Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw confronted the Biden administration and environmentalists on Wednesday, saying that they are putting the nation at risk because of their hostility to mining.
Crenshaw pointed out in a long <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1620917909433487360" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter thread</a> that despite what some environmentalists may propound, “Wind turbines and natural gas plants are not a one-to-one trade off. Building wind turbines and solar panels requires 10x the materials to deliver the same amount of energy we get with oil and gas.”
“Building a 100MW wind farm requires: 30,000 tons of iron ore, 50,000 tons of concrete, and 900 tons of non-recyclable plastics — and that’s just the basics,” he explained.
He also noted that the United States has become more dependent on foreign countries for minerals.
“Countries like China have eaten our lunch when it comes to lithium refining. Lithium matters because it goes into all sorts of batteries, especially for electric vehicles,” he said. Lithium is also crucial for consumer electronics and energy storage.
Then he mentioned various sites where mining has been inhibited, thus contributing to a shortage of valuable minerals, starting with the <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/03/lithium-mining-oregon-alvord-desert-playa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">huge amounts of lithium deposits</a> in Oregon, where he said activists have impeded mining “that could support production of 1 million electric vehicles annually.”
“Why?” he asked rhetorically. “To protect the sage grouse — which, let’s be honest, is basically a fancy chicken.”
Turning to Nevada, he stated that lithium mining at the proposed Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine was &#8220;tied up&#8221; because of a <a href="https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-seeks-emergency-protections-rare-nevada-wildflower-2020-09-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> involving Tiehm’s buckwheat, which allegedly could become endangered.
Crenshaw noted that President Biden <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/01/26/biden-administration-cancels-twin-metals-leases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled leases</a> in 2022 in parts of Minnesota that could provide copper, nickel, and cobalt from mining, also pointing out, “It’s also the only sizable place in the country where we get taconite.”
“Why does taconite matter? Steel,” he declared, explaining, “Taconite gets taken out of the ground and turned into steel. Steel goes into every structure you see around you. And right now, China is one of our biggest steel competitors.”
“National security aside — it’s lunacy to think that any other country is mining cleaner or with fairer labor practices. I’d rather give those jobs to Americans. For the sake of the planet and American workers, it pays for the U.S. to take the lead on this,” he argued.
“America is blessed with resources, resources we can use for things like solar panels and wind turbines and everything else we need. Why don’t radical environmentalists want to use them?” he concluded.

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‘I’d Rather Give Those Jobs To Americans’: Crenshaw Rips Biden, Environmentalists On Blocking Mining

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Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=409099&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20230120&amp;utm_content=story409099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">championed</a> the use of the U,S. military to combat the drug cartels smuggling deadly fentanyl across the southern border into the United States.
Crenshaw spoke with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, who prompted Crenshaw by asking what it was that had Crenshaw concerned.
“Well, look, we recently introduced AUMF, an Authorized Use of Military Force against the cartels and any other organizations that traffic fentanyl specifically,” Crenshaw answered. “So why now and why not years ago? These Mexican drug cartels have been around for a while. The difference now is fentanyl.”
“This is not a drug problem; this is not a war on drug problem; this is a poisoning problem,” Crenshaw declared. “And they are killing about 80,000 Americans a year. And the Mexican government does very little to thwart this.”
“I think there should be bipartisan efforts in Congress to pass an Authorized Use of Military Force to deal with them,” he asserted. “If anything, that simply gives our president more leverage when trying to get the Mexican government to do its job, its job on thwarting immigration, which the cartels also control, and thwarting fentanyl coming north across our border and killing American citizens.”
Crenshaw turned to the deadly intentions of the drug cartels: “These people are a lot more like ISIS than they are the mafia. You recently saw a war in the state of Sinaloa after the Mexican government arrested El Chapo’s son. These cartels can actually battle close air-support; they’re battling government helicopters. This looks a lot like Mogadishu; it looks a lot more like Mogadishu that it does your typical organized crime battle, these people are well-equipped, they set up operating bases that are well-armed, right near our border, and they’re extremely dangerous. They’re some of the most capable, most well-funded, most dangerous organizations on the planet, and they’re right there.”
