Far-left Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) attempted to walk back anti-Israel statements she made Saturday, including “Israel is a racist state,” as she faces condemnation from fellow House Democrats over the comments.
Jayapal made the comment during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-cF0hwfi3A&amp;t=4221s">panel</a> with fellow hardliners Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Chuy Garcia (D-AZ) when anti-Israel demonstrators chanted the phrase at the lawmakers. 
“I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy,” Jayapal <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188096678/jayapal-israel-racist-state-jeffries">said</a>.
The comments drew scattered applause and cheers from people in the audience but soon led to a rebuke from fellow Democrats. 
“Israel is not a racist state,” a <a href="https://democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-releases/joint-house-democratic-leadership-statement-relationship-between-united-states">letter</a> from the House Democratic leadership read without explicitly naming Jayapal. “America and Israel have a uniquely special relationship anchored in our shared democratic values and strategic interests. As House Democratic leaders, we strongly support Israel’s right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people.”
Jayapal released a <a href="https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/07/16/jayapal-statement-on-israel-comments/#:~:text=At%20a%20conference%2C%20I%20attempted,as%20a%20nation%20is%20racist.">statement</a> Sunday afternoon attempting to walk back her comments, saying, “I attempted to defuse a tense situation during a panel where fellow members of Congress were being protested. Words do matter and so it is important that I clarify my statement. I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist.”
The congresswoman, who leads the House Progressive Caucus, then took aim at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying his “extreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies.”
A separate <a href="https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-750352">letter</a> from a group of Jewish Democrats, which was making the rounds gathering signatures, expresses “deep concern” over Jayapal’s “unacceptable” remarks. “We will never allow anti-Zionist voices that embolden antisemitism to hijack the Democratic Party and country,” the letter says, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/16/politics/pramila-jayapal-israel-netroots-nation/index.html">according</a> to CNN.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4102090-mccarthy-democrats-need-to-do-something-about-antisemitic-remarks/">called</a> upon House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to address Jayapal’s and other Democrats’ anti-Israel comments.
“This isn’t the first person in the Democratic conference that has continued to make antisemitic comments,” McCarthy said, referencing Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) 2021 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-ilhan-omar-the-united-states-and-israel-commit-unthinkable-atrocities-like-the-taliban-hamas">comparison</a> of Israel with the Taliban and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-on-her-history-of-anti-semitism-i-didnt-understand-i-was-trafficking-in-anti-semitism">other statements</a>. “I think this is a role for the leader, Hakeem, to prove that no, they’re not antisemitic.”
Jayapal’s comments come ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to a joint session of Congress later this week, commemorating the Jewish State’s 75th Anniversary. 
Democratic leadership has been receptive to Herzog’s visit. “I look forward to welcoming him with open arms,” Jeffries said at a news conference last week, calling Herzog “a force for good in Israeli society.”
But far-left Democrats, including Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Cori Bush (D-MO), have all said they will not attend Herzog’s speech in protest. Jayapal is reportedly undecided on whether she will attend the speech but has said she doesn’t believe she will.

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Jayapal Tries To Walk Back ‘Israel Is A Racist State’ Comments

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pramila-jayapal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pramila Jayapal</a> (D-WA) and Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) spoke against President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> compromising with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> on spending caps and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/debt-ceiling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debt ceiling</a> increase, contending that the move would cause backlash among lawmakers and the broader public.
The debt ceiling, a statute established by <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> that prevents the government from spending beyond a predetermined <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/national-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national debt</a> limit of $31.4 trillion, exceeded the threshold earlier this year. Republicans desire to join an increase in the debt ceiling with spending caps, while Democrats say they prefer separate processes for debt limit negotiations and budget reforms, a debate which occurs even as the government nears <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellen-says-nation-could-face-debt-default-in-less-than-three-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">default</a> in as little as two weeks.
Jayapal said in an <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1661028988985262080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with CNN outside of the Capitol Building that an agreement which involves spending caps would undo the policy successes which Biden secured during his administration. “I think there would be a huge backlash from our entire House Democratic caucus, certainly the progressives, but also in the streets,” she told the outlet. “It’s important that we don’t take steps back from the very strong agenda that the president himself shepherded and led over the past two years.”
Users on social media accused Jayapal of calling for protests over the potential spending reforms, although the lawmaker did not appear to explicitly support violent behavior.
Ocasio-Cortez likewise affirmed that a deal which involves spending reforms or increased work requirements for federal welfare would be unacceptable. “It’s going to be a problem,” she added. “We do not legislate through the debt ceiling for this very reason.”
The comments from the lawmakers come one day after Biden met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to continue negotiations over the debt limit. McCarthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-tells-house-republicans-he-is-nowhere-near-debt-ceiling-deal-with-biden-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> fellow Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday to “hang with me on the debt limit” since he and the commander-in-chief are “nowhere near a deal yet” with respect to spending.
“I told the president three things: no clean debt limit, no raising taxes, spend less money,” McCarthy said in the meeting, according to multiple reports. The lawmaker showed his colleagues a video with a timeline of various Democrats refusing to negotiate on the debt limit. “They made a mistake to not negotiate. Let’s stay strong together.”
Members of the House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of conservative lawmakers, reiterated last week that they will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-freedom-caucus-chairman-responds-as-white-house-lobs-spurious-claims-at-spending-cut-proposal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refuse</a> to vote for any increase or suspension of the debt ceiling without meaningful spending caps, a framework which has been officially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-led-house-passes-mccarthys-plan-to-raise-debt-limit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enacted</a> in the House with the approval of the Limit, Save, Grow Act. McCarthy cannot pass legislation without support from the House Freedom Caucus due to the narrow Republican majority.
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Beyond the risk of a financial crisis induced by neglecting to increase the debt ceiling, the national debt now surpasses $31.7 trillion and serves as a continual damper on economic growth. Elevated interest rates have recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/interest-payments-on-the-national-debt-on-pace-to-surpass-military-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed</a> on the budget as lawmakers are forced to devote more revenues toward servicing the obligations rather than funding programs.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has repeatedly cautioned that the government could exhaust funds by the first day of June, while one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extent-to-which-government-can-be-funded-without-debt-ceiling-is-uncertain-agency-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Congressional Budget Office warned that there exists considerable “uncertainty” with respect to funds throughout the remainder of May.

