The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt ceiling compromise <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20230529/BILLS-118hrPIH-fiscalresponsibility.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> on Wednesday that suspends the $31 trillion debt limit until a lame-duck session after the 2024 presidential election.
After an hour of debate, lawmakers advanced House Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA) Fiscal Responsibility Act, a debt ceiling deal made with President Joe Biden that caused 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats to oppose the legislation. The final vote was 314 to 117 — 149 Republicans joining 165 Democrats.
&#8220;We&#8217;re finally bending the curve on discretionary spending because of this bill, and we&#8217;re doing it while at the same time raising our national defense and our veterans fully funded, with Social Security and Medicare preserved,&#8221; McCarthy said in a speech on the House floor, adding, &#8220;That is a major victory.&#8221;
After weeks of negotiations, Biden and McCarthy reached an &#8220;agreement in principle&#8221; over Memorial weekend.
Biden said the passage is a &#8220;critical step forward&#8221; to prevent a first-ever national economic default while touting the agreement&#8217;s Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid protections.
&#8220;Tonight, the House took a critical step forward to prevent a first-ever default and protect our country&#8217;s hard-earned and historic economic recovery,&#8221; Biden said, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/debt-ceiling-vote-live-updates-house-will-take-biden-mccarthy-plan-ton-rcna86870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>. &#8220;This budget agreement is a bipartisan compromise. Neither side got everything it wanted. That&#8217;s the responsibility of governing.&#8221;
&#8220;It protects critical programs that millions of hardworking families, students, and veterans count on,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I have been clear that the only path forward is a bipartisan compromise that can earn the support of both parties. This agreement meets that test.&#8221;
Leading the GOP charge against the compromise, which would suspend the debt limit until January 2025 in exchange for various restraints on spending, was the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which views the agreement as being too watered down and weak on spending cuts.
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&#8220;No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion to get absolutely nothing in return,&#8221; Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/politics/debt-ceiling-house-vote.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said.
The Congressional Budget Office <a href="https://abc7.com/debt-ceiling-vote-house-rules-committee-time/13323085/#:~:text=The%2099%2Dpage%20bill%20would,default%20while%20limiting%20government%20spending.&amp;text=The%20House%20voted%20to%20pass,in%20averting%20a%20potential%20default." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said the debt would reduce by $1.5 trillion over the decade under the spending restrictions.
The bill now heads to the Senate, the members of which expect to take some immediate procedural steps. Biden has urged lawmakers to pass the bill before the U.S. defaults on its debt on June 5.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> officials reportedly suspended or revoked the security clearances of agents who spoke up against “politicized rot” at the bureau.
In an interim report, the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed testimony from whistleblower FBI agents on the “abuses and misconduct in the FBI.” The report was first obtained by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-employees-security-clearances-revoked-speaking-out-politicized-rot-house-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
“The disclosures from these FBI employees highlight egregious abuse, misallocation of law enforcement resources and misconduct with the leadership ranks of the FBI,” the report says.
The whistleblowers accused the FBI of “retaliatory conduct” taken against the agents after they made “protected disclosures about what they believed in good faith to be wrong conduct.”
Two whistleblowers who say they were retaliated against appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday morning to testify to the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Former FBI special agent Steve Friend and FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen both told the committee that the FBI retaliated unjustly against them.
“It appears that I was retaliated against because I forwarded information to my superiors and others that questioned the official narrative of the events of January 6. As a result, I was accused of promoting conspiratorial views and unreliable information. Because I did this, the FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States,” Allen told the committee. He said he has been suspended from the FBI for the past year.
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Marcus Allen bravely served our country overseas in the armed services and has been suspended without pay for OVER a year by the FBI for &quot;disloyalty.&quot; 
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The committee report said that Allen was suspended for conducting an open-source investigation of the January 6 riot as part of his job. Allen found and shared news articles and videos of the riot as part of his duties conducting case-related research.
“Because these open-source articles questioned the FBI’s handling of the violence at the Capitol, the FBI suspended Allen for ‘conspiratorial views in regard to the events of January 6th,’” the report states.
The report said that Friend was suspended after he made protected whistleblower disclosures about the FBI’s handling of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) cases related to January 6. It added that the bureau manipulated DVE data connected to January 6 to make domestic extremism seem widespread instead of originating with a single event.