“Mexico is at risk of becoming a failed state,” he noted. “We have to work together with their government to deal with this.”
“The Mexican government has always resisted more U.S. involvement, and that’s to their detriment,” he insisted. “And so we are at a point now where their resistance is not only hurting them, it’s killing our citizens. And that’s when we have to say enough is enough; you’re gonna cooperate with us; we have an AUMF here that we’ve given the president military authority now; and so you’d better work with us, because we don’t want to do this without you but we will.”

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Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) beat out Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) to become chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and pledged to prioritize America&#8217;s southern border.
The House Republican Steering Committee selected Green for the role as it <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1612539247482773517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held votes for leadership positions Monday</a> in the first week following Rep. Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA) rise to the speakership.
Upon securing the gavel, Green announced &#8220;ending the border crisis President Biden created is our top priority.&#8221; Green also told reporters he would assign staff members to work at the U.S.-Mexico border where they can provide &#8220;real-time updates&#8221; from Customs and Border Protection,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-9-2023/homeland-goes-to-green/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to POLITICO</a>.
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I&#39;m grateful to <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a> and the House Republican Steering Committee for entrusting me with this task; it&#39;s time to get to work and fulfill our Commitment to America! /2 <a href="https://t.co/VFLYcxDNIm">pic.twitter.com/VFLYcxDNIm</a>
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<a href="https://www.nashvillepost.com/green-elected-president-of-republican-freshman-class/article_db3c055d-4b4f-512b-8775-a22eb8c29eda.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First elected in 2018</a> and a member of the House Freedom Caucus, Green replaces Rep. John Katko (R-NY) as the top Republican member of the Homeland Security Committee after Katko did not seek re-election in the 2022 midterm cycle. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/about/members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chaired the panel</a> during the last session of Congress while he also led the January 6 Committee.
Green faced Crenshaw, a fellow combat veteran, in the contest to become the next chairman after the Republicans won control of the House last year. Crenshaw issued an apology on Sunday for referring to some of his GOP colleagues as “terrorists” during negotiations that led to the election of McCarthy as House speaker.
&#8220;To the extent that I have colleagues that were offended by it, I sincerely apologize to them. I don’t want them to think I actually believe they’re terrorists. It’s clearly a turn of phrase that you use in an intransigent negotiation,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dan-crenshaw-walks-back-terrorist-comment-against-gop-house-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crenshaw told CNN</a>.
Green tagged Crenshaw on Twitter, crediting him for running a &#8220;spirited race&#8221; for the homeland security panel chairmanship. &#8220;I’m grateful for his friendship and leadership. I look forward to working with him, a fellow veteran who understands our national security challenges, to secure our homeland,&#8221; Green added.
Green also said he is &#8220;grateful&#8221; to McCarthy and the House Republican Steering Committee &#8220;for entrusting me with this task; it&#8217;s time to get to work and fulfill our Commitment to America!&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas">Texas</a> Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw apologized on Sunday for referring to some of his GOP colleagues as &#8220;terrorists&#8221; during negotiations that led to the election of Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) as House speaker.
Crenshaw shared the apology during an interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Jake Tapper.
“Look, things get heated and things get said. Obviously, to people who took offense by that, it’s pretty obvious that it’s meant as a turn of phrase,” Crenshaw said.
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On <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDanCrenshaw</a> discusses the GOP infighting that led to the stalled House speaker vote. <a href="https://t.co/aORnzxukRG">https://t.co/aORnzxukRG</a>
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“I’ve got pretty thick skin. I’m called awful, vile things by the very same wing of the party that I was fighting at that moment. So I was a little taken aback by the sensitivity of it. But to the extent that I have colleagues that were offended by it, I sincerely apologize to them. I don’t want them to think I actually believe they’re terrorists. It’s clearly a turn of phrase that you use in an intransigent negotiation,” he added.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, had referred to the 20 GOP holdouts against McCarthy as “terrorists.” He later doubled down on his remarks but explained they weren&#8217;t intended to be taken literally.
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“They need to be men and adults and say what they want, instead of playing these little games, that&#39;s what we&#39;re asking. That&#39;s what I&#39;ve asked them. Some of them are my friends. Stop saying platitudes like, ‘Washington is broken. We can&#39;t do the status quo,’” Crenshaw said.
