Every once in a while there’s a political no-brainer. Something along the lines of: The Chinese Communist Party is using an app to data mine and influence American kids — should we put a stop to it?
For any sane, fully grown adult the answer to this question is obviously: Yes. Yes we should stamp out this evil weed as soon as possible. And yet for progressive Democrats the answer is oddly, no.
Why?
Last week, when asked if his company is giving user data to the Chinese Communist Party, the Singaporean CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, hemmed, hawed, and stammered in his congressional testimony.
This is the same CCP that refuses to allow an investigation into the origins of COVID and recently flew a spy balloon on a cross country vacation courtesy of the Biden Administration.
But we are just supposed to accept that it&#8217;s fine and dandy if the Chinese government has access to every other ten minutes of our children’s lives.
With over one billion worldwide users, TikTok is now the social media opioid of today’s youth. 
The comical congressman from New York Jamaal Bowman gave us a pretty good idea why Democrats are kowtowing to the communist social media platform. He says “Republicans ain’t got no swag — that’s why they want a ban.”
It&#8217;s a very telling statement. It shows Democrats have honed in on the TikTok generation, young millennials and Gen Z as their ticket to future power, and it looks like a good bet.
After all, our elderly Democrat president loves having TikTok stars over to the White House to talk about climate change alarmism and men becoming women, and Vice President Harris is a regular feature on the communist platform. 
Then there’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has mastered the art of the wine-infused political social media rant, the congresswoman doesn’t just represent Queens, she’s now a TikTok queen herself.
This week she <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/nyregion/aoc-tiktok-ban-video.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made her debut</a> on the Chinese juggernaut platform in gleeful support of the company, and why not? What better way to support socialism?
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) put it well saying, “It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true — China has access to TikTok user data.” Indeed. 
But this is bigger than TikTok. The Democrats have been channeling their inner Whitney Houston, insisting that the children are our present for years now, from Greta Thunberg to Kyle Kashuv.
And it seems to be working. Polling shows that unlike previous generations, Millennials are not becoming more conservative as they age, instead, for many of them, their progressive values are settling in like a pungent cheese. 
Compared to past generational cohorts, Americans under 40 are in a kind of ideological arrested development. The <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Financial Times</a> put it bluntly in a recent headline, “Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics.”
Their study found that historically a 35-year-old should be about 5% less conservative than the average person, instead today that number is 15% less, and for younger Americans the numbers are even more stark.
What the Democrats are doing is stoking a kind of generational warfare, a narrative in which the Boomers destroyed America for their kids, or as a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/14/opinion/middle-age-millennials.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> recently put it, “Millennials Are Hitting Middle Age — And It Doesn’t Look Like What We Were Promised.”
You will have to pardon my Gen X incredulity when I say we were also promised all that stuff, that we can be whatever we want, that our dreams will all come true, we just weren’t naive enough to believe it.
The Democrats need TikTok because it is the place where young adults and children escape reality, where they really can be whatever they want to be, no avatar is out of reach, no pronoun too absurd. 
The Democrats have become a Mad Hatter political party in which science is public relations, policing is perverse, borders are irrelevant and we are 10 minutes away from climate devastation.
You know what platform is pitch perfect for proliferating these preposterous ideas? You guessed it, TikTok.
That two minute Karen who catches your eye confessing her privilege and professing her allyship, those sincere seconds with the very serious scientist urging you to get your 15th COVID booster shot, teachers unions doing horrible, horrible group dances. It’s all on TikTok.
Pandering to young voters is nothing new for Democrats, and frankly, it often doesn’t work. Shockingly, 22-year-olds are not the most reliable voters, but this is something deeper.
Put simply, by siding with TikTok progressive Democrats are undermining American interests and all but signaling that they want to partner with communist China for cultural control of our kids.
This is not a situation that the American people — especially American parents — will put up with. It’s a Trojan horse with a big sign around its neck that reads “I’m a Trojan horse.”  We all see it.
Pay close attention to the Democrats who support the Chi Com app, not to doubt their patriotism, but to doubt their good sense.
The threat that China poses to the United States and the West is very real, the neoliberal salad days awash in wishes of bringing the great dragon into the community of democratic free market nations are over.
Democrats who think TikTok is their friend should be careful what they wish for. Congressman Bowman may think that his TikTok swag is setting trends, but it&#8217;s just as likely that he is following trends approved by the CCP.
And therein lies the rub. Will Democrats protect Americans from malign foreign intelligence operations even if they accrue to their political benefit? 
So far, the answer seems to be no.
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David Marcus is a West Virginia based columnist and author of “Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Republicans Ain’t Got No Swag’: Why Progressives Go Out Of Their Way To Oppose TikTok Ban

‘Republicans Ain't Got No Swag’: Why Progressives Go Out Of Their Way To Oppose TikTok Ban

