Florida Senator Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2024/04/18/president_biden_must_not_encourage_illegal_mass_migration_from_haiti_1025892.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned President Biden</a> not to accept mass migration from Haiti, saying, “the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first, not anyone else’s.”
Rubio is intent on helping the Haitian people. After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Congress passed the Haitian Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act to help rebuild Haiti’s domestic industry, but it expires in 2025. Last year, Rubio reintroduced the Act, saying, “It is in our national interest to help Haiti as it faces unimaginable hardships as a result of political corruption, natural disasters, and rampant crime. The HELP Act is an important bipartisan measure that will extend trade benefits and boost the country’s largest industry.”
In mid-March, Rubio and fellow Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-scott-to-biden-help-floridians-prepare-for-a-mass-migration-from-haiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> President Biden, “Floridians and the rest of the American public will not tolerate your administration again opening the floodgates for countless, unvetted foreign nationals to stream into our country, putting our national security at grave risk and creating untold public safety threats for our communities. We must consider this danger due to the numerous reports of gangs committing jailbreaks in Haiti and releasing thousands of dangerous criminals.”
In his column discussing Haitian mass migration, Rubio noted that the Biden administration is pushing the Dominican Republic to accept three million Haitians fleeing their ravaged country.
“This is unfair to the D.R., which is a developing nation with limited resources, and which is already bearing significant burdens on Haiti’s behalf,” Rubio wrote. “Anyone who doubts this should consider the fact that <a href="https://cdn.com.do/nacionales/legisladores-responden-amnistia-35-partos-en-rd-es-a-haitianas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than a third</a> of all births in the D.R. are currently to Haitian citizens.”
Then he addressed the possibility of mass migration from Haiti to the U.S.: “But encouraging illegal mass migration is also unfair to our country. The Biden Administration seems unaware that many Haitians view the D.R. as a stepping stone to Puerto Rico—and that a well-established smuggling ring to facilitate that journey already exists. Because our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico have their own fiscal constraints, illegal migrants that reach the U.S. territory would likely move on to the continental United States.”
“Like most Americans, I recognize that what is happening in Haiti is horrible and tragic,” Rubio continued. “The breakdown of law and order, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/dominican-republic-ramps-up-border-security-haiti-crisis-shows-new-border-wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">displacement</a> of more than 300,000 people, and the need of roughly five million for some form of aid—all of these are matters of grave concern. This is why I support the international peacekeeping mission that Kenya proposes to lead once Haiti has established a provisional government. In addition, I have <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-leads-bipartisan-measure-to-extend-economic-support-for-haiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reintroduced</a> legislation to preserve U.S. trade benefits for Haitian manufacturers, which could prove a lifeline to legitimate Haitian businesses in this time of crisis.”
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“But, like most Americans, I also recognize that no country should experience illegal mass migration—not the D.R., and not the United States. Illegal mass migration does no good for the nation people are migrating from,” he stated. “When all able-bodied, law-abiding citizens leave their homeland, there is no one left to defend it from criminals and tyrants—and no one left to provide for the vulnerable who remain there. On a more fundamental level, though, I cannot support illegal mass migration because the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first, not anyone else’s.”