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“It’s a figure of speech. People need to lighten up and grow some f***ing thick skin,” he said. “That’s what I think about that. I am so sick of like these hurt feelings. I already got criticized earlier because I called them something else. You know what? You step into the octagon, be ready to get punched in the face.”
Crenshaw continued to blast the tactics of his colleagues and challenged them to join in making McCarthy the House speaker.
“They need to be men and adults and say what they want, instead of playing these little games, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re asking. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve asked them. Some of them are my friends. Stop saying platitudes like, ‘Washington is broken. We can&#8217;t do the status quo,’” Crenshaw said.
Crenshaw also criticized the GOP holdouts during an <a href="https://radio.foxnews.com/2023/01/04/crenshaw-unloads-on-gop-holdouts-acting-like-terrorists-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on Fox News Radio with host Guy Benson on Wednesday.
“They had no plan. They have some list of demands that mostly have been met,” he said. “They basically closed all the doors and pulled the pins on the grenades and are staring at each other like, what the hell do we do?&#8221;
McCarthy failed to receive the needed votes from the GOP House majority until early Saturday morning.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-elected-next-speaker-of-the-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, McCarthy won with 216 votes over Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) 212 after six Republicans voted “present,” which lowered the bar needed for McCarthy to clinch the position. The win came after 15 votes over multiple days as House members returned to Washington, D.C., after the holiday break.
A total of 20 Republicans refused to support McCarthy&#8217;s nomination throughout the early rounds. In the final vote, all but six of the GOP House members voted for McCarthy to help end the week-long battle.

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Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ratings-blowout-tucker-carlsons-1-a-m-rerun-beats-all-but-two-cnn-programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> laid into Congressman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/crenshaw-blasts-anti-mccarthy-republicans-tell-us-what-you-actually-want-or-shut-the-f-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Crenshaw</a> (R-TX) during his Wednesday show — calling him &#8220;the snarling face of the donor class&#8221; — and prompting an angry response from Crenshaw.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/do-we-really-want-to-go-there-tucker-blasts-reparations-plan-that-would-require-nazi-race-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carlson</a> began by sharing video of Crenshaw, who is backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the contentious intra-party battle for the House speaker position, accusing the Republicans who oppose McCarthy of being more interested in their own fame and notoriety than in working for the American people.
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&#8220;They are enemies now,&#8221; Crenshaw told CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju — and he referred to the GOP holdouts as &#8220;terrorists&#8221; during a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/crenshaw-blasts-anti-mccarthy-republicans-tell-us-what-you-actually-want-or-shut-the-f-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conversation</a> with Fox News radio host Guy Benson, saying, &#8220;We cannot let the terrorists win.&#8221;
Carlson said the holdouts have legitimate reasons for not backing McCarthy.
&#8220;But you&#8217;ll notice that Dan Crenshaw didn&#8217;t address any of those — none of them,&#8221; Carlson said after airing the clip of the  former Navy SEAL. &#8220;What you just saw as Dan Crenshaw spoke — what you just saw is the snarling face of the donor class, revealed for all to see finally.&#8221;
Crenshaw fired back at Carlson on Twitter, saying that his use of the word &#8220;terrorists&#8221; was a &#8220;figure of speech&#8221; and suggesting that the Fox News host was being overly sensitive.
&#8220;Unclutch your pearls. It’s a figure of speech. You can’t insult, slander, and hold everyone hostage with no way out &#8211; and not expect me to punch back. Grow thicker skin,&#8221; he said.
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Unclutch your pearls. It’s a figure of speech. You can’t insult, slander, and hold everyone hostage with no way out &#8211; and not expect me to punch back. 
Grow thicker skin. <a href="https://t.co/gmwDmfCney">https://t.co/gmwDmfCney</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1610819624265994241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, McCarthy lost a ninth consecutive vote for the speakership, picking up just 200 of the necessary 218 votes. Seventeen Republicans cast votes for Byron Donalds (R-FL) and three chose Kevin Hern (R-OK). The vote came after McCarthy met with the holdouts Wednesday night and made  several significant concessions designed to get him to the magic number.