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The following is the opening satirical monologue from &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1123-the-lost-rule-of-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show.</a>&#8220;
On this show, we are never afraid to examine the insights and ramifications of leftist theory, because there’s only so many times we can watch the movie “Sausage Party” and we need a good laugh. Today, we’d like to take a look at the theory of Systemic Racism, the left’s attempt to explain why American blacks fail to thrive even though Democrats have done everything they can to destroy them.
To begin with, let’s use the term in context. Let’s say you’re a sleazy Democrat con-woman who’s the president of the American Federation of Teachers only not named Randi Weingarten because we don’t want to get sued. And this low grifter — let’s call her Wendy Ramsbottom — uses her sinister control of the Democrat party to keep schools closed for two years so her teachers get paid while poor children sink into incurable ignorance. NOW Whiny Garfinkel has created a situation where many black children — who weren’t getting much of an education from Barfy Whinefartel anyway — can’t read or write, so employers won’t hire them and the only job they can get is starting fistfights at McDonald&#8217;s. Systemic Racism occurs when employers privilege reading and writing because that&#8217;s what rich white people do because they don’t go to schools controlled by low sleazy Democrats like Farty Whinecandy.
So how exactly is “Systemic Racism,” defined? Well, let’s take each word in turn. “Racism” is a meaningless noise you scream in a harsh repetitive voice that sounds something like a seagull being chased by a jackhammer. And “systemic” is a multisyllabic nonsense meant to make the screeching seagull-noise sound like it means something. Put the two words together, and “Systemic Racism” means someone has noticed that Democrats have destroyed the lives of black people, and you have to drown them out by screaming &#8220;Systemic Racism.&#8221;
Now, here’s what makes the theory of Systemic Racism so much fun. Once Democrat unions have abandoned public education in black neighborhoods, once you’ve installed Democrat welfare programs that encourage fatherless children among the poor, once Democrats have taught black people to feel that everyone is against them and they have no chance of success, once Democrats have defunded the police so that criminals can terrorize black neighborhoods which have been destroyed by riots incited by Democrats, just about everything Republicans do is Systemic Racism.
Here are some examples, and as God is my witness, every single one of these is a real example from a left-leaning news source.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says “picnics” are racist because white Democrats used to have picnics at lynchings. Now personally, I think the Inquirer may have missed the actual racist part. Namely, the lynchings. Seems to me you could have picnics with, like, sack races instead, but then maybe that would go against an old Democrat tradition. Namely lynchings.
The Los Angeles Times says white people driving cars is racist because white drivers pollute the neighborhoods they drive through but don’t stop to buy things in the black neighborhoods&#8230; because there’s high crime there&#8230; because Democrats have abandoned the schools and defunded the police&#8230; so white drivers are racist.
The Democrat California state assembly says Skittles and jelly beans are racist because candy is bad for you and many black people eat it to get a little sugary pleasure in their lives which have been destroyed by Democrats.
Mother Jones says that eating three meals a day is racist because colonial settlers ate three meals a day but indigenous natives kept a less rigid eating schedule and so the colonial settlers associated less rigid eating schedules with living in mud huts and being conquered by colonial settlers.
And finally, Afru magazine says coffee is racist because coffee used to be harvested by slaves … and okay they have me there because I don’t care, as long as I get my damn coffee.
As you can see, Systemic Racism is all around us, like fairies or those invisible aliens who send messages into your brain telling you Jesus is coming back so you should sell everything you own and move into the desert. Only by being illiterate and skipping lunch can we break the chains that hold black people down in Democrat-run cities where there’s no education or police. After all, If we can’t end Systemic Racism by giving up jelly beans and picnics, it&#8217;s just really, really hard to imagine what possible solution there could be to dysfunction in black neighborhoods caused by Democrat policies.
But give me a few seconds, and maybe I’ll think of something.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Strange Habit of Mind</a>, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) revealed why she stopped going to what she called &#8220;dumb&#8221; Democrat luncheons with &#8220;old dudes&#8221; sitting around &#8220;eating Jell-O&#8221; and everyone bragging about themselves.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema">46-year-old</a> former Democrat-turned-independent reportedly told GOP lobbyists that &#8220;caucus lunches&#8221; were a total waste of time and nothing she had any interest in attending again, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/23/sinema-trashes-dems-gop-00088461">POLITICO</a> reported.
&#8220;Lunches were ridiculous. … Old dudes are eating Jell-O, everyone is talking about how great they are,&#8221; Sinema said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really need to be there for that. That&#8217;s an hour and a half twice a week that I can get back.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Northerners and the Westerners put cool whip on their Jell-O, and the Southerners put cottage cheese,&#8221; she added as she continued to poke fun at members of her former party.
Sinema also made it clear she wasn&#8217;t caucusing with Democrats and explained that she spends her days doing more &#8220;productive&#8221; things for her constituents.
&#8220;I&#8217;m formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes,&#8221; Sinema said. &#8220;But apart from that I am not a part of the caucus.&#8221;
&#8220;I spend my days doing productive work, which is why I&#8217;ve been able to lead every bipartisan vote that&#8217;s happened the last two years,&#8221; she added.
Sinema declared in December that she was leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent.
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&#8220;Arizonans – including many registered as Democrats or Republicans – are eager for leaders who focus on common-sense solutions rather than party doctrine,&#8221; Sinema wrote at the time in an opinion column published in <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/12/09/sen-kyrsten-sinema-of-arizona-why-im-registering-as-an-independent/69712395007/">The Arizona Republic</a>.
&#8220;But if the loudest, most extreme voices continue to drive each party toward the fringes – and if party leaders stay more focused on energizing their bases than delivering for all Americans – these kinds of lasting legislative successes will become rarer,&#8221; she added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s no wonder a growing number of Americans are registering as independents. &#8230; When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans&#8217; lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,&#8221; Sinema continued. &#8220;I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington.&#8221;

