Here&#8217;s a headline that, if you&#8217;ve been making car insurance payments over the last few years, might seem pretty hard to believe. It turns out that average auto insurance premiums actually declined in March, month-over-month. Yes, for many people, premiums have gotten cheaper, even as car prices have remained high. Inflation has seemingly been defeated, at least in this particular industry. The declines were particularly steep in Florida, where insurers like Geico, Progressive and State Farm are cutting rates by as much as 10%. But there&#8217;s no question that this is a nationwide phenomenon. Insurance rates are down by roughly 1% across the board — which might not sound like a lot, but it&#8217;s a big difference from the typical double-digit increases that we&#8217;ve been seeing lately. When you go from 15-point average increases to a 1% decrease, you&#8217;re saving a lot of money, relatively speaking.
So why is this happening, exactly? Ask ten different people and you&#8217;ll probably get ten different answers. And all of them might be right, at least partially. But here&#8217;s one theory. It could be that insurance rates are going down because our roads are getting safer. And maybe our roads are getting safer because two grand Left-wing experiments — the BLM &#8220;de-policing&#8221; movement and the open borders agenda — have both finally come to an end.
Each of these movements clearly made driving significantly more dangerous, in their own way. Beginning in 2020, of course, BLM convinced police departments to stop enforcing laws — including traffic laws. And the effect was immediate. By one estimate, 35% more black people died in motor vehicle accidents in 2021, as compared with 2019. In other words, a lot of black motorists suddenly realized that they could drive however they wanted. They&#8217;d no longer be pulled over for supposedly &#8220;driving while black,&#8221; which was something they imagined was happening all the time. And they took full advantage of the situation. Insurance companies had to deal with the carnage that followed.
Along the same lines, as we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezo_P2uRNWY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> before, the flood of illegal aliens into this country under the Biden administration has led to a lot of drunk-driving collisions, which have wiped out entire families in some cases. Many of these illegal aliens don&#8217;t have driver&#8217;s licenses, and they refuse to obey the rules of the road. In the tiny town of Springfield, for example, one resident recently <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/us-news/influx-of-wild-driving-haitian-migrants-turning-streets-of-springfield-ohio-into-combat-zone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> that she sees 8 to 10 traffic accidents per day. Haitian migrants, which now make up around one-third of the population, routinely drive into buildings and onto sidewalks. They&#8217;ve mowed down children and elderly women, with total impunity. One of these Haitian migrants <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/us-news/influx-of-wild-driving-haitian-migrants-turning-streets-of-springfield-ohio-into-combat-zone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran over</a> Kathy Heaton, a 71-year-old grandmother, while she was collecting her garbage cans. She died in the street, after an impact that was so severe that her socks were literally removed from her feet. The driver wasn&#8217;t even prosecuted.
This era of impunity is now over. Police departments are no longer being overrun with BLM mobs. Border security is being enforced again. The result is that the prices that American citizens have to pay — both in terms of dollar amounts, and lives that are lost — are coming down. It turns out that, when you have a society that enforces laws, everyone benefits.
The White House seems to understand this. That&#8217;s why, every other day, we&#8217;re hearing about a new plan to reduce the cost of these kinds of externalities for Americans.
Here&#8217;s the latest example. The New York Times is now <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> that the Trump administration is canceling the Social Security numbers of foreign nationals who, for one reason or another, were allowed into this country during Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency:
<blockquote>The Trump administration has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were allowed into the country under President Biden. &#8230; Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained. &#8230; The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.</blockquote>
According to the Times, thousands of &#8220;convicted criminals and suspected terrorists&#8221; are among the foreign nationals who just had their Social Security numbers revoked. Yes, apparently the Biden administration provided &#8220;convicted criminals and suspected terrorists&#8221; with Social Security numbers, so that they could obtain government benefits. The Biden administration determined that this course of action was preferable to just deporting these people, or throwing them in prison. Now the Trump administration is changing that policy.
Again, this will have the effect of reducing payments by taxpayers to people who shouldn&#8217;t even be here. It will also make our roads and our communities a lot safer, in all likelihood. More than anything else, this is what Americans voted for in the last election. If Republicans are going to remain in power in Washington, and avoid a Democrat takeover of Congress in the midterms next year, then this kind of thing has to continue. And more importantly, Congress has to start supporting it. That&#8217;s how we can ensure that the cost of living will continue dropping.
A large part of that equation is reducing government spending, which Congress controls. As we all know, when the government spends trillions of dollars every year, that money is either coming from taxpayers, or it&#8217;s being printed and borrowed (which reduces the value of the money we&#8217;re all holding). Either way, we&#8217;re losing a lot of money in the process. At the moment, it appears that a small contingent of Republican lawmakers in Congress recognizes that this arrangement needs to change, at least to some degree. They just held out for assurances that the next spending bill will slash one-point-five trillion dollars from the budget. And after a lot of hand-wringing, they apparently received those assurances. Watch:
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So there were two plans here, for a spending bill to fund the government. The Senate plan, which passed over the weekend, would only reduce the deficit by around four billion dollars. That&#8217;s basically nothing compared to the new House framework, which demands a minimum of one-point-five trillion dollars in deficit reduction.
But here&#8217;s the problem: Even this new framework isn&#8217;t binding. It just sets a broad outline for future negotiations between the House and Senate, which still need to finalize a budget. And several members of Congress — most notably Thomas Massie of Kentucky — believe that this deal is worth about as much as the paper it&#8217;s printed on. Thomas Massie has been in office for more than a decade, and he understands how Congress works. He knows that it&#8217;s one thing for lawmakers to promise spending cuts. But it&#8217;s a completely different matter for them to agree on a bill that actually cuts spending. Here&#8217;s what Massie told a reporter after the framework was announced:
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What&#8217;s surprising here isn&#8217;t anything Thomas Massie is saying. What&#8217;s surprising is that so few Republicans in Congress are agreeing with him. The reason voters elected Republicans to control both chambers of Congress, along with the White House, is that they want government spending and the cost of living to come down. That&#8217;s one of the top issues in every exit poll. And now that Donald Trump is doing that — or attempting to do it — Congress is refusing to codify any of his cuts into law. If a Democrat becomes president, he could override all these DOGE cuts in a day-one executive order.
And by the way, no matter what you think of Trump&#8217;s tariffs, Massie makes a good point. Why hasn&#8217;t Congress held a vote on them? Tariffs are a form of taxation. They have the potential to significantly raise the cost of goods in the United States, among other effects. Under the Constitution, Congress has the power to tax. Even if you approve of the tariffs, you should still want Congress to vote on them, for the simple reason that they&#8217;ll be harder to overturn in a future administration. On the other hand, if you&#8217;re skeptical of tariffs, a congressional vote would allow for a full debate on the issue. Instead of unilateral announcements from the White House, we&#8217;d be able to hear the arguments on each side.
But the GOP leadership in Congress hasn&#8217;t displayed any interest in holding a vote on tariffs. In fact they&#8217;ve blocked a vote on the topic. And they haven&#8217;t held votes on the DOGE cuts or any other significant spending cuts. In fact, they still haven&#8217;t reined in any of the trillion dollars&#8217; worth of spending in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which was full of giveaways to environmentalist groups and NGOs. Why exactly hasn&#8217;t any of that waste been rolled back? Why is no one bothered to even talk about it? Really congress has not codified any of Trump’s executive orders at all, which means they’re all susceptible to being overturned with the stroke of a pen by the next administration. Where is congress?
When it comes to spending, if you ask Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, he&#8217;ll say that Republicans aren&#8217;t actually serious about cutting spending. Like Massie, he thinks the spending cuts will never actually happen. Here&#8217;s what he said:
<blockquote>I think that this town has got a lot of snakes in the grass who don&#8217;t want to accomplish it, and anyway that they can they&#8217;re going to stop it from happening. And I want to ensure we don&#8217;t end up in a place where we let the president down in that regard.</blockquote>
Whatever Donald Trump makes of the deal, at the moment, it looks like Republican voters might be let down. We&#8217;re talking about raising the debt ceiling by a historic amount, and potentially spending more than the Biden administration ever did. And we&#8217;re doing it at a time when we&#8217;re initiating a broader trade war, which means that we&#8217;ll have less access to money to borrow. This is not a recipe for a stable economic situation going forward. In separate interviews, Thomas Massie and Congressman Jodey Arrington of Texas outlined what&#8217;s at stake here. Watch:
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Even if you listen to that rhetoric and conclude that it&#8217;s overblown, or that there&#8217;s really no cause for concern, the fundamental point remains: Republicans ran on a platform that involved lowering the cost of living, which includes lowering taxes and government spending. If Republicans cannot deliver on that very simple promise, they will not be in power for very long. And they will be replaced by a party that&#8217;s even more committed to more taxes and government spending. 
This particular spending bill won&#8217;t be finalized for several weeks, in all likelihood. Between now and the moment this legislation is finalized, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that anything in Congress is more important than holding GOP leadership to their promise on these spending cuts — and pushing them further, for as many cuts as possible. If Republicans (and their voters) stay focused on that goal, they will have achieved something that the party has promised for decades, but failed to deliver. They will have permanently reduced the size of the American government, for the benefit of everyone living in this country. The White House is clearly committed to this goal. Now it&#8217;s time for every Republican in Congress — not just Thomas Massie and a few others — to follow suit.