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Leftist Democrat Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Wednesday that the U.S. needs amnesty for millions of illegal aliens because they do things such as clean our homes and pick our food. Without them, America would be doomed, she argued.
Her comments were made during a Congressional House hearing on border security, and she seemed rather concerned that if the U.S. ever did seal its southern border and stop the never-ending flow of illegal aliens, then every manual labor job in the country would suffer big-time.
&#8220;So let&#8217;s all take a minute to recognize the hypocrisy of every anti-immigrant debate,&#8221; Jayapal said while arguing for amnesty, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jayapal-criticized-saying-immigrants-needed-america-to-pick-the-food-we-eat-clean-our-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News. &#8220;This country needs immigrants to survive. Immigrants pick the food we eat, rebuild our communities after climate disasters, help construct our infrastructure, power our small business economy, clean our homes, and look after the most precious in our families — our children and our elders.&#8221;
As the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks put it, &#8220;Jayapal using the tired old, &#8216;Who will clean our homes?&#8217; defense on illegal immigration. Limousine liberalism at its finest!&#8221;
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🤔 Jayapal using the tired old, &quot;Who will clean our homes?&quot; defense on illegal immigration. Limousine liberalism at its finest! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ampFW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ampFW</a> <a href="https://t.co/LBMe4jrmxO">pic.twitter.com/LBMe4jrmxO</a>
&mdash; FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomWorks/status/1648725563350163457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, Americans have heard that argument before. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made a similar statement last year after Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis sent a few dozen illegal immigrants to lily-white liberal vacation spot Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.
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&#8220;We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying: ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here,&#8217;” Pelosi <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/30/nancy-pelosi-says-florida-needs-migrants-to-pick-crops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
So in other words, both Pelosi and Jayapal — supposed defenders of America&#8217;s working class — want millions of foreign nationals imported so that their donors can have cheap labor. It&#8217;s the exact same reason that Republican Establishment-aligned organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce want <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chamber-of-commerce-ceo-doubling-immigration-permanent-solution-daca-recipients" target="_blank" rel="noopener">massive amnesty</a> as well.
Unfortunately, <a href="https://patch.com/texas/across-tx/heads-cornyn-amnesty-no-laughing-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">certain believers of Washington Republicanism want a bipartisan version</a> of &#8220;pathway to citizenship&#8221; — which is the used-car salesman&#8217;s term for amnesty — just as Pelosi and Jayapal want as well.
All that will do is drive down wages for Americans, particularly <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/02/19/how-illegal-immigration-harms-black-americans-according-to-civil-rights-commissioner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minorities</a>, who would fill those jobs instead.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Thirty House Democrats pushed President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> in a Monday letter to open channels of communication with Moscow and seek a diplomatic end to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia-Ukraine war</a>.
The <a href="https://progressives.house.gov/_cache/files/5/5/5523c5cc-4028-4c46-8ee1-b56c7101c764/B7B3674EFB12D933EA4A2B97C7405DD4.10-24-22-cpc-letter-for-diplomacy-on-russia-ukraine-conflict.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> was led by the Progressive Caucus chair, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pramila-jayapal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pramila Jayapal</a> (D-WA). The document echoed sentiments expressed last week by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who said U.S. aid to Ukraine should not be a &#8220;blank check.&#8221;
The signers of the Monday letter credited Biden for his support for Ukraine. They said the United States should push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict soon because of the increasing threat of nuclear weapons, however. Toward that end, the U.S. should begin pulling back financial and military support for Ukraine, the Democrats said.
“Given the destruction created by this war for Ukraine and the world, as well as the risk of catastrophic escalation, we also believe it is in the interests of Ukraine, the United States, and the world to avoid a prolonged conflict. For this reason, we urge you to pair the military and economic support the United States has provided to Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push, redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a ceasefire,” the letter says.
The letter brought swift condemnation from the signers’ Democratic colleagues. Some of the letter’s endorsers walked back the document amid the backlash as the group was accused of trying to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jayapal released a <a href="https://twitter.com/USProgressives/status/1584687094508974081/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> attempting to soften the letter’s claims, saying, “we support President Biden and his administration’s commitment to nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
“Vladimir Putin would have signed that letter if asked,” a member of the House Democratic leadership team told <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>, “That bone-headed letter just put Dems in the same league as Kevin McCarthy, who said in the same week that Ukraine funding could be in jeopardy.”
McCarthy said last week that Ukraine’s time with a “blank check” from the U.S. to fight Russia would be over should the GOP take over the House next year.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” McCarthy told <a href="https://punchbowl.news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Punchbowl News</a>. “They just won’t do it. … It’s not a free blank check.”
McCarthy’s comments were a noticeable break with what had been the general Washington consensus: that Ukraine would take the lead in deciding when hostilities would end. Foreign policy experts have questioned that consensus and said it was never a viable long-term solution.
George Beebe, director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, endorsed the letter and said Biden&#8217;s current approach to Ukraine is untenable.
“President Biden said quite accurately that if present trends continue, we could be headed toward the most dangerous crisis we’ve faced since the Cuban missile crisis. The question then is, what do we do about that?” Beebe told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/biden-ukraine-liberals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. “Simply saying it’s up to Ukraine to decide is abdicating the responsibility America’s leaders have to safeguard the security in all of this.”