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Kyrsten Sinema Reveals Why She Stopped Going To ‘Dumb’ Democrat Luncheons

Kyrsten Sinema Reveals Why She Stopped Going To 'Dumb' Democrat Luncheons

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Democratic and Republican members of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> renewed efforts to prohibit fellow lawmakers from trading individual <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/stock-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stocks</a>.
Several prominent lawmakers have been accused of leveraging their intimate knowledge about forthcoming regulations to purchase stocks at opportune times or mitigate losses by selling shares. The legislation introduced on Tuesday by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT), and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) would ban the trading of individual stocks, bonds, commodities, and futures by lawmakers and their spouses, as well as establish a $50,000 civic penalty for each violation enforced by the Department of Justice and the United States Office of Special Counsel.
“It’s past time for Washington to do the right thing and ban members of Congress from using their elected position to enrich themselves,” Buck said in a <a href="https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/03/21/jayapal-rosendale-buck-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-ban-members-of-congress-from-owning-and-trading-stocks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “Members of Congress receive information that the public does not, it is inappropriate for elected officials to then turn around and invest or buy stocks using that insider information. The American people must have trust that Congress uses this information only to conduct official business, not benefit a stock portfolio.”
Newly elected members of Congress would have a transition period in which they could divest their shares and could defer taxation on gains from investments they are forced to sell.
As many as 97 lawmakers or their immediate family members purchased or sold assets related to their legislative committee work between 2019 and 2021, according to an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/congress-members-stock-trading-list.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> published last year by The New York Times. Paul Pelosi, an investor and the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), as well as Elaine Chao, a prominent Republican who served as Transportation secretary and the wife of current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), traded individual stocks while their spouses were in leadership positions.
“Only two in ten Americans trust that our government is working in their best interest,” Jayapal added in the press release. “Members of Congress are elected to serve the people, not our own financial interests. As long as members and their spouses are allowed to trade individual stocks, the door to corruption remains open. This legislation is a long overdue, necessary step to raise the ethical standards of Congress and restore the people’s trust in our work.”
The Pelosis most recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-dumped-google-stock-weeks-before-justice-department-unveiled-antitrust-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disclosed</a> a sale of 30,000 shares in Alphabet, the parent company of Google, roughly one month before the Justice Department launched an antitrust lawsuit against the technology firm, news of which caused the stock price to decline. They also appeared to have cut losses by selling 25,000 shares in software company Nvidia last year before the United States placed new restrictions on computer chip sales to China and Russia.
Pelosi no longer serves as leader of the House Democrats but retains her seat in Congress.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-hawleys-insider-trading-bill-returns-to-congress-under-new-title-pelosi-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act, also known as the PELOSI Act, earlier this year to address the individual stock trading phenomenon. While the bill introduced by Jayapal, Rosendale, and Buck would permit lawmakers to continue holding diversified mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, the proposal submitted by Hawley would not allow them to hold such assets.

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New Bill Would Fine Lawmakers Hefty Sum If They Are Caught Trading Individual Stocks