The concessions reportedly included allowing a motion from a sole member to force a vote on ousting the speaker, more key committee seats for Freedom Caucus members, a promise to hold votes on term limits and border security, and appropriations changes aimed at preventing another omnibus spending bill. McCarthy also reportedly agreed to keep his super PAC, Congressional Leadership Fund out of Republican primary races for open seats.
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You can’t expect to call 20 members of your own party “terrorists” for exercising their right to vote for leadership and not expect Tucker to punch back.
Grow thicker skin. Or maybe just stop being a jackass.
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Tucker Carlson Rips Dan Crenshaw In McCarthy Fight; Crenshaw Returns Fire

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Crenshaw</a> (R-TX) tore into a small group of Republican lawmakers during multiple interviews on Wednesday for blocking Rep. Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA) bid to become the new House Speaker.
The Republicans who are blocking McCarthy’s bid included Reps. Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Byron Donalds (FL), Josh Brecheen (OK), Mike Cloud (TX), Andrew Clyde (GA), Eli Crane (AZ), Matt Gaetz (FL), Bob Good (VA), Paul Gosar (AZ), Andy Harris (MD), Anna Paulina Luna (FL), Mary Miller (IL), Ralph Norman (SC), Andy Ogles (TN), Scott Perry (PA), Matt Rosendale (MT), Chip Roy (TX), Keith Self (TX), and Andy Biggs (AZ).
Speaking to reporters, Crenshaw unloaded on the 20 Republicans, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m tired of your stupid platitudes that some consultant told you to say on the campaign trail, alright.&#8221;
&#8220;Behind closed doors tell us what you actually want, or shut the f**** up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They need to be men and adults and say what they want, instead of playing these little games, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re asking.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve asked them. Some of them are my friends. Stop saying platitudes like, ‘Washington is broken. We can&#8217;t do the status quo,’” he continued. &#8220;They want to pull the pins on the grenades and lock the doors.&#8221;
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“They want to pull the pins on the grenades and lock the doors,” he said of the effort.
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&#8220;I think the 20 holdouts are continuing to show themselves to be unbelievably unserious. Now they&#8217;re just choosing random people. They don’t have a plan. It&#8217;s almost like they want to make the point that they don&#8217;t have a plan,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They have zero ability to articulate what they want that would cause them to vote yes. It is utterly confusing, and then they get mad at us for criticizing, it&#8217;s actually quite hilarious the self-victimization that occurs.&#8221;
Crenshaw later gave a fiery interview on Fox News Radio with host Guy Benson where he called out the 20 Republicans&#8217; lack of preparation and planning for the alternative they were willing to back instead of McCarthy.
&#8220;They had no plan. They have some list of demands that mostly have been met,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They basically closed all the doors and pulled the pins on the grenades and are staring at each other like, what the hell do we do? Everyone is trying to work with them in good faith to give them an offramp, because this is a terrible situation for them personally. They are responsible for holding up a GOP agenda. They could be responsible for Democrats pulling some really clever deals, maybe forcing a plurality vote, maybe potentially getting a rules package the Democrats want.&#8221;
&#8220;Then they insulted Donald Trump. Did you hear that part earlier?&#8221; Crenshaw said. &#8220;Lauren Boebert, and you know, because she’s really served this country, so she gets up and she basically tells Donald Trump to eff off. That’s what she just did. I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I just couldn’t believe it.&#8221;
When asked if nominating another candidate for Speaker would change the dynamic, Crenshaw said that it would not, which was why &#8220;we can&#8217;t give in.&#8221;
&#8220;And so those of us who are standing against this, we’re standing for principle. They are standing for notoriety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They’re standing for that extra news because nobody ever cares about them and they’re frustrated by that.&#8221;
He said that the 20 Republicans have pushed everyone else into a corner, which has galvanized all the other Republicans’ support for McCarthy.