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Democratic Washington state Congresswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pramila-jayapal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pramila Jayapal</a> dismissed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation</a> as a &#8220;theoretical word&#8221; ahead of House Democrats&#8217; final push to pass tax and climate spending legislation.
Speaking to reporters outside Capitol Hill Friday, Jayapal, who chairs the House Progressive Caucus, said that inflation was &#8220;a theoretical word that economists use&#8221; to describe everyday price increases that families experience. At the same time, Jayapal explained that the so-called &#8220;Inflation Reduction Act&#8221; would lower everyday costs for Americans.
A clip of Jayapal speaking to Fox News reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1558109279718080513?s=20&amp;t=RltvzqpoiKnJkVbt6Z7LOg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Vaughn</a> was shared by The Post Millennial. &#8220;It is ultimately going to lead to a reduction in overall inflation, but most importantly, to the budget that people have every single day,&#8221; Jayapal said. &#8220;Inflation is, like, a theoretical word that economists use, but what families feel every day is the up or down of costs.&#8221;
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal downplays inflation and says it&#8217;s like a &#8220;theoretical word that economists use.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/tWvjvAm0XN">pic.twitter.com/tWvjvAm0XN</a>
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1558154826864885760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
Conservatives on Twitter were baffled by the Congresswoman&#8217;s comments.
&#8220;My congresswoman, Seattle Progressive Pramila Jayapal, thinks &#8216;inflation is like a theoretical word that economists use,’” Seattle radio talk show host <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1558167773997436929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1558167773997436929%7Ctwgr%5E6548fdfc10cc586c00f84c7ce9482bb9ef98a1ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fjasonrantz2Fstatus2F1558167773997436929widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Rantz</a> tweeted in response to Jayapal&#8217;s comments. &#8220;Send help.&#8221;
&#8220;Tell that to the families that can’t afford groceries,&#8221; Washington state GOP chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebHeimlich/status/1558163688053358592?s=20&amp;t=5td4Ynf0o_HhdMJ0hLcDog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caleb Heimlich</a> tweeted. &#8220;How out of touch are @washdems?&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats don’t care that you have to pay more at the grocery store,&#8221; the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPpolicy/status/1558177061897998336?s=20&amp;t=cGcDXe9WXhIvbPn9udH-Sw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republican Policy Committee</a> responded. &#8220;They just want to make sure their special interests funded with your tax dollars.&#8221;
&#8220;Apparently Democrats think that food is a theoretical thing people don&#8217;t really need either,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomWorks/status/1558159550510940160?s=20&amp;t=UpkMtiq_4YpsqaLrkZz2lw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FreedomWorks</a> replied.
&#8220;Step 1: There&#8217;s no inflation. Step 2: Inflation is actually good. Step 3: There&#8217;s no such thing as inflation,&#8221; conservative satirist <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1558156520839413761?s=20&amp;t=no5Zfg2xSo9RXQjrDMUw5A">Jim Treacher</a> added.
&#8220;I&#8217;m an economist. Inflation is not a theoretical concept, it&#8217;s actually a mathematical fact, just like expansionary fiscal policy (government spending) while the economy is recovering causes prices to rise,&#8221; one Twitter user chimed in.
&#8220;Gonna try this on the cashier at the grocery store,&#8221; another user joked.
Jayapal&#8217;s comments come as the House prepares to vote to approve the $740 billion climate, tax, and spending bill, which includes a number of high-profile leftist priorities, including $369 billion in climate spending, a 15% corporate minimum tax, a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks, and funding for the IRS to hire up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-inflation-reduction-act-would-allow-irs-to-hire-up-to-87000-new-employees-raise-taxes-report">87,000 new agents</a>.
According to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3598267-house-democrats-advance-tax-and-climate-bill-kicking-off-debate/">The Hill</a>, the House approved the rule to begin debate on the bill early Friday afternoon, setting up the final debate on the floor. The Hill reported that a vote on the final passage of the bill was expected to be conducted around 3 p.m. Eastern time. As of the publishing of this article, the final vote has not yet been conducted. The Senate voted along party lines, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, to pass the bill on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vp-harris-breaks-tie-senate-passes-democrats-inflation-reduction-act-climate-tax-and-spending-bill">Sunday</a>.
Jayapal&#8217;s comments also come after the inflation numbers for the month of July showed that record high <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-starts-victory-lap-amid-slightly-less-dismal-inflation-reading">inflation</a>, which had been continually breaking records for months, cooled slightly, from a record high 9.1% in June to 8.5% in July.
The Biden administration tried to spin the numbers on Wednesday, highlighting the fact that inflation did not increase month-to-month between June and July, while ignoring the 8.5% annual increase from July 2021 to 2022.