New Bill Would Fine Lawmakers $50,000 If They Trade Individual Stocks

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President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> vetoed legislation on Monday that would have overturned a Labor Department rule allowing retirement fiduciaries to invest in accordance with the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>.
The Labor Department issued a <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/fact-sheets/final-rule-on-prudence-and-loyalty-in-selecting-plan-investments-and-exercising-shareholder-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final rule</a> last year that reflected the Biden administration’s purported efforts to safeguard the economy from “climate-related financial risk that may threaten the life savings and pensions of America’s workers and families.” Under the new rule, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-barred-retirement-plans-from-mixing-wokeness-with-profits-biden-is-reversing-that-rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reverses</a> a prohibition created under the Trump administration, fiduciaries are allowed to weigh “the economic effects of climate change and other ESG considerations” as long as the concerns are relevant to a risk-and-return analysis.
The veto, which is the first issued by Biden, overturns a resolution passed by Republicans and a handful of Democrats in order to nix the rule. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), both of whom are campaigning for re-election next year in heavily Republican states, voted alongside their GOP colleagues to advance the measure.
“There is extensive evidence showing that environmental, social, and governance factors can have a material impact on markets, industries, and businesses. But the Republican-led resolution would force retirement managers to ignore these relevant risk factors, disregarding the principles of free markets and jeopardizing the life savings of working families and retirees,” Biden said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/20/message-to-the-house-of-representatives-presidents-veto-of-h-j-res-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message</a> to lawmakers released on Monday. “In fact, this resolution would prevent retirement plan fiduciaries from taking into account factors, such as the physical risks of climate change and poor corporate governance, that could affect investment returns.”
Critics of the ESG movement, on the other hand, assert that the investment philosophy mingles political and social causes, such as diversifying company leadership with respect to race or sex, in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability. They point to lackluster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virtue-signaling-isnt-free-how-woke-investing-fell-apart-once-the-economy-got-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performance</a> from ESG funds last year as technology firms, which ESG managers tend to favor because of their emphasis on corporate social responsibility and internal workforce diversity, suffered in the stock market while energy companies, which ESG managers tend to dislike because of carbon emissions associated with the sector, witnessed outsized returns.
Republicans formerly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-and-senate-send-rebuke-of-bidens-esg-agenda-to-his-desk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> the resolution as a rebuke of the federal government’s endorsement of the movement. “Today’s bipartisan vote makes clear what we have long said: ESG is an attempt to circumvent the democratic process to advance an inherently political agenda,” State Financial Officers Foundation CEO Derek Kreifels said in comments provided to The Daily Wire earlier this month. “Any move to supplant or dilute the fiduciary duty would undercut the foundations of our economic freedom and harm the American worker.”
American investors are largely skeptical toward ESG investment strategies and desire that their funds are allocated in a politically agnostic manner. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire showed last year that 64% of respondents believe “individual investors whose savings are being invested” should decide whether funds are appropriated according to ESG standards, while a mere 20% believe that “Wall Street asset managers” should make such decisions.
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Senior officials in the Biden administration have nevertheless promoted tenets of the ESG movement in their various agencies. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-claims-effects-of-climate-change-could-cascade-through-the-financial-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> at the first meeting of the newly established Climate-Related Financial Risk Advisory Committee that extreme weather across the nation is attributable to climate change and “can lead to declines in asset values that could cascade through the financial system.” Members of the body include staffers from government agencies, universities, and private entities such as JPMorgan Chase and the Bezos Earth Fund.

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Biden Uses First Veto Of His Presidency To Kill Rebuke Of Federal ESG Push

Biden Issues First Veto Of His Presidency

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A top House Republican expressed skepticism about calls to increase the federal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bank</a> deposit insurance cap.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) cast doubt on such proposals Sunday on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-rep-patrick-mchenry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Face the Nation</a>.&#8221; Democrats have floated raising the FDIC bank deposit insurance cap from $250,000 to between $2-10 million. But McHenry said that Congress needs to balance the costs and risks to the financial system before making such a consequential change.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve heard a proposal like that,&#8221; McHenry said. &#8220;And I have not had a single conversation with the White House or the administration about deposit insurance, changing the levels. What I will do though, legislatively, and in an oversight function is to determine whether or not we need to address the FDIC deposit level. We did it after the last financial crisis raising from $100,000 to $250,000. We had a temporary program, post-financial crisis to support deposits, to ensure that folks had confidence in their local bank.&#8221;
But McHenry stressed the need to balance the benefits and the risks.
&#8220;What I want to know is the trade-off though, the moral hazard of having more risk-taking in the financial sector, and also the impact it would have on community banks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have far fewer community banks now than we&#8217;ve had in generations. That&#8217;s a significant problem for competition in the financial services arena.
&#8220;It is not a pure play of allowing a larger set of insurance coverage,&#8221; he added, &#8220;It costs the financial system significantly, and especially community banks. We need to look very carefully at this.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrats-say-fdic-should-reexamine-250000-deposit-insurance-threshold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Democrats</a> on the committees overseeing the financial sector called for the FDIC to increase the deposit insurance threshold on bank accounts in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. The vast majority of depositors at the bank exceeded the $250,000 limit. Regulators scrambled to guarantee all deposits at SVB to avoid bank runs.
California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, floated the idea in an interview with The New York Times Tuesday.
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“When you have something like Silicon Valley Bank with over 90% of its depositors uninsured, do we increase the amount of premiums that banks will pay in order to have a bigger insurance fund or do we just remain the way that we are and take it on a one-by-one basis for consideration?” she said.
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, said Congress should “reexamine, just overall, about why we have limits” at the $250,000 threshold.
“Some small business, some nonprofit, needs a place to manage its money,” she said in an interview with CNBC, via The Hill. “They need to be able to make payroll, they need to be able to pay the utility bills, and they need a safe place to have that money where somebody’s going to keep it safe.”
Warren on Sunday <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-fdic-insurance-cap-lift-silicon-valley-bank/">said</a> raising the cap has &#8220;got to be on the table right now.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that lifting the FDIC insurance cap is a good move,&#8221; said Warren. &#8220;Now the question is, where&#8217;s the right number on lifting it?&#8230; This is a question we got to work through. Is-is it $2 million? Is it $5 million? Is it 10 million?&#8221;

