Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and two of her fellow GOP congresswomen discussed her bill banning transgender medical services for children and the &#8220;spiritual warfare&#8221; surrounding gender ideology.
Greene claimed that one of Georgia&#8217;s biggest megachurches trains youth pastors to affirm teens&#8217; new gender identities and pronouns.
&#8220;That should never happen in church because that is confirming Satan&#8217;s lie to these vulnerable children,&#8221; Greene said on the Republican Study Committee&#8217;s <a href="https://linktr.ee/republicanstudycommittee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> &#8220;Right to the Point.&#8221;
Two other Republican women in Congress joined the podcast for Wednesday&#8217;s episode alongside Greene: Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) and Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN). The podcast interviews members of Congress every week from Capitol Hill.
Both women are co-sponsors of Greene&#8217;s bill, the Protect Children&#8217;s Innocence Act, which would ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries like genital sex changes and double mastectomies for minors.
Greene said she is hopeful her bill will get a vote on the House floor soon.
&#8220;President Trump is ready to sign it into action,&#8221; she said.
Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO), who hosted the podcast, said, &#8220;The Left tries to create language that softens things, gender-affirming care. What in the heck does that mean? You are mutilating the body of a young person.&#8221;
Harshbarger said she spent her whole life in the healthcare industry before coming to Congress, where she now fights to protect children from gender ideology.
&#8220;God is so good when he puts us where we need to be to take care of those issues,&#8221; Harshbarger said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a lie from the pits of hell that you can change your sex, you can&#8217;t change your DNA.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a direct attack on God&#8217;s creation. God created us male and female just like the bill is stating, male and female in His image, and that&#8217;s why the Left is attacking it,&#8221; Greene said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a great lie that Satan had from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden, and he is a liar and deceiver, and I think he&#8217;s trying to get to us,&#8221; Alford said. &#8220;And they guilt you into if you don&#8217;t go along with this, then you&#8217;re not human, you&#8217;re not compassionate. No, we are compassionate. And calling gender dysphoria, why would you affirm any type of dysphoria?&#8221;
&#8220;Marjorie, that goes back to the spiritual warfare,&#8221; Harshbarger said after Greene mentioned the Georgia megachurch.
&#8220;When the pastors from the pulpit do not condemn evil, and they uphold what is wrong, what the Bible says, what is conceived as and what is construed as right in the end days will be looked at as wrong, and what is wrong will be looked at as right.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth sets people free,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;We cannot lie about this. And I want to say that evil never retreats on its own, only when it&#8217;s confronted by a more powerful force. And number one, we have President Trump. He&#8217;s a strong leader. But all of us that have been elected to Congress, we want to be a force against evil.&#8221;
Miller said their opponents have told them they can have their beliefs, but only in their private spaces. &#8220;Go to your home or be quiet,&#8221; opponents insist, according to Miller. 
&#8220;We are not going to do that anymore,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And whether it&#8217;s teachers or it&#8217;s in government, the whistleblowers, parents that are speaking up. &#8230; But we need legislators. We need brave parents, whistleblowers. We need to shed light on all the evil and dark things that have been happening in our country, and praise God that it is happening.&#8221;

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Republican lawmakers grilled PBS and NPR executives on Wednesday in a fiery congressional hearing, where NPR&#8217;s chief executive admitted the organization made mistakes in its coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story and faced accusations of institutional liberal bias.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who organized the hearing titled &#8220;Anti-American Airwaves,&#8221; slammed PBS and NPR as &#8220;radical left-wing echo chambers&#8221; that publish biased news reports with government subsidies and LGBTQ programming intent on “grooming children,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/media/pbs-npr-congress-hearing-republicans.html">reported</a>.
NPR chief executive Katherine Maher and PBS chief executive Paula Kerger were brought in for questioning by Greene as the chairwoman of the new Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.
Katherine Maher, who became CEO of NPR last year, backtracked on her organization&#8217;s coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 campaign prior to her tenure.
&#8220;Our current editorial leadership thinks that was a mistake, as do I,&#8221; Maher testified, facing tough questioning from Republican lawmakers.
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) revealed 2020 tweets from Maher describing President Trump as a &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;sociopath,” which Maher says she now regrets.
When pressed on the tweets by Rep. Greene, Maher expressed regret, saying, &#8220;They represented a time where I was reflecting on something that the president had said rather than who he is.&#8221;
These admissions came as Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated, &#8220;I don&#8217;t even recognize NPR anymore,&#8221; adding that while he relied on public radio for news growing up in rural Kentucky, he now likens it to &#8220;propaganda.&#8221;
Former NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner, who resigned after publishing an essay critical of the network&#8217;s leftward shift, was referenced by Republican lawmakers as further evidence of the outlet’s bias.
In a text message to The New York Times, he wrote that he believes the organization should &#8220;openly acknowledge and embrace its progressive orientation&#8221; and decline federal support, contradicting Maher’s claims of NPR’s supposed objectivity.
PBS CEO Paula Kerger defended her network, arguing that “there’s nothing more American than PBS&#8221; and describing it as a crucial source of accurate information and educational programming for millions of Americans.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a government-funded company, <a href="https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Congress-Approval-Continued-Funding-Public-Media">received</a> $535 million from the government this year, with millions of dollars going directly to NPR and PBS.
Representative William Timmons (R-SC) pressed PBS&#8217;s Kerger about a digital segment titled &#8220;Drag Queen Story Hour,&#8221; which featured drag performers reading to children. Kerger responded that the segment never aired on PBS television and was removed after being &#8220;mistakenly added&#8221; to the network&#8217;s website.
Representative Greene pointed to a photograph of drag performer Lil Miss Hot Mess featured in PBS programming, calling the entertainer a &#8220;monster&#8221; and accusing the network of using &#8220;taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical left positions.&#8221;
Kerger rejected these characterizations and defended PBS programming as educational and appropriate for its audiences.