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Sitting members of Congress – and several others — marked the 8th anniversary of 18-year-old <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-seems-to-suggest-michael-brown-was-victim-on-anniversary-of-death-obama-biden-doj-said-officer-acted-in-self-defense/">Michael Brown&#8217;s</a> death in Ferguson, Missouri, by promoting the long-debunked claim that he was &#8220;murdered&#8221; and had been shot while holding his hands up in surrender.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/left-tries-rewrite-story-saint-michael-brown-ben-shapiro/">Brown</a> was fatally shot by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson — who initially attempted to detain Brown because he matched the description of a suspect in a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/leftists-say-michael-brown-didnt-strong-arm-rob-frank-camp/">strong-arm robbery</a> at a local convenience store — and according to the police report, Brown attempted to pull Wilson out of his marked vehicle and grappled for his service weapon. He was reportedly running toward Wilson, who had by then exited the vehicle, when he was shot.
One witness, who later admitted to fabricating the claim, alleged that Brown had been trying to get away from Wilson when he was killed — and claimed that he had his hands up in surrender at the time of the shooting.
According to multiple investigations, however — including one undertaken by then Attorney General <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-a-movement-built-on-the-illusion-of-martyrdom/">Eric Holder</a> — the shooting was ultimately deemed justified and Wilson was not charged.
&#8220;This morning, the Justice Department announced the conclusion of our investigation and released a comprehensive, 87-page report documenting our findings and conclusions that the facts do not support the filing of criminal charges against Officer Darren Wilson in this case,&#8221; Holder said in a statement marking the close of the investigation. &#8220;Michael Brown’s death, though a tragedy, did not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of Officer Wilson.&#8221;
Despite that, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) went ahead on Tuesday with the assertion that Brown had been &#8220;murdered&#8221; by police.
&#8220;Today marks eight years since Michael Brown was murdered by police in Ferguson, MO,&#8221; Jayapal tweeted. &#8220;We need to honor Michael&#8217;s life with action. Let&#8217;s keep fighting to dismantle white supremacy, so we can ensure racial justice for all.&#8221;
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Today marks eight years since Michael Brown was murdered by police in Ferguson, MO.
We need to honor Michael’s life with action. Let’s keep fighting to dismantle white supremacy, so we can ensure racial justice for all.
&mdash; Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/PramilaJayapal/status/1557013334532276224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO), who was among the protesters on the ground in Ferguson in the days after the shooting, made the same claim.
&#8220;8 years ago today, Michael Brown Jr. was murdered, so we took to the streets for over 400 days. We were maced and tear-gassed, &amp; beaten by police — all for saying that Mike&#8217;s life mattered,&#8221; Bush tweeted, leaving out several key details such as the number of police officers who were attacked and the number of businesses that were <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/25/366452769/ferguson-businesses-burn-crowds-confront-police-in-overnight-chaos">looted and/or burned</a> by the protesters she claimed were simply &#8220;saying that Mike&#8217;s life mattered.&#8221;
&#8220;Our fight for justice will not stop. We do this for Mike Brown,&#8221; she added.
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8 years ago today, Michael Brown Jr. was murdered, so we took to the streets for over 400 days.
We were maced, tear-gassed, &amp; beaten by police—all for saying that Mike’s life mattered.
Our fight for justice will not stop. We do this for Mike Brown. ✊🏾
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1557214781756657666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Civil Rights attorney Ben Crump, who has made a name for himself through a series of high-profile cases involving police officers and minorities, took the claim a step further and repeated the debunked claim that Brown had his hands raised in surrender when he was killed.
&#8220;8 years ago, Michael Brown was killed, with his hands up in surrender, by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael&#8217;s future was stolen from him mere DAYS after he attended his high school graduation ceremony. We’ll ALWAYS remember him! Rest In Power, Mike,&#8221; he tweeted.
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8 years ago, Michael Brown was killed, with his hands up in surrender, by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael&#39;s future was stolen from him mere DAYS after he attended his high school graduation ceremony. We’ll ALWAYS remember him! Rest In Power, Mike.🙏🏾 <a href="https://t.co/8vhnGGgEe0">pic.twitter.com/8vhnGGgEe0</a>
&mdash; Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1557038011556237313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Several people pushed back on the claims, however, like St. Louis-based radio host Annie Frey. &#8220;Peddling the Hands Up lie drains all credibility from your cause. I follow you because I value seeing your side of this issue. But this is a LIE and you&#8217;re using it for your own personal benefit. It&#8217;s disgusting,&#8221; she said.
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Peddling the Hands Up lie drains all credibility from your cause. I follow you because I value seeing your side of this issue. But this is a LIE and you&#39;re using it for your own personal benefit. It&#39;s disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/HaDIFaQh2Y">https://t.co/HaDIFaQh2Y</a>
&mdash; Annie Frey (@anniefreyshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/anniefreyshow/status/1557259786806231041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Activists Across The Country Gather For March For Our Lives II To Protest Against Gun Violence

Sitting Members Of Congress — And More — Commemorate Ferguson Police Shooting By Lying About It

Sitting Members Of Congress Commemorate Ferguson Police Shooting By Lying About It