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Top House Republican Skeptical Of Calls To Raise FDIC Insurance Cap: ‘More Risk Taking In The Financial Sector’

Top House Republican Skeptical Of Calls To Raise FDIC Insurance Cap

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The following is the opening satirical monologue from “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1122-sex-money-and-conservatism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show.</a>“
I know that many of you are confused about exactly why the Silicon Valley Bank went bust. Well, you’ve come to the right place because this is a political commentary podcast, so the fact that I don’t understand this subject at all won’t stop me from explaining it to you.
The first thing you have to understand is that Democrats believe in socialism. Socialism is an economic system in which powerful people help the poor by taking money from the middle class and giving it to the rich so the rich will give the powerful people more power to help the poor by taking money from the middle class to give to the rich.
In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, the powerful Democrats needed more money to give to the rich to get more power to help the poor, so they printed worthless pieces of paper and called them &#8220;dollars&#8221; and gave them to the poor who passed them on to the rich in return for Hulu subscriptions and lawn chairs. The rich said, “Hooray! Now we have worthless dollar papers! We will put them in bonds and useless green nonsense businesses where they will magically turn into money.” They also donated millions to a Gay Pride organization, who used the millions to buy some rainbow-colored pencils, and a vacation for 12 in Thailand.
Then came inflation, which was &#8220;transitory,&#8221; which means permanent.
At this point, people panicked and there was a run on the bank like in the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life.” In fact, just like in “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the bank manager came out to the panicked people and said you can’t have your money, because your money is in that guy’s house, and your money is in this guy’s house, and your money is in another guy’s house because those three guys are crooks and stole all your money. Then the bank manager gave everyone a free rainbow pencil.
Acting quickly to reassure the public, President and Venal Houseplant Joe Biden shuffled slowly to a podium with his eyes glazed and his mouth hanging open and made a slurred speech saying that everything would be all right because he would give the rich people back their money from taxes taken from the middle class because that’s socialism. Biden also explained that the bank failure was Donald Trump’s fault because Donald Trump was such a bad president that everything Biden touches turns to crap. Then Biden shuffled slowly out of the room before anyone could ask him any questions, because questions might spoil the reassuring effect of the slurred speech he made with his mouth hanging open.
The White House then issued a statement which said, [quote] “The president’s bailout of the Silicon Valley bank is not a bank bailout, and this is not a statement issued by the White House.” [unquote] The New York Times, a former newspaper, immediately hailed the statement as a brilliant piece of post-modern literature, and the White House celebrated by releasing a bright red balloon that carried a speaker over Pennsylvania Avenue repeatedly saying, “It’s all Trump’s fault,” in a very high-pitched voice because it was a helium balloon and the celebration had gotten out of hand.
On the positive side, the Silicon Valley Bank’s board of directors was very diverse. Some board members had given huge donations to Hillary Clinton, some to Barack Obama, and some to Nancy Pelosi. Unfortunately, none of them had any actual board experience, except one but that was with a Ouija Board, which did at least spell out the words, “You are about to get a big surprise. Your bank is out of money.”
Now, you may have heard many journalists say that bailing the bank out after it acted so stupidly could create a [quote-unquote] “moral hazard.” And you may have asked yourself “What’s a moral hazard and why don’t journalists&#8217; heads burst into flame when they say the word moral — that would be both funny and appropriate?” Well, a moral hazard is when rich people do something stupid and lose their money and the government gives them your money so that the rich people dance around the room and say, “Hooray! Now we can do more stupid things forever and nothing bad will ever happen to us because there’s a moral hazard so we get everybody’s money.” So basically a moral hazard is pretty much the same thing as socialism.
Now that I’ve explained the banking crisis to you, you’re probably wondering: “Will this affect me personally or can I just go back to watching porn?” That depends. If it’s the kind of porn where you need an online subscription, you can’t go back to watching it because you have no money because, now, banks all around the world have started collapsing, because Donald Trump was such a bad president that Joe Biden has ruined everything.
But here’s a free rainbow pencil.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Strange Habit of Mind</a>, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

US regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank amid sudden collapse