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The House&#8217;s oversight commitee on Friday asked the largest union of federal employees to produce documents showing its communications with the Biden administration resulting in union contracts designed to bind President Donald Trump throughout his term.
The letter comes as Trump sent a memo to agency heads aimed at unwinding union contracts that were finalized in the final 30 days of the Biden presidency and setting a policy that such contracts should not be entered into in the final month of any president&#8217;s term.
Reps. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), its DOGE subcommittee chair, <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AFGE-Contract-Letter-013125.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the American Federation of Government Employees President Everett Kelley that the panel was investigating the &#8220;use—and abuse—of the federal collective bargaining process.&#8221;
The Department of Education signed a contract locking in telework on January 27, 2025, just three days before Trump took office. Biden Education Department officials signed the contract even though they admitted that the union had hamstrung the Biden administration&#8217;s own desire to bring the workforce back into the office, with COVID years in the past.
&#8220;Nearly all of ED’s 4,245 employees are telework eligible and they only spend 43.4 percent of their working hours in the office. Further, 2,341 ED employees are completely remote, never showing up to the office. When the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to increase the federal workforce’s in-person work, ED struggled to bring its employees back to the office, citing CBA [collective bargaining agreement] negotiations as the &#8216;largest barrier the agency faces to completing execution,'&#8221; the letter, first obtained by The Daily Wire, said.
&#8220;On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order requiring the &#8216;heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch … to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis.&#8217; CBAs entered into by the outgoing Administration with AFGE should not undermine President Trump’s ability to bring the federal workforce back to the office to better serve the American people,&#8221; it continued.
The letter demanded that AFGE produce all contracts signed in 2024 or January 2025, and all correspondence with the Biden administration about them.
&#8220;This process was used extensively toward the end of the Biden-Harris Administration to negotiate collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) intended primarily, not to manage the workforce under its own watch, but to constrain the ability of President Donald Trump to do so. The Biden-Harris Administration’s CBAs unduly infringe on President Trump’s ability to exercise his broad authority to oversee the federal workforce and ensure the laws of the land are faithfully executed,” Greene said in a statement.
Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/01/limiting-lame-duck-collective-bargaining-agreements-that-improperly-attempt-to-constrain-the-new-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> said &#8220;In the final days of the prior administration’s tenure, it purposefully finalized collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with Federal employees in an effort to harm my Administration by extending its wasteful and failing policies beyond its time in office&#8230; Such last-minute, lame-duck CBAs, which purport to bind a new President to his predecessor’s policies, run counter to America’s system of democratic self-government.&#8221;
&#8220;The Supreme Court has explained that a President &#8216;cannot choose to bind his successors by diminishing their powers,&#8217;” it added. &#8220;To the extent that subordinate agency personnel have executed a CBA that violates the requirements of subsection (a) of this section, but the applicable agency head has not yet approved such agreement pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 7114(c), such agency head shall promptly disapprove such agreement as inconsistent with the requirements of this memorandum.&#8221;
Union contracts were designed as adversarial documents negotiated between management and labor, but there is evidence that in the Biden administration, both sides were representing government employees, with no one defending the interests of taxpayers and recipients of services. They were not willing to run the agencies under the constraints of the contracts, but instead signed them on the way out the door, binding the Trump administration.
Biden&#8217;s Social Security Commissioner, Martin O&#8217;Malley, notoriously signed a five-year contract locking in telework on November 27. The memo from Trump, which he is expected to sign as soon as Friday afternoon, is rumored to cover contracts signed in the last 30 days of a presidency, so it is unclear whether that agreement would be lifted.
The Daily Wire revealed that O&#8217;Malley flew to Florida to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-security-head-drank-with-union-members-before-giving-them-telework-through-2029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drink and party with the Social Security union</a>, then signed the five-year telework contract hours before resigning his job to run for the Democratic National Committee, where the favor to unions could help his chances.
A slew of other agencies signed contracts with AFGE in the waning months of Biden&#8217;s presidency, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>. For example, on December 18, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signed a five-year contract that says employees can come into the office as little as two days a week. “The employer, in consultation with the union, shall maintain a Telework Program in every EEOC Office… All EEOC positions are eligible for some amount of telework,” it says.
On December 3, 2024, the National Park Services signed a contract with two unions representing Washington, D.C.-based employees that would also, coincidentally, run through the entirety of the Trump administration. One of the unions said to expect “virtually all NPS positions” to be “eligible for telework,” with no requirement to come in more than once a week.
This story has been updated to include details from Trump&#8217;s memo and a link to the House letter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump">Union That Wants Feds To Work From Home Brings Staff Back To Office To Fight Trump</a>

