Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-of-this-was-false-josh-hawley-rips-into-ag-garland-over-senate-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) grilled public defender Richard Federico during a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressing him on a prior trial in which he&#8217;d asked for a light sentence in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-ex-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-140-counts-of-child-porn-facing-decades-behind-bars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">child pornography</a> case.
Biden nominated Federico, a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and federal public defender based in Kansas, to serve on Denver&#8217;s 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — but Hawley had some questions about his record.
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A Biden judicial nominee is seeking a lifetime appointment to the bench but can’t answer why he was way more lenient than the federal government in sentencing a man guilty of child porn distribution.
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Hawley began by laying out the details of the case he was referring to, noting that the sentencing guidelines recommended up to 240 months — or 20 years — in prison. The recommended range, he said, was from 210 months to 240 — but Federico had asked for just 105 months.
&#8220;Now, the government in this case said that it was being very lenient,&#8221; Hawley added, noting that prosecutors had called for 189 months and suggesting that they could have started with a much higher number given the type of crime involved. The Missouri Senator opted not to go into detail about the nature of the case, saying that it was too reprehensible to discuss.
Federico pushed back, saying that he had prosecuted as many child pornography cases as he had defended and, therefore, understood what the victims were going through.
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&#8220;So what would you say to the victims in this case, who — let&#8217;s just review — and I&#8217;m not going to read the specifics because it&#8217;s too revolting, but let me just — here — this is from the pre-sentence report,&#8221; Hawley continued.
&#8220;&#8216;This particular defendant&#8217; — this is sanitized, but it&#8217;s still unpleasant — &#8216;the defendant used multiple mediums to access, obtain, and distribute depictions of child rape, bondage, and sexual exploitation,'&#8221; Hawley read. &#8220;&#8216;He used dating websites to meet people offering children for sex. He used email to send depictions of child sexual exploitation to his cohorts.'&#8221;
&#8220;Why 100 months?&#8221; Hawley asked. &#8220;I mean, listen, you could have recommended any number of — I get you wanted to defend your client, sure, but you could have chosen 175. You could have agreed with government, 189, which was characterized already below guidelines and quite lenient.&#8221;
Noting once again that Federico had recommended only 105 months — less than 10 years — Hawley asked, &#8220;Do you think that that’s a sentence that does justice to his victims?&#8221;

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Emergency room workers at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/st-louis">St. Louis</a> children&#8217;s hospital that houses a popular gender clinic said they worry that the young trans-identifying patients showing up at the ER in crisis are never &#8220;told no&#8221; when it comes to hormone treatments.
In February, Jamie Reed, a former case manager at the Transgender <a href="https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center</a> at St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital went public with explosive <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblower allegations</a> that the gender clinic had hastily put children with significant psychiatric issues on gender hormone treatments. Reed also alleged that the clinic did not make sure children and their families were fully aware of the side effects, some of which are serious.
At the same time, emergency room staff at the hospital started seeing a spike in trans-identifying children showing up every day in psychiatric crisis, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/health/transgender-youth-st-louis-jamie-reed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Wednesday.
The children were taking hormones but not receiving the therapy they needed, emergency room doctors warned.
The clinic&#8217;s nurse, wrote in an email obtained by the Times that emergency room staffers “aren’t sure why patients aren’t required to continue in counseling if they are continuing hormones” and were concerned that “no one is ever told no.”
In recent years, the clinic saw a huge spike in trans-identifying children asking for services. By 2021, four or five new patients were calling the clinic every day, up from 2018 when the clinic would only see four or five new patients a month. About 73% of those new patients were girls, according to internal documents reported by the Times.
As the clinic became overwhelmed, it started relying on outside therapists, some of whom did not have much experience in gender issues, to determine whether children were psychologically fit for puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.
Some children with red flags in their medical histories <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/health/transgender-youth-st-louis-jamie-reed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were put</a> on gender hormone regimens, the Times reported. Some of those patients later stopped identifying as transgender and did not receive any support from the clinic afterwards.
Reed and the clinic&#8217;s nurse together kept a private &#8220;red flag list&#8221; of 60 patients with complex psychiatric diagnoses, a changing sense of gender, or complicated family situations. One patient on testosterone stopped taking their schizophrenia medication, one was known to hallucinate, and one had been in a psychiatric unit for five months.
They also kept track of 16 patients who had detransitioned, meaning they changed their gender identity again or stopped taking hormones, the Times said.
One apparently female patient emailed the clinic to say she had detransitioned and asked for a voice coach for her masculinized voice as well as an autism screening. Another patient ended up regretting her mastectomy and asked for a breast reconstruction, but she had not received a reply, according to emails between clinic staff. Another patient posted a warning about the clinic on Reddit after she was put on testosterone around the same time she was being treated for bipolar disorder and anxiety. She told the Times that “overall, there was a major lack of care and consideration for me” at the clinic.
After the original whistleblower allegations from Reed, the former case manager, Missouri’s Republican attorney general opened an investigation into the clinic. That investigation remains ongoing.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) also <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-outlines-investigation-washington-university-transgender-center-st-louis-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> an investigation into the clinic that is ongoing.
An internal investigation by Washington University, which is affiliated with St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital, <a href="https://missouriindependent.com/2023/04/21/washington-university-says-allegations-against-transgender-center-are-unsubstantiated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> Reed&#8217;s claims were “unsubstantiated.”
Over the last few years, critics have sounded the alarm about the permanent effects of both gender hormone treatments and surgical procedures, especially on children.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
The number of gender surgeries nearly tripled in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, according to an <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808707?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=082323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. In 2016, there were about 4,550 procedures, and that number spiked to around 13,000 in 2019.
Hundreds of teen girls in the U.S., some as young as 12, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/101252?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g394940d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-10-17&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have gotten</a> elective, gender-related double mastectomies to remove their healthy breasts over the last few years.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