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Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted against a bill this week to classify fentanyl-related substances (FRS) as Schedule I substances — a vote that comes even as a record number of Americans are dying from those compounds every year.
The committee&#8217;s health subcommittee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-vote-against-bill-permanently-classify-fentanyl-schedule-1-controlled-substance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the bill in a 17-10 vote with every Democrat, except for Rep. Angie Craig (MN), voting against the measure.
Republicans are pushing the legislation because it will increase the mandatory minimum sentence for anyone caught having those substances in their possession, which they believe will lead to a significant reduction in their spread across the country. More than <a href="https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates#:~:text=Overall%2C%20drug%20overdose%20deaths%20rose,overdose%20deaths%20reported%20in%202021." target="_blank" rel="noopener">70,000</a> Americans die per year from synthetic opioid overdoses, with fentanyl driving most of those deaths.
Schedule I substances are typically substances that have &#8220;no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,&#8221; according to the DEA. However some of the substances on the list — including marijuana, magic mushrooms, and MDMA — have been used in states that either have legalized medical use of the substances or in clinical research settings.
The committee says that the legislation &#8220;closely tracks recommendations to Congress submitted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy in September 2021.&#8221;
&#8220;It would permanently place FRS into Schedule I of the CSA [Controlled Substances Act], simplify registration processes for certain research with Schedule I substances, removing barriers that currently impede such work, and provide for exemption of individual FRS from Schedule I when evidence demonstrates it is appropriate,&#8221; the committee added.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/467/text?s=1&amp;r=38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">text</a> of the legislation lays out certain exceptions for research purposes and the process in which fentanyl-related substances could be exempted from the list, which include by action of the U.S. Attorney General or if the substance is expressly listed under another schedule classification. It is unclear how the legislation would impact current legitimate medical uses of FRS, although the text of the bill can still be easily modified.
Democrats&#8217; primary opposition to the bill appears to be centered around increasing the mandatory minimum sentencing because Democrats see the issue as being more of a mental health issue than a criminal issue.
The DEA&#8217;s most recent National Drug Threat Assessment <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/DIR-008-21%202020%20National%20Drug%20Threat%20Assessment_WEB.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that the majority of the fentanyl is brought into the U.S. by Mexican drug cartels through the unsecured southern border.
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Tom Homan, former Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement to The Daily Wire: “Fentanyl has killed more Americans than any other drug the past two years, including all drugs currently classified as Schedule 1.&#8221;
&#8220;This decision is the worst kind of politics and they should be ashamed and forced to explain their decision to over 100,000 American moms and dads whose families have been ripped apart,&#8221; he added.

Heroin Samples At The State Drug Lab In Ohio

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> walked out of a Senate hearing about <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> on Wednesday after their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/senate-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic</a> counterparts blocked DailyWire+ host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> from testifying.
Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee had invited the clinical psychologist and bestselling author to provide his insights about the rise of AI and related threats to liberty. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who was serving as the body’s senior Republican in the absence of ranking member Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), said during his opening <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/artificial-intelligence-risks-and-opportunities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) had refused to allow Peterson to appear virtually.
“For whatever reason, even though we have the technology here, the chairman said he couldn’t make it possible for him to appear remotely. Behind the scenes, over the weekend, there were other reasons supplied,” Johnson commented. “That was all a ruse. It was a pretext for not allowing Dr. Peterson to testify, and I really cannot guess why. Some kind of ideological reason.”
Johnson also remarked that “this is an action that is beyond unfortunate and something we cannot condone, which is why no Republicans will attend this hearing.” He exited the room after a tense exchange with Peters, who claimed that the Democrats blocked Peterson because Republicans had submitted him as a witness two business days before the hearing. Johnson noted that lawmakers frequently added witnesses at the last moment and made efforts to accommodate them during his six years as chairman.
Peterson <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1633895002030985217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media that he had “worked in good faith and in an entirely non-partisan manner” before Democrats revoked his invitation. He added that he was rejected from offering his insights because a Democratic staffer accused him of “promoting child abuse.”
“I was also invited to present virtually and agreed,” Peterson continued, asserting that the idea his testimony was rejected merely because he would attend remotely “is an outright falsehood.”
Peterson has frequently been the subject of Left-wing censorship. Beyond the protests and outrage that accompany his speaking events, the academic was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-suspends-jordan-peterson-after-he-tweets-ellen-page-just-had-her-breasts-removed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> from Twitter for several months over a post about Elliot Page, a woman actress who identifies as a man. Twitter CEO Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jordan-peterson-restored-to-twitter-by-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restored</a> Peterson&#8217;s account after taking over the platform.
Johnson also lauded Peterson’s qualifications to discuss AI and to seriously consider the technology’s implications. He spent much of his opening statement sharing comments Peterson was not able to offer himself.
“Our legal structure has not been able to adapt itself to the immense changes on the virtual front,” Peterson had written. “The logical extension of such danger is the duplication in the West of something approximating the utter catastrophe of the so-called social credit system in China. Everything is tracked and controlled, the government can with the stroke of a pen seize the economic resources of any given individual or group.”
Peterson likewise noted that AI and machine learning can aid in surveillance, observing that China currently has some 400 cameras watching every 1,000 people. “We could well be entering an era of authoritarian, AI-mediated social shunning. The use of such cameras should be banned,” Peterson&#8217;s remarks read. “Machines should never be given the authority to ticket, try, punish, or limit the economic or practical activities of human beings.”