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On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) rebuffed a reporter hounding her over President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sweeping January 6 pardons</a>.
Hours after being sworn into office, Trump signed an executive order pardoning nearly all individuals charged with J6-related crimes.
&#8220;Is this all you&#8217;re really talking about, is the J6ers have been pardoned?&#8221; MTG asked the reporter, to which the reporter responded, &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, are you gonna talk about the Biden family that got pardoned? No?&#8221; Greene continued to push. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t &#8211;,&#8221; the reporter replied.
To much controversy, former President Joe Biden pardoned five members of his family with only minutes left of his time in office.
&#8220;Okay, what about the rapers [sic], killers, and murders that Joe Biden pardoned &#8212; there are tons of them &#8212; is that a focus at all?&#8221; Greene once again asked, only to receive a response that the reporter was focused on the J6 issue.
In late December, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-dozens-of-murderers-two-days-before-christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commuted the death sentences</a> of dozens of convicted killers, including a man who murdered a police officer and a man who kidnapped and murdered a 12-year-old girl.
&#8220;I know what you&#8217;re asking about &#8212; I&#8217;m not doing this,&#8221; Greene told the reporter. &#8220;This insane place up here, and all of y&#8217;all&#8217;s obsession with January 6 is absurd. Everybody outside of here is sick and f***ing tired of it. I&#8217;m serious.&#8221;
&#8220;Joe Biden pardoned all these murderers and rapists and disgusting people, and then everybody up here has got their panties in a wad because J6ers got pardoned,&#8221; the lawmaker continued. &#8220;A lot of them walked through open doors. That&#8217;s it.&#8221;
Greene then suggested the reporter &#8220;go do a story on all the antifa and BLM (Black Lives Matter) people who never served time, over 95% of them. Seriously, think about that. Go do a story on all these cities BLM burned to the ground, and they never built back.&#8221;
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Before the interaction ended, MTG talked about the distrust the legacy media had fomented in the American people. &#8220;You are not trusted and people are sick of you,&#8221; she told the reporter.
Greene posted the interaction to her X account with the caption: &#8220;After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press. Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans. You have destroyed your credibility. With social media like X, you can’t lie about me anymore.&#8221;
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After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press.
Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans.
You have destroyed your credibility.
With social media like X, you can’t lie about me anymore. <a href="https://t.co/mC1RXDfBcl">pic.twitter.com/mC1RXDfBcl</a>
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1882249270847500414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Issues Full Pardon To Nearly All J6 Defendants, Could Be Released From Prison ‘Tonight’</a>

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‘F***ing Sick Of It’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrecks Reporter Hounding Her Over J6 Pardons

