Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) got confrontational with a far-left activist this week who was pushing him to call for ceasefire in Gaza amid Israel&#8217;s war to eradicate the area of Hamas terrorists.
The activist — Code Pink c0-founder Medea Benjamin, who has <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=hamas%20(from%3Amedeabenjamin)&amp;src=typed_query">defended</a> Hamas on X — approached Rubio in the hallway of a building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and asked him in the ambush interview, “Senator Rubio will you call for a ceasefire in Gaza?”
“No I will not,” Rubio responded. “On the contrary — are you filming this? I want you guys to get this.”
“I want them to destroy every element of Hamas they can get their hands on,” he said. “These people are vicious animals who did horrifying crimes, and I hope you guys post that, because that’s my position.”
“And what about the civilians that are being killed every day?” Benjamin asked.
“I blame Hamas for that,” Rubio said. “Hamas should stop hiding behind civilians, putting civilians in the way. Hamas knew that this was going to lead to this. So Hamas must stop building their military installations underneath hospitals, underneath civilian –”
Benjamin cited numbers put out by Hamas&#8217; Gaza Ministry of Health, which has a history of deception, and asked Rubio if he did not care about innocent lives being lost.
“Absolutely I do,” Rubio said. “I care, I think it’s horrifying, I think it’s terrible, and I think Hamas is a hundred percent to blame. That’s what I think.”
“Make sure you post that please,” he said before stepping away.
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Rubio Gets Confrontational With Pro-Hamas Activist: ‘Make Sure You Post That Please’

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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) slammed calls for Israel to agree to a longer ceasefire with Hamas terrorists when he was confronted by a Left-wing activist in a video posted to social media Wednesday. 
In the video, Medea Benjamin — an activist and co-founder of radical Left-wing anti-war organization Code Pink — stopped Rubio in a hallway and asked him if he would call for a ceasefire. 
“No, I will not,” Rubio replied. “Are you guys filming this? I want you guys to get this. I want Israel to destroy every element of Hamas they can get their hands on. These people are vicious animals who did horrifying crimes, and I hope you guys post that.” 
Benjamin attempted to press Rubio further, asking him, “What about the civilians being killed every day?”
“I blame Hamas. Hamas should stop hiding behind civilians,” the Florida senator said. “Hamas knew that this was going to lead to this, so Hamas has to stop building their military installations underneath the hospital.” 
The Code Pink co-founder continued to berate Rubio.
“So you don’t care that 15,000 have died, you don’t care about the babies that are getting killed every day?” she asked, referencing a claim from Palestinian sources that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-will-expose-the-hamas-lie-of-inflated-civilian-casualties-idf-spokesman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been disputed</a>, as Hamas has lied about casualty numbers before. 
“I think it’s terrible, and I think Hamas is 100% to blame … make sure you post that please,” Rubio told the person filming the interaction before he walked away. 
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Hamas leaders agreed to abide by a temporary ceasefire last week as Israel attempted to negotiate for the release of hostages taken into the Gaza Strip by the terrorist group during its brutal attack on October 7. The terrorists have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrorists-violate-temporary-ceasefire-in-gaza-as-israeli-forces-come-under-attack-idf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violated</a> the temporary ceasefire multiple times this week, however. The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that its troops were attacked in multiple locations, and on Thursday, Hamas took credit for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-terrorists-murder-3-people-wound-others-at-bus-stop-in-jerusalem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terror attack</a> at a bus stop in Jerusalem that killed three.
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The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 55th day on Thursday after Hamas launched a brutal attack on the country on October 7, killing more than 1,200 people and taking hundreds more as hostages. Since the temporary ceasefire was agreed upon last week, 97 hostages have been released in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/24/middleeast/who-are-the-hostages-released-on-friday-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange</a> for over 200 Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel. Israel believes Hamas is hanging onto around 145 hostages in the Gaza Strip, including 15 women and children, according to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/truce-in-gaza-counts-down-to-end-at-7-a-m-thursday-amid-efforts-to-extend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Times of Israel</a>. 
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-will-expose-the-hamas-lie-of-inflated-civilian-casualties-idf-spokesman">&#8216;We Will Expose The Hamas Lie Of Inflated Civilian Casualties&#8217;: IDF Spokesman</a>