“According to whistleblower information, the FBI has manipulated the manner in which it categorized January 6-related investigations to create a misleading narrative that domestic terrorism is organically surging around the country,” the report says, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/jordan-whistleblower-fbi-capitol-riot-mislead-domestic-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>. “Ordinarily, the FBI characterizes and labels cases according to the originating field office, with leads ‘cut’ to other field offices for specific assistance in that geographic location. With January 6 cases, however, the FBI has not followed its ordinary procedure, which would have resulted in the (Washington Field Office) leading the investigation and categorizing the investigations as WFO cases.”
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The FBI told lawmakers that the actions were taken against Allen because he “espoused alternative theories to coworkers verbally and in emails and instant messages sent on the FBI systems, in apparent attempts to hinder investigative activity,” according to a letter from the bureau and obtained by Fox News.
Friend, the FBI said, “refused to participate in the execution of a court authorized, search and arrest of a criminal subject.” The bureau also said that he also gave unapproved interviews to media and refused to attend a Security Awareness Briefing required after he “downloaded documents from FBI computer systems to an unauthorized removable flash drive.”

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-and-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health and Human Services</a> (HHS) official-turned-whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas on Wednesday accused the U.S. government in a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing of becoming a &#8220;middleman&#8221; in a multi-billion dollar migrant trafficking operation at the southern border.
Since President Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president over two years ago, more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border. Since January 2021, border patrol agents have encountered over 356,000 unaccompanied minors at the southern border, most of whom authorities released into the U.S.
Committee members referenced a recent New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/politics/migrant-child-labor-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> alleging that HHS could not reach more than 85,000 children after they began living with their sponsors. The report further detailed allegations about unaccompanied children unlawfully working in dangerous conditions.
Rodas, who worked with an inspector general&#8217;s office with the government agency, first blew the whistle two years ago, where she alleged witnessing firsthand &#8220;the horrors of child trafficking and exploitation.&#8221;
During the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehul6b-t09M" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a>, she told members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement that when HHS officials encounter migrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, they deliver the minor to a sponsor — most of whom are not legally allowed in the country — only to have them pay off a debt to the cartels by exploiting them into cheap labor, commercial sex, gangs, and more.
&#8220;Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, and restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers,&#8221; Rodas said. &#8220;Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report they are being abused, neglected, and trafficked — and we don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re going to get the help they need. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.&#8221;
Two years ago, Biden officials dismantled a Trump-era requirement that vets sponsors and performs background checks in the sponsor&#8217;s household, many of whom, California Republican Congressman Tom McClintock said, are involved in smuggling the children in the first place.
Rodas began volunteering to help the Biden administration with the crisis at the southern border as part of Operation Artemis, where she helped emergency intakes for refugee resettlement that aimed to reunite children with sponsors at the Pomona Fairplex in California.
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&#8220;I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes,&#8221; Rodas said. &#8220;Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with recruiting and home country smuggling to the U.S. border and ends when [Office of Refugee Resettlement] delivers a child to a sponsor.&#8221;
Rodas identified some sponsors as members of a transnational criminal organization engaging in human trafficking that view children as commodities and assets used for earning income.
&#8220;Whether it&#8217;s intentional or not, it could be argued that the United States government has become the middleman in a large-scale multi-billion dollar child trafficking operation that is run by bad actors seeking to profit off of the lives of children,&#8221; she said.
Democrat subcommittee members attempted to discredit Rodas&#8217; claims and question the accuracy of the New York Times report during the hearing.
Lawmakers used key witness Robert Carey, former director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama administration, who said during his tenure, 90% of children were reunified with their families while affirming some of those follow-up calls made to the sponsors went unanswered.
&#8220;However, not answering a phone call, I do not believe constitutes losing a child,&#8221; Carey said, adding the sponsors likely did not answer for various reasons, including refusing to take a call from an unknown number or out of fear of speaking with a trafficker.
Carey further noted to lawmakers that the refugee resettlement office does not have the authority to track or investigate what happens to the children upon reunification.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra defended the agency last month following the New York Times report, saying that Congress limits the agency&#8217;s authority.
&#8220;I have never heard that number of 85,000, I don&#8217;t know where it comes from and … so I would say it doesn&#8217;t sound at all to be realistic, and what we do is we try and follow up as best we can with these kids,&#8221; he said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whistleblower-tell-house-us-govt-middleman-multi-billion-dollar-migrant-child-trafficking-op" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Congress has given us certain authorities. Our authorities end when we have found a suitable sponsor to place that child with. We try and do some follow-up, but neither the child or the sponsor is actually obligated to follow up with us.&#8221;
Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, told committee members during Wednesday&#8217;s hearing that Becerra revealed in a video that the department’s goal was to release kids faster with fewer questions to make it a more efficient assembly line.