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said during an interview on Sunday that Iran&#8217;s goal was to make Israel an &#8220;unlivable&#8221; place so that it collapses.
Rubio made the remarks during a CNN interview following Iran&#8217;s attack on Saturday, which included 185 one-way suicide drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and 36 cruise missiles.
&#8220;Iran&#8217;s goal has always been the same, and that is to make Israel an unlivable place,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;Iran knows it cannot beat Israel militarily, but what it does aspire to do is make Israel an impossible place to live and a place no one wants to visit.&#8221;
&#8220;I hear a lot of talk right now about how this was a performative attack and how none of them got through. And this is all great. It&#8217;s good that those strikes did not get through and harm anybody,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But what do you think the tourism numbers are today in Israel and in the next couple weeks? What do we think the business numbers are going to look like? All of this is harmful to the Jewish state, because that is the goal of Iran, ultimately. And that&#8217;s why they want us out of Iraq. That&#8217;s why they want us out of Syria. That&#8217;s why they want to overthrow the king in Jordan.&#8221;
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&#8220;And that&#8217;s why they want to continue to surround Israel from Gaza, from Lebanon, they aspire one day from Jordan, from Syria, from Iraq, have all these proxies that are able &#8212; and then from Iran now &#8212; able to attack Israel and make it an unlivable place, so that the Jewish state will collapse from within economically and socially,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That is their goal. That is their aspiration. That is why many of those drones had lights on, so you could see them coming in and the terror aspect of that. And that&#8217;s what we need to understand here is that &#8212; as at the core of all of this is not simply to respond to the death of an IRGC killer, but it is also to continue to move forward on this plan to make Israel an unlivable place.&#8221;
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Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@marcorubio</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeTapper</a> that Iran&#39;s goal is to &quot;make Israel an unlivable place.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KPliGEE8x7">pic.twitter.com/KPliGEE8x7</a>
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Rubio: Iran Wants To Make Israel ‘An Unlivable Place’ So It Will ‘Collapse Economically And Socially’

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The White House leaked details of a call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to placate &#8220;so-called peace activists&#8221; after Iran launched an assault on Israel, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) posited on Sunday.
Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN that he favors doing &#8220;anything&#8221; that can be done to protect U.S. troops in the region from being attacked when pressed on the prospect of U.S. retaliation.
&#8220;But Israel is not asking us to launch attacks on Iran. I &#8230; have ever heard the Israelis come to us and say, &#8216;Will you help us or will you attack Iran or go in after Iran? They&#8217;re not asking for that. They&#8217;re not asking for it,&#8221; Rubio said.
He then addressed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-netanyahu-u-s-will-not-back-counterstrike-against-iran-report?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> that Biden told Netanyahu that the United States would not support a counterattack against Iran as the White House is concerned that escalating military action could have significant consequences for the region.
&#8220;I think we go from that to the other extreme, which is Joe Biden telling Netanyahu, &#8216;Take the win, don&#8217;t do anything.&#8217; And then his people leaking it to the media, leaking it to the press,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;And what it sets up is — they know that Israel is going to respond. They know this for a fact. So why would the White House leak it?&#8221;
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He added, &#8220;There&#8217;s only one reason they leaked that, and that is that so, when Israel does respond, the White House can say, &#8216;We told them not to do it,&#8217; and at least somehow, in some way appease the so-called peace activists &#8230; the so — cease-fire now people, who were out yesterday cheering the launch of hundreds of rockets and drones and missiles against Israel.&#8221;
A viral clip posted to X on Saturday showed leftist activists chanting &#8220;hands off Iran!&#8221; after Iran launched drones and missiles at Israel. The news outlet that published the video, The Free Press, <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/american-anti-war-activists-cheer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the crowd applauded and someone did a &#8220;celebratory whistle&#8221; when the news broke.
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A few minutes after news broke that Iran had launched drones and missiles heading toward Israel, a crowd of far-left activists in Chicago started chanting “hands off Iran!” <a href="https://t.co/xuZZ8C0XyU">pic.twitter.com/xuZZ8C0XyU</a>
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Rubio explained that anyone who is encouraging major strikes on Israel — beyond simply demonstrating in favor of a cease-fire in Gaza where Israeli forces are fighting Iran-backed Hamas terrorists — is not a &#8220;peace activist,&#8221; as some might claim.
&#8220;These are antisemites, anti-Israel, pro-terrorist elements out there, and we need to stop calling them peace activists. They are not peace activists,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Peace activists do not cheer massive attacks against other countries, which is what they were doing yesterday. So I guess this is part of the White House&#8217;s effort to appease them by putting this out there proactively,&#8221; Rubio added.