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House Republicans on Wednesday said the Biden administration misled the American people about a federal workforce that has largely not shown up to the office in years, and that Donald Trump inheriting COVID-style telework was emblematic of Biden prioritizing the interests of federal unions and employees over the American people.
At the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-opens-first-hearing-of-the-119th-congress-on-the-biden-administrations-efforts-to-cement-a-stay-at-home-federal-workforce/">first hearing</a> of the 119th Congress&#8217; House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, members called for a clampdown on federal union privileges and grilled former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley for signing a contract locking in extensive telework in his last week on the job, citing a Daily Wire report that found O’Malley flew to Florida to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-security-head-drank-with-union-members-before-giving-them-telework-through-2029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">party with union members</a> just before signing.
“How is this good for democracy?” Chairman James Comer (R-KY) asked O’Malley. “The voters just granted Donald Trump an electoral mandate to run the executive branch. Should union contracts designed to tie his hands take precedence over the mandate by the people?”
He noted that the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which signed the contract, has called its own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staff back</a> to the office in order to more effectively fight against Trump.
“The union’s message couldn’t be clearer: For those doing the people’s business in a federal job, showing up should be optional. Those charged with blunting the Trump agenda, they need to be on their A-game, and that requires showing up in person. I, for one, want federal employees to also be on their A-game,” Comer continued.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) added, &#8220;This was the union he was supposed to be negotiating against, not for. As Commissioner he was supposed to be serving the American taxpayers who pay his salary.”
A <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/report/the-lights-are-on-but-everyone-is-at-home-why-the-new-administration-will-enter-largely-vacant-federal-agency-offices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committee report</a>, prepared for the hearing, noted that O’Malley stood to personally gain from the giveaway, as it could help him win his race for chair of the Democratic National Committee.
O’Malley claimed the telework agreement, which required the rate of telework to stay the same, would not stop Trump from making changes, pointing to a potential loophole. “It reads ‘management has sole discretion to temporarily change, reduce or suspend approved telework days … due to operational needs,” O’Malley said.
A witness at the hearing said that 98.5% of Social Security Administration employees are eligible for telework, leaving only 900 employees spread across 1,400 offices and servicing 73 million people. Processing time for Social Security checks is now lower than pre-pandemic levels, tracking with the increase in remote work, the report said.
Across the federal government, 10% of employees are “remote,” meaning they never have to go to an office and can live anywhere in the country, the report said. Between 2019 and 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services went from 2% remote to 29%, while the Office of Personnel Management — which itself is in charge of federal telework policies — went from 7% to 40%.
Half of all Department of Education employees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-6-of-feds-work-from-an-office-full-time-and-some-arent-working-at-all-audit-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never show up to work</a>, and the remainder work from home most of the time under “telework.” Biden’s head of the General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, herself worked from home most of the time.
When Biden took office, he issued an order requiring masks in federal offices and said federal buildings could not exceed 25% occupancy. With the virus long receded, little changed, with 17 of 24 agencies using less than a quarter of their buildings in 2023.
By the time of Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address, he was acknowledging the ill effects of telework, and said, “The vast majority of federal workers will once again work in person.” His chief of staff repeatedly followed up, highlighting the benefits of in-person work — but his cabinet secretaries wouldn’t listen, in part, because they were cowed by unions, the report said.
Then, despite Biden himself believing telework had gone too far, his administration worked with unions to hamstring the Trump administration on the issue, it said.
The committee said that Biden never set a government-wide policy on telework. In March 2023, then-OPM Director Kiran Ahuja said she didn’t even know what portion of the workforce was teleworking.
Agencies claim telework is necessary to retain employees, but the committee said that the government has a higher retention rate than the private sector, and that when people leave, it is usually for another government agency — meaning a government-wide policy would stop agencies from trying to poach each other’s employees by giving ever more lenient telework.
Congress also asked agencies how they were measuring whether employees were more or less efficient when working at home, and they did not have substantive answers. The Department of Justice, for example, simply said that “[s]upervisors are responsible for monitoring employee performance to ensure telework and remote work policies are being used effectively and efficiently.”
Admissions that the Biden administration was not actually tracking how telework impacted productivity undermined the White House’s contention that it was delivering “effective and efficient telework,” the report said.
Agency heads have themselves had previously blamed telework when asked to explain poor performance. NASA’s Associate Administrator for Mission Support, Robert Gibbs, said of an asteroid mission, “One of the contributing factors to poor performance on Psyche was telework.”
Social Security Administration Executive Counselor Oren “Hank” McKnelly said that due to telework, “Our front office workers, specifically the trainees that you are talking about, they did not feel connected to the mission, and they did not feel connected to the teams that they were working with.”
At the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, stakeholders complained that they showed up for meetings to find no one was there.
Other agencies attributed negative changes to factors other than telework — only to admit that they had never examined whether telework was to blame, citing the “complexity” of studying it.
When the committee asked agencies for information about how union contracts affected their ability to bring employees back, most agencies did not respond, even as some privately found unions to be damaging to their efforts. The Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to respond to Congress, even though its union filed a grievance against it for merely asking its workers to come in once a week. The Department of Education also didn’t respond to Congress, but acknowledged to the White House that union contracts were its biggest obstacle.
Hearing witness Rachel Greszler, a visiting fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, said that private companies may be able to use telework effectively, but the same unions that are demanding telework also make disciplining poor performers difficult — a necessity to deal with people who aren’t independent enough to work from home.
“Telework can be very useful if it is flexible, responsive, and employees are held responsible, but that can be hard to accomplish with civil service protections and practices that make it extremely difficult, costly and time-consuming to effectively discipline or dismiss federal employees,” she said.
She said it’s so difficult to deal with low performers in government that most managers don’t even bother. In a survey, less than a third of federal employees said steps were taken to deal with poor performers who can’t or won’t improve. “Even just not giving them a performance-based bonus requires setting up a performance improvement plan,” she said.
She also targeted the policy known as “official time,” where federal employees get paid for hours spent working on union business, and the government also provides space and other resources for union use.
“That includes things like nurses at the VA spending 100% of their time working for the union instead of treating veterans, and a VA hospital allocating half of its hospital wing primarily for the union’s use,” she said. “The irony of all this official time is federal unions can’t bargain for pay or benefits, so they’re often left negotiating for things like the height of cubicle space, the right to smoke on a smoke-free campus, or the right to wear spandex to work.”
Greene, who chairs the subcommittee working with the Department of Government Efficiency, said DOGE will target official time, and noted that Biden broke with prior presidents by hiding data on its cost.
Republicans and one witness said a return to the office would help the D.C. economy — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is aligned with Republicans on the issue — while a witness called by the Democrats said that remote work could “reverse brain drain, bring more jobs to states, and prevent economic decline in both cities and rural communities.” But those benefits would also come from relocating federal offices to other areas of the country. That wouldn’t help the D.C. area, but the D.C. suburbs are already the wealthiest areas of the country.
The committee suggested legislation that would prevent unions from being able to bargain over telework, and reopen contract negotiations at the start of each presidential term. It also said remote employees should be paid a standard rate, not paid more to live in high cost-of-living areas when they don’t go to any office.