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‘Destroy Every Element Of Hamas’: Marco Rubio Rejects Call For Ceasefire In Confrontation With Left-Wing Activist

'Destroy Every Element Of Hamas': Marco Rubio Rejects Call For Ceasefire In Confrontation With Left-Wing Activist

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A group of Republican senators are pressing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Energy</a> (DOE) to explain what they said was the abrupt reassignment of a top intelligence official who served in the role for 11 years.
Sen. James Risch (R-ID) led a <a href="https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/8/38999307-b0ca-4ec4-80ab-2acc2ddcdc34/DD4B19E088F0E67C203454734E3C71AD.risch-gop-letter-to-doe.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> issued this week to Energy Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-granholm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Granholm</a> seeking answers to &#8220;urgent&#8221; questions raised by the personnel decision.
&#8220;On Tuesday, October 17, we received word that Steven Black, the long-serving Director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (DOE-IN) at the Department of Energy, was suddenly and without explanation reassigned,&#8221; the letter said.
&#8220;We are told he will be taking on a new role as &#8216;Senior Advisor&#8217; in the Department. We are also aware that a study conducted by an outside contractor, which the Department has had in its possession since April, outlines disturbing findings as to the state of counterintelligence across the Department, to include the national laboratories,&#8221; the letter added.
While emphasizing the importance of the DOE&#8217;s &#8220;national security work,&#8221; citing research efforts at <a href="https://www.energy.gov/national-laboratories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national laboratories</a>, the senators wrote that they became &#8220;deeply&#8221; concerned by the contractor study they said Congress had requested.
&#8220;If Director Black presided over DOE-IN over a period of time in which there were serious shortcomings with regard to counterintelligence, he should not be reassigned to any office within the Department that has a national security mission,&#8221; the senators wrote.
The senators asked that Granholm refrain from assigning Black to any department office until they receive answers on why Black was reassigned, whether the contractor study factored into that decision, which part of the DOE is Black expected to serve as senior adviser, when the DOE became aware of the contester study transmitted to DOE-IN on April 24, and whether Granholm agrees with its findings.
No deadline was included in the letter. The Daily Wire reached out to the DOE seeking comment.
The other senators who signed the letter included Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY), Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL), and seven others.
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<a href="https://www.energy.gov/intelligence/office-intelligence-and-counterintelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the DOE website,</a> the agency&#8217;s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is a member of the U.S. intelligence community and is &#8220;responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex, including nearly thirty intelligence and counterintelligence offices nationwide.&#8221;
The page also says the office &#8220;protects vital national security information and technologies, representing intellectual property of incalculable value. Our distinctive contribution to national security is the ability to leverage the Energy Department’s unmatched scientific and technological expertise in support of policymakers as well as national security missions in defense, homeland security, cyber security, intelligence, and energy security.&#8221;

