The GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> screeched to a halt on Wednesday one day after lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-led-house-passes-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown-with-dem-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a bipartisan stopgap measure to avert a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/government-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government shutdown</a>.
In a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023660?Page=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">225-198 vote</a>, 19 Republicans joined with Democrats to block debate on a long-term spending bill as well as a bill that sought to freeze <a href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/mccaul-introduces-bill-to-permanently-freeze-the-6-billion-in-iranian-funds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions of dollars</a> unlocked as part of the Biden administration&#8217;s recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-hands-iran-6-billion-5-americans-freed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hostage deal with Iran</a>.
Unable to proceed with consideration of the legislation, the chamber <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1724838997011161292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly opted</a> to leave early for <a href="https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1724827604409049190" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thanksgiving recess</a> and is poised not to return to legislative business for at least two weeks.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), one of the Republicans who opposed the continuing resolution (CR) on Tuesday and then voted against advancing the 2024 Commerce, Justice, Science, (CJS) and Related Agencies Appropriations Act as well as the No Funds for Iranian Terrorism Act on Wednesday, called for a change in strategy.
&#8220;I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing — one — that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!&#8221; Roy <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1724852347505938942" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclaimed</a> in a fiery speech on the House floor.
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Chip Roy is fired up: “I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing that I can go campaign on and say we did. Come explain to me one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.”<a href="https://t.co/x9rWhl4aaN">pic.twitter.com/x9rWhl4aaN</a>
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Less than a month into the role, Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) has sought to bring together a fractured GOP conference.
Johnson has faced some early setbacks as he tries to get the House to pass individual long-term spending bills, including the chamber <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/11/house-pulls-thud-bill-from-a-vote-again-00126003" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly shelving</a> a vote on a transportation funding measure in the face of some GOP resistance.
But the speaker did <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/12-house-dems-ignore-biden-veto-threat-help-pass-israel-aid-with-irs-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">score</a> a victory two weeks ago when 12 Democrats joined with Republicans to pass a White House-opposed plan to offset $14.3 billion in aid for Israel by slashing the same amount of funds meant for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
On Tuesday, the House approved a two-step CR, which aims to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fund certain federal agencies</a> through the middle of January while others would get money through early February, ahead of a possible shutdown at the end of the week. The Democrat-led Senate is expected to vote on the CR as early as later on Wednesday.
Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1723443749668184161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> the CR was needed to &#8220;place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories&#8221; and &#8220;stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess.&#8221;
That has not stopped House Republicans, including members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, from emphasizing their growing frustration.
&#8220;We’re done with the failure theater here in Congress — we&#8217;re not just going to pass bills that don&#8217;t address the problems that Americans face,&#8221; Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), chairman of the Freedom Caucus, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepScottPerry/status/1724861993289449530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Wednesday.

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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) expressed his frustration with keyboard warriors who have slammed conservative Republicans legislators like him from a distance and called them RINOs, saying, “You want to come at me and call me a RINO, you can kiss my a**.”
Roy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgLDqS59TU">spoke</a> with radio host Steve Deace during the challenge that ultimately ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. Deace, pointing out that some social media users had called Roy a &#8220;RINO&#8221; for not endorsing the move to oust McCarthy, declared he was fed-up with the internecine warfare in the GOP, saying, “I’m about to just ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ and just go full-on Billy Graham and you all, I don’t care. &#8230; This is a joke. It’s rudderless and it seems as if we want to sell each other talking points rather than actually produce some form of substantive whatsoever. Tell me I’m wrong.”
“Some of our brothers and sisters – particularly in the, you know, MAGA camp, I think – particularly enjoy the circular firing squad,” Roy asserted. “You wanna come out me and call me a RINO? You can kiss my a**. Look, I’ve spent a lifetime fighting for limited government conservatism. I have laid it all on the line. I have not seen my family for two days in the last 30 days. You go around talking your big game and you thumping your chest on Twitter? Yeah. Come to my office, come have a debate, mother.”
“I’m not gonna go to a nunnery, because godda**it, there were people who are buried over in Normandy who deserve us to stand up for what they fought for!” he continued. “So that’s what I’m gonna do. And all of you f***ers out there who are out there saying what you’re saying out on social media, you stick it! I’m gonna go down to the floor and do my job and I’m gonna stand up for the people who fought for this country.”
“Like, I respect what Gaetz and my four, five, six brothers are doing right now because they want to change things,” he said. “I respect friends of mine who went to the mic, who are your heroes out there, ladies and gentlemen, who are taking a different position because we’re trying to figure out how to navigate through a world in which Democrats control the Senate, the Republican conference in the Senate is garbage, the House Republican Conference has a variety of views from all over the country with 221. But if people wanna play this out in real time and deal with this every single minute and every single day on social media, don’t think that that’s somehow going to change the game, because what we gotta do is we have to actually define the fight.”
Roy followed up with comments when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoM5ttn_des">spoke</a> to The Blaze’s Dana Loesch. “Part of what frustrates me, Dana, is when you get pundits — my reaction there wasn’t really to Matt,” he clarified. “It wasn’t to any of my friends who had a good faith belief that we weren’t getting the job done through the speaker, and they called the question. So, now we gotta go choose another speaker. I didn’t agree with the play call, but I don’t fault them for it.”
Roy then pointed out the realities of trying to get things done in Washington, D.C. “I do fault the pundits who are spinning people up with lies, saying, ‘Chip Roy supports giving all the money in the world to Ukraine; he’s selling out,” he said. “Why? Because I made a statement that said we should consider attaching H.R. 2, border security, to any Ukraine deal. Yeah, I don’t think we ought to be giving a blank check to Ukraine, or frankly, any more money at all to Ukraine, but I am going to try to play the leverage to try to secure the border of the United States. I’m paid to be smart and try to figure out how to get this done. So look, that is what I was frustrated about.”
“Look, I should not have used the language that I used–” he said before Loesch interjected, “Oh, no, no. I’m not gonna have you come and apologize and do all that stuff, Congressman. You know what? You were, you were mad on behalf of the American people. And what you were expressing is what– is the frustration of people all over this country because, you know, at the end of the day, whoever the speaker is, isn’t gonna change inflation. It’s not gonna change what’s happening at the border. We just want to get stuff done. We know who you are; we know that if anyone’s saying that Chip Roy’s a RINO those people have not been paying attention to what you are doing. You’ve fought a lot; you’ve put your reputation on the line.”

