are doing right now.”  Internal Republican rules prevent any Republican from moving forward with a bill that does not have at least the support of the majority of Republicans. So it came very close to the wire on this particular bill.
Texas Republican Chip Roy, who does take the problem of spending seriously, was blasting everybody Right, Left, and Center about not only the spending, but also the fact that nobody in Congress seems to want to solve serious problems anymore. He wound up saying, “It doesn&#8217;t matter who&#8217;s sitting in the Speaker&#8217;s seat or who has the majority. We keep doing the same stupid stuff.”
That requires us to ask a pretty simple question: Why is it that we keep doing the same stupid stuff? Is that a matter of not having the right people in power? Or is it just that the American people refuse to recognize the reality about themselves, which is that we constantly say that we want to balance the budget; we constantly say we want to spend less money, and then as soon as there is a poll asking what we would like to cut, we all run for the hills and we have no idea what it is that we would like to cut.
The reality is, in order for any serious major change to get done, you must have unified party control over Congress, over the Senate, over the presidency, and a dedication by that party to take the hit. 
Democrats take the hits, by the way. There&#8217;s something the Democrats are good at.
Democrats took the hit in 2010. They passed Obamacare and then they got shellacked at the polls. It was an exceptionally bad midterm for them. And they jumped ahead because they knew if they could completely restructure the health care system, in the end, these would become entitlements people relied upon. They would rather take the short-term hit for the long-term gain.
When was the last time Republicans took a short-term hit for the long-term gain? The answer is they haven’t. The reason they don&#8217;t is because they&#8217;re afraid they will be tossed out of office. So it’s up to the American people to tell Washington that we actually want the spending cuts. 
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The vast majority of choices in your life are up to you. When people rely on politicians too much, they end up shooting themselves in the foot. 
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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) could be on the verge of facing a no-confidence vote through the same process that removed his predecessor, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA), as speaker last year.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/rep-chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX), a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said on Tuesday that he would not rule out using the &#8220;motion to vacate&#8221; mechanism against Johnson amid objections to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-and-senate-leaders-reach-spending-deal-johnson-touts-concessions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government spending framework</a> released by congressional leaders over the weekend and a warning about an impending border security deal.
&#8220;I&#8217;m leaving it on the table. I&#8217;m not gonna say I&#8217;m gonna go file it tomorrow night. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m not gonna file it tomorrow. I think the speaker needs to know that we&#8217;re angry about it,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjY0NY5VUQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told BlazeTV host Steve Deace</a>.
Concessions made during McCarthy&#8217;s rise to the speakership early last year restored the ability of a single member to trigger the “motion to vacate” process that would lead to a no-confidence vote. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fallout-and-triumphs-from-the-matt-gaetz-coup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did just that</a> in early October after the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-stopgap-spending-measure-with-no-additional-support-for-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed a stop-gap spending measure</a> to prevent a government shutdown. He and seven other Republicans joined with Democrats to remove McCarthy from the speakership. Since then, Johnson got elected speaker and McCathy has left Congress.
Roy said he publicly voiced opposition to the effort to rip the speaker&#8217;s gavel from McCarthy. He noted some frustrations with what transpired under the California Republican&#8217;s leadership, but also acknowledged progress with spending caps getting implemented and conservatives achieving &#8220;some success&#8221; as lawmakers began advancing <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4224579-house-gop-advances-four-spending-bills-after-failed-attempts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">individual spending bills</a> as opposed to omnibus legislation that would combine them.
While Johnson touted a &#8220;topline&#8221; $1.59 trillion figure for the fiscal 2024 appropriations process along with &#8220;concessions&#8221; as part of an agreement with congressional Democrats, Roy suggested it ignores options devised under McCarthy that offered more financial restraints and contains <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1744778877845610530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;budget gimmicks&#8221;</a> that increase spending above the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-166-trillion-funding-bill-shutdown-deadline-nears-2022-12-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1.66 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill</a> negotiated under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> FAILED to use its leverage to force cuts to inflationary spending
We must reject this &quot;deal&quot; w/ Dems that will INCREASE spending by ~$30 BILLION &amp; fund agencies at war with our liberty &amp; security &#8211; like Mayorkas&#39; DHS<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoGimmicks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoGimmicks</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoSideDeals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoSideDeals</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoSecurityNoFunding?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoSecurityNoFunding</a> <a href="https://t.co/XRBmzUshyz">pic.twitter.com/XRBmzUshyz</a>
&mdash; Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1744778877845610530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Roy told Deace he will reserve judgment until he sees what &#8220;policy riders&#8221; might come out of negotiations. But he isn&#8217;t getting his hopes up after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-passes-886-billion-defense-policy-bill-with-military-pay-raise-spy-tool-extension-and-ukraine-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense policy bill</a> that included a FISA section 702 surveillance extension and &#8220;basically got rid of all of our DEI and CRT stuff,&#8221; as well as another stopgap spending measure.
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Democrats warned House Republicans not to include &#8220;poison pill policy changes&#8221; in any of the fiscal 2024 spending bills or risk losing their support. President Joe Biden also released a statement that said &#8220;congressional Republicans must do their job, stop threatening to shut down the government, and fulfill their basic responsibility to fund critical domestic and national security priorities.&#8221;
The prospect of another government shutdown looms <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-led-house-passes-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown-with-dem-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a two-step continuing resolution (CR) passed in November</a> funds certain federal agencies through January 19 while others would get money through February 2. Separately, lawmakers in the Senate are holding bipartisan talks on a deal to tie border security reforms to supplemental national funds for U.S. allies such as Ukraine and Israel.
&#8220;If they totally botch it — we get no policy reforms and we&#8217;re spending $1.66 trillion, I don&#8217;t know why we would keep him as speaker,&#8221; Roy said, adding later that he would fight &#8220;$60 billion on Ukraine and bull crap border security&#8221; reforms after the GOP-led House passed its own border security bill last year that the Democrat-led Senate refuses to consider.

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