Cori Bush

Ferguson

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) complained that members of Congress were refusing to wear masks in elevators — although she did not list any by name.
Then she argued that their refusal was &#8220;intolerable&#8221; in a workplace, &#8220;undermining our democracy,&#8221; and could be <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-changes-headline-after-comparing-joe-rogans-naughty-language-to-january-6-and-rwandan-genocide/">compared to the January 6th riot</a> on Capitol Hill.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal says unmasked Congressmembers are &quot;undermining our democracy.&quot;
&quot;You get on an elevator and people refuse to wear a mask and your choices are to either get off the elevator or to get on the elevator and to tell them to wear a mask.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/oRWGXJpuqY">pic.twitter.com/oRWGXJpuqY</a>
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&#8220;This is where the lack of civility has come to in the United States Congress,&#8221; Jayapal began. &#8220;And I think it is a massive problem. It undermines our ability to get work done, and it is intolerable in a workplace where we are going to work to do the work of the American people.&#8221;
&#8220;And also, let me just remind your viewers that this was about wearing a mask, which is mandated in the Capitol. It is mandated in the Capitol, and it is to protect our safety — our collective safety, the safety of our staffers,&#8221; Jayapal continued. &#8220;And so the idea that — and this has happened to me — where you would get on an elevator and people refuse to wear a mask, and your choices are to either get off the elevator or to get on the elevator and to tell them to wear a mask.&#8221;
&#8220;That should not be a problem in the United States Congress,&#8221; she said, and then she went on to compare those who were causing that problem to the rioters who stormed Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
&#8220;I really believe that our colleagues who refuse to even adhere to the basic norms of civility are undermining our democracy, and of course we&#8217;re seeing it in all kinds of even more serious ways like the January 6th insurrection is just part of that and part of the attempt to take down a legitimate democracy from functioning in the way it should,&#8221; she said.
Radio host Buck Sexton <a href="https://www.clayandbuck.com/rep-jayapal-no-mask-on-elevator-is-like-the-insurrection/">responded to Jayapal&#8217;s comments</a> on Monday, pointing out the fact that Washington, D.C., was already rolling back mask and vaccine mandates — with some exceptions — and mocking her for making such a dramatic comparison.
<blockquote>That was a member of Congress. That was Congresswoman Jayapal, just so you understand. These are the things that Democrats say now. “When you refuse to mask up you’re destroying this democracy!” You heard her there which is fascinating on so many levels because this is, as I’ve said so many times, all evidence of a serious anxiety disorder. These anxiety disorders are very difficult, very difficult.
But you need to deal with them and not expect everybody else to cater to your anxiety disorder. You have to deal with your anxiety disorder even if you’re a member of Congress. But this is fascinating as well because, Clay, the member of Congress here is saying if you don’t mask up when you got you get on an elevator with somebody, you are a… Just to be clear, you’re “undermining our democracy” is what she said, if you don’t mask up on elevator.
She’s going to restaurants and bars and I’m sure parties and whatever else. No one’s got masks on. But when you step on an elevator with me, sir, without a mask on for that 20-second ride, you’re undermining our democracy. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., has announced just today they are getting rid of the indoor mask mandate in two weeks. They’re getting rid of it everywhere except — get ready for this — schools and some other locations.</blockquote>
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U.S. Capitol Commemorates First Anniversary Of January 6 Attack

Rep. Pramila Jayapal Compares Refusing To Mask Up In The Elevator To … January 6

Face Masks

Mask Mandate

At the World Economic Forum’s recent online meeting, 100 millionaires and billionaires made a strange plea for additional taxes on the rich. On these grounds, progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) concluded that wealthy Americans are asking for higher taxes.
“Working people want to tax the rich — and it turns out that the rich want to be taxed too,” Jayapal tweeted on Wednesday, citing a <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/millionaires-join-non-profits-wealth-000111777.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKZlU-RqL_zmklYlGwI4H8axTU-_W1QsEHrlcsDkbHj-BXMma_Sfs1JzA-7c5Q85RzU4UcCXRZiu5foqXudTWC_3kMyRWcB7qynnOHUWl8Z11oBgC4VfUE8cySYa4uhu9xsyhnhyODRXSUWzOSQfZHRr00JB96qC9E6k6FKM3K9z">Yahoo News</a> article about the millionaires’ proposal. “Let’s get this done, level the playing field, and make life-changing investments into our communities.”
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Working people want to tax the rich — and it turns out that the rich want to be taxed too.
Let’s get this done, level the playing field, and make life-changing investments into our communities.<a href="https://t.co/TuutiFZNfm">https://t.co/TuutiFZNfm</a>
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1483914664190746626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
The millionaires’ request, <a href="https://www.intaxwetrust.org/signatories">addressed</a> to other wealthy individuals, said:
<blockquote>As millionaires, we know that the current tax system is not fair. Most of us can say that, while the world has gone through an immense amount of suffering in the last two years, we have actually seen our wealth rise during the pandemic — yet few if any of us can honestly say that we pay our fair share in taxes.
This injustice baked into the foundation of the international tax system has created a colossal lack of trust between the people of the world and the elites who are the architects of this system. Bridging that divide is going to take more than billionaire vanity projects or piecemeal philanthropic gestures — it’s going to take a complete overhaul of a system that up until now has been deliberately designed to make the rich richer.</blockquote>
The 102 signees represented 0.00045% of the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/22/heres-how-22-million-americans-became-millionaires.html#:~:text=Nearly%2022%20million%20Americans%20are%20millionaires.,-Here%27s%20how%20they">millionaires</a> in the United States and 0.00018% of the <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/news/number-millionaires-continues-increase/">millionaires</a> in the world. Among the signees were Disney heirs Abigail Disney and Tim Disney.
At the end of last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk paid $11 billion in taxes — the most of any individual in American history. In response, Jayapal argued that he was nevertheless failing to fork over his “fair share.”
“Elon Musk made $36 BILLION in one day, but wants to brag about paying an $11 billion tax bill,” Jayapal said on Twitter. “Oh yeah, he also added more than $270 BILLION in wealth just since the pandemic started. Time for the rich to pay their fair share.”
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Elon Musk made $36 BILLION in one day, but wants to brag about paying an $11 billion tax bill.
Oh yeah, he also added more than $270 BILLION in wealth just since the pandemic started.
Time for the rich to pay their fair share.
— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/PramilaJayapal/status/1474237398590631944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
Days earlier, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — another leading progressive — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-will-pay-more-taxes-than-any-american-in-history-this-year-elon-musk-obliterates-elizabeth-warren-with-one-tweet">slammed</a> Musk for “freeloading off everyone else” and benefiting from “the rigged tax code.” Musk responded to Warren: “And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year.”
More recently, Musk launched a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-blasts-californias-bizarre-new-solar-tax-proposal-tells-people-to-complain-to-gavin-newsom">campaign</a> to raise concerns to California lawmakers for suggesting a “bizarre” new solar tax. Indeed, the California Public Utilities Commission’s proposal would “evolve decarbonization incentive efforts to meet the state’s groundbreaking clean energy goals” by creating a “grid participation charge” of $8 per kilowatt for residential solar panel users.
In response, Tesla — which has a business unit that installs at-home solar panels — started a website through which residents can complain to Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