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Kentucky Republican Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> said he would move to hold up any spending bill providing more money to Ukraine as the deadline for Congress to fund the federal government approaches.
Paul, a frequent critic of foreign aid, announced on Wednesday that he would not allow an expedited funding bill that includes financial support for Ukraine to make it quickly through the Senate. 
“Today I&#8217;m putting congressional leadership &amp; [Joe Biden] on notice that I will oppose any effort to hold the federal government hostage for Ukraine funding. I will not consent to expedited passage of any spending measure that provides any more US aid to Ukraine,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1704485590085812595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
In an <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-federal-government-should-not-be-held-hostage-for-ukraine-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed published</a> on Wednesday, Paul said he had concerns over what approving more aid would do to the national debt and voiced skepticism about U.S. strategy and interests in Ukraine. 
“When will the aid requests end? When will the war end? Can someone explain what victory in Ukraine looks like? President Biden certainly can’t. His administration has failed to articulate a clear strategy or objective in this war, and Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has failed to make meaningful gains in the east,” he wrote. 
Paul has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cannot-save-ukraine-by-dooming-the-u-s-economy-rand-paul-blocks-immediate-vote-on-billion-dollar-ukraine-package" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously held up</a> Ukraine aid, saying there should be more oversight for the billions of dollars in humanitarian and military support being sent over. 
On Thursday, a group of other Republicans, led by Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and Texas Rep. Chip Roy, sent a letter to Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, <a href="https://www.vance.senate.gov/press-releases/senator-vance-colleagues-reject-indefinite-war-in-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that they, too, would oppose further aid to Ukraine. The nearly 30 Republicans, including Paul, say they plan to vote against the additional $24 billion requested by Biden for Ukraine. 
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“The American people deserve to know what their money has gone to. How is the counteroffensive going? Are the Ukrainians any closer to victory than they were 6 months ago? What is our strategy, and what is the president’s exit plan? What does the administration define as victory in Ukraine?” the letter said. “It would be an absurd abdication of congressional responsibility to grant this request without knowing the answers to these questions.”
The Republican opposition comes as Ukrainian President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/volodymyr-zelensky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volodymyr Zelensky</a> lobbies Capitol Hill for more support. His request appears to be favored by Senate leadership, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but it could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-denies-zelensky-opportunity-to-address-joint-session-of-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face more headwinds</a> in the House.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border facilities</a> are slammed with migrants and officials are mass releasing immigrants into the U.S. interior while thousands more stream into the country.
The Biden administration has yet to release official immigration totals for the month of August, but reports suggest numbers are climbing back to the peak in May. From Friday to Monday, an average of 9,000 immigrants a day <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1704120360235405366">reportedly</a> crossed the southern border. On Monday alone, over 9,700 immigrants were <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1704123809610002919">reportedly</a> caught or processed crossing the southern border illegally and through ports of entry.
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NEW: Past four days (Fri-Mon) total migrant encounters at the SW border (BP+OFO) exceeded 35k at an average of nearly 9,000 per day per CBP sources. Exact count: 35,573 encounters / 8,893 daily average&#8230; This does NOT include Known Gotaways <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>
&mdash; Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1704120360235405366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NEW: Per CBP sources, in the last 24 hours, Border Patrol apprehended over 8,000 illegal immigrants, &amp; when combined w/ CBP ports of entry, there were a staggering 9,700+ migrant encounters across the border in one day. Highest day on record was 10,000+ in May before T42 ended.
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1704123809610002919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Neither total includes got-aways, leaving the real number of immigrants who entered the country almost certainly higher. The record for daily crossings was set back in May before the repeal of Title 42 &#8212; roughly above 10,000 a day.
The climb in border crossings comes several months after the Biden administration touted a 70% decline in illegal immigration after the repeal of Title 42, the Trump-era health order that allowed border authorities to block immigrants seeking asylum on COVID-related grounds.
Immigration has since ticked back up because of parole programs that greatly expanded legal avenues into the U.S. and cooling temperatures making the trek from Central and South America easier.
Over the weekend, a freight train loaded with what appeared to be hundreds of immigrants was filmed <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1703529736985542989">leaving</a> Zacatecas, Mexico, on its way to the United States. A freight train loaded with immigrants was filmed a couple days later stopped in the Mexican city of Monclova en route to Piedras Negras, which is just across the international border from Eagle Pass, Texas.
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Monclova, Coahuila, MX: A train with hundreds of migrants was stopped in Monclova, 147 miles before reaching Piedras Negras. 
“Let us continue” is chanted by the migrants, who took the cargo train in Monterrey and are en route to Piedras Negras, where a group of approximately… <a href="https://t.co/x03s8tdXBW">pic.twitter.com/x03s8tdXBW</a>
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Further south in Panama, the Darien Gap is seeing historic foot traffic as immigrants move from South America toward the U.S. southern border. The gap is a strip of undeveloped forest and swamp connecting North and South America that takes roughly a week to hike through. Immigrants who attempt the crossing must walk through miles of rough terrain. The journey is fatal for many.
The number of immigrants chancing the land crossing to Central America has exploded in recent years from just a few hundred annually a decade ago to an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/panama-darien-gap-migrants-c937f88260fb88f4c3d3e5e6041b8fa6">expected</a> 400,000 in 2023. As more and more people hike the gap, volunteers, NGOs, and others are making the trip easier for migrants, according to independent journalist Michael Yon.
“The routes through the jungle are now much shorter and much easier, and they’re still extremely dangerous. Even as I talk right now, there will definitely be people dying,” Yon told The Daily Wire. “Dozens of people die per day out there, but the numbers are much lower now than they used to be.”
President Joe Biden has failed to manage the immigration crisis swamping the border since his term began. Some immigrants have credited Biden’s lax immigration policies for encouraging them to risk lengthy, dangerous journeys to the southern border. Other draws to the U.S. come from housing developments such as Colony Ridge outside of Houston, however.
Colony Ridge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">promises</a> plots of land for those with the cash &#8212; regardless of immigration status. The development has become a draw for illegal immigrants and drug cartels. Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas said he is investigating the housing development after an investigation by The Daily Wire.