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After Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to the State Department requesting they conduct a review and coordination effort to revoke the visas of those who have endorsed or espoused Hamas’ terrorist activity on U.S. soil, the State Department admitted in a return letter they indeed had the authority to revoke those visas.
The State Department took a full month to respond as Rubio had sent his letter on October 15 and their response was dated November 15.
“As you are aware, the Secretary of State designated Hamas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act on October 8, 1997,” the State Department acknowledged. “Our first priority when adjudicating visa applications is to ensure applicants do not pose a security risk to the United States. Every prospective traveler to the United States undergoes extensive security screening. This screening draws on information from the full range of U.S. government agencies, including biographic and biometric screening against U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism databases. No visa is issued until all concerns raised by the screening process are fully resolved.”
Then the State Department admitted, “The Department of State also has broad authority under the INA to revoke visas. We exercise that authority when there is information or evidence indicating a visa holder may be ineligible for a U.S. visa. When we receive derogatory information that indicates potential visa ineligibility, we take immediate actions, such as entering the information into U.S. government databases and revoking visas if deemed appropriate.”
“State Department confirms they have the power to revoke the visas of Hamas supporters and deport them. Now they need to do it,” Rubio tweeted upon receipt of the letter.
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At the end of October, FBI Director Christopher Wray <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/hamas-attack-galvanizing-terror-groups-worldwide-warn-us-officials/7335141.html">warned</a> that the Israel-Hamas war had raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a higher level, telling the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, “We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven&#8217;t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate several years ago. &#8230; In just the past few weeks, multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks against Americans and the West.”
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Director Christine Abizaid said the war was being utilized as “a feature of messaging and propaganda” from various terror groups, adding, “We&#8217;ve seen it from al-Qaida affiliates, almost every single one. We&#8217;ve also seen it from ISIS, which ideologically isn&#8217;t aligned with a group like Hamas, but is still leveraging this current conflict. They are seeking to capitalize on this moment to galvanize supporters and organize further attacks.”

Rubio Gets State Department To Admit They Can Revoke Visas Of Hamas Supporters In U.S.