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Emergency Room Staff Near St. Louis Gender Clinic Worry ‘No One Is Ever Told No’: Report

Emergency Room Staff Near St. Louis Gender Clinic Worry 'No One Is Ever Told No': Report

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Multiple government officials have made disclosures to Congress about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a> beyond the claims brought forward by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intel-official-claims-feds-have-concealed-wreckage-of-ufos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblower David Grusch</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) revealed in a new interview.
Rubio, who is vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/rubio-recent-ufo-whistleblower-isnt-the-only-one/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told News Nation</a> on Monday that people have approached Congress with allegations over the &#8220;last couple of years.&#8221; Although lawmakers are trying to &#8220;gather as much of that information as we can,&#8221; they are doing so carefully as &#8220;a lot of these people came to us even before <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3252968/biden-signs-national-defense-authorization-act-into-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protections</a> were in the law for whistleblowers to come forward,&#8221; Rubio explained.
&#8220;Some of these people still work in the government, and frankly a lot of them are very fearful,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;Fearful of their jobs, fearful of their clearances, fearful of their career, and some frankly are fearful of harm coming to them.&#8221;
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UFO whistleblower David Grusch is not the only high-level government official to come forward with such claims, according to Sen. Marco Rubio. NewsNation&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeKhalilTV</a> breaks down what he learned when speaking with Rubio.
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Some of these <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whistleblower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblowers</a> have &#8220;first-hand knowledge or first-hand claims of certain things,&#8221; Rubio said. And most of these people have held, either in the past or currently, &#8220;high clearances in high positions in our government,&#8221; he added.
The interview took place after Grusch, a U.S. military and intelligence veteran, <a href="https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed to The Debrief</a> that he gave classified information to the Intelligence Community inspector general and Congress. He claims the disclosure shows some programs have retrieved craft of non-human origin, and this information has been illegally kept from Congress.
Rubio acknowledged there may be some overlap between officials referenced by Grusch as having firsthand knowledge of the program and people who have come forward to his committee.
Grusch&#8217;s public debut three weeks ago has motivated lawmakers on Capitol Hill to investigate whether the U.S. government may be hiding information about UFOs. Some House members are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-heading-up-ufo-hearing-after-shocking-whistleblower-allegations-were-serious-about-this-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">planning a hearing</a> in response to the new allegations. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said the U.S. government appears to have <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4062715-us-has-downplayed-the-number-of-ufo-sightings-senator-hawley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;downplayed&#8221;</a> the number of UFO sightings.
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So far, the Department of Defense has <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/lawmakers-react-to-whistleblowers-ufo-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">simply pointed to its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO),</a> which has been tasked with investigating UFOs, and said that team has &#8220;not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of any extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.&#8221;
But there could be more revelations with provisions in the proposed <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2103/text#toc-idfd4035e5209e44529f3bbb8af6e2d9f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fiscal 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act</a> that threatens funding for programs involving unidentified anomalous phenomena that have not adequately conveyed to Congress and AARO&#8217;s director. It also seeks to establish protections against civil and criminal penalties for contractors who come forward with information about such programs.
Rubio indicated that he is reserving judgment for the time being, stressing that some of the claims are beyond the realm of what lawmakers have ever dealt with before.
“What I think we owe them is just a mature, you know, understanding, listening and trying to put all these pieces together and just sort of intake the information without any prejudgment or jumping to any conclusions in one direction or another,” Rubio said.
He also said: &#8220;You do ask yourself, like: What incentive would so many people, with that kind of qualification — these are serious people — have to come forward and make something up?&#8221;