“So my staff is pushing on the Department of Homeland Security and Texas DPS to get us additional information on this. It&#8217;s highly concerning,” Roy told The Daily Wire. “I’m not in a position to fully articulate exactly what’s happening other than it is problematic and a continuation of these wide open border policies, where they&#8217;re trying to figure out where to put people.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives">House</a> GOP hardliners demand that leadership commit to cutting spending or risk losing their votes, setting up a possible <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/government-shutdown">government shutdown</a> this fall.
A group of 21 Republicans, led by Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Chip Roy (R-TX), wrote to House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) this week, seeking concessions following this spring&#8217;s bipartisan deal to avoid a default on the U.S. debt that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-conservatives-slam-mccarthy-biden-agreement-with-republicans-like-these-who-needs-democrats">rankled conservatives</a> who argued it did not adequately rein in spending below the &#8220;bloated&#8221; fiscal 2023 level.
&#8220;We are thankful for your recent efforts – since that debt ceiling agreement – to restore cross-conference meetings to achieve consensus on appropriations,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservatives-warn-mccarthy-vote-against-spending-bills-cut-bloated-government">says</a>.
&#8220;As we already have done, we will work in good faith to offer ideas on the best ways to reduce spending, but only if combined with the leadership necessary to set the target for the whole team,&#8221; the letter adds. &#8220;For unity to exist, we must have a clear mission to actually cut the total discretionary federal bureaucracy to pre-pandemic levels and end the empowerment of President Biden’s radical woke and weaponized government.&#8221;
At the core of their ultimatum is a demand that all appropriations measures to fund the various arms of the federal government &#8220;be achieved without the use of reallocated rescissions to increase discretionary spending above&#8221; the fiscal 2022 top-line level of $1.471 trillion.
Rescissions, which are a <a href="https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/rescission-whats-that/">tool used to rescind</a> unspent funds that can be used elsewhere, &#8220;are useful in reducing spending and we encourage their use, but we cannot support using them to shift funding to the very bureaucrats implementing the Biden agenda at roughly current levels of spending, thereby enshrining and continuing Democrats’ reckless inflationary spending,&#8221; the letter says.
House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-TX) has already said she is committed to using the mark-up process on appropriations bills to limit spending to the fiscal 2022 top-line level.
Granger also <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/granger-plan-fiscal-year-2024-bills-0">mentioned</a> clawing back $115 billion &#8220;in unnecessary, partisan programs&#8221; to &#8220;re-focus government spending consistent with Republican priorities, keeping total spending 1% lower than if we were operating under a continuing resolution.&#8221;
Republicans have a slim majority in the House, meaning leadership can only afford to lose a couple of GOP votes without support from the Democrats. As the appropriations process continues over the next several weeks, they also have to contend with a Democrat-led Senate and President Joe Biden to enact legislation to keep funding the government past the September 30 deadline, which is the end of the fiscal year, or face the prospect of a shutdown.
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Beyond various other requests, including that McCarthy reject an omnibus measure and supplemental Ukraine appropriations bill, the 21 conservatives drew a spending line they said they would not cross.
&#8220;We plan to vote against any appropriations bills designed to achieve the approximately $1.586 trillion top-line spending level – roughly equal to the spending caps agreed to with President Biden in the debt ceiling deal and representing a mere 1% reduction from Democrats’ egregious post-COVID spending level,&#8221; the letter says.
&#8220;Absent adhering to the $1.471 trillion spending level – and/or achieving significant policy victories such as forcing President Biden to sign H.R. 2 and take the steps necessary to secure the border – we see an impossible path to reach 218 Republican votes on appropriations or other measures,&#8221; it continues.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jerry-nadler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerry Nadler</a> (D-NY) said on the House floor Wednesday that it would have been “child abuse” for 2-year-olds to not be masked during the COVID pandemic. 
Nadler’s comments came during debate on the House floor on the REINS Act after Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX) moved to add an amendment to the bill that would <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-toddlers-shouldve-required-mask-during-covid-parents-didnt-committed-child-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">effectively give</a> Congress the power to vote on any vaccine mandate initiated via executive branch rule-making, such as President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/supreme-court-ruling-biden-covid-vaccine-mandates.html">now-defunct</a> COVID vaccine mandate. 
&#8220;Two-year-olds should have been required to wear masks. It would be child abuse for parents not to do that because there was no vaccination available for 2-year-olds,&#8221; Nadler said. &#8220;And the only way to protect them against COVID was to have them wear masks, and these mandates are meant to protect the public’s health and safety.&#8221;
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The comments from the New York Democrat came after Roy criticized Health and Human Services Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xavier-becerra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xavier Becerra</a>’s appearance before Congress on Tuesday. 
“I want everybody in America to understand what they just heard from the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee in the United States House of Representatives,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-house-dem-says-2-year-olds-should-have-been-required-to-wear-masks/?utm_source=actengage&amp;utm_campaign=FreedomMail&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to Nadler. &#8220;Your 2-year-old should be forced to be masked. That is what the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee just said here on the floor of the House of Representatives. That the power of the government, the full power of the federal government, should be a part of ensuring and enforcing your children, your 2-year-old child to be masked.&#8221;
Becerra had been asked on Tuesday if &#8220;forcing 2-year-olds to wear masks save lives” by Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA). 
“Making sure people were masked when it was appropriate was essential to make sure that we were able to get out of this pandemic,&#8221; Becerra responded. 
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Roy&#8217;s amendment passed along with the REINS Act, a bill <a href="https://mcmorris.house.gov/posts/mcmorris-rodgers-helps-pass-the-reins-act-to-check-bidens-reckless-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed</a> to give Congress more oversight over presidential executive actions.
Young children were at very low risk of developing a serious health outcome from catching COVID, and recent studies have <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that masks are seemingly not that effective at reducing the spread of COVID. 
Although Biden officially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officially-ends-covid-19-national-emergency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ended the COVID national emergency declaration</a> in April, the White House came under fire again this month after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-enforcing-mask-mandates-social-distancing-for-unvaccinated-visitors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email showed</a> that it would be enforcing a mask mandate and social distancing guidelines for visitors who are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated.
Lawmakers invited to attend “College Athlete Day,” where athletes from championship collegiate teams get to visit the White House, were told to mask up for the event if they are not vaccinated
After backlash, the White House <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/masks-and-social-distancing-required-unvaccinated-college-athlete-day-white" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the email had been sent “inadvertently” and that it would be sending out updated guidelines to event attendees.