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Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio stated that Israel will find “all the support” it needs in Washington D.C., adding, “We&#8217;ll have the mechanism to deliver it.”
Rubio made his comments while speaking with I24.
“I believe Hamas needs to be wiped out, but it&#8217;s not going to be easy,” he stated. “Urban warfare [conducted by] a nation that is going to rely on reservists, many of whom just got off a flight 48 hours ago – flying in from Miami, where I live, planes were full of reservists reporting for duty – it’s not [easy]. Urban warfare is difficult with groups that have tunnel systems and are willing to conduct long-term insurgency-type campaigns. As that develops, the material that Israel may need to resupply on might be different than what&#8217;s anticipated.”
“I think you&#8217;ll find all the support you need in Washington, and we&#8217;ll have the mechanism to deliver it,” he declared. “I think what&#8217;s important is that we understand that the baselines are already there. The authorities are already there. At some point, if more is needed – and it probably will be – we’ll need to know exactly what that is, and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;ll be any impediments to getting it done.”
“There is no Hamas without Iran,” he commented. “All this talk about whether Iran knew that they were going to do this at 6 a.m. on Saturdays is irrelevant to the fact that Hamas would not have the capabilities to do the things they&#8217;re doing without Iranian support. Even if this money (the $6 billion the Biden administration released to Iran) hadn&#8217;t been released, this money was coming. They would have freed up other monies that they had available to them to continue to sponsor terrorism, not just for Hamas, but for ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and obviously for Hezbollah. [The Biden Administration’s reversal] is good news, and I&#8217;m glad that it&#8217;s happening, and I hope that will be a permanent move.”
“Basically, Israel is faced with an enemy that seeks their complete destruction,” he said. “They don&#8217;t seek to just govern Gaza. They want Israel wiped out, and they have shown that they are willing to massacre babies, and kidnap and abduct teenage girls, and kill their families, and slaughter and butcher. When a group has done that, you have no choice but to eliminate them and severely degrade them to the point where they can&#8217;t come back and ever do that in the future.”
“Embedded in all this, by the way, is that Hamas wants to become the dominant Palestinian faction in the region. They want to be the top dog, and all of this they view – these murders, this hostage-taking – as things that increase popular support for them at the expense of whichever rivals they&#8217;ve defined, whether it&#8217;s the Palestinian Authority or others. There is no way that the dominant Palestinian faction in the region can ever be a group that is willing to do what we saw them do just the other day and continue to do, and now, as cowards, run back into Gaza and not just hide behind civilians, but actively encourage civilians not to get out of harm’s away, and in many cases potentially impede them from getting out of harm’s way,” he said.
“It is an unfortunate situation. I don&#8217;t know what other options Israel has at this point but to do everything it can to make this a non-visible group. And I don&#8217;t think the United States has any choice but to be on Israel’s side of this fight against pure evil,” he concluded.
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“The way it is played out historically is, Israel is attacked, everyone rallies to Israel’s side, Israel does what it needs to do, and then all of a sudden, starting in Western Europe and then spreading even here in the United States, you start hearing calls of, you&#8217;ve done enough; it&#8217;s time to stop,” he asserted. “That&#8217;s where I think the real challenge is going to come.”
“I think we need to understand something very clearly. If Hamas is not eliminated, if Hamas is not substantially degraded, they will come back, and they will do this again, and they will do it worse, and other groups will look at this as an example of what they need to do, and they will do the same. We need to understand that if we don&#8217;t stop this now it won&#8217;t be 1,200 people. It could be thousands upon thousands of people that are murdered because they happen to be Jews living in Israel and are hated by these people.
“If this isn&#8217;t stopped now, it&#8217;s going to lead to more loss of life, more bloodshed. If we&#8217;ve learned anything from history, it is that if you don&#8217;t confront and defeat evil, evil will grow, evil will spread, and evil will come for you.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blamed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for a sudden increase of illegal immigrants entering the U.S., claiming that his sanctions against the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela caused the surge.
AOC made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News&#8217;s Margaret Brennan on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; when asked to further elaborate on her recent remarks that she believes &#8220;immigration is arguably [the Biden] Administration&#8217;s weakest issue.&#8221;
The congresswoman responded by claiming former President Donald Trump &#8220;dramatically inflamed&#8221; the issue. She then pivoted to saying 500,000 Venezuelans who recently flooded into the U.S. needed to be given a pathway to citizenship because that would &#8220;reduce the strain on our public systems,&#8221; and went on to blame Rubio.
&#8220;I think we also need to examine the root of this problem, because if we are constantly engaging in foreign policy that drives people to our southern border in this specific instance, U.S. sanctions that were originally authored by Marco Rubio began and precipitated certainly took a large part in the driving of populations to our southern border shortly after those sanctions, those broad-based sanctions &#8230; we started seeing dramatic increases in these populations that were coming to our southern border,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And so we have to address the root of these population movements and the migration crisis. And we have to also have to address the domestic U.S. policy issues when it comes to immigration reform.&#8221;
Brennan pushed back, noting that dictator Nicolas Maduro, who has been president of Venezuela since 2013, was &#8220;responsible for large parts of that.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez said that the U.S. should &#8220;reexamine&#8221; the sanctions it has placed on the oppressive regime and, when asked, would not answer whether President Joe Biden should go to the border or whether she would go to the border.
AOC also claimed that allowing illegal immigrants to work in the United States was &#8220;not what is driving millions of people&#8221; to come to America.
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Quick quiz: Do you think public libraries should promote socialism? Do you think they should host drag queen story time for children? And do you think they should be allowed to discriminate against Christians? If you answered “no” to these questions, the Left-wing media likely thinks you’re a fascist.