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Rubio Suggests White House Leaked Israel Call To Appease ‘So-Called Peace Activists’

Rubio Suggests White House Leaked Israel Call To Appease 'So-Called Peace Activists'

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, warned on Thursday that the situation in the Middle East could soon become the most dangerous it&#8217;s been in more than 50 years as tensions between Israel and Iran have reached a fever pitch.
Rubio&#8217;s comments come as Iran has threatened to launch an attack against Israel after an Israeli airstrike <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-escalation-alleged-israeli-airstrike-kills-top-iranian-general-in-syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria, last week as he met with other Iranian commanders and leaders from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
Zahedi allegedly played a “strategic role in forming and strengthening the resistance front as well as in planning and executing” Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack against Israel, according to a staunchly pro-IRGC political group.
&#8220;Iran wants to launch a large scale attack from their own territory against Israel,&#8221; Rubio <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1778400321523306774">posted</a> on X. &#8220;Israel will respond instantly with an even more severe counterattack inside of Iran.&#8221;
&#8220;What happens next is the most dangerous Middle East moment since 1973,&#8221; the senator added.
In 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a simultaneous coordinated surprise attack on Israel during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
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U.S. officials have said that Iran, the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism, was planning a &#8220;significant&#8221; attack against Israel.
Israeli media reported on Thursday that Iran was ready to strike but appeared to have delayed or changed its plans in response to threats from the U.S.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak echoed the U.S.&#8217;s support for Israel on Thursday, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/388332">saying</a>: &#8220;The threats from Iran are completely unacceptable and we, like the Americans, fully support Israel’s right to defend itself against that.&#8221;
&#8220;We have already highlighted Iran as a significant risk to regional security and we have always said that we will support Israel’s ability to defend itself and we are taking action ourselves to make sure we can protect the UK against threats from Iran,&#8221; he added.

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Rubio Warns Situation In Middle East Could Soon Be ‘The Most Dangerous’ Since Yom Kippur War

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) slammed President Joe Biden for starting to cave on his position on Israel, saying it&#8217;s because he is worried about losing support from anti-Semitic Democrats in swing states ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Rubio made the remarks during a wide-ranging Sunday interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; as Rubio&#8217;s name begins to be floated as a potential vice presidential pick for former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I’ll be frank. I think the president is worried about losing Minnesota and Michigan,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;He&#8217;s getting a lot of pressure from the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, a lot of activists and people like that.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, he&#8217;s getting heckled at speeches. He&#8217;s hearing a lot of complaints, and so, I think he&#8217;s trying to have it both ways, still stick with Israel to some extent, but also do things that signal to these people and try to appease them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I saw yesterday, Secretary Blinken was overseas. Protesters outside of his hotel. I saw at the State of the Union where these pro-Hamas people were trying to block the president from getting to the State of the Union. They’re under a lot of political pressure and that’s what’s happening here.&#8221;
Rubio said that it was imperative that Israel wins the war because it was not acceptable for any country to live in constant fear of Islamic terrorist attacks.
&#8220;You cannot have a country in which this threat continues to exist. They have to finish this job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And this fighting can end tomorrow. You want a ceasefire in Gaza, it&#8217;s very simple. Hamas, just surrender. No one is calling for Hamas to surrender and lay down their arms. That would end the conflict. That would end the conflict immediately.&#8221;
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“This fighting can end tomorrow. You want a cease-fire in Gaza? It&#39;s very simple. Hamas just surrender…That would end the conflict immediately,” GOP Sen. Marco Rubio tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a>. <a href="https://t.co/lsaDteXN3y">https://t.co/lsaDteXN3y</a> <a href="https://t.co/Lv78bN5GPz">pic.twitter.com/Lv78bN5GPz</a>
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Rubio: Biden Trying To Appease ‘Pro-Hamas’ Democrats Because He’s Worried About Losing 2 States