The Self-styled “Professor Against Political Correctness” Jordan Peterson Speaks To The Cambridge Union

Dems Block Jordan Peterson From Testifying At Senate Hearing, Furious Republicans Walk Out

Democrats Disallow Jordan Peterson From Testifying At Senate Hearing

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Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secretary of Transportation</a> isn&#8217;t really into the day-to-day parts of his job. In fact, it seems that he would much rather be a figurehead who shows up for photo opportunities, based on a recent CNN interview with Mayor Pete himself.
&#8220;Buttigieg says what he’d rather be doing is trips like Monday’s: Opening the first new airport terminal in Kansas City since Vice President Spiro Agnew was there for a ribbon cutting &#8230; celebrating the groundbreaking on a record-busting $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in DeSoto, Kansas, and talking transportation programs with students at the University of Missouri,&#8221; the outlet <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/politics/pete-buttigieg-ohio-train-derailment/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Those events are the things Buttigieg thought he was signing up for with the Cabinet job,&#8221; CNN added.
Instead, though, he has had to deal with crises such as supply chain hiccups, rail strikes, aviation woes, and that whole toxic train spill in East Palestine, Ohio, that has upended the lives of thousands.
Buttigieg&#8217;s message for his haters is simple: He knows how to shop better than they do, and they&#8217;re a bunch of frauds, he implied during the CNN interview.
“It’s really rich to see some of these folks – the former president, these Fox hosts – who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,&#8221; Buttigieg bemoaned to CNN.
&#8220;You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?&#8221; he threw in for good measure.
Buttigieg&#8217;s media therapy blitz also included a sit-down session with twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The two discussed unfair criticism from naysayers.
&#8220;When you read about your biography, your accomplishments, you&#8217;re often described as a trailblazer,&#8221; Clinton <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/buttigieg-clinton-downplay-criticism-following-ohio-derailment-discuss-breaking-glass?utm_source=sf&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=twjs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Buttigieg at the event hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative University. &#8220;You are the first openly gay Cabinet member. You&#8217;re the youngest person to ever hold the office of the Secretary of Transportation. You&#8217;re one of the youngest people to make a serious bid for the presidency. So there&#8217;s no doubt that along the way being the first often requires knocking down some barriers, some misconceptions.&#8221;
Buttigieg replied, &#8220;Yeah, I mean, again, I&#8217;m humbled to have a word like &#8216;trailblazer&#8217; used when I&#8217;m sitting next to you and knowing all the cracks you put in that glass ceiling.&#8221;
During that conversation, he assured voters that he wasn&#8217;t going to &#8220;complain about any frustration associated with coming to an agency and having work to do every day and finding that you&#8217;re dealing sometimes with a noise machine that seems to have little to do with your day-to-day work and a lot to do with perceptions about your real or perceived role in presidential politics.&#8221;
&#8220;It would be very indecent of me to complain about that sitting next to you,&#8221; he added, which drew a cackle out of Clinton.
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There&#39;s a &quot;noise machine that seems to have little to do with your day-to-day work and a lot to do with perceptions about your&#8230;role in presidential politics,&quot; Pete Buttigieg tells Hillary Clinton.
&quot;It would be very indecent of me to complain about that sitting next to you.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jJo1d8pGue">pic.twitter.com/jJo1d8pGue</a>
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What has not seemed to cross Buttigieg&#8217;s mind is that he may be criticized because he stinks at his job, focuses on nonsense issues such as equity over merit, and has a general smarminess about him that no photo-op can fix — not because of his sexual orientation.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Dulles, VA – NOVEMBER 15: Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), other Virginia politicians and Metro board member cut a ribbon at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia on November 15, 2022.

Buttigieg Would Rather Attend Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies Than Do The Hard Stuff, CNN Reports

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Democrats are faced with a big question mark as Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-manchin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Manchin</a> (D-WV) refuses to rush to judgment on his political future.
Manchin, who along with Arizona&#8217;s independent Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kyrsten Sinema</a> often serves as a roadblock to leftist proposals in Congress, offered little insight on Sunday as he faced a flurry of questions regarding his plans, including possible presidential aspirations.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s see who is involved. Let&#8217;s wait until we see who all the players are,&#8221; Manchin said during an appearance on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; when asked whether he would endorse President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-jill-biden-refuses-to-prescribe-competency-test-for-husband-joe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for re-election in 2024</a>.
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Asked if he would endorse President Biden for reelection, <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sen_JoeManchin</a> says, &quot;Let&#39;s see who all the players are.&quot;
And on his OWN political future, Manchin demurs: &quot;I will make my political decision in December, whatever it may be.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/h6VORasqCw">pic.twitter.com/h6VORasqCw</a>
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The senator, up for re-election in 2024, is keeping his options open. When moderator Margaret Brennan claimed Manchin ruled out a presidential run, the senator responded with a denial.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t say that. I didn&#8217;t say anything about that,&#8221; he said.
Manchin did not say he was considering a campaign for the White House, instead deferring on divulging any plans for his &#8220;political future&#8221; until the end of the year.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve got too much work to do now,&#8221; he said. Manchin stressed that his immediate priorities include tackling the &#8220;runaway&#8221; debt, inflation, energy security, and the &#8220;out of control&#8221; border.
The interview comes after Manchin <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-manchin-declines-to-describe-himself-as-a-democrat-3998f275" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined to describe</a> himself as a Democrat when asked. “I identify as an American,” Manchin recently told Fox News. “I’m an American through and through.”
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Democrats <a href="https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">control the Senate, barely</a>, but it&#8217;s complicated.
There are more Republicans in the upper chamber right now, but Democrats benefit from independents who caucus with them. However, in a break with the Democratic Party late last year, Sinema <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/09/kyrsten-sinema-independent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed her party affiliation</a> to independent.
It remains to be seen if Manchin will follow suit in some fashion as he faces a potential Republican rival in <a href="https://www.wtrf.com/top-stories/is-governor-justice-going-to-run-for-a-seat-in-the-u-s-senate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia Governor Jim Justice</a>.
&#8220;I will make my political decision in December, whatever it may be,&#8221; Manchin said on Sunday.