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President Donald Trump called for Republicans to primary Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky on Monday.
Trump ripped Massie in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114141533823019998" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social, likening the Kentucky Republican to former Rep. Liz Cheney, who lost her Wyoming at-large district to Rep. Harriet Hagemen in 2022. The president turned against Massie as Massie has advocated for voting down a six-month freeze on federal spending.
“Congressman Thomas Massie, of beautiful Kentucky, is an automatic ‘NO’ vote on just about everything, despite the fact that he has always voted for Continuing Resolutions in the past. HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED, and I will lead the charge against him,” Trump wrote. “He’s just another GRANDSTANDER, who’s too much trouble, and not worth the fight.”
“He reminds me of Liz Chaney [sic] before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!). The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch. DO I HAVE ANY TAKERS???” the president continued. 
Trump also thanked the House Freedom Caucus, the conservative wing of the House GOP, for publicly supporting the continuing resolution that would freeze federal spending levels for six months and avert a government shutdown.
“Anyway, thank you again to the House Freedom Caucus for your very important vote. We need to buy some time in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. Unite and Win!!!” Trump said.
Hours before Trump posted his public takedown of Massie, the Kentucky congressman said threats to primary him would not influence his vote.
“Someone thinks they can control my voting card by threatening my re-election. Guess what? Doesn’t work on me. Three times I’ve had a challenger who tried to be more MAGA than me. None busted 25% because my constituents prefer transparency and principles over blind allegiance,” Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899187371314413636" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
The House Freedom Caucus, of which Massie is a member, <a href="https://x.com/freedomcaucus/status/1899257736237363531" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> the continuing resolution package on Monday. The group’s X account said the bill would provide more time for the Trump administration to find and cut waste, fraud, and abuse through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project.
“With the six months of funding this bill provides, Freedom Caucus Members look forward to working hand-in-hand with DOGE, OMB, and the new cabinet secretaries in eliminating even more waste, fraud, and abuse — and enacting historic spending reforms via reconciliation — all as part of President Trump’s effort to balance the budget,” the caucus’ message said.