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) slammed ABC News host Jonathan Karl during an interview over the weekend after Karl tried to push back on an argument that Rubio made about how the world has become dramatically more dangerous under President Joe Biden.
Rubio made the remarks Sunday on &#8220;This Week&#8221; while talking about recent reports that former President Donald Trump is considering making Rubio his presidential running mate.
&#8220;I think anyone who is offered the opportunity to serve this country as vice president should be honored by the opportunity to do it if you are in public service,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;I’m in the Senate because I want to serve the country. Being vice president is an important way to serve the country.&#8221;
Karl tried to shame Rubio for making the comments by pointing out some unflattering things that Trump has said and done in the past.
&#8220;I will tell you this, that when Donald Trump was President of the United States, this country was safer,&#8221; Rubio fired back. &#8220;It was more prosperous. We had &#8212; we had relations, for example, in a part of the world that I care about called the Western Hemisphere that we’re very strong, we had a lot of good things done there.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the country and the world was at a better place when he was president, and I would love to see him return to the White House compared to the guy who&#8217;s there now, Joe Biden, who’s been a disaster economically,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Look at the world, every single day we wake up to a new crisis, to a new conflict. Everything has gone on fire since the time Joe Biden took over. Afghanistan&#8217;s gone down. Ukraine has been invaded. Now, the Philippines and the Chinese are on the verge of something bad happening every single day. Not to mention the threats to Taiwan. And we have this blowup in Haiti going on in our very own hemisphere. We wake up every single day, terrorist attacks, 9 million people across the border. That’s what matters to me.&#8221;
Karl tried to defend Biden after Rubio highlighted his record: &#8220;But – but – but you’re – but &#8212; I mean – I mean you’re not suggesting that’s all happening because of Biden and everything?&#8221;
&#8220;Absolutely, I am,&#8221; Rubio responded. &#8220;Absolutely, I&#8217;m suggesting it’s happening because of Biden. He’s president and his weakness and his –&#8221;
&#8220;Just because of Biden that – that Russia invaded Ukraine?&#8221; Karl interrupted.
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Rubio pushed back. &#8220;Absolutely. I mean Putin is sitting there saying, these guys can&#8217;t even stand up to the Taliban and they have to fly people hanging off the wings of these airplanes. Now is the time to go.&#8221;
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Sen. Marco Rubio says anyone would be “honored” to serve as VP, but tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> that he has not spoken with former Pres. Trump about being his running mate. 
“That&#39;s the decision he&#39;s going to make. He has plenty of really good people to pick from.” <a href="https://t.co/MFPmHskhoN">https://t.co/MFPmHskhoN</a> <a href="https://t.co/B2BVL9W4S6">pic.twitter.com/B2BVL9W4S6</a>
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Marco Rubio Nukes ABC’s Jonathan Karl: ‘Every Single Day, We Wake Up To A New Crisis’ Under Biden

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) said over the weekend that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed to him that a trafficking network exists that smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. who have ties to ISIS.
Rubio made the remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; while discussing ISIS-K&#8217;s devastating terrorist attack in Moscow late last week, which killed well over a hundred people.
&#8220;ISIS-K, ISIS-Khorasan, is largely the Afghan-wing of ISIS,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;It&#8217;s reconstituted itself as we warned would happen when we had this disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. One of the reasons why we didn&#8217;t want to withdraw precipitously is because you gave them operating space to reorganize themselves and plan externally. And since that time, they&#8217;ve attacked inside of Afghanistan.&#8221;
Rubio noted that ISIS-K was responsible for the deadly suicide blast that left 13 American service members dead at Kabul International Airport back in 2021 during President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from the country.
They also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-secretly-warned-iran-that-isis-was-plotting-terror-attack-iran-didnt-listen-and-dozens-were-murdered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted</a> a major attack in Iran that resulted in more than 80 deaths.
&#8220;And they&#8217;ll do it here in the homeland,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;I think we should be very concerned as the FBI director confirmed to me that there is a wing – there is a trafficking network out there that specializes in moving people. They do it for profit, moving people and migrants around the world, including across our southern border, who have links to ISIS.&#8221;
&#8220;I think common sense tells you, if they run a trafficking network of people, they would most certainly use it to move operatives into the United States,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, I&#8217;m not claiming there’s an imminent threat to the U.S., but I am saying that border situation and that existence of that network is a threat to the United States. If they could do what they did in Moscow in the United States, they would do it in a heartbeat. They want to do it.&#8221;
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Rubio noted that under former President Donald Trump, &#8220;ISIS was basically out of business,&#8221; but now, under a weak Biden administration, &#8220;they&#8217;ve reconstituted themselves.&#8221;
&#8220;And part of it is, once we leave Afghanistan and we&#8217;re no longer there to conduct regular strikes, they can now operate openly. No matter how much the Taliban wants to take them on, they can&#8217;t. They don&#8217;t have the capability to do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And these guys have found a place to operate from. They need real estate. They need land and places where they can organize and do external plotting.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, it’s a lot easier for them to get into Iran. It’s a lot easier for them to get into Russia and do these things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But their aspirations go beyond Russia and Iran. They would love to do what they did in Moscow here inside the United States. And it&#8217;s something we have to be very vigilant about when we have a border in which 9 million people have come across in the last three years.&#8221;
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After ISIS-K claims responsibility for terror attack in Russia, Sen. Marco Rubio tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> that the U.S. needs to remain &quot;very vigilant&quot; about border security.
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Rubio: FBI Director ‘Confirmed To Me’ A Trafficking Network Exists That Smuggles ISIS-Linked People Into U.S.