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As many as 20 House Republicans oppose the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-mace-is-a-no-on-debt-ceiling-deal-outsmarted-by-a-president-who-cant-find-his-pants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal hashed out</a> between the White House and Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) to avoid a U.S. debt default.
Leading the GOP charge against the compromise, which would <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/business/debt-ceiling-agreement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspend the debt limit until January 2025</a> in exchange for various restraints on spending, was the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which views the agreement as being too watered down. Their opposition, if it holds, means a bipartisan vote will be necessary for passage as Republicans hold a narrow majority in the lower chamber.
&#8220;This deal fails, fails completely,&#8221; Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomWorks/status/1663583530096394245" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at a press conference</a> outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. &#8220;We will do everything in our power to stop it and end it now,&#8221; he also said.
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⚠️ DEBT CEILING DEAL: &quot;Not one Republican should vote for this deal. It is a bad deal. No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get absolutely nothing in return.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepChipRoy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ampFW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ampFW</a> <a href="https://t.co/T5lHIWpKRQ">pic.twitter.com/T5lHIWpKRQ</a>
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&#8220;Not one Republican should vote for this deal,&#8221; said Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), another member of the group. &#8220;No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get absolutely nothing in return,&#8221; he added.
Roy said McCarthy&#8217;s deal with the White House &#8220;at best, if I&#8217;m being really generous&#8221; offers &#8220;a spending freeze for a couple years.&#8221;
A third member opposed to the deal, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), put his fellow GOP colleagues on notice. &#8220;This is a career-defining vote for every Republican,&#8221; he said.
Bishop also floated the use of the <a href="https://twitter.com/casssemyon/status/1663590752994066441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motion to vacate the chair</a>. Under the current House rules, only one member is required to force a vote that could remove the speaker, however, a simple majority is needed for it to succeed.
<a href="https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-fiscal-responsibility-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fiscal Responsibility Act</a>, the text of which is <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr3746ih/xml/BILLS-118hr3746ih.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">available online</a>, arose out of an <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/05/27/biden-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-agreement-in-principle-work-requirement-food-stamps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;agreement in principle&#8221;</a> reached between President Joe Biden and McCarthy over the weekend after weeks of negotiations. The legislation faces its first major test in the House Rules Committee on Tuesday where already dozens of amendments have been <a href="https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1663620059548221441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered by Republicans and Democrats alike</a>.
Barring any surprise hold-ups in the rules panel, a full House vote could happen as soon as Wednesday. At least 20 Republicans have rejected the deal, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/30/debt-ceiling-deal-updates.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNBC</a>, which means several Democrats will need to get on board for the compromise to advance if the GOP holdouts do not change their stance.
While there has been some <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12133525/Rep-Jayapal-Dem-leadership-worry-progressives-supporting-Bidens-debt-ceiling-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismay voiced</a> within leftist circles about the agreement, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said on Tuesday that Democrats will be watching whether the GOP can muster at least 150 votes, which would be about two-thirds of their conference. &#8220;Democrats are committed to making sure that we do our part and avoid a default,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-debt-ceiling-deadline-talks-05-30-23/h_6ed28d53e3df5b68a5b6265b2eee2c4d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he added</a>, per CNN.
If the legislation passes the lower chamber, the bill also needs to be approved by the Democrat-led Senate before reaching Biden for a signature. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-debt-ceiling-deadline-talks-05-30-23/h_beca69fb76b60e8b0ffaea0f6d90675a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he supports the bipartisan agreement between the White House and McCarthy.
Leaders in Congress have been scrambling to come up with a deal as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued multiple warnings about how the United States may not be able to meet all its financial obligations <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/could-the-u-s-default-on-june-5-it-depends-2341a695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as early as the first part of June</a>.
The Treasury Department said it has been enacting “extraordinary measures” since earlier this year when the United States hit its statutory limit of roughly $31.4 trillion, and has warned of dire economic consequences if the country is unable to reach a deal to lift the debt ceiling.
Certain House Republicans, including <a href="https://twitter.com/CoryMillsFL/status/1663524101409964034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cory Mills (R-FL)</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRussellFry/status/1663606024476020736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russell Fry (R-SC)</a>, lamented the apparent death of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-led-house-passes-mccarthys-plan-to-raise-debt-limit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023</a>, a bill the GOP-led House passed last month that would allow the limit to be lifted by $1.5 trillion in exchange for spending cuts and reforms, in favor of a thinned-out compromise.
Perry tweeted out a comparison graph which described McCarthy&#8217;s agreement with Biden as a &#8220;&#8216;deal&#8217; with the Swamp.&#8221;
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBoebert/status/1663609503693131776" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she did not &#8220;come to Congress to rubber-stamp bankrupting our country,&#8221; and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomWorks/status/1663608145799704577" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called out</a> what he described as a &#8220;crap deal that&#8217;s going to put you more in debt with no real changes whatsoever.&#8221;
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said the debt ceiling agreement would be &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-mace-is-a-no-on-debt-ceiling-deal-outsmarted-by-a-president-who-cant-find-his-pants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a wash, spending-wise</a>&#8221; because the “small cut” to discretionary spending will be eclipsed by “large increases in spending elsewhere.”