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In a 51-43 <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00166.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vote</a>, the U.S. Senate confirmed the attorney who argued for the Mississippi abortion clinic in the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to a federal appeals court Tuesday.
Julie Rikelman, who <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/politics/julie-rikelman-senate-confirmation-federal-judge/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> the most important case of her career in Dobbs, will sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which covers Puerto Rico and most of New England. The 51-year-old is <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/6/20/23760777/julie-rikelman-confirmed-first-circuit-abortion-dobbs-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen</a> by many as America’s “preeminent abortion rights attorney.”
“Throughout her career, Ms. Rikelman has demonstrated a commitment to upholding what was settled precedent by defending Roe v. Wade and has committed to following all current and future Supreme Court precedents on the bench,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said in a <a href="https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-supports-rikelman-nomination-for-first-circuit-court-of-appeals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> supporting her nomination.
Rikelman’s nomination was supported unanimously by Senate Democrats, including two self-described “pro-life Democrats,” Sens. <a href="https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-statement-on-scotus-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manchin</a> and <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/02/casey-abortion-pennsylvania-midterms-689505" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Casey</a> (D-PA). The Democrats were joined by two pro-abortion Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
The attorney has been the senior litigation director for the <a href="https://reproductiverights.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Reproductive Rights</a>, a radical pro-abortion group, since 2011.
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/senate-confirms-dobbs-lawyer-federal-judge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nominated</a> Rikelman in July 2022, shortly following her failure in Dobbs, but Judiciary Committee Republicans were able to stall her nomination because of the 50-50 split in the Senate. Now that Democrats <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/senate-confirms-dobbs-lawyer-federal-judge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> a numerical majority, they can push through left-wing judicial appointees more quickly over Republicans’ objections.
During her confirmation hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1572663570696912904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterized</a> Rikelman as “an extreme zealot advocating for abortion.” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FyPvRA0YP4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grilled</a> Rikelman’s past writings <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-rikelman-myrick-supreme-court-crisis-pregnancy-abortion_n_5b3398c2e4b0cb56051e0aaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterizing</a> pro-life crisis pregnancy centers as “faux clinics that pose as real medical facilities” and <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/12/symposium-first-amendment-cannot-justify-lying-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> they cause “women [to] suffer concrete harms to their health.”
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The new judge also committed to applying the Dobbs decision “faithfully” in her judicial work, saying, “The rule of law itself depends on lower courts following Supreme Court precedent.&#8221;
The Mississippi clinic Rikelman represented <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jackson-womens-health-closes-last-mississippi-abortion-clinic-roe-v-wade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed</a> in Summer 2022 after Mississippi’s trigger law went into effect following Rikelman’s unsuccessful attempt to <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/19-1392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convince</a> the U.S. Supreme Court that abortion was a “fundamental right” under the Constitution. The Mississippi statute bans abortion except in cases of rape or to preserve the life of the mother.
Despite Rikelman’s notoriety for her work on abortion cases, it is unlikely she will significantly impact the current abortion jurisprudence. Abortion cases make up a very small amount of cases federal courts hear, and she has no jurisdiction over any of the red states whose abortion bans are caught in court.