The truth, of course, is a lot less sensational and a lot more straightforward. Simply put, progressive activists are using positions of influence and government resources to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push their ideology</a> on the American people. This is especially apparent at the American Library Association (ALA), whose self-described “Marxist” president <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/30/american-library-association-faces-backlash-over-m/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wants</a> to turn libraries into spaces of “queerness and difference rather than democracy and citizenship.”
As normal and sane people have noticed this trend, they have begun to push back, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/library-book-ban-association-withdraw-7f5743a9e464433a745697f9111d7f6b">resulting</a> in a slew of withdrawals from the ALA. This “exodus” isn’t about a “conservative book ban,” no matter what the Associated Press claims. This is about Americans not wanting themselves — or their children — to be subjected to Left-wing propaganda.
Critic Dan Kleinman puts it well <a href="https://twitter.com/SexHarassed">when he says</a> the problem with the ALA is that it has “changed from an organization that helped communities and used common sense into one that just promotes a view.” Similarly, Commissioner Diana Finegan of Florida’s Citrus County <a href="https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/county-cuts-funding-to-american-library-association/article_d7211d47-7266-5a9b-b100-97808b237d68.html">states</a>, “[l]ibraries should be educating the public, not indoctrinating.” She explains that the county removed the ALA’s annual fee from its budget because the government “does not need to give … tax dollars to any organization run by a Marxist.”
And there is little doubt that the ALA is using federal tax dollars to do its dirty work. Earlier this year, the organization <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kirk-cameron-american-library-association-cancel-storytime-event">issued guidance</a> to prevent the Christian publishing company Brave Books from hosting events at public libraries. In response, Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and I sent a <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubioalaletterreligiousdiscrimination/">letter</a> to the Institute of Museum and Library Services demanding an investigation into the ALA’s blatant religious discrimination.
Meanwhile, scandals continue to flow from ALA leadership. On September 2, 2023, President Emily Drabinski <a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/exclusive-recording-american-library">attended</a> a socialist presentation on “fugitive pedagogy,” or “how to smuggle socialist ideas like Critical Race Theory into the classroom even when the law outlaws it.” Afterward, Drabinski said that libraries “need … to be a site of socialist organizing.” This is insane, even for a progressive organization.
The ALA’s defenders argue that those who leave the organization threaten “free access to ideas.” They also <a href="https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/it-is-wrong-it-is-so-wrong/article_3a739647-2e12-55cf-a1c5-66c916267b1f.html#:~:text=County%20cuts%20funding%20to%20American,on%20LGBTQ%20materials%2C%20drag%20que%E2%80%A6">call</a> those pushing back on the ALA “Nazis” and warn “that’s exactly how Hitler came to power.” It’s ironic, because the ALA is the censor, and it’s painfully obvious that the movement to abandon it is motivated by a desire for more freedom, not less.
Americans shouldn’t have toxic ideology pushed on them in libraries, just as they shouldn’t have it pushed on them in schools. Unless the ALA apologizes for its appalling behavior and corrects its course immediately, withholding membership dues is probably the sanest thing public officials can do.
Senator Marco Rubio represents the state of Florida and sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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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In his latest step in his fight against the pernicious influence of TikTok, Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio called for the banning of Chinese-controlled TikTok in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/as-tiktok-comes-for-american-businesses-its-past-time-to-ban-it/">opinion piece</a> published Tuesday.
“TikTok’s public-policy chief blatantly lied under oath when he denied US data is stored in China,” Rubio wrote in his piece published by The New York Post. “ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, was caught in October using the app to spy on American journalists.”
Rubio noted that The New York Times reported TikTok stores Americans’ private information, which includes driver’s licenses, addresses, and device IDs, in China, where they can be accessed by ByteDance employees. He also pointed out that Forbes revealed the tax information and Social Security numbers of content creators on TikTok are also stored in China.
“Almost a third of the country uses TikTok semi-regularly,” Rubio pointed out. He delineated how TikTok is undercutting American companies by selling products more cheaply through its app. “Who, for that matter, will even be aware of American goods on the market when TikTok’s algorithm begins — as it surely will — to favor Chinese sellers?” he asked.
He referred to the disingenuousness of TikTok’s tactics when they said they were “celebrating” American small business in May when committing $1 million “to support Black and Brown” entrepreneurs and funding small businesses suing Montana for banning the app.
“China’s totalitarian regime hates the United States and is bent on displacing us as the world’s greatest power,” Rubio wrote. “If TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe in Beijing’s hands — that Beijing wouldn’t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them in the case of a geopolitical conflict­­ — they need to think again.”
In March, Rubio and Iowa GOP Senator Joni Ernst introduced the <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners/#:~:text=U.S.%20Senators%20Marco%20Rubio%20(R%2DFL)%20and%20Joni%20Ernst,partnership%2C%20or%20advertisement%20with%20TikTok." target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Funds for Enablers of Adversarial Propaganda Act</a> to deny federal funds to any individual or entity if it had an agreement, partnership, or advertisement with TikTok.
“Chinese-owned TikTok is a threat, but some entities, including our nation’s airports, are still willing to accept advertising dollars from the company. They are either naive, greedy, or both. Regardless, they shouldn’t receive taxpayer dollars if they are going to accept money from or partner with TikTok. These companies need to stop enabling Chinese Communist Party propaganda and espionage efforts,” Rubio <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners/">stated</a>.
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“Make no mistake – TikTok is an insidious platform weaponized by the Chinese Communist Party to snoop on Americans and negatively influence our children. This bill rightfully ensures that American taxpayers aren’t forced to foot the bill for ads that bolster the CCP’s toxic platform. I’ll always fight to protect taxpayer dollars and our national security,” Ernst added.