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Manchin Balks On Endorsing Biden, Teases ‘Political Decision’

Manchin Balks On Endorsing Biden, Teases 'Political Decision'

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The White House struggled to defend President Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to support a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-he-will-sign-bills-blocking-d-c-s-radical-overhaul-of-voting-rights-criminal-code" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill blocking Washington D.C.</a> from overhauling its criminal code and voting rights laws.
Biden announced Thursday that he would sign a Republican bill blocking D.C. from passing two bills reforming the criminal code and allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections. Congressional Democrats were outraged by the move. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre struggled to respond to the criticisms at Friday&#8217;s press briefing.
&#8220;[T]he President has been very clear we need to do more to reduce crime, to make communities safer, to save lives,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwEt80UMw8c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jean-Pierre</a> said. &#8220;[T]he way that we see this bill, it doesn’t actually reform policing practices &#8230; like the ones the president has put forward at the federal level [via Executive Order].&#8221; Jean-Pierre repeatedly touted Biden&#8217;s support for D.C. statehood and his own crime and policing policies.
The administration had previously opposed the House bill in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAP-H.J.-Res.-24-and-H.J.-Res.-26_PDF.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of Administration Policy (SAP)</a>, claiming that it deprived the city of self-governance. Despite this opposition, Jean-Pierre insisted on Thursday that Biden never took a position on whether or not he would sign the bill. &#8220;[Biden] never made that clear in that SAP,&#8221; she said. &#8220;[W]e never said anything at this time. Now we’re communicating very clearly. Now that we know that this legislation is going to be at the president’s desk, we’re making very clear and communicating where the president is on this legislation.&#8221;
&#8220;There was no veto threat in the SAP,&#8221; she added later. “There really wasn’t. We … opposed it, but there was no veto threat.&#8221;
Jean-Pierre spent much of the briefing defending Biden&#8217;s decision because Democrats spent Thursday blasting his announcement that he would sign the bill.
“I’m disappointed,&#8221; Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/02/biden-wont-veto-gop-effort-to-repeal-dc-criminal-code-00085247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a> Thursday. &#8220;First of all, I hope the Senate would not pass it. But I think it’s pretty clear they will. And to me, the Congress should not substitute its judgment for the elected representatives of the people of the District of Columbia.”
&#8220;This ain’t it,&#8221; Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1631502407132672001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1631502407132672001%7Ctwgr%5Ef87521844ded7bee50dc8eb03ea0767497e502a0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fsad-day-disappointed-democrats-bidens-decision-oppose-dc-law-reducing-penalties-violent-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) tweeted. &#8220;DC has a right to govern itself, like any other state or municipality. If the President supports DC statehood, he should govern like it. Plenty of places pass laws the President may disagree with. He should respect the people’s gov of DC just as he does elsewhere.&#8221;
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One member of Congress did not mince words. “The White House f***** this up royally,” the member told <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3881888-house-democrats-blindsided-as-biden-changes-tune-on-dc-crime-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a> via text message, citing the SAP. “So a lot of us who are allies voted no in order to support what the White House wanted. And now we are being hung out to dry. F****** AMATEUR HOUR. HEADS SHOULD ROLL OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE OVER THIS.”
Biden said he would sign the Republican bills on Thursday. “I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule — but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections — such as lowering penalties for carjackings,” Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1631392285182009376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> from the official Presidential Twitter account. “If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did — I’ll sign it.”
The Senate is expected to vote on the bills as soon as next week. It already has the support of two Democrats, meaning it will likely head to the president’s desk afterwards.

Meida Briefing Held By White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

White House Struggles To Defend Biden’s D.C. Legislation Decision After Outrage From Democrats

White House Struggles To Defend Biden's D.C. Legislation Decision After Outrage From Democrats

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