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Former NCAA swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines">Riley Gaines</a> took Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) to task during a Wednesday hearing, criticizing him for choosing to protect the feelings of trans-identifying males over biological women and girls.
Gaines appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing titled &#8220;Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans&#8221; — and while detailing her own experience competing against trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas, she addressed Chairman Durbin&#8217;s comments on the importance of sending the right &#8220;message&#8221; to trans-identifying individuals.
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Here’s the fearless ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a>⁩ explaining what it was like to have a 6’4” biological man in her locker room &#8211; and being told to shut up about it. This is the “tolerance” of the left <a href="https://t.co/KjbhGkhmtV">pic.twitter.com/KjbhGkhmtV</a>
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asked Gaines to describe for the committee what it was like when she and her other competitors learned that in addition to swimming against Thomas in the championship meet, they would also be subjected to a locker room situation in which a biological male would be allowed to change alongside the female swimmers.
Gaines said that she and the other female swimmers had been blindsided by the locker room situation, and that when she spoke to officials about it, they shrugged off her concern and informed her they had &#8220;gotten around the rules&#8221; by making all of the locker rooms &#8220;unisex.&#8221;
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&#8220;First and foremost, you just admitted this is a male by acknowledging that you had to change your rules to make the locker rooms unisex,&#8221; Gaines responded, adding that she had then realized that because of the rule change any male — for any reason – could have come into the locker room and watched the girls as they changed into their racing suits.
&#8220;It was so easy for them to dismiss our rights to privacy, &#8221; Gaines added, turning her attention to Durbin. &#8220;Senator Durbin, in your opening statement you had mentioned this rhetoric — it&#8217;s, you had mentioned that – &#8216;What message does it send to trans individuals?&#8217; And my comeback to that is what message does this send to women? To young girls who are denied of these opportunities?&#8221;
&#8220;So easily, their rights to privacy and safety thrown out of the window to protect a small population, protect one group as long as they&#8217;re happy,&#8221; Gaines continued. &#8220;What about us? That is the overall general consensus of how we all felt in that locker room.&#8221;

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‘What About Us?’: Riley Gaines Fires Back At Sen. Dick Durbin For Bowing To Trans Activists

Riley Gaines Fires Back At Sen. Dick Durbin For Bowing To Trans Activists

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) grilled a Biden judicial nominee during her confirmation hearing this week over her past legal work where she advocated discriminating against religious people.
Hawley asked Loren AliKhan if she thought that it was wrong to discriminate against people on the basis of religious faith, to which she said, &#8220;Absolutely, senator.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did you argue that religious services and religious people pose a greater risk of infection than people gathered to argue for defunding the police?&#8221; Hawley asked.
AliKhan claimed that she made discriminatory arguments because she was representing her client, a mayor, and she had been in consultation with supposed public health experts. &#8220;It was my role to defend those&#8221; positions, she said.
&#8220;Why’d you make that argument?&#8221; Hawley pressed. &#8220;This seems like a strange argument to me that religious people are somehow, what, more infectious than folks who have other ideological positions? I don&#8217;t get it.&#8221;
She claimed that it was because religious people sing, which the &#8220;epidemiologists thought could transmit COVID at a higher rate.&#8221;
&#8220;You didn’t put any scientific evidence in the record for it,&#8221; Hawley noted.
AliKhan claimed that she didn&#8217;t use scientific evidence in her arguments because &#8220;those were fast moving cases and they weren&#8217;t going to full briefing and full summary judgment with a record.&#8221;
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&#8220;That’s not what the district court said,&#8221; Hawley noted. &#8220;The district court said that you engaged in and your client engaged in, and you defended discrimination on the basis of religious belief. That you offered no scientific evidence for it that you pressed these arguments over and over and over without any foundation.&#8221;
&#8220;Frankly, I&#8217;m disappointed that you made those arguments,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;You can choose what arguments to make. I&#8217;m disappointed you made those arguments. I’m disappointed you persisted in defending them here today. And for that reason, among others, I will not support your nomination.&#8221;
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Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HawleyMO</a>: &quot;Do you think it&#39;s wrong to discriminate on the basis of religious faith?&quot;
Biden’s district judge nominee for D.C Loren AliKhan: &quot;Absolutely.&quot;
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Josh Hawley Grills Leftist Biden Judicial Nominee Who ‘Defended Discrimination On Basis Of Religious Belief’

Josh Hawley Grills Leftist Biden Judicial Nominee Who 'Defended Discrimination On Basis Of Religious Belief'