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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Friday that over 60 companies provide answers on their involvement with leftist climate organizations, according to letters first shared with The Daily Wire. 
House Judiciary Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told large companies, including BlackRock, State Street Global Advisors, and J.P. Morgan, to preserve all documents related to their involvement with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and the Net Zero Asset Managers. They also asked whether their involvement with those organizations had any influence on their company policies and asset management. 
The lawmakers wrote that “the Committee has uncovered evidence that financial institutions are colluding with climate activists through initiatives like the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative to collectively adopt and impose left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related goals, which may violate U.S. antitrust law.”
“The Committee has obtained evidence that members of GFANZ and NZAM attempt to impose a ‘net-zero’ climate agenda on U.S. companies in their investment portfolios,” they added. 
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero describes itself as “a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy.&#8221; Net Zero Asset Managers, which says its signers have more than $57.5 trillion under management, is “an international group of asset managers committed, consistent with their fiduciary duty to their clients and beneficiaries, to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.”
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In the letter to J.P.Morgan Asset Management shared with The Daily Wire, the lawmakers ask if its membership in the organization has “altered its ‘stewardship and engagement strategy’ with its portfolio companies&#8221; and if it had taken any actions to push the companies it invests in toward net zero. 
The lawmakers also asked the companies if their involvement with both climate initiatives had impacted its voting policy, requesting an answer to its questions by January 10, 2025. 
“The Committee has reason to believe that J.P. MorganAsset Management may be in possession of documents and communications related to GFANZ and NZAM’s collusive activity that would inform potential legislative reforms,” the lawmakers wrote. “This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials relating to the topics addressed in this letter.”
In June, the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-take-aim-at-climate-cartel-pushing-decarbonization-of-american-industry">released</a> a report saying that there was a “climate cartel” working together to push companies to impose radical environmental goals and the decarbonization of American industry.

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A group of more than two dozen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> unveiled this week a resolution that aims to rescind <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a> subpoenas against several associates of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
The measure also seeks to withdraw recommendations that these individuals be held in contempt of Congress and require the House speaker to notify the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the actions.
At focus are four ex-White House officials who refused to cooperate with subpoenas: Stephen Bannon, Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino, and Mark Meadows.
The DOJ <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/justice-department-declines-charge-meadows-scavino-january-6/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> to prosecute Scavino and Meadows, but did open up cases and secure convictions against the others.
Former White House trade adviser Navarro is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/politics/peter-navarro-jail-contempt-congress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving</a> a four-month prison sentence. Bannon, Trump&#8217;s former chief strategist who left the White House in 2017, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-orders-bannon-to-report-to-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slated to report</a> to prison on July 1.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) <a href="https://burlison.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-burlison-introduces-resolution-rescind-subpoenas-stephen-k-bannon-mark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the resolution on Tuesday, noting that it had 24 co-sponsors, including Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Chip Roy (R-TX).
&#8220;The subpoenas that were issued were legally insufficient and should be rescinded, and the contempt of Congress referrals based on those subpoenas should be withdrawn,&#8221; Burlison said in a statement.
Democrats led the House when the now-defunct January 6 Committee ran its investigation. Two Republicans, now-former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), served on the panel.
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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who served as chairman of the January 6 Committee, pushed back against the bid to revoke the subpoenas and withdraw the contempt of Congress recommendations.
&#8220;Thankfully, this resolution will have no impact,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jan-6-subpoenas-against-trump-aides-would-revoked-under-new-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he told Fox News</a>, adding that the subpoenas &#8220;were litigated exhaustively, with contempt of Congress charges going as high as the Supreme Court.&#8221;
It remains to be seen whether the resolution will even be considered by the GOP-led House, but its co-sponsors would like to see a vote.
&#8220;The Republican House should, by an official vote of the House, declare the subpoenas on Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to be illegitimate and repealed,” Massie said.
He added, &#8220;If Congress does so, it will be an effective and needed repudiation of the sham January 6th committee.&#8221;

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A pair of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> introduced legislation on Tuesday that would slash federal taxes on tips after former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> promoted the idea earlier this month.
The bill, spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL), <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/gaetz.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_2376.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would</a> &#8220;amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that tips shall not be subject to income or employment taxes.&#8221;
It takes inspiration and its <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ron-paul-campaign-press-release-case-you-missed-it-ron-paul-authors-tax-free-tips-op-ed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">name</a> — the &#8220;Tax Free Tips Act &#8221; — from a legislative <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2012-feb-01-la-pn-ron-paul-las-vegas-tips-20120201-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push</a> by Ron Paul, a former congressman and candidate for president, to nix federal taxation on tips.
&#8220;Ron Paul had it right and so does Donald Trump,&#8221; Massie said in a <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressmen-matt-gaetz-and-thomas-massie-co-lead-legislation-exempt-tips">statement</a>.
&#8220;Taxing tips is regressive and goes against American tradition,&#8221; Massie added. &#8220;But now digital payments allow the government to tax every transaction, even those that historically have not been taxed. With inflation raging, it only makes sense to eliminate the tax on tips and provide relief to working folks.&#8221;
Gaetz said he was &#8220;proud&#8221; to join Massie in co-sponsoring the tax-relief legislation.
“As the cost of living continues to rise, the hardworking men and women in the service industry, many of whom may be working a second job to make ends meet, must be allowed to keep every dollar of tip money they earn,&#8221; Gaetz said.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-proposes-major-tax-change-for-workers-who-get-tips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a campaign stop in Las Vegas earlier in June that if he is re-elected to the White House in November, he wants to change the tax code to exempt tip income from federal taxes.
&#8220;Those people that have jobs in restaurants or whatever the job may be, a tipping job, we’re not going after it for taxes anymore, that will be ended,&#8221; Trump said.
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A press release from Gaetz&#8217;s office <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressmen-matt-gaetz-and-thomas-massie-co-lead-legislation-exempt-tips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is an original co-sponsor of the legislation.
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I absolutely LOVE President Trump’s plan for NO TAX ON TIPS!!
Write it on every receipt you sign! <a href="https://t.co/BygpUWAunR">pic.twitter.com/BygpUWAunR</a>
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Greene <a href="https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1801802547864223838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X after Trump&#8217;s comments about scrapping taxes for tips to say that she &#8220;absolutely&#8221; loved the plan.
She shared a photo of a receipt that had a message written on it that said,&#8221; VOTE TRUMP! No tax on tips!!&#8221; and encouraged followers to write the same thing on their own receipts.