Chip Roy of Freedom Caucus Speaks

Band Of House Republicans Stand Against Debt Ceiling Deal

Debt Ceiling

House Speaker <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) dismissed a letter from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/freedom-caucus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Freedom Caucus</a> on Friday pressing him and other <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> to “hold the line” on a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/debt-ceiling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debt ceiling</a> agreement with President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> which includes spending reforms.
The debt ceiling, a statute established by <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> that prevents the government from spending beyond a predetermined <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/national-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national debt</a> limit of $31.4 trillion, exceeded the threshold earlier this year, prompting fear that the nation will default on loans within the next week. Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, said in a <a href="https://roy.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/roy.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/roy_hold-the-line-memo_5.24.23_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on Wednesday that his colleagues should continue to push for a deal which includes spending reductions and growth caps, the repeal of multiple Biden administration policies, and elevated work requirements for individuals receiving government assistance.
“While House Republicans are fighting for hard-working American families facing a woke, weaponized government at odds with our way of life,” Roy contended. “President Biden and Democrats have been dragging their feet for weeks to fight for rich liberal elitists who want more spending, more government, more corporate subsidies, and less freedom.”
Roy noted that the reforms were included in the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-led-house-passes-mccarthys-plan-to-raise-debt-limit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the narrowly divided House and is waiting for approval in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats. He asserted that each reform is “critical” and affirmed that “none should be abandoned” only to make an agreement on the debt limit.
McCarthy said in a press <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfxV44KZ_TA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conference</a> on Friday that he is “not at all” concerned with the letter, even as he needs votes from members of the House Freedom Caucus in order to pass legislation. “Unfortunately we’ve got to get a bill that can get through the Senate and signed by the President,” he remarked. “It’s a lot of negotiation, it’s hard, but we’re willing to do the work.”
Members of the House Freedom Caucus have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-freedom-caucus-chairman-responds-as-white-house-lobs-spurious-claims-at-spending-cut-proposal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they would vote to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for a framework that returns expenditures to fiscal year 2022 levels, increases the debt limit only for the next year, caps annual spending growth at 1% over the next decade, and repeals policies such as student debt forgiveness and increased funds for the IRS. The lawmakers previously delayed providing their votes to McCarthy as he sought to succeed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) earlier this year, forcing McCarthy to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-concessions-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-gave-to-republican-holdouts-to-win-their-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commit</a> to advance a budget framework which introduces various spending reforms.
The national debt now surpasses $31.7 trillion and serves as a continual damper on economic growth, while elevated interest rates have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/interest-payments-on-the-national-debt-on-pace-to-surpass-military-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed</a> on the budget as lawmakers are forced to devote more revenues toward servicing the debt rather than spending on federal programs. Failure to amend the debt limit, on the other hand, could induce a recession and lead to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-rating-agencies-threaten-u-s-with-credit-downgrade-over-debt-limit-chaos-even-if-a-deal-is-made" target="_blank" rel="noopener">downgrade</a> in the federal government’s credit rating.
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Democratic officials have meanwhile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-democrat-leader-claims-republicans-want-to-crash-the-economy-so-trump-will-be-elected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> in recent weeks that Republicans are engaged in brinkmanship as they call for spending reforms in addition to a temporary increase in the debt limit, while Republicans have noted that Democrats <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/reasonable-republicans-and-default-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waited</a> more than three months to resume negotiations, which started in February.