&#8220;So now we’re saying we won’t vote for anyone but McCarthy. That’s why we’re saying it, because we cannot let the terrorists win,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That’s basically what’s happening.&#8221;
Crenshaw, a former NAVY Seal, later addressed backlash from some Republicans and conservatives who were mad that he compared the 20 Republicans to &#8220;terrorists.&#8221;
“It’s a figure of speech. People need to lighten up and grow some f***ing thick skin,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That’s what I think about that. I am so sick of like these hurt feelings. I already got criticized earlier because I called them something else. You know what? You step into the octagon, be ready to get punched in the face.&#8221;

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GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, fed up with the lassitude that the Biden administration has shown dealing with the huge numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border, offered a novel suggestion to fix the problem.
In data released last Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported they had arrested roughly double the number of illegal aliens in 2022 from 2021. ICE made roughly 143,000 arrests in fiscal year 2022 as opposed to roughly 74,000 arrests in 2021.
“Let’s solve the border crisis in one tweet,” Crenshaw began his Twitter thread. “Instead of spending billions more on ‘processing,’ spend more money on jet fuel. Pack planes full of migrants who cross illegally and deport them immediately. The crisis will end within months.”
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Let’s solve the border crisis in one tweet. Instead of spending billions more on “processing,” spend more money on jet fuel. 
Pack planes full of migrants who cross illegally and deport them immediately. The crisis will end within months.
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“Why not just turn them away when they cross?” he asked rhetorically. “Many have asked why Texas doesn’t do that. Because we have a river. Once they’re in the river, they’re within our jurisdiction. We can’t physically secure the Rio Grande. Even if we did turn them back, they’d cross somewhere else.”
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Why not just turn them away when they cross? Many have asked why Texas doesn’t do that. 
Because we have a river. Once they’re in the river, they’re within our jurisdiction. We can’t physically secure the Rio Grande. Even if we did turn them back, they’d cross somewhere else.
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“So you need jet fuel,” he reasoned. “You need to be sending people far away from the border, thus making it unimaginable for someone to make the journey all the way north if they’re just gonna be sent back home.”
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So you need jet fuel. You need to be sending people far away from the border, thus making it unimaginable for someone to make the journey all the way north if they’re just gonna be sent back home.
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Then Crenshaw turned to the problem of repatriation, noting former President Trump had found a successful way to encourage Latin America to cooperate: “And if the State Department can’t negotiate agreements for repatriation (think Cuba and Venezuela)? Then versions of Remain in Mexico policy must be aggressively pursued. Trump did this by threatening Mexico with tariffs. It worked. What about people with legitimate asylum claims? Well, we should have a process to claim asylum through our consulates and embassies in those countries or neighboring ones. Trump did this, it was called Asylum Cooperation Agreements. Biden ended those.”
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What about people with legitimate asylum claims? Well, we should have a process to claim asylum through our consulates and embassies in those countries or neighboring ones. Trump did this, it was called Asylum Cooperation Agreements. Biden ended those.
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Crenshaw fired at the Biden administration: “The truth is, the ‘compassion’ of democrats open borders has allowed so much abuse to take place of our asylum system that the backlog is well over a million. This means that real asylum seekers around the world have almost no chance of getting into the system. In summary: fund airplanes, holding facilities, immigration judges, ICE prosecutors, walls, and technology capable of detecting fentanyl. And stop the abuses of our asylum system. That’s what border security would look like.”
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In summary: fund airplanes, holding facilities, immigration judges, ICE prosecutors, walls, and technology capable of detecting fentanyl. And stop the abuses of our asylum system. That’s what border security would look like.
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1610059505748049920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) blasted the FBI&#8217;s conduct during the recent raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Appearing on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; Sunday, Crenshaw said the FBI took extreme measures to extract classified documents from former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Florida estate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-raids-trumps-home-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earlier this month</a>.
Crenshaw said that the raid on Mar-a-Lago was completely unwarranted, given that Trump had been complying with federal officials for some time. He also dismissed the idea that Trump was holding classified materials related to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-raided-mar-a-lago-to-search-for-top-secret-documents-on-nuclear-weapons-report-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nuclear weapons</a> in the boxes of documents the FBI seized.