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House Oversight Committee lawmakers are set to hold a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) next week.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a member of the panel who has helped drive the conversation about UFOs on Capitol Hill, said a hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 26.
&#8220;We&#8217;re done with the cover-ups,&#8221; he added in a tweet.
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The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on UAPs on Wednesday, 7/26. 
We&#39;re done with the cover-ups.
&mdash; Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1680992520895905792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It was not immediately clear who has been invited to be a witness at the hearing, and as of press time it does not appear on the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/calendar/">Oversight Committee&#8217;s online calendar</a>.
But Burchett previewed the hearing last week along with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), another member of the committee, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-oversight-committee-hold-ufo-hearing-week/story?id=101345935">according to ABC News</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have professionals in here, and we&#8217;re getting blowback from some of the alphabet agencies,&#8221; Burchett told reporters.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of government &#8230; that does not trust the people,&#8221; he also said.
David Grusch, a U.S. military veteran who served as a combat officer in Afghanistan and a former intelligence official, revealed to The Debrief in a report <a href="https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/">published early last month</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.
&#8220;We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,&#8221; Grusch told the outlet. &#8220;The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.&#8221;
In response to the claims, the Department of Defense&#8217;s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) tasked with investigating UAPs <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it 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;
AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick said in May that his office was reviewing about <a href="https://defensescoop.com/2023/05/31/pentagon-office-developing-new-sensors-to-better-detect-ufos/">800 cases of UAP cases</a>, a jump from 650 he mentioned during a hearing in April when he said only a <a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Dr.%20Kirkpatrick%20Oral%20Remarks%20-%20SASC%20ETC%20Open%20Hearing%204.19.23%20FINAL.pdf">&#8220;small percentage&#8221;</a> of the objects studied by his team displayed signatures that could be reasonably described as &#8220;anomalous&#8221; and none of them presented <a href="https://defensescoop.com/2023/04/19/pentagons-uap-office-now-investigating-more-than-650-cases/">&#8220;credible&#8221;</a> evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, emphasized the gravity Grusch&#8217;s claim during an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-says-ufo-claims-may-be-biggest-story-in-human-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News host Sean Hannity last week.
&#8220;We have people that have very high clearances both today and in the past, who did really important work for our government or continue to do important work for the government, who have come forward with some claims about the U.S. having in the past recovered exotic materials and then reversed engineered those materials to make advances in our own defenses and technologies,&#8221; Rubio said.
&#8220;Either they&#8217;re telling the truth, and that is something that obviously would be the biggest story in human history, or we have people in really important positions in government who are crazy, and who are out there making up stories, and who are still in positions of importance,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;Either one is a big problem. So we&#8217;ve got to figure out which one of these two it is, because the second one in particular would be very troubling.&#8221;
Rubio and other lawmakers are now pushing legislation to bring forth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets">UAP disclosures</a> from the government.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters on Monday that he supports letting the American people &#8220;see what we have, where we go.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d love to see whatever facts and information we have,&#8221; McCarthy said.
McCarthy said if the U.S. military found such evidence of a UFO, &#8220;the Department of Defense would tell us because they would probably want to request more money.&#8221;