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As a deal hashed out between President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) to avoid a U.S. debt default makes its way through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>, several Republican senators have already come out against the bill, saying that it does not go far enough to cut spending. 
Those opposed to the deal, known as the <a href="https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-fiscal-responsibility-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fiscal Responsibility Act</a>, include Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), while others have expressed concerns about the bill in its current form. 
“I think the Biden-McCarthy debt deal is a disaster for the country. It does not significantly change the trajectory of the debt. Each year we’ll spend more money and the debt will grow $4 trillion in two years. It’s not very conservative,” Paul <a href="https://www.kktv.com/video/2023/05/31/sen-rand-paul-reacts-deal-debt-ceiling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters this week. 
Paul added that he planned on introducing a “conservative alternative” to the deal, which <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-rand-paul-announces-conservative-alternative-to-biden-mccarthy-debt-deal/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%93%20Today%2C%20U.S.,responsible%20reforms%20and%20necessary%20cuts." target="_blank" rel="noopener">would implemen</a>t a $500 billion hike on the debt ceiling to allow Congress more time to negotiate, put caps on total spending, and mandate that increases in federal outlays cannot exceed increases in federal revenue. 
Lee previously <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1661716721575804928" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to use any procedural tool necessary to “impede” a debt ceiling deal that he believed did not cut spending enough, and he has voiced opposition to the agreement as it currently stands. 
“I believe McCarthy was misled, not malicious in signing onto this deal. But the deal simply does not do what its proponents claim it does — not even close. It’s time to go back to the drawing board or, even better, go back to what the House already passed,” Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1663666847697207296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
Cruz <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1662883736386404352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to the deal as a “blank check” for Biden, saying that it gave Democrats “$4 trillion things” that they wanted. Hawley <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article275902901.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Kansas City Star that he opposed the deal because it didn’t address America’s trade deficit with China. 
“I think until we get serious about that, we can talk about fiddling with this or that set of numbers but until we get serious about really correcting that imbalance and bringing back jobs and industry, we’re not going to make the change that we need to see,” he said. 
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Meanwhile, Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was a “firm no” to the proposal in its current form, and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1663245067509694477?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> concern over spending cuts in the deal. 
The McCarthy-Biden agreement <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-ceiling-bill-house-rules-committee-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advanced past</a> the House Rules Committee in a 7-6 vote on Tuesday afternoon, with key conservatives Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) voting against and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) voting in favor. 
House leadership has expressed confidence that they will have enough votes to get the deal through the lower chamber though it will face opposition from members of the House Freedom Caucus, meaning it will likely require Democrat votes to pass.
McCarthy has acknowledged the bill&#8217;s detractors but said it was the best they could do with a Democrat-controlled Senate and presidency.
“Maybe it doesn’t do everything for everyone, but this is a step in the right direction that no one thought that we would be able to today,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-kevin-mccarthy-touts-wins-conservatives-secured-in-tentative-debt-ceiling-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McCarthy said</a>. “I’ll debate this bill with anybody. Is it everything I wanted? No, because we don’t control all of it. But it is the biggest rescission in history. It is the biggest cut Congress has ever voted for in that process.”