SSA’s parking lot is empty on a Wednesday afternoon due to telework / House Oversight Committee

House Republicans Target Federal Unions After 11th-Hour Deals Tie Trump’s Hands On Remote Work

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

House Oversight Committee

Social Security

This week, a pair of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> proposed bills that could bring to life President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s suggestions for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-u-s-to-change-name-of-the-gulf-of-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renaming</a> the Gulf of Mexico the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; — at least on maps and documents within the United States — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-former-trump-official-explains-why-trump-may-take-panama-canal-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking back</a> the Panama Canal.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) announced on Tuesday that she directed her staff to draft a bill to make the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; rebranding happen as soon as Trump brought up the idea.
If the legislation is enacted, any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico shall be deemed to be a reference to the &#8220;Gulf of America.&#8221;
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🚨 READ MY STATEMENT &amp; BILL TEXT 🚨
Mexican cartels currently use the Gulf of Mexico to traffic humans, drugs, weapons, and God knows what else while the Mexican government allows them to do it.
The American people are footing the bill to protect and secure the maritime… <a href="https://t.co/m0Nh3a6vuq">pic.twitter.com/m0Nh3a6vuq</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1876756973644837111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And the commerce secretary, acting through the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would oversee the implementation of changing the names in each federal document and map — an overhaul that would be completed in 180 days.
&#8220;It’s our gulf. The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it’s what the entire world should refer to it as,&#8221; Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1876756973644837111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X, adding later, &#8220;We already have the bill written with legislative council and ready to file first thing Thursday morning. Congress has to take the Trump Agenda mandate seriously and that means acting fast to enact it.&#8221;
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Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) is going to introduce a bill to authorize the president, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to enter into negotiations for the acquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama for the &#8220;symbolic&#8221; amount of $1. The bill, according to a screenshot <a href="https://x.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1877058216032379180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X by The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Cami Mondeax, also calls for a report to Congress detailing progress on the talks, potential challenges, and anticipated outcomes in 180 days.
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Here’s bill text from <a href="https://twitter.com/DustyJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DustyJohnson</a> to “authorize the President to enter into negotiations for the reacquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama for the symbolic amount of $1.” <a href="https://t.co/k9nRSmrE7l">pic.twitter.com/k9nRSmrE7l</a>
&mdash; Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) <a href="https://twitter.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1877058216032379180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;President Trump is right to consider repurchasing the Panama Canal. China’s interest in and presence around the canal is a cause for concern,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5074775-republican-bill-panama-canal-trump-purchase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Hill. &#8220;America must project strength abroad — owning and operating the Panama Canal might be an important step towards a stronger America and a more secure globe.&#8221;

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump

Republicans Offer Bills To Realize Trump’s Ideas For ‘Gulf Of America’ And Taking Back Panama Canal

Gulf of Mexico

House Republicans

Panama Canal

President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-government-efficiency-doge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)</a> could set its sights on government-funded media programs like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a>, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) said on Sunday.
Greene, who has been tasked with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-doge-panel-chaired-by-marjorie-taylor-greene-will-help-slash-government-waste" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heading</a> a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with DOGE leaders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>, mentioned the network while discussing how she believes wasteful spending is happening all over the U.S. government during a &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;We will be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda,&#8221; Greene said, adding: &#8220;We will be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don&#8217;t help the American people.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMTG</a> says one of the things DOGE will look at is “government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda.”
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&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1860737016377245894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She continued: &#8220;I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can&#8217;t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit, but not just that, Maria. I&#8217;d like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they&#8217;re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.&#8221;
In his first term, Trump <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/02/donald-trump-public-media-pbs-npr-1202856498/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. Earlier this year, while back on the campaign trail, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that funding be cut from NPR after one of its editors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias. That editor, Uri Berliner, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-editor-who-accused-network-of-liberal-bias-resigns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> a short time later.
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“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP.’ THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112248653824267212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social.
When NPR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ditched</a> Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> it &#8220;receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221; Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;essential&#8221;</a> and that ending it &#8220;would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism — and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.&#8221;
In her Fox interview, Greene went on to say: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to look in every single aspect. And we don&#8217;t care about people&#8217;s feelings. We&#8217;re going to be searching for the facts, and we&#8217;re going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people&#8217;s hard-earned tax dollars on.&#8221;

MTG Suggests NPR Could Be In DOGE’s Crosshairs: ‘Nothing But Democrat Propaganda’

Elon Musk

Executive

Trump Administration

U.S.