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On Thursday, a band of more than a dozen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> lawmakers voted against a resolution condemning Iran for its drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend.
The measure passed with overwhelming support — by a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">404-14 tally</a> — while 13 lawmakers did not vote. Among those who opposed the resolution were 13 Democrats, including members of the leftist &#8220;Squad,&#8221; and one Republican. They included: Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Greg Casar (D-TX), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), and Thomas Massie (R-KY).
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Full roll call on the House resolution condemning Iran&#39;s drone and missile attack on Israel, with 13 Democrats and Republican Thomas Massie voting &#39;Nay&#39;.<a href="https://t.co/WfyG3uG7An">https://t.co/WfyG3uG7An</a> <a href="https://t.co/nsWyDbE9HD">https://t.co/nsWyDbE9HD</a> <a href="https://t.co/HvMkeLEyWD">pic.twitter.com/HvMkeLEyWD</a>
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Ocasio-Cortez released a <a href="https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-statement-house-republican-incompetence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Tuesday condemning a series of resolutions that House Republicans planned to consider in response to Iran&#8217;s attack on Israel that followed Israel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-escalation-alleged-israeli-airstrike-kills-top-iranian-general-in-syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly killing</a> Iranian generals with a strike in Syria.
&#8220;Following last weekend’s unprecedented response by Iran to Israel’s attack on its consulate, the Republican Majority is explicitly leveraging a series of bills to further escalate tensions in the Middle East. This is a blatant attempt to distract from their own incompetence,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
&#8220;The country and the world need real leadership from the House of Representatives in this moment, not resolutions designed purposefully to increase the likelihood of a deadly regional war or worse,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I will oppose any cynical effort to further inflame tensions, destroy a path to peace in the region, and further divide the American people.&#8221;
Massie appeared to also express concerns about the prospect of escalation in the Middle East. After Iran launched its barrage against Israel, which the United States and other countries helped fend off, he <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1779364692818837544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X, &#8220;I’m against the next war already.&#8221;
Beyond condemning Iran&#8217;s attack on Israel, the resolution that passed on Thursday <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/1143/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also says</a> the House stands with Israel as it defends itself against Iran&#8217;s attacks and reaffirms the United States&#8217; commitment to Israel&#8217;s security; supports Israel&#8217;s &#8220;right to self-defense&#8221; and &#8220;right to respond to this aggression&#8221;; commends the U.S. military, the United Kingdom, France, and Jordan for intercepting Iranian missiles and drones; and urges full enforcement of U.S. sanctions and export controls against Iran.
Reps. Tom Kean (R-NJ) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), both members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, <a href="https://kean.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-adopts-resolution-condemning-irans-drone-and-missile-attack-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> the resolution together in a show of bipartisanship.
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&#8220;Today, the House passed my resolution, Condemning Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel,&#8221; Kean <a href="https://twitter.com/CongressmanKean/status/1780977146803998986" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.  &#8220;This resolution clearly and concisely condemns Iran’s attack, reaffirms Israel’s right to self defense, and states that Congress stands with Israel.&#8221;
The House passed a <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/16/congress/house-iran-pushback-bills-israel-attack-00152601" target="_blank" rel="noopener">number of measures</a> this week regarding Iran and Israel, including sanctions and a resolution <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-from-the-river-to-the-sea-slogan-as-anti-semitic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemning</a> the &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” slogan as anti-Semitic, in votes where Massie <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1780358425580302437" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similarly</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1780353440217964612" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1780034310751318378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with</a> a minority of Democrats who opposed them.
Lawmakers in the House are now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-unveils-foreign-aid-bills-expects-final-vote-over-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering</a> foreign assistance legislation, including <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240415/APRIL2024_ISRAEL_xml.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a roughly $26 billion bill</a> for Israel and humanitarian aid, with final votes expected to happen over the weekend.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Here Are The 14 Reps Who Voted Against A House Resolution Condemning Iran’s Attack On Israel

Here Are The 14 Reps Who Voted Against A House Resolution Condemning Iran's Attack On Israel

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Georgia Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brian-kemp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Kemp</a> slammed House Republicans on Tuesday who were trying to force House Speaker Mike Johnson out of his position, thus throwing the U.S. House of Representatives into chaos.
Kemp directed his remarks at Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who posted on X that he was supporting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s (R-GA) motion to vacate the speakership.
&#8220;I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG,&#8221; Massie posted. &#8220;He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.&#8221;
Kemp responded: &#8220;Instead of bickering amongst themselves and handing Democrats control of the House, Republicans should do their damn job and vote on the important issues facing our nation. Enough is enough. I support @SpeakerJohnson.&#8221;
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Instead of bickering amongst themselves and handing Democrats control of the House, Republicans should do their damn job and vote on the important issues facing our nation.
Enough is enough. I support <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a>. <a href="https://t.co/r429Zb1yyd">https://t.co/r429Zb1yyd</a>
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianKempGA/status/1780255204442509349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
The effort by Greene and Massie to oust Johnson comes after former President Donald Trump held a press conference with Johnson where he backed up the House Speaker.
Trump said at the event on Friday that Johnson was “doing a really good job under very tough circumstances,” adding: “I stand with the speaker, we’ve had a very good relationship.”
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“We’re getting along very well with the Speaker and I get along very well with Marjorie. We have a Speaker who was voted in and it was a complicated process … it’s not an easy situation for any Speaker,” Trump later added. “I think he’s doing a very good job, he’s doing about as good as you’re going to do and I’m sure that Marjorie understands that. She’s a very good friend of mine and I know she has a lot of respect for the speaker.”

GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Brian Kemp Holds Primary Night Election Event

Kemp Slams Republicans ‘Bickering Amongst Themselves’ In The U.S. House

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President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice announced on Saturday the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center — to the surprise of some congressional Republicans.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Saturday <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> that the new national resource center “will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.” Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), commonly referred to as “red flag” laws, allow authorities to confiscate firearms from a person whom a court deems to be a risk to himself or others. ERPOs also prevent a person from buying or possessing a gun for the duration of the order.
“The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence,” Garland said.
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Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center
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&mdash; U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1771512584883015897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The resource center, which was launched with a new <a href="https://erpo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, is described as “a resource for implementers” that will “provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
The National ERPO Resource Center website also provides a state-by-state guide for red flag laws across the country, along with specific information on each state’s ERPO law. Currently, 21 states and the District of Columbia have red flag laws on the books.
Republicans in the House and Senate were surprised to learn of the DOJ&#8217;s new gun-control resource center. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1771521716805669016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reposted</a> the DOJ’s announcement on X and asked, “What the hell is this evil?”
“A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes,” Massie added.
“Oh, really?” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1771521734358757641" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the DOJ announcing the resource center.
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) simply <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1771553244180869500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the DOJ’s post, “Nope.”
Dana Loesch, a Second Amendment advocate and critic of red flag laws, said the DOJ’s National ERPO Resource Center “is an attack on due process.”
“This won’t apply to Hunter Biden, illegal aliens, or cartel members that Dems fight to arm. This is an attack on due process and ignores existing law that provides a way to adjudicate someone ineligible,” Loesch <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1771544901030727689" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “All previous tragedies were preventable without removal of due process.”
President Biden has fought to implement more gun control on a national level, issuing an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-unveils-effort-to-crack-down-on-firearm-industry-enhance-background-checks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> last year expanding background checks for firearm purchases. Biden has also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vows-ban-assault-weapons-come-hell-high-water" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> “to ban assault weapons again come hell or high water and high capacity magazines.&#8221;

Attorney General Merrick Garland

DOJ Launches National ‘Resource Center’ To Aid Authorities In Taking Firearms From People Deemed ‘Threat To Themselves Or Others’

DOJ Launches National 'Resource Center' To Aid Authorities In Taking Firearms From People Deemed 'Threat To Themselves Or Others'

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On Tuesday, billionaire tech executive and X owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> raised concerns about a bill making its way through Congress that seeks to clamp down on U.S. access to social media applications such as Chinese-owned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> unless they sever ties with foreign adversaries that are deemed a national security threat.
Musk, a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-14/elon-musk-says-he-s-pro-free-speech-but-fired-twitter-staff-for-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-described</a> &#8220;free speech absolutist&#8221; who championed the &#8220;Twitter Files,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767540775762411525" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to a post from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) highlighting text from the legislation that addresses websites and businesses that provide services to social media platforms found to be in violation of proposed law.
&#8220;The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse. The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps. The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the &#8216;foreign adversary,'&#8221; Massie said in a post to X.
&#8220;This law is not just about TikTok, it is about censorship and government control!&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767540775762411525">posted</a> in reply. &#8220;If it were just about TikTok, it would only cite &#8216;foreign control&#8217; as the issue, but it does not.&#8221;
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This law is not just about TikTok, it is about censorship and government control!
If it were just about TikTok, it would only cite “foreign control” as the issue, but it does not. <a href="https://t.co/3hpePCE1nS">https://t.co/3hpePCE1nS</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767540775762411525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The bill, called the &#8220;Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,&#8221; was unveiled with bipartisan support that paired GOP lawmakers such as House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) with the likes of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
According to <a href="https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-bipartisan-coalition-introduce-legislation-protect-americans-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> from the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, the &#8220;bill prevents app store availability or web hosting services in the U.S. for ByteDance-controlled applications, including TikTok, unless the application severs ties to entities like ByteDance that are subject to the control of a foreign adversary, as defined by Congress in Title 10.&#8221;
&#8220;In addition,&#8221; the release added, &#8220;the bill creates a process for the President to designate certain, specifically defined social media applications that are subject to the control of a foreign adversary — per Title 10 — and pose a national security risk. Designated applications will face a prohibition on app store availability and web hosting services in the U.S. unless they sever ties to entities subject to the control of a foreign adversary through divestment.&#8221;
After passing through the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a bipartisan vote of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-tiktok-ban-clears-congressional-hurdle-as-some-republicans-voice-opposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50-0 last week</a>, the legislation is poised to get a floor vote as early as this week. President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tiktok-ban-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said he would sign</a> the bill into law if it advances through both chambers of Congress.
TikTok warned the bill would &#8220;trample the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans and deprive 5 million small businesses of a platform they rely on to grow and create jobs.&#8221; The company also urged users to &#8220;speak up&#8221; against the legislation, which the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-bill-support-congress-china-data-f1ec5b720bb68884c6423c62f314dcff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> has led to a flood of calls to congressional offices.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the legislation with Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), the panel&#8217;s ranking member.
When The Daily Wire reached out for comment on the posts from Musk and Massie on Tuesday, the panel shared a statement from Gallagher defending the legislation.
“The bill does not impact websites in general. It has a very narrowly tailored definition that can only apply to foreign adversary controlled social media, like the TikTok app and TikTok.com — anything controlled by China, Russia, Iran or North Korea that pose a national security threat. It creates a very high bar for what constitutes a national security threat,&#8221; Gallagher said.
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&#8220;The bill addresses both foreign adversary-controlled apps and their associated websites, but only websites that power an adversary controlled social media app, again, like tiktok.com. That is the only reason the word ‘website’ is even in the bill,&#8221; the congressman added. &#8220;The Chinese Communist Party does not have a First Amendment right to conduct malign influence operations in the United States. We need to cut out the Chinese Communist Party tumor from TikTok and compel Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok.&#8221;
Gallagher continued, &#8220;What the bill does is give TikTok a simple choice: either side with its users and pave the way for its operations as an American company and allow people to speak free from the fear of propaganda and censorship OR side with the Chinese Communist Party. It&#8217;s up to TikTok.&#8221;

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Elon Musk Warns TikTok Bill Is ‘About Censorship And Government Control’

Elon Musk Warns TikTok Bill Is 'About Censorship And Government Control'