Pramila Jayapal: ‘The Rich Want To Be Taxed’

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Taxes

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Sunday that it was no secret social media platforms had been actively &#8220;promoting disinformation,&#8221; calling colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s (R-GA) permanent Twitter suspension &#8220;frankly a little too little and a little too late.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/rep-jayapal-biden-should-use-executive-power-to-implement-build-back-better-after-legislation-stalls/">Jayapal</a>, who chairs the House Progressive Caucus, made an appearance with host Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Sunday Show&#8221; to discuss <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-permanently-boots-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-vaccine-misinformation">Greene&#8217;s suspension</a>, which had been confirmed just hours earlier.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJayapal</a> on Rep. Taylor Greene’s Twitter suspension: “It&#8217;s no secret that our social media companies have been… promoting disinformation, and I think that these steps are important but frankly a little too little and a little too late.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SundayShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SundayShow</a> <a href="https://t.co/FO9W5VGsLF">pic.twitter.com/FO9W5VGsLF</a>
— The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (@TheSundayShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSundayShow/status/1477680198116126721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Twitter has suspended Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene perm — permanently. Her personal Twitter account,&#8221; Capehart began, reading the statement from Twitter on the subject.
<blockquote>We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our<a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misinformation-policy"> COVID-19 misinformation policy.</a> We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy.</blockquote>
&#8220;And not to, you know, remain silent, Congresswoman Greene put out her own statement,&#8221; Capehart continued. &#8220;It was a long one, you know, lots of conspiracy theories and craziness, but this is the key line: &#8216;Twitter is an enemy to America and can&#8217;t handle the truth. That&#8217;s fine, I&#8217;ll show America we don&#8217;t need them and it&#8217;s time to defeat our enemies.'&#8221;
Capehart then turned to Jayapal for her reaction to Greene&#8217;s suspension and her statement.
&#8220;Well, Jonathan, it’s no secret that our social media companies have been part of their algorithms promoting disinformation, and I think that these steps are important, but frankly, a little too little and a little too late,&#8221; Jayapal said. &#8220;The reality is it&#8217;s not just Marjorie Taylor Greene. All over Twitter, social media, Facebook, all of these companies — have been using algorithms that are just about clickbait, not about truth.&#8221;
&#8220;And so if we are going to take on the disinformation that&#8217;s out there, the big lie and everything else that goes with it, then yes, this is a part of it but it&#8217;s got to be much much more,&#8221; Jayapal continued. &#8220;That said, I think it&#8217;s just as well that we take one voice, you know, that is deliberately spreading disinformation, out of the mix as much as possible.&#8221;
Others cheered Greene&#8217;s removal from Twitter as well. <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1477667047752491011">Ana Navarro</a>, CNN contributor and regular host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; shared an article about Greene&#8217;s permanent suspension with the comment, &#8220;2022 is showing promise.&#8221;
&#8220;Star Trek&#8221; actor <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1477652380397277199">George Takei</a> appeared to agree, adding, &#8220;Marjorie Three Names has been suspended from Twitter, and 2022 is already off to a decent start.&#8221;
CNN fact-checker <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1477648620136669185">Daniel Dale</a> noted that despite the suspension of Greene&#8217;s personal Twitter account, her official congressional account has not been suspended.
&#8220;Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 465K-follower personal Twitter account, the one she used to say lots of false things, has been permanently banned from Twitter. She still has a 386K-follower official account, which she has so far used for comparatively benign purposes,&#8221; he said.

Time To Deliver: Home Care Workers March In Support Of Build Back Better

Jayapal Claims Social Media Promotes Disinformation, Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene Suspension ‘A Little Too Little And A Little Too Late’