A new House subcommittee will reportedly work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help slash government waste.
The new Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee will be established by the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s chairman, Representative James Comer (R-KY), and chaired by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
President-elect Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-elon-musks-department-of-government-efficiency-will-work">tapped</a> Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, which he said will “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” giving government an “entrepreneurial approach.”
Comer said the new subcommittee &#8220;will align with the Trump administration’s priorities to eliminate government waste, streamline the federal government’s operations and cut red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people.&#8221;
He added that Trump’s &#8220;landslide victory reflects a clear mandate to address inflationary spending that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,&#8221; Comer said.
Comer reportedly met with Ramaswamy and Greene recently to discuss the project.
&#8220;A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public — we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work,&#8221; a spokesperson for Ramaswamy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We look forward to working together.&#8221;
Greene said the new subcommittee would bring &#8220;transparency and truth to the American people through hearings.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the entire DOGE team,&#8221; Greene said. &#8220;We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government.&#8221;
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&#8220;No topic will be off the table,&#8221; Greene said, adding that she expects the subcommittee &#8220;will expose people who need to be fired.&#8221;
DOGE will be a commission outside the government that will work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to advise the president on what government bloat can be cut.
Musk said he plans to target overregulation and out-of-control spending.
“The world is suffering slow strangulation by overregulation. Every year, the noose tightens a little more,” the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856729913148989710">posted</a> last week.
“We’re going to make the spending lower &#8230; if we don’t we’re going to bankrupt the country,&#8221; Musk said during a town hall in Pennsylvania last month.
DOGE will operate on a deadline. Trump said it would finish its work by July 4, 2026, the nation’s 250th birthday,

House Select Subcommittee On The Coronavirus Pandemic Investigates 2020 Scientific Paper Dismissing Lab Origins Of The Covid Virus

New DOGE Panel Chaired By Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Help Slash Government Waste

House GOP

U.S. House of Representatives

Vivek Ramaswamy

Never before seen footage showing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a> employee appearing to discuss the sale of aborted babies’ body parts was released Tuesday, years after now-Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> seized the footage as Attorney General of California.
The five-minute video shows a conversation between a person identified as Dr. Stacy De-Lin, Planned Parenthood New York City Medical Director for Abortion Services, and an undercover reporter with the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). During their conversation, De-Lin seems to acknowledge that Planned Parenthood would sell the livers of aborted babies.
In one clip, De-Lin is told by a CMP investigator that she “could pay you $1,000, up to $1,500 for a liver.”
“Yeah, that’s great,” De-Lin responds. “I think a financial incentive from you guys like, to the people we have to get this approved from, will be very happy about it,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kDkgS1vpg">according</a> to the video shared by CMP.
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▶️WATCH: In new full undercover video, Planned Parenthood NYC seeks $1,500 &#8220;financial incentive&#8221; per aborted fetal liver, which can be harvested from &#8220;intact D&amp;Es&#8221;—criminal partial-birth abortions.<a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a> seized this footage to cover up for <a href="https://twitter.com/PPFA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PPFA</a><a href="https://t.co/6pbuo7kpHe">pic.twitter.com/6pbuo7kpHe</a>
— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/daviddaleiden/status/1818483874676330921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Harris’ office confiscated footage in a 2016 raid on CMP President David Daleiden’s California home, two weeks after meeting with Planned Parenthood officials and after the organization had specifically requested the computers used for the undercover videos to be seized.
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The full videos show why they did, Daleiden says.
“You can see just from the first video why Planned Parenthood tried so hard to cover this up for eight years,” Daleiden told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. “They spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to make sure that the admissions on these undercover tapes never see the light of day.”
A federal judge in 2016 blocked CMP from sharing the full confiscated video for eight years. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) obtained the video through a subpoena earlier this year. Her office began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pull-off-a-leg-or-two-footage-shows-reported-planned-parenthood-employee-discussing-brutal-abortion-practices">publishing</a> clips of the videos earlier this year, and <a href="https://greene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=801">released</a> the full footage on Tuesday.
In the video, De-Lin appears to admit that Planned Parenthood New York City engaged in illegal abortions, saying that they will do “fully intact” dilation and evacuation abortions, which fall in the category of partial-birth abortions.
“We certainly do intact D&amp;Es,” De-Lin says, after the undercover investigator said she would pay more for intact unborn babies.
According to Daleiden, the full video is “too incriminating to explain away.”
“There’s really no way that they can spin this stuff anymore. There’s no way that they can explain away admissions that are this stark and this obvious from their own top level leadership,” Daleiden said.
“And that’s why they went, eight years ago, to such incredible lengths to ask Kamala Harris when she was Attorney General of California to use the powers of her office to raid my home, try to seize all the original copies of the undercover footage, and prevent it from continuing to be published,&#8221; Daleiden continued. 
De-Lin, who now works at Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, did not respond to a phone call or email asking for comment on the videos. Planned Parenthood also did not return a request for comment.
Daleiden said that he expects lawmakers to release more previously blocked CMP videos in the coming weeks.
Harris has made abortion a key part of her 2024 campaign, attacking former President Donald Trump over the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 
She has long been backed by Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups, <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/46103/kamala-harris-and-her-pro-abortion-donor-base">raking</a> in tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the pro-abortion lobby throughout her career.
In 2020, Planned Parenthood Action released an ad campaign calling Harris “OUR Reproductive Health Champion.” That year, Planned Parenthood Votes published an article entitled &#8220;Nine Reasons to Love Kamala Harris.&#8221;
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Kamala Harris Made A Damning Planned Parenthood Video Disappear. Now, It’s Public.