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Top Democrat and Republican senators warned over the weekend that TikTok, the social media app <a href="https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/8/tiktok-china-s-influence-is-right-at-our-fingertips">allegedly</a> controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, is &#8220;the most powerful propaganda tool&#8221; that officials have ever seen.
The remarks from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) and Ranking Member Marco Rubio (R-FL) on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; come as the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill this week that would force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to divest its ownership in the company or it will be banned in the U.S.
Warner slammed President Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign for joining TikTok, saying it sent &#8220;a pretty darn mixed message.&#8221;
Warner warned that TikTok poses a threat to the U.S. by collecting Americans&#8217; data and manipulating what they see to turn them against each other.
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t think the Chinese Communist Party can twist that algorithm to make it the news that they see reflective of their views, then I don&#8217;t think you appreciate the nature of the threat,&#8221; Warner said. &#8220;Would the United States ever allow China to buy CBS? I don&#8217;t think they would. And we might have slightly different ways on how we go at this, but we think this is a national security issue.&#8221;
Rubio said people get so hooked on TikTok because its algorithm has a powerful &#8220;recommender engine, which is one of the best in the world.&#8221;
&#8220;That is owned by ByteDance. Under Chinese law, ByteDance must own it,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;And the only way that that recommender engine works is if they have access to the data. So it doesn&#8217;t matter who you sell TikTok to, where they&#8217;re headquartered, doesn&#8217;t even matter where they stored the data. As long as ByteDance engineers in China have access to the algorithm — have access to that data — control the algorithm, they have to have access to American data to make it work. And that&#8217;s what we need to confront. That&#8217;s the reality here.&#8221;
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Warner concluded in his warning: &#8220;Manipulating that algorithm can mean what kind of information you&#8217;re going to see. And if you don&#8217;t think that could be used as the most powerful propaganda tool ever, then I don&#8217;t think you appreciate the threat.&#8221;
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Financial asset manager <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/blackrock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BlackRock</a> said in its annual report that environmental, social, and governance policies could hurt its bottom line after Republican state officials cut ties with the company over its ties to China and climate activism. 
In its annual Form 10-K <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364742/000095017024019271/blk-20231231.htm#item_1a_risk_factors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEC filing</a> put out last week, BlackRock said that it was facing ESG-related risk factors that might cause it to lose revenue and damage its earnings. The financial giant, which has over $10 trillion in assets, has faced scrutiny from Republican officials who say the company misleads its customers about leftist policies. 
“If BlackRock is not able to successfully manage ESG-related expectations across varied stakeholder interests, it may adversely affect BlackRock’s reputation, ability to attract and retain clients, employees, shareholders and business partners or result in litigation, legal or governmental action, which may cause its AUM, revenue and earnings to decline,” the company wrote in its filing. 
The company said that this was due to having “clients who have a variety of goals and preferences, including those who want to increase their exposure to the low-carbon transition and those who choose not to invest in products or strategies with sustainable investment objectives.”
BlackRock said that there was risk because some of its clients wanted it to become more involved in promoting ESG investing, while others have cut off business because of its policies toward coal and natural gas. 
“Some US states and state officials have adopted or proposed legislation or otherwise have taken official positions restricting or prohibiting state government entities from doing certain business with entities identified by the state as ‘boycotting’ or ‘discriminating’ against particular industries or considering ESG factors in their investment processes and proxy voting,” the filing said. “Other states and localities may adopt similar legislation or other ESG-related laws and positions that adversely impact BlackRock’s business.”
The filing was cheered on by conservatives who said that it was only the beginning of pushback on ESG initiatives.
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This is enormous. The blowback to the ESG tyranny is only beginning. <a href="https://t.co/ZjSiSwrr43">https://t.co/ZjSiSwrr43</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1763602148514799698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The hustlers &amp; radicals pushing ESG on American investors &amp; retirees are finally being exposed. But the battle is far from over because they are going to change tactics &amp; try to fly under the radar. Our policy responses will need to evolve,&#8221; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMarcoRubio/status/1763633618390294896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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In recent years, a number of states, including Louisiana and West Virginia, have divested from BlackRock. As opposition grew, the company has backtracked on some of its policies, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/financial-giants-pull-14-trillion-from-climate-group-that-pressures-companies-to-take-action-on-climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most recently</a> pulling out of Climate Action 100+, a group that pressures companies to “take action on climate change.” BlackRock International, a subsidiary, remained in the group.
Republican officials have also maintained pressure on the company, and 15 Republican attorneys general, led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/Follow_up_letter_to_BlackRock_Directors_FINAL.pdf">demanded</a> more answers from BlackRock about its participation in climate organizations and what kind of environmental, social, and governance policies it has implemented.