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz shot back at Washington Democrat and Progressive Caucus Leader Rep. Pramila Jayapal over her &#8220;tax the rich&#8221; accusations against Elon Musk, mockingly asking, &#8220;Who else do you want to loot?&#8221;
Cruz shared the remarks in a Twitter post on Wednesday that included Jayapal&#8217;s criticisms.
&#8220;Got it. You don’t like @elonmusk,&#8221; the senator wrote. &#8220;Who else do you want to loot?&#8221;
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Got it. You don’t like <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>
Who else do you want to loot? <a href="https://t.co/5iJ49vH4Ob">https://t.co/5iJ49vH4Ob</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1476184112121749512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
Jayapal claimed: &#8220;Elon Musk made $36 BILLION in one day, but wants to brag about paying an $11 billion tax bill. Oh yeah, he also added more than $270 BILLION in wealth just since the pandemic started.&#8221;
She argued it is, &#8220;Time for the rich to pay their fair share.&#8221;
Notably, Jayapal confuses Musk&#8217;s net worth for money in his bank account. Musk did not make &#8220;$36 billion in one day&#8221;; his net worth increased that amount. And just as quickly as it rose, it could fall. Adding $270 billion in wealth is not the same as depositing $270 billion into one&#8217;s bank account, thus, someone cannot be taxed on their net worth.
Earlier in December, Jayapal&#8217;s team also sent a fundraising email after Musk was named Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;
“We can’t believe Time Magazine just named Elon Musk its ‘Person of the Year,’” the email said, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/585632-time-faces-criticism-for-making-elon-musk-person-of-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>. The message added that Musk is “the richest person in the world and yet he avoids paying his taxes while working families struggle to put food on the table and pay rent.”
Cruz&#8217;s remarks refer to Jayapal&#8217;s support for expanded taxation and federal government. The Washington congresswoman&#8217;s radical progressive views have included a wide range of government programs.
Jayapal wrote on Monday that President Joe Biden &#8220;must&#8221; cancel at least $50,000 of student debt per person by executive action.
&#8220;Extending the student loan payment pause was a great first step, but it’s NOT enough.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> must use his executive power to cancel at least $50K of student debt for more than 42 million Americans,&#8221; she wrote.
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Extending the student loan payment pause was a great first step, but it’s NOT enough.@POTUS must use his executive power to cancel at least $50K of student debt for more than 42 million Americans.
— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/PramilaJayapal/status/1475671599038836737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
Jayapal also recently advocated to end the Senate filibuster, a long-standing tradition that requires at least a 60-vote supermajority to pass most legislation among the nation&#8217;s 100 senators.
&#8220;End the filibuster and save our democracy,&#8221; she wrote on Friday.
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The Senate seems to care more about protecting the filibuster than protecting the right to vote.
That’s not an acceptable reality — not now, not ever. End the filibuster and save our democracy.
— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/PramilaJayapal/status/1474190594465480710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pramila-jayapal-reacts-to-elon-musk-paying-11-billion-in-taxes-by-asking-rich-to-pay-their-fair-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> regarding the congresswoman&#8217;s attacks on West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin over his lack of support for his party&#8217;s Build Back Better spending bill:
<blockquote>On Sunday, Jayapal likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-jayapal-biden-should-use-executive-power-to-implement-build-back-better-after-legislation-stalls">slammed</a> her colleague, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), for pulling his support for President Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act.
“Nearly a year ago, President Biden laid out his Build Back Better agenda: a broad vision to meet the individual and collective challenges Americans face, necessarily ambitious to address crises both created and exposed by the pandemic,” Jayapal wrote. “For most of 2021, Democrats worked to pass legislation that realizes that vision. The president negotiated with Congress, including Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) directly. Sen. Manchin committed to the president — who relayed that commitment to House members — that he would support the legislative framework unveiled on Oct. 28.”
“But on Dec. 20, Sen. Manchin went back on his commitment to the president and seemingly killed the bill on national television,” Jayapal said. “In a town where your word is everything, this was a stunning rebuke of his own party’s president.”
“Despite that, we must move forward,” she continued. “The president’s agenda is even more urgent today. The omicron variant is surging as covid-19 has once again disrupted people’s ability to work, care for children and elders, access medical care and make ends meet. We simply cannot abandon our vision.”</blockquote>

Ted Cruz

‘Who Else Do You Want To Loot?’: Sen. Cruz Destroys Progressive Leader Over Elon Musk Attacks

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) asked the Senate to amend its rules and pass sweeping legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade at the federal level.
Since Senate Democrats managed to get to 50 seats in the 2020 election, many progressives have called upon lawmakers to nix the filibuster — which sets a 60-vote threshold for passing legislation. Indeed, the rule has inhibited several key Democratic agenda items — including bills to assert federal control over elections and extend federal power over nondiscrimination laws in cases related to self-identified LGBT individuals.
On Monday, Jayapal added to those calls — suggesting an end to the filibuster in order to federalize abortion law.
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We cannot count on Donald Trump’s conservative Supreme Court to protect abortion rights.
It’s time to end the filibuster and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act.<a href="https://t.co/hGxpCntfFb">https://t.co/hGxpCntfFb</a>
&mdash; Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1475632595987693569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Women’s Health Protection Act aligns with the Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/22/statement-from-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-on-the-48th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade/">promise</a> to codify Roe v. Wade — the 1973 case in which the Supreme Court claimed that abortion is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment. According to a <a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/baldwin-and-blumenthal-applaud-house-passage-of-the-womens-health-protection-act">press release</a> from Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), the legislation — which already passed the House of Representatives — would “guarantee equal access to abortion everywhere… free from medically unnecessary restrictions that interfere with a patient’s individual choice or the provider-patient relationship.” 
Among other state-level actions, Baldwin’s release noted an attempt to ban abortion completely in Oklahoma. The ministers and activists behind this effort explained to The Daily Wire that Jayapal’s argument tips the Democrats’ hand — specifically, by admitting that there is no right to abortion to which state governments are obligated to heed.
“That abortion supporters are working to codify legal abortion federally is only further confirmation of the obvious: abortion is not a right recognized by the Constitution or federal statute,” <a href="http://freethestates.org">Free The States</a> communications director James Silberman told The Daily Wire. “There is no federal right to abortion, and there is nothing resembling a right to abortion. There was a rogue court which invented the &#8216;right to abortion&#8217; from whole cloth.”
“What are constitutionally guaranteed, on the other hand, are the rights to life and equal protection,” Silberman continued. “Equal protection for preborn children is a mandate for every public official.”
Dusty Deevers — a pastor at Grace Community Church in Elgin, Oklahoma, and a producer of the new abortion abolitionist documentary “<a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/astormcomesrolling?autoplay=1">A Storm Comes Rolling Down The Plain</a>” — told The Daily Wire that pro-life laws do little more than establishing “legal precedents for when, where, and how to murder innocent preborn children.”
“Over 48 years and more than 63 million abortions, pro-life laws — though well intended — have not established equal protection and justice for the preborn,” he said. “All governing authorities have been established as God’s avenging servants for His purpose of carrying out His wrath on the evildoer (Psalm 82; Proverbs 20:10; Romans 13:4). God commands these authorities to judge justly, neither showing partiality to the wicked, nor using unequal standards, which are abominations.”
Deevers continued: “Governing authorities at every level have a duty before God to uphold justice, asserting their God-ordained and constitutional authority to establish equal protection under the law for all — born and preborn — by interposing, ignoring, or nullifying iniquitous decisions when other authorities condone such injustices as the legal taking of innocent life (Daniel 3; 1 Kings 12; 2 Kings 11; Jeremiah 26:10-16, 36:9-31, 37:11- 21, 39:7-10).”
Silberman added that the bill to which Baldwin was presumably referring — the Equal Protection and Equal Justice Act, which “would have fulfilled the biblical and constitutional mandate for governing officials to afford all human beings the rights to life and equal protection of the law” — was filed in nine other states this year. “The abolitionist movement is growing rapidly, and legislators around the country are waking up to the moral and legal necessity of immediate abolition.”