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Kamala Harris

Planned Parenthood

U.S. Politics

After much discussion, the cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; have determined that the origin of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19</a> pandemic &#8220;wasn&#8217;t in this country&#8221; — and Joy Behar even said that she&#8217;d heard somewhere that it might have come from a lab.
In a segment from Tuesday&#8217;s live broadcast — years after most Americans had determined that COVID had most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China — the show&#8217;s cohosts embraced the pandemic&#8217;s foreign origins in an attempt to attack Republicans for continuing to question the roles played by American officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Joy Behar began by complaining about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who had objected to referring to Fauci as &#8220;doctor&#8221; during a Monday hearing, saying that she was disrespectful and not very smart.
&#8220;She&#8217;s really stupid, and so disrespectful,&#8221; Behar said.
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Joy &#8220;I know history&#8221; Behar, who claims NATO fought the Nazis, calls MTG &#8220;really dumb.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/wLuf94Daih">pic.twitter.com/wLuf94Daih</a>
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Sunny Hostin went on to criticize Republicans in Congress for investigating American officials, saying that it didn&#8217;t make sense to scrutinize their roles if the pandemic had originated outside the United States.
&#8220;Fifteen months of an investigation — we have real problems in this country,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;Fifteen months of an investigation, spending real taxpayer dollars, it really really just gets to me. And I think that people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other people really need to start doing the work of the people, as opposed to trying to send these messages.&#8221;
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&#8220;They say that they cannot find out what happened here in the United States in terms of the origin of COVID — well, maybe because the origin wasn&#8217;t in this country. Maybe it was in another country, and maybe they need to now start looking at other countries.&#8221;
&#8220;They say it possibly came out of a lab,&#8221; Behar interjected.
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Without evidence, Whoopi went on an unhinged rant suggesting Republicans on the committee were denying that the virus was even real, to begin with. <a href="https://t.co/JYkR4aYwzH">pic.twitter.com/JYkR4aYwzH</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1798030993087234480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Whoopi Goldberg concluded the segment by reminding everyone that &#8220;people died&#8221; during the pandemic and suggesting that Republicans were saying &#8220;people made it up.&#8221;

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SARA HAINES, JOY BEHAR, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN

Problem Solved: ‘The View’ Has Determined COVID’s ‘Origin Wasn’t In This Country’

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COVID-19

Joy Behar

Media

Sunny Hostin

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) triggered Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday when he criticized a congressional hearing during which she recently made news after she got into a verbal spat with other female lawmakers.
Fetterman commented on the childish drama that unfolded yesterday on the House Oversight Committee when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) got in a verbal altercation after Crockett insulted Greene&#8217;s intelligence and Greene responded by insulting her appearance.
The incident quickly escalated from there, with other members getting involved, including AOC.
&#8220;In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,&#8221; Fetterman posted on X. &#8220;Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.&#8221;
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In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show.
Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show. <a href="https://t.co/y6wxLX5FIV">pic.twitter.com/y6wxLX5FIV</a>
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1791471678137966855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez responded by lashing out at Fetterman, and appeared to take a shot at his mental fitness for office, calling him &#8220;confused,&#8221; which comes after he suffered a serious stroke in 2022 and has had lingering issues related to speech and hearing ever since.
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&#8220;I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a &#8216;both sides&#8217; issue,&#8221; AOC posted. &#8220;But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.&#8221;
&#8220;And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Enjoy your Friday.&#8221;
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I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a “both sides” issue.
But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.
And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too.
Enjoy your Friday. <a href="https://t.co/cInF4YXO2y">https://t.co/cInF4YXO2y</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1791489796168122700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez April 30

Fetterman Triggers AOC With Criticism Over ‘Jerry Springer’-Esque Congressional Hearing