&#8220;I’m not one to withhold criticism and even make my own side mad,&#8221; Crenshaw began. &#8220;I want to get to the truth. But I will be honest with you here, this&#8211; it’s hard to justify what the Department of Justice did here, in my opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;Here’s what it really boils down to,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It’s not a question that it’s bad to have classified material in a non-SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] environment. That’s a non-secret compartmentalized infrastructure there. That&#8217;s wrong. But there&#8217;s ways to mitigate that, there&#8217;s ways to resolve that issue. And I still haven’t seen any evidence that Trump was even asked to give these documents back.&#8221;
&#8220;He’s been cooperating with them on these issues for a while now, for months. And so, why take it to extreme extent? And I think that’s why you’re seeing so much backlash from Republicans. You’re seeing everyone coalesce. It doesn’t matter what side of the issue they’re on with Trump, we’ve seen a lot coalesce around this one because it does seem unjust and there does seem to be a long history of loss of credibility at the Department of Justice at the hands of Democrats. And I think people are rightful rightfully frustrated about that.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a very unprecedented measure,&#8221; Crenshaw added. &#8220;And you know that when you are going after an ex-president who may run again, this is automatically political. You cannot separate the legal aspects of this from the political aspects of it. You can’t. And it doesn’t seem to me they’ve acted responsibly as a result of that.&#8221;
Tapper pressed Crenshaw, noting that at least one of Trump lawyer&#8217;s had signed a written statement to the Department of Justice saying all classified material had been returned to the federal government.
&#8220;Lawyers did sign that document that they have nothing left,&#8221; Crenshaw replied. &#8220;Now, that&#8217;s either a huge mistake on the lawyers, but even if it&#8217;s nefarious, then why not say &#8216;Hey we don&#8217;t believe you, now let us come back, let&#8217;s go through these boxes again&#8217; &#8230; Do any of us really believe Donald Trump is reading nuclear secrets at his bedside at night?&#8221;
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After Communist China warned against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, saying such a visit would have a “a severe impact on the political foundation of China-U.S. relations,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), a trenchant critic of China, fired back.
“The Chinese Communist Party can go straight to hell,” Crenshaw snapped. “You don’t tell us when our elected representatives can visit other countries, as they always have, since our nation’s inception. No amount of toddler-esque saber rattling will change that.”
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The Chinese Communist Party can go straight to hell. 
You don’t tell us when our elected representatives can visit other countries, as they always have, since our nation’s inception. 
No amount of toddler-esque saber rattling will change that.
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1554620320836984832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Only minutes after Pelosi’s arrival, Beijing announced plans for live-fire military exercises in areas around the island of Taiwan. Prior to Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan, Chinese warplanes buzzed the area on the border of the Taiwan Strait.
China&#8217;s foreign ministry had acknowledged it issued a protest to the United States, threatening that a visit “seriously infringes upon China&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
China’s defense ministry said it would launch &#8220;targeted military operations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220802-us-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-lands-in-taiwan-despite-chinese-warnings">France 24</a> reported on Tuesday, adding, “The Chinese military announced joint air and sea drills near Taiwan starting on Tuesday night and test launch of conventional missiles in the sea east of Taiwan, with Chinese state news agency Xinhua describing live-fire drills and other exercises around Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday.”
Last Thursday, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-chinas-xi-talk-as-a-pelosi-trip-to-taiwan-threatens-to-inject-new-tensions-11659013042">according</a> to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Chinese leader Xi Jinping threatened the U.S. in a conversation with President Joe Biden about America’s ties to Taiwan. “Those who play with fire will perish by it. It is hoped that the U.S. will be clear-eyed about this,” the Chinese statement said Xi warned.
In May 2020, a report appeared in a Communist Chinese state media outlet asserting that Communist China was targeting various GOP politicians, including Crenshaw, who had harshly criticized the Chinese regime for its actions regarding the coronavirus. Crenshaw issued a defiant tweet in response, snapping, “So apparently I’m on the Chinese government’s radar now. Good. Bring it.”
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So apparently I’m on the Chinese government’s radar now.
Good.
Bring it. <a href="https://t.co/kIC5YIbUqf">https://t.co/kIC5YIbUqf</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1261069725741744129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In April 2020, at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Crenshaw minced no words, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-dan-crenshaw-make-bold-new-accusations-against-china">stating</a> of China, “They allowed this virus to spread. They knew it would spread; they spread false talking points like it won’t spread from human to human contact. They didn’t let scientists in to investigate. They actually disappeared doctors who tried to blow the whistle. The number of deaths and infections they hid.”