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Newly uncovered video shows that a bomb-sniffing dog was at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on the morning of January 6, 2021, without detecting a supposed pipe bomb that was sitting only a few feet away.
The security footage adds to the major questions about the supposed pipe bombs that were planted on the eve of January 6 at the DNC and near the Republican National Committee (RNC). The FBI says the bombs were planted around 8 p.m. on January 5, but remained undetected until the next afternoon, when they were both discovered within minutes of the Capitol being breached by trespassers.
The Capitol Police have said the findings of the bombs diverted resources at a critical time, thus allowing January 6 demonstrations at the Capitol to get out of hand.
The attempted bombing of political headquarters would be by far the most newsworthy aspect of January 6, compellingly making the case that it was a deadly insurrection. Yet Democrats and law enforcement have barely mentioned them since.
Kamala Harris was at the DNC at the time, a fact she concealed to the extent that the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-said-there-were-pipe-bombs-on-january-6-evidence-points-to-a-coverup-congressman-says">falsely stated</a> that she was at the Capitol and used that non-fact to suggest that trespassers there might have been endangering her.
She gave a speech likening January 6 to Pearl Harbor and September 11, but she went out of her way not to mention the pipe bombs, saying that she was safe only because she “had left” the Capitol, instead of saying that she had gone to the DNC, where a pipe bomb was found just a few feet away.
The fact that people did not know the vice president-elect was at the DNC avoided questions about how a bomb could have avoided detection given that the Secret Service would perform sweeps of locations where a high-level protectee such as the Vice President-elect went.
But the new video, released by House Committee on Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chair Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) and first <a href="https://www.declassified.live/p/bomb-sniffing-dog-performed-vehicle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by Julie Kelly</a>, shows that a bomb-sniffing dog was present, perhaps even separately from Harris’ detail.
At 9:29 a.m., a security camera pointed to the DNC shows a bomb-sniffing canine and his handler walk into frame from the right side, as the handler walks the dog around the walls of the building. The purported pipe bomb was sitting by a bench some 20 feet to the right of the camera frame, suggesting that the dog walked right by it just before entering the camera’s view.
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FBI claimed a viable pipe bomb was placed at DNC on J5. But thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@julie_kelly2</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseAdmin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseAdmin</a> here is new video of a bomb sniffing dog clearing DNC on the morning of J6. When was the “bomb” placed? Was it really viable? Who placed it? Why? 🦗 🦗 🦗 <a href="https://t.co/QTiPdMsUxm">pic.twitter.com/QTiPdMsUxm</a>
&mdash; Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1757605317137850852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At 9:44 a.m., a small SUV pulls into the DNC driveway, and the handler opens its doors and has the dog stick its snout into each one. After the dog does not alert, the SUV is allowed to enter.
The DNC did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire about what type of security it has, whether it has a dog on site, and how the bomb was not detected.
Harris arrived at the DNC at 11:25 a.m.
Video from the same camera, released by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), shows officers’ curious reaction when they are notified of the bomb at 1:05 p.m. A man comes into the frame from the right, just as the bomb-sniffing dog did, and goes up to a police car and speaks to officers in a black SUV and a local police cruiser. The officers remain in their vehicle for several minutes afterwards, before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-said-there-were-pipe-bombs-on-january-6-evidence-points-to-a-coverup-congressman-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">milling about casually</a>. They allow a group of children to cross the road and walk directly in front of the bomb. An officer eventually takes a picture of the bomb with his phone.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-said-there-were-pipe-bombs-on-january-6-evidence-points-to-a-coverup-congressman-says">The FBI Said There Were ‘Pipe Bombs’ On January 6. Evidence Points To A Coverup, Congressman Says</a>
Harris exited the DNC at 1:17 p.m. The DNC would not tell The Daily Wire whether the building was evacuated after the bomb was found.
The supposed bomber was never found, despite the FBI using high-tech methods to track down hundreds of people for minor crimes like trespassing during the Capitol riot. The FBI released a wanted poster with only two grainy pictures of the suspect. A camera is trained at the bench where the bomb was planted, but no video from that camera was released of the bomb actually being placed.
Former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin told The Daily Wire that he was assigned to surveil the home of a former Air Force officer who, he was told, the FBI had quickly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-tied-january-6-pipe-bomber-to-metro-card-of-ex-gov-official-but-blocked-interview-of-him-former-agent-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tied to the bombing</a> by using cameras to follow the person into the subway, and identifying the Metro farecard that was used. He was blocked from interviewing the man, and quickly pulled off the surveillance and assigned to review mundane leads about trespassers, he said.
The then-head of the FBI&#8217;s Washington Field Office, Steve D’Antuono, hyped the bombs to the media, saying &#8220;They would have exploded. They could have exploded,&#8221; before acknowledging under oath that the bombs were connected to 60-minute kitchen timers that could not have detonated the bombs more than 17 hours later.
Massie told The Daily Wire that “This is an ongoing coverup at this point… It doesn’t make any sense why they wouldn’t be promoting that threat to advance that narrative unless they had something to do with the pipe bombs and they’re trying to memory-hole the whole thing to avoid embarrassment,” he said of Democrats and law enforcement.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-tied-january-6-pipe-bomber-to-metro-card-of-ex-gov-official-but-blocked-interview-of-him-former-agent-says">FBI Tied January 6 Pipe Bomber To Metro Card Of Ex-Gov Official, But Blocked Interview Of Him, Former Agent Says</a>

RNC/DNC pipe bomb suspect

Bomb-Sniffing Dog Was At DNC On January 6, Raising Further Questions About Undetected Pipe Bomb