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The following is an excerpt from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley&#8217;s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/168451357X/?tag=regnerywebsite-20">Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs</a>, from Regnery Publishing.
<h2>Love and Hope</h2>
The man who makes war on the evil in his life and sacrifices his own pride opens his life, in the end, to something far more powerful. He opens it to love. Love is the burning center of the warrior’s existence and the secret of all true courage. The warrior loves something dearly and passionately more than himself. He loves his wife and children. He loves his nation. He loves God. And that love makes him strong.
Self-regard, by contrast, is a weak affection. It will consume your life, to be sure, as in the story of Narcissus, who loved his image so completely he wasted his life away staring at it. But it cannot inspire. If your life is relentlessly about you, you will never run toward danger. You will never confront the giants that threaten, whether your finances or your boss or an addiction. You won’t risk incurring the wrath of the powers that be by speaking the truth. You will always try to keep yourself safe, undamaged. And you will always have everything to lose. That way ends in despair and self-contempt.
A man’s conscience is a powerful thing. It will condemn the man who constantly avoids struggle and pain as a coward. But if you will abandon your focus on self, you will find the love that gives courage. And love, in turn, gives birth to hope.
Sometimes courage is portrayed these days as the refuge of the hopeless. J. R. R. Tolkien puts something that sounds like this sentiment into the mouth of Gandalf in his Lord of the Rings saga. “There never was much hope,” Gandalf says, as Sauron’s darkness grows and the quest to destroy the Ring seems to falter. “Just a fool’s hope.” Many have interpreted this passage to mean courage is most noble, most true, when the warrior believes he is doomed to fail. But that is not quite Tolkien’s point, and not the Bible’s either. Tolkien’s heroes soldier on not because they are fatalists, content to be mere pawns of chance. Nor because they are nihilists, believing all to be meaningless. They soldier on because they believe right will prevail. And they believe their lives can make a difference in making it so.
I have known men like this, and seen with my own eyes the power of their hope. In the fall of 2019, the Chinese Communist government in Beijing orchestrated a crackdown on the hitherto independent city of Hong Kong. Displeased with Hong Kong’s autonomy, and Hong Kongers’ (as they call themselves) criticism of the Beijing government, Communist leaders threatened to suspend self-government in the city, contrary to China’s own treaty obligations that guaranteed the city’s special status. In response, protestors took to the streets, only to be met in return by violent police repression. The protestors refused to back down, and the clashes turned bloody.
I was in my first year in the Senate at the time, watching these events unfold from afar. I learned from sources in Hong Kong that the protests were being informally led — it was in many ways truly a spontaneous uprising — by a group of young, very young, men and women. When I heard the accounts of their courage and listened to their pleas for help, I knew I had to go.
I traveled to Hong Kong in October of 2019 to meet with them and see the protests firsthand. The U.S. consulate in the city was less than delighted with my visit. Consulate staff advised beforehand against the trip. Once there, they strongly urged me to keep to my hotel. I politely ignored this advice. I wanted to see the protestors myself, see their courage and their stand, and lend whatever support I could.
One member of my staff had extensive contacts with the protestors. As soon as night fell, we left the hotel and headed toward where we believed, based on his information, the latest clashes between the government and the Hong Kongers were underway. We hailed a cab, but the driver refused to take us more than a few blocks. Eventually we walked, finding our way to the Mong Kok district, usually a bustling shopping and commercial hub, but on that night a battleground. The clashes between pro-Beijing police and the protestors had already turned violent by the time we arrived. A car burned in the street. Protestors were spray-painting “Free Hong Kong” on boarded-up windows. There were people running in every which direction. As we watched, a large group of Hong Kongers began to assemble in the middle of the road, peacefully, carrying signs decrying the crackdown. Suddenly a phalanx of pro-Beijing police in riot gear appeared opposite them, heavily armed. They took to loudspeakers and ordered the crowd to disperse. They threatened to disperse them by force if they did not.
The U.S. government often sends military liaisons with members of Congress when they travel abroad. In this case, at this moment, my military liaison leaned into my ear and said, “Sir, we should back away. If they begin firing into the crowd and we are caught up in it, it could cause an international incident.” He was right. But the protestors did not back away. We stayed too. I wanted to see with my own eyes what would happen. The protestors held their ground, and eventually it was the riot police who turned and moved back. All night long the protests continued, with explosions and violent exchanges in many parts of the city.
I met with the leaders of the protest the next morning. It was an honor. They were startlingly young — only in their early twenties, most of them. Several were veterans of earlier protest movements. A few had already spent time in prison. I promised to report what they were doing to people back in the United States, to explain what they were fighting for.
Why are you willing to face prison? I asked them — and though I did not name it, we all knew what else they faced, the other, ever distinct possibility: death. We love Hong Kong, they said, and we want to see it free. We believe we can be a beacon for the world. They had hope.
They were realistic at the same time. They knew the odds were long. They knew the Beijing government could destroy Hong Kong’s freedoms in a moment, if it chose. But they believed their stand was worth making, even if they did not live to see their cause succeed, because they believed their actions would echo and build and — in time — whether in their lifetimes or another’s, prevail.
That is the courage of hope. And even now, they go on hoping. After the events I witnessed, the Beijing authorities intensified the repression. They forcibly put down the protests. Many of the young people I met that October were later imprisoned or exiled. Yet their hope endures. And the light of that hope — in the right, in God — cannot be extinguished.
God made the world with a plan, to be something — an Eden. And even now that plan is advancing. Every man can play a part. We are born to play a part. That is a hope that pain and death cannot destroy. And a man who gives his life to that hope, and to its Author, will not be disappointed.
Josh Hawley serves as Missouri&#8217;s senior U.S. Senator.
This excerpt is taken from <a href="https://www.regnery.com/9781684513574/manhood/">Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs</a>, from Regnery Publishing.
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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A key lawmaker reacted in disbelief Tuesday when a Biden cabinet official said the climate change agenda took priority over the livelihoods of blue collar workers because &#8220;there’s a lot of jobs.&#8221;
The exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-MO), and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland came Tuesday as Hawley noted that manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for the electric vehicles being pushed by the Biden Administration causes environmental damage. When a stumped Haaland admitted she didn&#8217;t know China was the world&#8217;s leading producer of refined lithium and cobalt, and chief exporter of graphite to the U.S., Hawley said dependence on an adversary for such electric car components posed a threat to the U.S.
“Your decision to trade off our energy security in favor of a radical climate change agenda is making us more and more dependent on China,” Hawley said. “And at the same time you are denying mining, blocking mining, blocking permits for mines in this country that would allow us to develop nickel and copper and cobalt. Why? Why block the development of these resources in our own nation in favor of making us dependent on China?”
Earlier this year, the Biden Administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-biden-official-suggests-too-many-jobs-defending-climate-agenda-tense-exchange" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned mining</a> across 225,504 acres near Duluth, Minnesota. Haaland asked if Hawley was referring to the Boundary Waters that lie near the Twin Metals mine in northeast Minnesota, commenting that they were an “iconic place, of course, a very valuable ecological system to many plants, animals, species.”
“Jobs for blue collar workers in this nation are valuable resources,” Hawley replied. “The livelihood and well-being of American families are valuable resources. The ability of America to have our own industry and not be dependent on China is a valuable resource. Why should those things for millions of Americans be sacrificed in favor of your agenda for radical climate change?”
“Senator, I know that there&#8217;s like 1.9 jobs for every American in the country right now. So, I know there&#8217;s a lot of jobs,” Haaland replied.
“Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. … You&#8217;re telling me we&#8217;ve got too many jobs in the country?” Hawley asked.
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m saying that we don&#8217;t have enough people,” Haaland answered. “That&#8217;s why we are having a hard time finding folks to work at our department.”
“You’re telling me that we have too many jobs for blue collar workers?&#8221; Hawley shot back. &#8220;Have you seen the number of jobs we have lost in this country to China in the last 20 years? Do you know where those jobs come from? Over three million jobs have gone to China. Do you know where those jobs have come from? They’ve come out of Midwestern towns like the ones I represent. They are blue collar workers, and you’re sitting here and telling me that we have too many jobs in this country? Are you serious?”
Hawley accused the Biden administration of dismissing blue-collar workers while pursuing a dubious environmental policy.
“Trading off American energy security in favor of your radical climate change agenda, shutting down good-paying jobs in our energy sector and then saying we’ve got plenty of jobs in this country I think is the most, potentially — and this is quite a high bar, I might add — the most unbelievable statement I have heard from a member of this administration maybe in my time in the Senate,” Hawley said.
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) called on FBI Director Chris Wray to launch a full-scale investigation into some 85,000 migrant children who have been released into the U.S. under President Joe Biden that the administration has lost all contact with.
The letter from Hawley comes after former Health and Human Services (HHS) official-turned-whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas on Wednesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-government-serves-as-middleman-in-multi-billion-dollar-migrant-child-trafficking-operation-hhs-whistleblower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the U.S. government in a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing of becoming a “middleman” in a multi-billion dollar migrant trafficking operation at the southern border.
&#8220;According to statistics kept by Customs and Border Protection, some 345,000 children have come across the border unaccompanied since early 2021,&#8221; Hawley&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-demands-fbi-launch-full-scale-effort-locate-missing-migrant-children-bring-child-labor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter began</a>. &#8220;I am sure you have seen recent reports in the New York Times that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has lost touch with as many as 85,000 migrant children. Thousands of these children are now the prey of child labor criminals.&#8221;
Since President Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president over two years ago, more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border. Since January 2021, border patrol agents have encountered over 356,000 unaccompanied minors at the southern border, most of whom authorities released into the U.S.
&#8220;Reporting reveals that HHS loosened vetting processes for sponsors and retaliated against whistleblowers who raised these concerns,&#8221; Hawley&#8217;s letter continued. &#8220;As a result, thousands of children have been handed over to modern-day slave traders. They are forced into factory work under punishing conditions. They are forced to make auto parts, process meat in slaughterhouses, and reroof houses. They are denied food, education, and sometimes fear for their lives. They suffer sexual violence. In a country that claims to value the rule of law and the protection of children, this is unconscionable.&#8221;
Hawley noted that the widespread problem &#8220;plainly violates both the Fair Labor Standards Act, which prohibits the abuse of underage workers, and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which designates human trafficking offenses as federal crimes.&#8221;
The senator said that a &#8220;full-scale&#8221; effort was needed to locate the children, bring traffickers to justice, and hold administration officials accountable &#8220;for their role in facilitating the exploitation of these children, in violation of the law.&#8221;
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Brandon Drey contributed to this report.