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)  blasted far-Left Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) Wednesday afternoon after Bowman baselessly accused Elon Musk of supporting &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; after Musk revealed that he voted for Republican Mayra Flores, a Mexican immigrant, in Tuesday&#8217;s special election in south Texas.
&#8220;Elon Musk is not a leader,&#8221; Bowman claimed about Musk, who is the CEO of SpaceX, co-CEO of Tesla, and soon-to-be CEO of Twitter. &#8220;He’s just another Republican billionaire who supports white supremacy and authoritarianism because he doesn&#8217;t want his workers to unionize or to pay his fair share in taxes. The GOP just tried to end democracy and now he’s supporting them.&#8221;
Bowman made the remarks in response to a tweet from Musk, who wrote last night: &#8220;I voted for Mayra Flores – first time I ever voted Republican. Massive red wave in 2022.&#8221;
Crenshaw responded to Bowman by writing: &#8220;When you think an African American immigrant voting for a Mexican-American woman is &#8216;white supremacy,&#8217; it might be an indication your brain is broken.&#8221;
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When you think an African American immigrant voting for a Mexican-American woman is “white supremacy,” it might be an indication your brain is broken. <a href="https://t.co/givGRFnpkb">https://t.co/givGRFnpkb</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1537167355725418496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Flores, who beat Democrat Dan Sanchez in the special election for Texas’ 34th Congressional District, is now “the first GOP candidate to represent that area of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870,” the Houston Chronicle <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/GOP-Mayra-Flores-first-Mexican-born-17240888.php">reported</a>, and she will be “the first congresswoman born in Mexico.”
Flores is not the first Republican candidate to make history this election cycle, after Trump-endorsed celebrity surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-winner-emerges-in-republican-primary-for-u-s-senate-seat-in-pennsylvania">won</a> the party’s nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Oz is now the first Muslim to be nominated for a U.S. Senate seat by a major American political party, and would become the nation’s first Muslim senator if he were to win in the general election against far-Left Democrat John Fetterman, who recently suffered a stroke.
Flores responded to her victory with a statement saying that her “historic win will bring back God to the halls of Congress!”
“This win is for the people who were ignored for so long!” she continued. “This is a message that the establishment will no longer be tolerated! We have officially started the red wave!! #TX34 God, Family, Country.”
“Congresswoman-Elect Mayra Flores and the people of Texas have a message for Joe Biden!” she added. “The RED Tsunami is here!”
The region has been devastated by Democrat President Joe Biden’s border crisis, something that has turned off many Hispanic voters who typically have voted for Democrats in the past.
“Republicans have been eager to flip the seat as part of their new offensive in South Texas after Biden’s underperformance throughout the predominantly Hispanic region in the 2020 election. Flores and her allies spent over $1 million on TV ads in the special election,” the Texas Tribune <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/14/texas-special-election-tx-34-mayra-flores-dan-sanchez/">reported</a>. “The dynamic put Democrats into an unusual underdog position in a region of the state they have long dominated. Vastly outspent by Flores, Sanchez repeatedly compared the special election to a David vs. Goliath fight, with himself playing David.”

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Asked about gun control rhetoric from President Biden and celebrities like actor Matthew McConaughey, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) declared, “Obviously I’m not giving up my AR-15. That’s mine, not happening.”
Crenshaw <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=381623?utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20220613&amp;utm_content=story381623">appeared</a> with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, who started by asking him about President Biden’s appearance on late night TV with Jimmy Kimmel, where he mocked the GOP vis-à-vis gun control. Kilmeade asked, “Did he help the debate with his speech after the shooting?”
“No. No,” Crenshaw answered. “I think they’re doing the same thing they always do after a mass shooting; they politicize it and they try to convince America that you can actually legislate away these extremely rare and anomalous events.”
“These are very evil events,” Crenshaw acknowledged. “I think they make us all cringe; I think they make us all very upset, and that’s understandable.”