A former FBI agent said that the Bureau quickly believed that it tied the person who planted pipe bombs at the Democrat National Committee and the Republican National Committee to a particular Metro fare card and license plate, but did not allow him to interview the person of interest and pulled his team off of the lead.
The allegation raises more questions about the pipe bombs, which were by far the most violent aspect of the January 6 protests, but which Democrats and authorities have seldom mentioned since.
Kyle Seraphin, who led FBI surveillance teams, told The Daily Wire that shortly after January 6, a counterintelligence team met him at a firehouse in Falls Church, Virginia to brief him on his next surveillance target: They had used security footage to follow the person into a Metro station after he planted the bombs, and identified the fare card that was used.
That fare card then allowed them to determine that the person got off at a Metro stop in Northern Virginia, where surveillance footage showed the person entering a car. Both the car and the fare card were in the name of the same person — a retired Air Force chief master sergeant who was now working as a contractor with a security clearance, they said.
Seraphin and his team were assigned to stake out the person’s row house for days, but the FBI blocked his request to interview the person, he said. Then they were called off the target completely and told to pore through low-priority leads about minor January 6 participants, he said.
“Allegedly someone threw bombs around the Capitol which could have killed congressmen or a busload of nuns or anything, and the answer is you can’t follow this guy around — you have to go to headquarters and read ‘leads’ where someone said &#8216;I might’ve went to high school with some guy that was standing around the Capitol?&#8217;” Seraphin told The Daily Wire.
Seraphin said the bomber wasn’t necessarily the same person of interest to whom the car and card were registered to, but that it was a highly specific lead that, if pursued, had a good chance of leading investigators to the suspect. &#8220;They found people based on their earlobes that were hanging out by a flagpole,&#8221; he said of the Bureau&#8217;s persistence in pursuing more minor January 6 wrongdoings.
He said the case was being run by the counter-intelligence division, which are not “manhunters” used to apprehend people and build prosecutable cases. He said that team called in his surveillance team, only to go ahead and quickly cut it off.
He said it was not surprising that the FBI would have traced the bomber, and, in fact, it would be more surprising if it hadn’t. “They can do telephonic capture and triangulate your phone in real-time&#8230; The bureau is far too competent to fail this,” he said. “When they had the World Trade Center bombing in ‘93 they went under four stories of rubble and were able to find a partial VIN number that they used to track it down to the people responsible. And you’re telling me you had a pristine, non-detonated bomb and they couldn’t find anything on it?”
The FBI has released only a couple of grainy pictures of the bomber, despite massive security camera coverage on Capitol Hill. Though the bomber was seen talking on a phone, it has said it may not have been able to identify him with cell phone records because a database was corrupted.
The <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/12/jan-6-pipe-bombs-rnc-dnc-were-inoperable-says-ex-a">Washington Times</a> first reported the allegation in May 2023. The article, which was paywalled, did not get widespread attention, yet when the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-06-07-ti-of-steven-dantuono-redacted.pdf">interviewed</a> Steve D’Antuono, the former head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, it seemed to be on his mind.
“People like Kyle Seraphin and others that are not a case agent, have no knowledge of the case, have no knowledge of what happened in the case, he also made another accusation too that there was an individual with a Metro card. My understanding is all that was chased down. There was a lead that was chased down, but he says that we didn&#8217;t chase it down,” D’Antuono said.
His comment seemed to confirm that the Metro card lead did exist, and he did not explain how or why it ultimately resulted in nothing.
The FBI’s Washington Field Office did not return The Daily Wire’s request for an explanation of why the lead was believed to be a dead end.
Immediately after claiming that Seraphin would not know details because he was not a “case agent,” D’Antuono acknowledged that he himself did not know even basic details about the investigation because he was far removed from case agents as a top leader.
D’Antuono went on ABC to hype up the apparent MAGA terrorist threat in 2022 to say that, “They would have exploded. They could have exploded,” calling the pipe bombs “viable” devices, as The Washington Times recounted.
But in the transcribed interview with Congress, he acknowledged that the bombs had 60-minute kitchen timers attached to them, and that they had not exploded 17 hours later. “I saw the same kitchen timer as you. I agree. I don&#8217;t know when they were supposed to go off. Maybe they weren&#8217;t supposed to go off,” he said.
Seraphin said that when he was assigned to the case, he asked about the bombs, and his team was briefed by the FBI that they were not at risk of detonating. “It was an officer safety question. You’re gonna work a case differently if they’re not real, you can get closer,” he said.
Rep. Thomas Massie, a member of the Judiciary Committee, asked D’Antuono about the pipe bombs after uncovering <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1748135724681933251">video</a> that showed a person pointing out the pipe bomb to officers outside the DNC, only to have the officers react with no urgency, even letting children cross the street afterward.
Massie told The Daily Wire that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-said-there-were-pipe-bombs-on-january-6-evidence-points-to-a-coverup-congressman-says">officers’ reaction</a> was not congruent with someone who believes they have just learned of what might be a real bomb feet away from a party headquarters, and raises the question of whether they knew it was planted there.
Some of those personnel were Secret Service guarding Kamala Harris, who was in the building at the time. The Department of Justice initially falsely stated that Harris was in the Capitol, not the DNC, which allowed them to avoid the question of why the Secret Service didn’t find the bomb. Seraphin said there’s “zero chance” that the Secret Service would have missed a pipe bomb sitting in almost plain sight when preparing a site for the Vice President-elect. “They’re far too good for that,” he said.
Seraphin said of the video, “That’s not how you react to a bomb, I don’t care who you are,” unless they had reason in advance to “believe it wasn’t real.”
Both bombs were purportedly planted around 8 p.m. the night of January 5, and remained unreported until both were discovered within minutes of each other at the exact time that the Capitol was being breached. Capitol Police have said that January 6 got out of hand because they were forced to divert resources to the bombs instead of crowd control.
Harris has gone out of her way not to mention the bomb, even implying that she was safe from January 6 because <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/06/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-marking-one-year-since-the-january-6th-deadly-assault-on-the-u-s-capitol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;I had left&#8221;</a> — when, in fact, she had left for a location roughly 30 feet away from a purported bomb.
Darren Beattie, a reporter for <a href="https://revolver.news/2022/08/release-the-tape-revolver-has-definitive-proof-fbi-is-hiding-critical-footage-of-jan-6-pipe-bomber/">Revolver News</a> who has uncovered numerous discrepancies around the pipe bombs, joined Massie for an <a href="https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxRvRLdrVxl?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online chat</a> on Thursday. He said that in addition to the details that don’t add up, there is the glaring fact that Democrats have omitted all mention of the most dramatic part of January 6, even as they seek to cast it as a violent insurrection.
&#8220;How dark, how dirty, how damning, how embarrassing does the truth have to be for these salivating political opportunists have to be to forgo the obvious political advantages of this talking point?” he asked.