Pramila Jayapal Wants To End The Filibuster, Codify Roe V. Wade At The Federal Level

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Far-Left &#8220;Squad&#8221; member and Washington Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal told the Biden administration to use executive authority to circumvent Congress and deliver President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; agenda, as his $2 trillion social spending plan is expected to fail in the U.S. Senate.
In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/26/pramila-jayapal-joe-manchin-build-back-better/">The Washington Post</a> Sunday, Jayapal blamed moderate Democratic West Virginia Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-no-joe-manchin-says-he-cannot-vote-to-continue-on-build-back-better">Joe Manchin</a> for going back on his promise to the President and effectively killing the bill.
&#8220;Nearly a year ago, President Biden laid out his Build Back Better agenda: a broad vision to meet the individual and collective challenges Americans face, necessarily ambitious to address crises both created and exposed by the pandemic,&#8221; Jayapal wrote. &#8220;For most of 2021, Democrats worked to pass legislation that realizes that vision. The president negotiated with Congress, including Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) directly. Sen. Manchin committed to the president — who relayed that commitment to House members — that he would support the legislative framework unveiled on Oct. 28.&#8221;
&#8220;But on Dec. 20, Sen. Manchin went back on his commitment to the president and seemingly killed the bill on national television. In a town where your word is everything, this was a stunning rebuke of his own party’s president.&#8221;
&#8220;Despite that, we must move forward,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The president’s agenda is even more urgent today. The omicron variant is surging as covid-19 has once again disrupted people’s ability to work, care for children and elders, access medical care and make ends meet. We simply cannot abandon our vision.&#8221;
Jayapal blamed the failure of the &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; agenda on the legislative process. She wrote that the Congressional Progressive Caucus, of which she is chairwoman, originally proposed a massive omnibus spending bill to put Biden&#8217;s agenda into law. &#8220;But seeking a show of bipartisanship, the White House, at the urging of conservative Democratic senators, split the legislation into two vehicles,&#8221; the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan, and the &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; bill, which she notes contains 85% of the Biden administration&#8217;s domestic agenda.
The effect, Jayapal wrote, was that the interests of women and minority groups were put on the back burner. &#8220;People of color, women and young people helped deliver the White House and Congress to Democrats, but their needs were consistently delayed in search of bipartisanship,&#8221; she complained.
She then lionized the efforts of her caucus, saying that as Democrats worked to pass infrastructure on a bipartisan basis, &#8220;CPC was left to protect [Build Back Better] — often in the face of remarkable pressure.&#8221; The Progressives only relented, she waxed, when they felt they &#8220;had reached [their] point of maximum leverage,&#8221; and that if they held up the infrastructure bill again, Manchin would scuttle both bills.
Jayapal promised that Progressives would keep fighting for Build Back Better, despite the difficulty in coming to an agreement with Manchin, because &#8220;legislation remains the best path for delivering enduring relief.&#8221; At the same time, she wrote, &#8220;we are calling on the president to use executive action to immediately improve people’s lives.&#8221;
&#8220;Taking executive action will also make clear to those who hinder Build Back Better that the White House and Democrats will deliver for Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;We call on our governing partners to join us in advancing that philosophy, guided by racial, gender and economic justice — not corporations’ bottom lines,&#8221; Jayapal concluded. &#8220;This moment for the Biden administration and Congress can either lead to our greatest failure or our greatest success.&#8221;
Jayapal previously urged the Biden administration to carry out its domestic agenda by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jayapal-biden-should-use-executive-action-to-implement-build-back-better-agenda">executive fiat</a> last week, as The Daily Wire reported.
The Senate adjourned for the year on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-adjourns-for-the-rest-of-year-punts-on-bidens-legislative-agenda">December 18th</a>. They will return January 3rd.

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