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The Senate Democrat chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4465102-senate-intel-democrat-worried-biden-campaign-joining-tiktok-mixed-message/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> President Biden for his reelection campaign joining the Chinese platform TikTok.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) reacted after the Biden campaign on Sunday posted a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bidenhq/video/7334529963066019114?embed_source=71929438%2C121374463%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_card_play&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=thehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fcampaign%2F4462234-biden-joins-tiktok-with-video-captioned-lol-hey-guys%2F&amp;referer_video_id=7334529963066019114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> on TikTok trying to show Biden as quick-witted. Asked by a voice offscreen, “Chiefs or 49ers,” Biden responded, “Two great quarterbacks. Hard to say. But if I didn’t say I was for the Eagles then I would be sleeping alone. My wife’s a Philly girl.”
“Game or commercials?” the voice prompted. “Game,” Biden answered.
“Game or halftime show?” he was asked. “Game.”
“Jason Kelce or Travis Kelce?” He responded: “Mama Kelce. I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.”
“Deviously plotting to rig the season so the Chiefs would make the Super Bowl or the Chiefs just being a good football team?”
“I’d get in trouble if I told you,” Biden replied.
By Tuesday the video had racked up 7.4 million views.
“I think at the end of the day, the Chinese Communist Party ­can not only get access to the data, but also, more importantly, can potentially drive the algorithms in terms of what you’re seeing,” Warner stated, “I’m a little worried about a mixed message.”
Last year, Warner joined South Dakota GOP Senator John Thune to sponsor the <a href="https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/3/senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-tackle-national-security-threats-from-foreign-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RESTRICT Act</a> to “comprehensively address the ongoing threat posed by technology from foreign adversaries by better empowering the Department of Commerce to review, prevent, and mitigate information communications and technology transactions that pose undue risk to our national security.”
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After the Biden campaign posted the video, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton tweeted, “TikTok is a spy app for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s used to push propaganda on American kids and steal data. It’s shameful that Biden is embracing TikTok to compensate for bad polls driven by his mental decline.”
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TikTok is a spy app for the Chinese Communist Party. 
It&#39;s used to push propaganda on American kids and steal data.
It&#39;s shameful that Biden is embracing TikTok to compensate for bad polls driven by his mental decline.
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Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst echoed, “TikTok was banned from all federal government devices because it’s a threat to our national security. That didn’t stop the Biden campaign from joining the CCP’s dangerous propaganda app.”
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TikTok was banned from all federal government devices because it’s a threat to our national security.
That didn’t stop the Biden campaign from joining the CCP’s dangerous propaganda app.<a href="https://t.co/XJFCLqNpAn">https://t.co/XJFCLqNpAn</a>
&mdash; Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJoniErnst/status/1757112639287685510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio has repeatedly warned about TikTok. Last August, he 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/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a>.
“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.”