McCarthy Dismisses Freedom Caucus Letter Urging Him To ‘Hold The Line’ On Spending Reforms

McCarthy Dismisses Freedom Caucus Letter Urging Him To 'Hold The Line' On Debt Limit

Freedom Caucus

National Debt

Outrage ensued in Virginia on Thursday after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> detailed how Loudoun County leftists took part in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/northern-virginia-leftists-secretly-plotted-to-guard-democrats-from-trans-rape-fallout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secret group</a> that discussed shooting and ruining the lives of conservative parents, and made a list of 115 of their neighbors who they said were “bigots.”
Members of the group, called the Loudoun Love Warriors, included a campaign staffer for the local prosecutor, a Satanist, a newspaper reporter, and a consultant for the Democrat sheriff candidate. One member, who boasted of his &#8220;direct relationships&#8221; with Democrat politicians who &#8220;know me well&#8221;&#8211;posed with a gun alongside the caption &#8220;all this love is waiting for you.&#8221;
Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and graduate of Loudoun County Public Schools, wrote of his alarm at the situation in a letter to school board Chairman Ian Serotkin—whose aide was a member of the private online chat.
“This appears to be a part of an aggressive and orchestrated campaign to infringe upon parents’ First Amendment rights through fear and intimidation — specifically, by scaring them away from ever petitioning their local or State government and advocating on behalf of their children’s wellbeing and education in the public square,&#8221; Roy wrote.
The letter, which was also signed by Rep. Bob Good of Virginia, noted that the Biden administration moved against conservative parents in part due to an ugly incident the Loudoun Love Warriors sought to downplay.
“President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) used Loudoun County parent Scott Smith’s advocacy on behalf of his daughter – who was sexually assaulted in a girls’ bathroom by a male student in a skirt that was allowed to use said bathroom due to LCPS policy – to justify their launch of an unprecedented federal investigation into parents across the country,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;Scott Smith spoke out about what happened, the National School Board Association equated his advocacy to ‘forms of domestic terrorism,’ and the Biden DOJ eagerly obliged to their request.”
“Any attempts by staff and associates of Loudoun County officials or school board members, to further harass, intimidate, or otherwise silence American parents&#8221; must be held to the same standard, the letter stated.
The list of 115 enemies was populated mainly by private citizens—adorned with epithets like “pedophile” and “pychopath”—but also named top Republican law enforcement officials, including Attorney General Jason Miyares, who it called a “criminal,” and Sheriff Mike Chapman. Miyares said on Twitter that he was “upset” that he was only #5 on the list:
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It’s truly an honor to make this list &#8211; but I’m upset I’m only #5.
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Chapman’s office began an investigation on Wednesday, with a detective contacting one mom targeted by the group, Elicia Brand. Brand is a sexual assault survivor who advocated for the ninth-grade girl who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was raped</a>. A group member—a self-proclaimed Satanist named Amanda Pettis—said  “Please leave me in a room alone with Elicia… She is so lucky that there are laws, because she would be curbstomped.”
Brand told The Daily Wire the revelations left her shaken.
“I was terrified when I saw what the Loudoun Love Warriors had threatened me with,&#8221; Brand said. &#8220;Curb-stomping is such a violent act that involves one person grabbing the victim and forcing their head down onto a curb with their mouth open, and a second person stomping on the back of their head. I can’t imagine hating someone so badly that you resort to threatening violence.&#8221;
The group frequently tried to get people fired, repeatedly emailing the employers of Mark Winn, a 65-year old man who quoted the Bible in a speech to the school board, and Scott Mineo, who sued the school district over its racial policies. Mineo ultimately lost his job.
Group member Jan Mercker, a reporter for the local newspaper Loudoun Now, wrote of physically attacking Mineo.
“It might be worth an assault charge to f***ing slap that guy next time I see him,” she wrote. She also said she would like Superindendent Scott Ziegler—who was fired and indicted for lying about the rape—even more if he adopted the dress of the rapist by wearing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-virginia-schools-boss-disgraced-in-trans-rape-case-shows-up-for-court-with-earrings-and-painted-nails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skirt to court</a>.
<a href="https://www.loudounnow.com/news/report-reveals-violent-rhetoric-in-closed-facebook-group/article_61b1e7ce-f02e-11ed-ba64-d73cda80c2d4.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun Now</a> on Thursday published a story about the so-called Love Warriors that included an “Editor’s note: A freelance writer who previously contributed regular features for Loudoun Now, Jan Mercker, was a member of the Loudoun Love Warriors Facebook group. In addition, a Loudoun Now reporter was named and criticized in the group, including by Mercker.” The paper did not return a request for comment.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin told <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-love-warriors-county-sheriff-investigating-facebook-group-threats-mark-winn-scott-mineo-elicia-brand-heather-gottlieb-winsome-sears-jason-miyares-politics-democrats-republicans-school-board-virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WJLA</a> “It&#8217;s shocking that, in fact, in Virginia today, we have progressive left Democrats who have organized themselves in order to not just intimidate, but to really try to destroy Virginians who are showing up at school board meetings in order to advocate on behalf of their children&#8230; And this is the kind of standard that Attorney General Garland has set when he allows parents to be called terrorists, simply for standing up for their children.&#8221;
Smith, the father of the rape victim, said in a statement that the unearthed messages show the forces that have been dogging him for years.
&#8220;We all are now seeing what my family and I have been subjected to on a daily basis for the past two years,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;This crowd has chosen to engage in hateful and unconscionable behavior against parents like us, merely because we dared to challenge their radical policies.”
A spokesman for the Loudoun County Democratic Committee issued a statement condemning the group.
“Those that use this kind of dangerous rhetoric should not be welcome in the public square,” spokesman John Block said in a statement. “We have seen too many times how violent rhetoric ignites violent actions that hurt and kill people.” But school board chair Serotkin and prosecutor Buta Biberaj did not say whether they would continue to employ aides who were in the group.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-prosecutors-staffer-dem-candidate-in-violence-tinged-group-that-plotted-against-conservative-parents">Soros Prosecutor’s Staffer, Dem Candidate In Violence-Tinged Group That Plotted Against Conservative Parents</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/northern-virginia-leftists-secretly-plotted-to-guard-democrats-from-trans-rape-fallout">Virginia Leftists Secretly Plotted To Guard Democrats From Trans Rape Fallout</a>