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Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) ripped into Attorney General Merrick Garland over his recent testimony, arguing that at least some of what he said before the Senate had been misleading at best and at worst, outright &#8220;false.&#8221;
Hawley <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawley-rips-garland-false-testimony-doj-recruiting-efforts-inside-churches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Garland&#8217;s office on Tuesday morning, sharing it publicly in a tweet.
&#8220;Merrick Garland told me — under oath — the FBI was not targeting Catholic parishes. That appears to have been a lie,&#8221; the Missouri senator tweeted. &#8220;I want the truth.&#8221;
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Merrick Garland told me &#8211; under oath &#8211; the FBI was not targeting Catholic parishes. That appears to have been a lie. I want the truth 👇 <a href="https://t.co/HE8ncapeYz">pic.twitter.com/HE8ncapeYz</a>
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In the letter, Hawley referenced Garland&#8217;s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in early March and argued that, since that appearance, evidence had come to light refuting some of the claims that the attorney general had made at the time.
&#8220;I went on to ask you whether the Department was &#8216;cultivating sources and spies in Latin mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country.&#8217; And again, your response could not have been clearer: &#8216;No, the Justice Department does not do that. It does not do investigations based on religion,'&#8221; Hawley wrote.
&#8220;Finally, I asked you &#8216;how many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?&#8217; You denied the claim a third time: &#8216;I don’t know, and I don’t believe we have any informants aimed at Catholic churches.&#8217; All of this was false, as recent investigative findings by the House Judiciary Committee show,&#8221; Hawley continued.
Hawley concluded by turning on Garland directly, adding, &#8220;Let’s be clear: your Department has decided to turn Catholic congregations into front organizations for the FBI, and when asked about it, you’ve decided to fudge the truth before Congress. This is an unconscionable assault on American Catholics’ First Amendment rights and an abdication of your duty to enforce the law without fear or favor.&#8221;
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Hawley&#8217;s letter comes alongside a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-sought-to-monitor-catholic-churches-using-tripwire-sources-to-combat-domestic-terrorism-house-lawmakers-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the House Judiciary&#8217;s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government – and a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to FBI Director Christopher Wray — indicating that the Bureau had used &#8220;at least one undercover agent&#8221; to spy on Catholic parishioners in Virginia.