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted Democrats during an interview over the weekend for prioritizing funding for Ukraine while neglecting fixing the &#8220;invasion&#8221; that is occurring on the U.S. southern border.
Rubio made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; while talking about bills to help fund Israel and Ukraine.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t oppose giving them the help that they need, especially in the case of Israel,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;And if you put the Israel thing up to a right now, it would pass. I don&#8217;t even know, maybe a couple of people would vote against it, but, basically, it would pass very quickly. The problem is, Israel is being held hostage so they could get Ukraine.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to explain to my constituents, I have to explain to the people of Florida, I have to explain to the American people because I&#8217;m a U.S. senator, and my number one obligation is America. If America is not strong, we can&#8217;t help any of our allies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I will have to explain to them why the Senate is going to work all through Super Bowl weekend, which is fine with me. we&#8217;re going to make a big priority, except on something that&#8217;s critical to this country, which is the invasion that&#8217;s going on, on our own border, on our own border.&#8221;
&#8220;According to a House committee and the documents and the statistics they put out — I think these numbers are low, but let&#8217;s just use them — 3.3 million people have been released into the country who arrived here illegally,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Over 600,000 of them either have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, this is a huge problem and it has to be addressed and they put out a bill,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They can call it whatever they want. It wasn&#8217;t a border security bill. It wasn&#8217;t tough. And, frankly, it was negotiated by three people. I don&#8217;t begrudge it, but I wasn&#8217;t involved in that negotiation. I didn&#8217;t even ask for a bill. I asked for the president to reverse the executive orders that created this crisis when he took over in January of 2021.&#8221;
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) endorsed former President Donald Trump for president on Sunday, saying that Trump had the leadership needed to fix the crises created by the Biden administration. 
Rubio, a former presidential rival of Trump in 2016, said that he chose Trump because of his record on foreign policy and that the former president would stand up to special interests and bureaucrats. Rubio’s announcement came one day before the Iowa caucus, the first presidential primary voting of the year. 
“When Trump was in WH I achieved major policies I had worked on for years (like expanded Child Tax Credit &amp; tough sanctions on regime in Cuba &amp; Venezuela) because we had a President who didn’t cave to special interests or let bureaucrats block us,&#8221; Rubio posted on X. &#8220;I support Trump because that kind of leadership is the ONLY way we will get the extraordinary actions needed to fix the disaster Biden has created. It’s time to get on with the work of beating Biden &amp; saving America!” 
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When Trump was in WH I achieved major policies I had worked on for years (like expanded Child Tax Credit &amp; tough sanctions on regime in Cuba &amp; Venezuela) because we had a President who didn’t cave to special interests or let bureaucrats block us.
I support Trump because that…
&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1746629924432310551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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With Rubio’s announcement, both Florida senators have now backed Trump for the GOP nomination over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, with Sen. Rick Scott announcing his support for Trump in November. 
The latest polls from Iowa indicate that Trump has a commanding lead over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, DeSantis, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Iowa has been hit with frigid temperatures and snow, meaning turnout may be down depending on weather conditions. 
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Before Rubio’s announcement, Trump picked up Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee’s endorsement on Friday and Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) on Saturday. 
“I realize President Trump greatly aggravates the left and the national media. I believe that is a small price to pay for righting this ship of state which is so greatly listing. I hope Republicans will join me in nominating President Trump,” Risch <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/13/idaho-sen-jim-risch-endorses-trump-00135488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> POLITICO. 
More than 20 Republican senators have endorsed Trump, including Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the third highest-ranking Republican in the Senate. 
“When President Trump was in office, we had the best economy in my lifetime … we had energy independence, our enemies feared us, and we had a secure border,” Barrasso <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-barrasso-becomes-20th-gop-senator-to-endorse-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week. “And now under Joe Biden, we have high prices, we have a wide-open border. What’s happened at the border, the surrender at the border has allowed eight million illegal immigrants into the country.”

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