“But then we have to take a step back and take the emotion and think what policies do we enact to prevent these things,” he asserted. “Are these preventable? Can you see these mass shooters ahead of time? What kind of contagion is infecting our young people and our old people that they seek to engage in these dramatic mass killings? Ever since Columbine happened these are really difficult questions, and you can’t politicize it or put emotion in front of reason.”
“Obviously I’m not giving up my AR-15,” Crenshaw said firmly. “That’s mine, not happening. I’m pretty clear on that. Look, raising the age to 21, if you are going to talk about that you just need to change what it is to be an adult in America. We need to see that conversation about all aspects of how young people act and mature. So I don’t think an arbitrary 21 versus 18 is really gonna change a whole lot of things when it comes to gun violence.”
He referred to the Senate considering the expansion of  background checks for younger people: “That makes a lot of sense. If you’re 18 and you have a terrible juvenile history but we can’t look at it in a background check? We should be able to look at that; that should be part of the analysis on your background check.”
“When it comes to red flag laws, despite what all the trolls on the internet say, I’m really not for red flag laws,” he continued. “There’s good arguments and bad arguments about this, and there’s a lot of misconceptions on both sides of this argument but fundamentally with a red flag law you’re trying to enforce a law before it’s been broken, and that’s a really difficult thing to do. If you take somebody’s word for it and then you confiscate someone’s property and their right to self-defense as a result, this is a really difficult thing to enforce by any practical measure, and I don’t think it will have the outcome either that a lot of Democrats hope that it will.”

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Parents who took little children to a Dallas gay bar&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-gay-bars-drag-show-for-kids-obscene-sign-draws-angry-protests">obscene drag show</a> &#8220;lost their minds a long time ago,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw">Rep. Dan Crenshaw</a> said Sunday in a <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1533633704395952129?s=20&amp;t=aYXCFb1Z_sG24yoqH3Rhyg">series of tweets</a>.
The “Drag the Kids to Pride” show at the Mr. Misster bar was billed as a “family-friendly” version of the bar’s regular “Champagne Drag Brunch.” During Saturday’s event, drag performers pranced with children as young as seven in front of a neon sign that read, “It’s not gonna lick itself.”
&#8220;This is really deranged,&#8221; the Texas Republican and former Navy SEAL tweeted. &#8220;It’s also proof that when you’re too open-minded, your brain falls out. Clearly these parents lost their minds a long time ago.&#8221;
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This is really deranged. It’s also proof that when you’re too open-minded, your brain falls out. 
Clearly these parents lost their minds a long time ago. <a href="https://t.co/ZBTGMkYqqc">https://t.co/ZBTGMkYqqc</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1533633704395952129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Several parents and attendees who wore T-shirts supporting Texas Democrat Beto O&#8217;Rourke for governor defended taking children to the event in an interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/AldoButtazzoni">Aldo Buttazzoni</a>, a correspondent for the YouTube channel “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/FleccasTalks" rel="noopener">Fleccas Talks</a>.&#8221; Crenshaw weighed in to reject claims that exposing children to the spectacle was teaching them tolerance.
&#8220;Let me ask you: When parents want to introduce their kids to straight sex, they don’t take them to a strip club or burlesque show, do they?&#8221; Crenshaw asked in one of several tweets on the subject. &#8220;Is this hyper-sexual drag show supposed to accurately represent the gay community?
&#8220;Is this really supposed to build “tolerance?” I can’t imagine most gay couples I know would ever condone kids going to these shows, just as most straight couples wouldn’t bring their kid to a burlesque show,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;This is not only deranged, but also gives millions of decent gay couples a bad name,&#8221; Crenshaw concluded.
A group called “Protect Texas Kids” protested outside the bar and said it had hoped to scuttle the event as soon as it heard about it.
“The mission was to raise awareness that an event like this, a drag show for children, was happening right in Dallas,” the organization said in a statement. “We also hoped that if we raised awareness, the event might be canceled or modified so that children couldn’t be present.”
After the event, the bar released a statement claiming it was raising money for a local LGBTQ+ youth organization and accused protesters of being “transphobic.”
“We are more than happy to open our doors to celebrate Pride in a family friendly, safe environment, separate from our normal operations of 2 p.m. – 2 a.m. on Saturdays because we believe that everyone should have a space to be able to celebrate who they are,” the statement read.

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