‘Done With The Cover-Ups’: Lawmaker Announces Date For UFO Hearing

'Done With The Cover-Ups': Lawmaker Announces Date For UFO Hearing

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Claims being made about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a> and a possible government cover-up are the &#8220;biggest story in human history&#8221; if proven true, according to a U.S. senator.
Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, emphasized the gravity of the situation several weeks after David 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">shared</a> allegations about craft of non-human origin being retrieved and illegally kept from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>.
“We have people that have very high clearances both today and in the past, who did really important work for our government or continue to do important work for the government, who have come forward with some claims about the U.S. having in the past recovered exotic materials and then reversed engineered those materials to make advances in our own defenses and technologies,&#8221; Rubio said during <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMvFZvhUaGU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview Fox News host Sean Hannity</a> on Tuesday evening.
The lawmaker, who had been asked by Hannity if there is any truth to the UFO claims, went on to say he does not know yet if the claims are valid, but surmised that &#8220;one of two things&#8221; is happening.
&#8220;Either they&#8217;re telling the truth, and that is something that obviously would be the biggest story in human history, or we have people in really important positions in government who are crazy, and who are out there making up stories, and who are still in positions of importance,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;Either one is a big problem. So we&#8217;ve got to figure out which one of these two it is, because the second one in particular would be very troubling.&#8221;
So far, in response to the claims, 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 Rubio recently informed <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/rubio-recent-ufo-whistleblower-isnt-the-only-one/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News Nation</a> that multiple people, some of whom are from the government, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-says-multiple-ufo-whistleblowers-from-government-have-come-forward" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come forward to Congress with UFO claims</a>, some of whom have &#8220;first-hand knowledge or first-hand claims of certain things.&#8221; And there could be more revelations with <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2103/text#toc-idfd4035e5209e44529f3bbb8af6e2d9f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1679226762968825856">legislation</a> as well as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-says-ufos-can-fly-underwater-government-has-been-covering-up-presence-since-1890s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing in the House</a> that <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1678956641373356032" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may take place by the end of this month</a>.
“All we know are the claims that people have made. These are credible people that have done and continue to do important work for the country. And by law, we&#8217;re required, when they come forward as whistleblowers, to take their claims seriously and to investigate them,&#8221; Rubio told Hannity, &#8220;But we just don&#8217;t know. That&#8217;s the answer.&#8221;

Senator Says UFO Claims May Be ‘Biggest Story In Human History’

Senator Says UFO Claims May Be 'Biggest Story In Human History'