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Sen. <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) called on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> Director Christopher Wray and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homeland Security</a> Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to open a federal <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/hate-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate crime</a> investigation into the Monday shooting at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian</a> elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Police say a 28-year-old woman who identified as a transgender man killed three 9-year-old children and three adults at The Covenant School, which is associated with the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church. Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-identified-as-transgender-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that the shooter, whom The Daily Wire will not name in accordance with company policy, executed a “targeted attack” and left behind a “manifesto.”
Hawley contended that the nature of the fatal shooting might indicate a specific desire to harm Christians. “Yesterday the nation witnessed the vicious murder of small schoolchildren in Nashville, Tennessee,” he wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/hawleymo/status/1640723786713427970?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the senior Biden administration officials. “It is commonplace to call such horrors ‘senseless violence.’ But properly speaking, that is false. Police report that the attack here was ‘targeted’ — targeted, that is, against Christians.”
The Republican lawmaker added that federal law criminalizes acts of violence based on their actual or perceived “religion.” Police detectives <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-we-know-about-the-nashville-christian-school-shooting-that-left-six-dead">believe</a> the shooter had “some resentment&#8221; for having to attend that school.
“I urge you to immediately open an investigation into this shooting as a federal hate crime,” Hawley continued. “The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear to determine how this crime occurred, and who may have influenced the deranged shooter to carry out these horrific crimes. Hate that leads to violence must be condemned. And hate crimes must be prosecuted.”
The suspected shooter executed her attack the same week the Trans Radical Activist Network <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-activists-called-for-day-of-vengeance-before-nashville-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a “day of vengeance.”
The students killed in the shooting were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9 years old. Dr. Katherine Koonce, the school’s 60-year-old principal, was also killed, as were 61-year-old staffers Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill.
Hallie was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the senior minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church.
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The suspected shooter sent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-sent-chilling-messages-to-a-friend-moments-before-entering-christian-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">messages</a> to her former middle school basketball teammate moments before the attack, saying she was “planning to die today” and that the friend would “probably hear” about her on the news. “My family doesn’t know what I’m about to do,” she added. “One day this will make more sense. I’ve left more than enough evidence behind.”
Officers from the Metro Nashville Police Department responded minutes after the shooter breached The Covenant School. A team of five officers immediately rushed into the building, and two of the officers exchanged fire with the shooter, killing her at the scene.
Local authorities and the FBI searched the suspect&#8217;s home on Monday afternoon, uncovering a “manifesto” along with maps of the school drawn in detail that included points of entry. The police chief said authorities have a theory on the motive, which they are not yet ready to share.

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