Ian Serotkin chairs a meeting of the Loudoun County School Board on May 9 / LCPS

Congressmen, Virginia Gov. Youngkin Demand Answers On Loudoun Enemies List

Congressmen, Youngkin Demand Answers On Loudoun Enemies List

Education

Loudoun County

Merrick Garland

Parental Rights in Education

Virginia

New York City Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> is having a bit of an illegal immigration emergency in his city and is now blaming the Biden administration for the near-constant influx of foreign nationals to the Big Apple. But, as Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) pointed out, Adams and like-minded Big Government liberals are at fault for incentivizing this crisis in the first place.
Recently, Adams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-blasts-biden-says-border-crisis-has-destroyed-nyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> point-blank that the president&#8217;s policies have strained his city and thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children have arrived via buses and other means. In turn, at least one Republican lawmaker took that as a sign that Adams could be a willing partner to secure the border.
“The dam finally broke last week when Mayor Adams rightly blamed the border and migrant crisis on President Biden,” Congressman Mike Lawler, (R-NY) <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/29/eric-adams-new-york-immigration-00094491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to POLITICO.
Lawler now sees a chance for bipartisanship — which as a reminder, tends to mean that The Swamp gets what it wants while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bad-news-for-americans-bipartisanship-is-back-here-comes-amnesty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. citizens get screwed over</a>.
“This administration has been asleep at the wheel on border security, and it has had a tremendous, negative impact on New York City,” Lawler <a href="https://lawler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. “I would be more than happy to work in a bipartisan way with the mayor to force President Biden to secure our borders and reform the immigration system.”
Yet Adams&#8217; solutions to the problem will only exacerbate it. He doesn&#8217;t want to deport these individuals nor close the border — his office believes that more federal aid is needed to help bear the brunt of the cost of providing food, shelter, clothing, education and other benefits to illegal aliens from around the globe. Don&#8217;t take my word for it, listen to Adams&#8217; press secretary.
“Anyone falsely accusing Mayor Adams of using Republican rhetoric should stop criticizing the one person doing more than anyone else in this city for migrants and start pushing for more aid from Washington, DC and Albany,” New York mayoral Press Secretary Fabien Levy said in a statement to POLITICO.
Levy pointed out that Adams continues to welcome these individuals to the city that never sleeps.
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“To personally show his support for asylum seekers, Mayor Adams has organized haircuts for migrants, book donations for kids, and clothing drives, as well as slept besides migrants at a humanitarian relief center while spending hours hearing their personal stories,” Levy added.
Lawler has also voiced support for more federal funding to localities such as New York City and elsewhere while advocating amnesty for certain illegal immigrants.
The second part of his multi-pronged plan released in March <a href="https://lawler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;we have to create a pathway to legalization — for some that will mean citizenship, for others it won&#8217;t.&#8221;
Amnesty will only encourage more individuals to come over the border, in hopes of securing their spot in America to get a headstart on that &#8220;pathway to citizenship.&#8221;
So, while Republicans like Lawler look at Adams&#8217; comments as encouraging, others such as Roy don&#8217;t seem too impressed with the mayor.
“Eric Adams is right to blame the Biden Administration for the border crisis, but this is the same guy who campaigned on his city’s sanctuary status and extended childcare, colleague classes and other taxpayer-funded programs to illegal migrants,” Roy told POLITICO.
Indeed, Adams told the entire world they could find refuge in his city in 2019:
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Make no mistake, New York City will ALWAYS stand up to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and call out his cynical plots to divide our country. To anyone in the world fleeing hatred and oppression, the ultimate city of immigrants wants you to remember: you’re ALWAYS welcome here. <a href="https://t.co/H9xOYz5mJe">pic.twitter.com/H9xOYz5mJe</a>
&mdash; Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1118256710286827521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As mayor, he has cut funding for other areas of public life to provide for the illegal aliens he welcomed.
“Texas has been bearing the brunt of this crisis for over two years — now New York is getting a taste of their own medicine,&#8221; Roy added
The Lone Star State congressman is right. And that burden will continue so long as Democratic policies that reward illegal immigration while allowing the border to be a sieve will continue.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Chip Roy, Eric Adams

‘A Taste Of Their Own Medicine’: Chip Roy Blasts Eric Adams Over Illegal Immigrant Crisis Of Democrats’ Own Making

'A Taste Of Their Own Medicine': Chip Roy Blasts Eric Adams Over Illegal Immigrant Crisis Of His Own Making