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

John Fetterman

Early in the 20th century, there was a famous columnist known as H.L. Mencken. Two of his quotes are currently quite applicable.
Number <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51436-democracy-is-the-theory-that-the-common-people-know-what" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a>: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Number <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37546-no-one-in-this-world-so-far-as-i-know-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a>: “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” 
I point this out because we live in a representative democracy, so when we see spectacles like what we saw in the House of Representatives yesterday, it’s important to remember that these are all elected representatives of the United States.
We have filled Washington, D.C., with complete imbeciles. This is our fault because we vote for them. The fact is that if you don&#8217;t like your representatives, you can always change your them, but it seems as though the American people increasingly like a Congress that is completely unworkable; a presidency filled with numskulls like the current president of the United States; and entire representative agencies of the federal government that are filled with people whose IQs, when combined, might be in double digits.
If you think I&#8217;m being harsh, I present to you the spectacle yesterday, which is not, in fact, from Jerry Springer.
It is from Congress.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1967-we-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
Yesterday, a giant fight broke out between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the noted intellectual congresswoman from Georgia, known colloquially as MTG, on one side, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the noted intellectual congresswoman from New York, known colloquially as AOC, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas on the other side.
You can tell this is similar to a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) face-off when the congresspeople are known by their acronyms.
The wattage displayed by these three ladies put feminism back about 100 years, as shown by the fact that two of the men who are leading this committee, James Comer on the Republican side, and Jamie Raskin on the Democratic side, could not help but laugh at the idiocy displayed by this coterie of crows.
It began when Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Jasmine Crockett’s fake eyelashes and went downhill from there. AOC snapped, “I would like to move to take down Miss Green&#8217;s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person.”
Greene: “Are your feelings hurt? Aww.”
AOC: “Oh, girl, baby girl, baby girl. Don&#8217;t even play. Don&#8217;t even play. We are going to move and we&#8217;re going to take your words down.”
After MTG said she would agree to take her words down, AOC demanded an apology. MTG refused. Crockett later said to Comer, “I&#8217;m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached-blond, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Comer, genuinely puzzled: “What now?”
A shouting match then ensued.
The question about all this is why? Why? These are outtakes from “Idiocracy” at this point.
The answer is because Congress and our representative government have become a performative spectacle for people who are hoping to get famous and rich outside of Congress. That&#8217;s what this is. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute wrote one of the most important books of the last 20 years about this — about how our representative institutions ar supposed to shape the people who enter them because they are given the grave responsibility of representing the American people, taking care of trillions of our taxpayer dollars, figuring out our foreign policy, and trying to rectify breaches in the social fabric and the social compact. That is their actual job. 
But over time, as we have become a more populous and populist country, our representatives have become stand-ins for our various gripes and grievances.
And so you end up with the dumbed-down version of the American public. I don&#8217;t think that this is a partisan issue. I know hundreds of members of Congress and the Senate, both Democrat and Republican, and I can name the number of intelligent people that I know in Congress on less than two hands. 
The American people have chosen poorly. It used to be when government did not have insane levels of power over our life, we didn&#8217;t actually care who was in charge of the government nearly as much because the government didn&#8217;t have the power to control every aspect of our life. Thus, politics was largely relegated to the local level. And when it came to federal politics, people who were very invested in federal politics tended to be the people who were the most knowledgeable, the people who actually cared the most, the people who were the most engaged. 
But now, it&#8217;s become a popularity contest. It&#8217;s “American Idol,” and thanks to the mass media, you can take dullards and make them incredibly famous. If you want to sell papers, that&#8217;s exactly what you do. If you want higher ratings, you focus on the dullards in Congress, not the congressperson who is spending late nights poring over the bills that are being created to shape our lives; that&#8217;s the boring stuff. 
The people like this. And this is why all three of these congresspeople are significantly more famous than some actual powerful congresspeople who make policy. People now use Congress as a platform for other activities to become famous — to be on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to be on various shows on TV. 
That&#8217;s not good for America. Americans ought to get off of this.
But the reality, of course, is that this has pervaded American politics, and it has bled up. The quality of our public leadership is a reflection of the quality of our public conversations. And our public conversations are terrible because they are low IQ and do not involve any sort of actual knowledge base for the people involved. In fact, a quick insult is considered significantly more useful than an actual understanding of the issues at play and the nuances of those issues. The latter things are not important.
This is one of the reasons why you are seeing re-engagement online with three-hour long conversations with various hosts. There is a hunger in a certain segment of the population for something a little more substantive that has completely gone away for the vast majority of the American public.
The American people are casually engaged. They tune in for the last five minutes of “American Idol” before they cast their vote.
And what you end up with is a bunch of people who are getting rich and famous being in Congress and being complete imbeciles.
This is why you end up with a presidential race featuring an incumbent president who is full-on senile, and it doesn&#8217;t matter one whit to at least half the population. 
I think most people look at yesterday’s debacle in Congress and they&#8217;re ashamed of what they see.
We should all be ashamed of what we see in Congress because the level of intellectual achievement in our Congress, the level of true engagement with serious issues, is so unbelievably low that you would get a better conversation about what goes on in our nation in a third-grade social studies classroom than you would in a congressional committee such as yesterday’s.

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