Photos released by the FBI of the person who they say planted bombs on January 5, 2021 / FBI

FBI Tied January 6 Pipe Bomber To Metro Card Of Ex-Gov Official, But Blocked Interview Of Him, Former Agent Says

Democrats have strained to make the case that January 6, 2021, was a violent “insurrection,” even resorting to false claims such as that police officers were murdered to make their case. But they have gone out of their way to avoid the one incident that would seemingly best make their point — the two purported pipe bombs outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee.
Now a Republican lawmaker who pored over thousands of hours of video footage and other evidence from January 6 alleges that the bombs may have been planted with the involvement of law enforcement. He believes Democrats have backed off from the incidents for fear that the truth would be discovered.
“This is an ongoing coverup at this point,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, told The Daily Wire. “If there were indeed two operable pipe bombs, that would be the biggest threat that existed on January 6 &#8230; It doesn’t make any sense why they wouldn’t be promoting that threat to advance that narrative unless they had something to do with the pipe bombs and they’re trying to memory-hole the whole thing to avoid embarrassment.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1748135724681933251" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video</a> identified by Massie shows officers reacting nonchalantly after they were notified of the pipe bomb, milling slowly around the area and even letting children walk in front of it afterward. The soon-to-be vice president Kamala Harris was in the building at the time, a fact that the Department of Justice made misstatements about for months.
The video raises questions about how a Secret Service sweep before she entered did not detect a pipe bomb in plain sight some 30 feet from them.
“It’s the worst scandal of January 6, that’s for sure,” Massie said. “[A pipe bomb] is made to maim and kill&#8230; And the people who were protesting that day did not have weapons meant to maim and kill. So you would think they would be very focused on these pipe bombs, but they aren’t.”
The Democrat-run January 6 committee chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson did not mention the pipe bombs — by far the most sensational aspect of the day — at all in the body of its nearly 900-page final report on the day, except for a <a href="https://www.jan-6.com/_files/ugd/acac13_ffa28ed6c2694272a265860e447122c7.pdf">brief mention in an appendix</a>.
In 2022, Harris called January 6 a “deadly assault” and likened it to September 11 and Pearl Harbor, but went out of her way not to mention being the target of an apparent bomb, instead saying that she was safe from the Capitol because “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/06/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-marking-one-year-since-the-january-6th-deadly-assault-on-the-u-s-capitol/">I had left</a>,” referring to her secret trip to the DNC.
Security cameras also captured a person apparently planting the bomb on the night of January 5, but former top FBI Washington official Steven D’Antuono <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-06-07-ti-of-steven-dantuono-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that he was “flabbergasted” to find that video footage turned over by the DNC was of far lower quality than would be expected of modern cameras.
The bomb planter can be seen appearing to use a cell phone, but data from a cell phone company was “corrupted,” and the FBI wasn’t able to find any records for the suspect, D’Antuono testified.
“Every modern data system keeps backup. I don’t believe it could be corrupted without the ability to recover it,” Massie told The Daily Wire.
The FBI also said the bombs were “viable.” But they were connected to a 60-minute kitchen timer, making it impossible to trigger an explosion the next day, D’Antuono testified.
Massie, an engineer, said that a kitchen timer “doesn’t create an electrical impulse, you would need a battery to ignite.” The FBI told him details that made the bomb sound scary, such as its length and the fact that it had a timer, but said it was “not authorized” to tell him whether it had a battery. D’Antuono <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/reward-climbs-500k-information-suspect-pipe-bombs-day/story?id=96184838">told</a> ABC that “they would have exploded,” but acknowledged under oath that a 60-minute timer could not set off a device more than 17 hours later.
“We need to talk to the person who allegedly found the bomb,&#8221; Massie said, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve got a lot of questions for them. For instance: How hard did you look for the third bomb? Like, unless you know there are [only] two bombs, why would you quit looking after you found two? Wouldn&#8217;t you go into overdrive with a bunch of dogs and start trying to find bombs everywhere?”
“That doesn&#8217;t seem to have happened. It&#8217;s almost as if, ‘Okay, well, the first bomb has been discovered. Let&#8217;s go get that other one. And then we&#8217;ll be done with this part of the exercise,&#8217;” he added.
<a href="https://revolver.news/2024/01/secret-service-foreknowledge-or-criminal-negligence-damning-new-evidence-surfaces-fbi-january-6-pipe-bomb-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Revolver News</a> was the first to report on the video, and has raised a slew of questions about law enforcement’s handling of a would-be terrorist attack. Last year it reported that the FBI released footage from a <a href="https://revolver.news/2022/08/release-the-tape-revolver-has-definitive-proof-fbi-is-hiding-critical-footage-of-jan-6-pipe-bomber/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">camera pointing directly at the DNC bench</a> during a different time period, and that the same camera therefore should have captured a clearer shot of the suspect placing the bomb.
&#8220;We believe there are probably alternate videos of the January 5 suspect that they have not released to us,&#8221; Massie said.
Both bombs allegedly sat undetected for some 17 hours, until coincidentally being discovered within minutes of each other, virtually at the exact moment that tensions escalated at the Capitol.
D’Antuono, who said he ran the investigation for two years, testified that he did not know whether the FBI ever interviewed the person who found the DNC bomb. <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/revealed-a-plainclothes-capitol-cop-found-the-dnc-pipe-bomb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Blaze</a> reported this week that the person was an undercover police officer, citing congressional sources.
The FBI said the suspect walked some <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc/news/press-releases/fbi-washington-field-office-releases-video-and-additional-information-regarding-the-pipe-bomb-investigation-090821" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six blocks </a>between the two locations, in one of the most heavily policed and monitored locations in the world, but it has not managed to identify even the suspect’s gender, despite offering a $500,000 reward for information.
Massie said he visited the alley between the RNC and the Capitol Hill Club, a Republican hangout, where the second purported bomb was found. “There’s all kinds of cameras back there, private individuals have cameras,” he said, adding that he&#8217;s been told by area residents that the FBI did not ask them if they had seen anything until nearly a year later.
“This looks really bad for the FBI, ATF, anyone involved, Secret Service” Massie said. “To defend the integrity of their organizations they need to provide answers.”

Police officers mill about and let children cross the road after a bomb was reported outside the DNC while Kamala Harris was inside on January 6. / US House of Representatives

The FBI Said There Were ‘Pipe Bombs’ On January 6. Evidence Points To A Coverup, Congressman Says

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