Border Crisis

Eric Adams

New York City

After United States Customs and Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz contradicted his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, by telling a House committee the federal government doesn’t have “operational control” of the southern border, Rep. Chip Roy recalled Mayorkas’ patronizing tone when Roy asked him the same question.
Asked by Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, “Does THS have operation control of our entire border,” Ortiz answered succinctly, “No, sir.” Green then pointed out the actual definition of operational control per the U.S. Code: “The prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.”
Roy fired off a tweet at Mayorkas, snapping, “I recall I asked you that question under oath&#8230; and you smirked and said yes.”
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CC: <a href="https://twitter.com/SecMayorkas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecMayorkas</a> (I recall I asked you that question under oath… and you smirked and said “yes.”) <a href="https://t.co/ISTc4ySq6W">https://t.co/ISTc4ySq6W</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1636351375746424832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Roy was referencing his blistering grilling of Mayorkas back in April 2022.
“There have been over one million plus individuals put into proceedings or released into the United States on your watch,” Roy began. “I’ve asked multiple Border Patrol personnel, not the union, mind you, that if we double, triple, quadruple that CPB budget, would that one million release go down, and they categorically said no, it would go up. Do you agree? Yes or no.”
“The only plan that you offered is to process aliens faster and encourage more to come,” Roy continued. “We know that to be true. I know it’s true, you know it’s true, cartels know it’s true and people around the world know it’s true and that’s why people are coming.”
“That’s false,” Mayorkas declared.
“It’s not false,” Roy retorted. “Will you testify under oath right now, do we have operational control, yes or no.”
“Yes, we do,” Mayorkas answered.
Roy then cited the U.S. Code’s definition of operational control. Mayorkas then said his predecessors in 2019 and 2020 would have agreed there was operational control.
Roy fired back, “The Secretary would at least have had a basis for saying we had some sort of control of the border. But the fact is that we currently have people flowing across the border including dangerous narcotics and dangerous members of terrorists which your own agency sent a letter to my office after eight months, we were sent a letter saying there were 42 people on the terrorist watch list that are in the United States.”
“As you just said to Mr. (Jim) Jordan, you don’t even know where the hell they are! That’s what you’re saying is operational control?” Roy blasted. 
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‘You Smirked And Said Yes’: Chip Roy Blasts Mayorkas After Border Patrol Chief Admits No ‘Operational Control’ Of Border

Chip Roy Blasts Mayorkas After Border Patrol Chief Admits No 'Operational Control' Of Border

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX) announced Wednesday that he was endorsing Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for president in 2024 despite the fact that DeSantis has not yet launched a bid for the White House.
Roy, a <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-5-main-factions-of-the-house-gop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prominent</a> Tea Party conservative who is a member of the Freedom Caucus, said in a statement that the next president needs to be &#8220;a vibrant and energetic leader with the faith, vision, and courage to chart a new course.&#8221;
The lengthy statement made no mention of former President Donald Trump and instead focused on DeSantis&#8217; strengths and why Roy believes DeSantis is the right man for the job.
&#8220;America needs a leader who will truly defend her and empower the people against the destructive force of unrestrained government and corporate excess, profligate spending, and woke cultural indoctrination,&#8221; Roy began.
&#8220;As Governor, he unequivocally has made Florida stronger and freer. Economic growth and prosperity in Florida surged upon his firm rejection of the devastating COVID mandates foisted upon us by foolishly empowered Washington bureaucrats,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He stared down woke corporate America and higher education. And he stood with Texas in defense of our border — sending a message to elites in Martha’s Vineyard that they cannot ignore the human and economic toll of open borders.&#8221;
&#8220;His style of no-nonsense government and fearless rejection of woke &#8216;conventional wisdom&#8217; has demonstrated an appeal to all of us based on our shared values as Americans,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;He strives to unite us again as one people under the banner of freedom and equal opportunity — with the courage to stand athwart the destructive divisiveness of identity politics or the temptation to pander.&#8221;
Roy noted DeSantis&#8217; blowout win in last year&#8217;s election and how the governor helped Republicans win across the state in dominant fashion. &#8220;When other Republicans were faltering in key races, Governor DeSantis provided a positive vision for the future with prudent, conservative action,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The result was crystal clear: Republicans enjoyed sweeping, historic performances statewide.&#8221;
The statement said that as a veteran, DeSantis would lead the U.S. &#8220;as commander in chief with the kind of resolve and sober strength that produces peace through strength.&#8221;
&#8220;America has been built upon and defined by the sacrifices of one generation for the next,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;When Republicans choose our 2024 presidential nominee — whom I intend to support against Joe Biden or any other Democrat candidate — I believe it’s time for a new generation of leadership. It’s time for younger, but proven, leadership to offer America eight solid years of transformational change. It’s time for Ron DeSantis to be President of the United States.&#8221;
Ken Cuccinelli, an immigration hardliner who served as Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the Trump administration, praised the endorsement on Twitter. Cuccinelli <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/acting-deputy-secretary-of-homeland-security-under-trump-launches-pac-urging-desantis-to-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a PAC last week urging DeSantis to run for president.
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Superb! So glad to see the first Congressman come out publicly for <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a> for President!
In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iowa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iowa</a> today stumping with great grassroots folks, sharing thoughts on why Gov. DeSantis is the best choice for America in 2024!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverBackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NeverBackDown</a><a href="https://twitter.com/NvrBackDown24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NvrBackDown24</a> <a href="https://t.co/nOrfzdd8Xq">https://t.co/nOrfzdd8Xq</a>
&mdash; Ken Cuccinelli (@KenCuccinelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenCuccinelli/status/1636082862683217927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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