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has agreed to spend more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to expand access to sex change operations for minors, drawing criticism from Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY), Marco Rubio (FL), and Ted Budd (NC).
Titled the “<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_U01OD033248_7529" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TRANS-NIH RESEARCH SUPPORT</a>,” the agreement is between the NIH and the <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/transgender-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham and Women’s Hospital</a>, as well as the Children’s Hospital Corporation, which <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/79099MF:US#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does business</a> under the name of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children’s Hospital</a>. The deal, which lists an obligated funding amount of $3,266,707, began in September 2021 and ends on August 31, 2023. 
The nearly $3.3 million plan aims to create a “Trans Health Guide” intended to “expand the local workforce of gender-affirming care providers” and “advance equity and reduce mental health disparities for TGD youth through … systemic changes that increase access to gender-affirming care.” 
People between the ages of 13 and 24 are considered transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth.
“As a senator and a physician, I am deeply concerned about the NIH&#8217;s use of taxpayer money to fund dangerous and controversial youth transgender research,&#8221; Sen. Paul told The Daily Wire. “The well-being of our youth is of utmost importance and subjecting them to harmful and experimental medical procedures is unacceptable.&#8221; 
The grant description claims that “access to gender-affirming care and family support are known to be critical determinants of mental health outcomes for TGD youth.”  The project focuses on “five southeastern states with large black transgender populations and limited access to gender-affirming care.”
Additionally, the program includes a “free online training course for continuing education credit,” as well as a platform to hold “consultations with specialists.” 
Sen. Rubio joined Paul in condemning the grant.
&#8220;The NIH should not use U.S. taxpayer dollars to encourage or promote transgenderism in children, especially when that means subjecting kids to damaging and irreversible surgeries and hormones,” Rubio told The Daily Wire. “The U.S. government should not overlook or diminish the biological reality that underpins human existence.”
“Promoting transgenderism among children raises significant concerns about their physical, social, and psychological well-being. We must protect the innocence and future of our children.&#8221;
The Trans Health Guide <a href="https://www.transhealthguide.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> goes into greater depth, explaining that healthcare providers “will be able to access free training materials on working with transgender and other gender-diverse youth” and “gender-affirming medical and mental health care.” 
The guide is designed to provide “an interactive educational digital platform for TGD youth and caregivers.” The site describes the project as a “multi-level intervention to improve the health of transgender and gender-diverse youth, focusing on TGD youth of color.”
“Our government should not be furthering the fallacy that chemically transitioning children is safe and effective,&#8221; said Sen. Tedd Budd (R-NC). “Taxpayer dollars should not be used to encourage gender transition interventions on young people.”
The NIH recently came under scrutiny after it was revealed that two individuals involved in its study on &#8220;Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones” committed suicide. 
Five Republican Senators, including Paul, Rubio, and Budd, along with ten GOP congressmembers, sent a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Acting Director of the NIH, Dr. Lawrence Tobak, blasting the study. 
&#8220;Rather than shutting the study down after such serious adverse events, the researchers published their paper, concluding that the study was a success because cross-sex hormones had altered subjects’ physical appearance and improved psychosocial functioning,&#8221; the letter said.
Boston Children’s Hospital, which has received heavy criticism over its medical transitioning of youth, was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> as one of the participants in the study. 
January Littlejohn, a Senior Fellow Patient Advocate for <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FFNDWNXsBcZdmqZzMVxZLhMWFjSsLNNq">Do No Harm</a>, blasted the NIH’s support of child transgenderism as an “outrageous use of taxpayer money,” going on to criticize the medical research agency for pushing “irreversible, harmful treatment interventions on vulnerable and confused children.”
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“Boston Children’s Hospital lost all credibility when they released videos of their doctors stating children ‘<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11280475/Harvard-hospital-claims-babies-know-WOMB-transgender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seemingly know from the womb</a>’ they are transgender and <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/sites/default/files/media_migration/f0f27297-03a5-4650-b31c-c22b46bcffa6.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to performing irreversible gender surgeries on minors,” she added. 
Dr. <a href="https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/us/faculty-advisory-board/jeremi-carswell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremi Carswell</a>, a pediatric endocrinologist and the director of the Gender Multispeciality Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, has admitted on camera that puberty blockers are given out “like candy” and acknowledged they can cause fertility problems. She also said “providers are very, very swayed by our patients” in the field of transgender medical interventions. 
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WATCH 🚨: Director of the <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonChildrens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BostonChildrens</a> Gender Clinic admitted that puberty blockers can CAUSE INFERTILITY and are given to kids &quot;LIKE CANDY.&quot; 
Here&#39;s a thread of Dr. Jeremi Carswell&#39;s shocking statements, starting with her admission that puberty blockers can sterilize kids: <a href="https://t.co/U6XyY4H7wz">pic.twitter.com/U6XyY4H7wz</a>
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm&#8217;s board chair, contrasted the NIH’s support for transgender medical interventions with the approach taken by other developed Western nations.
“What is needed from our government is the same commitment that Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK have made to protecting children from undergoing these life altering procedures,” he said. 
The NIH and the Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital did not respond to a request for comment.

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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.
More: <a href="https://t.co/0dk8wsuoEh">https://t.co/0dk8wsuoEh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Banfield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Banfield</a> <a href="https://t.co/0B1UmtOkGP">pic.twitter.com/0B1UmtOkGP</a>
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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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