&#8220;And this assembly line is staffed by crony contractors spending billions of taxpayer dollars on what is now a pipeline for child labor trafficking,&#8221; Vaughn said.
Former domestic policy advisor Susan Rice, who stepped down from her role last week, also responded to the report saying her officials showed evidence of a growing migrant child labor crisis.
&#8220;We were never informed of any kind of systematic problem with child labor or migrant child labor,&#8221; she said.

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First son Hunter Biden’s legal team on Monday demanded Congress investigate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, accusing the Georgia Republican of making several “unethical” statements about the president’s son.
Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, sent a letter obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-b143-dbff-a3df-bfcb030b0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f91513e50001&amp;nlid=630318">POLITICO</a> to the Office of Congressional Ethics, requesting lawmakers take action against Greene for her statements about Biden, alleging violations of the House Ethics Code.
“Representative Greene’s unethical conduct arises from her continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden,” Lowell said. “None of these could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and actions, and the forums she uses to spew her often unhinged rhetoric.”
Biden lived the life of a wealthy jet-setter while his father was vice president, accompanying him on overseas trips from 2008-2016 and striking lucrative deals with energy companies and investors in China and Ukraine. The laptop, which legacy media initially tried to discredit, has provided information about alleged Biden family corruption.
In addition to illuminating Hunter Biden’s alleged corrupt international dealings, the laptop also opened a window into accusations of drug abuse, the patronizing of prostitutes, and dysfunctional family squabbles.
Lowell referenced several social media posts and public statements from the Georgia lawmaker in her letter, saying Greene’s “unhinged rhetoric” against Biden “sound and tread like school-yard insults rather than the work of a Member of Congress, and they fail to uphold the integrity and dignity expected of members of the House of Representatives.”
Greene has vocalized criticism over President Joe Biden and his family since making her debut in Washington, D.C. In recent months, Greene has accused Hunter of “wheeling &amp; dealing with CCP ties and prostitutes with classified documents laying around.”
“The unmoored verbal abuses and ad hominem attacks against Mr. Biden are just a microcosm of Representative Greene’s numerous ethical violations and repeated lapses in ethical judgment, all of which warrant a review of her conduct,” Lowell said.
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Greene responded to the letter from Biden’s attorney on Twitter.
“Hunter is upset over my statements,” Greene said. “Well Hunter, the entire country is pissed off about your obvious influence peddling with your Daddy’s political power.”
“Come chat with us Republicans on the Oversight Committee,” she added. “We have a lot of questions.”
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Hunter is upset over my statements.
Well Hunter, the entire country is pissed off about your obvious influence peddling with your Daddy’s political power. 
Come chat with us Republicans on the Oversight Committee.
We have a lot of questions.<a href="https://t.co/QDTkFJiLlF">https://t.co/QDTkFJiLlF</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1650510973898293250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden is under investigation by U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss for possible tax and gun crimes. Last week, an IRS whistleblower said that powerful players inside the Department of Justice, reportedly including Attorney General Merrick Garland himself, were trying to kill the investigation.
The House Committee on Oversight is examining Biden-linked bank records looking at other Biden family members who appear to have benefited from international deals. Last month, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said he discovered that a Biden associate received a $3 million wire transfer from a Chinese energy company. Four members of the Biden family — including Hunter, the president’s brother, James, and Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s deceased brother Beau and his former paramour- pocketed $1.3 million from the transfer.
“There’s not going to be anybody left for a Christmas picture if the DOJ did their job and went and indicted anyone who has any type of fingerprints involved in this influence peddling scheme,” Comer said. “I mean, it’s the entire family.”
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

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Virgin Islands Democrat Rep. Stacey Plaskett threatened independent journalist Matt Taibbi with up to five years of prison for an alleged perjury charge over his &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Files</a>&#8221; testimony in front of Congress last month, citing an error in a tweet that he has since deleted.
&#8220;While these inaccuracies may seem minor to you, they could lead Congress to rely on inaccurate testimony in considering and/or passing new legislation which would impact all Americans,&#8221; Plaskett said in her <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2023-04-13_sep_to_taibbi_redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Taibbi.
Taibbi testified in a hearing on March 9 held by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), whose subcommittee on the weaponization of government is looking into the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s treatment of Twitter. Plaskett, a non-voting member of the House and the panel&#8217;s ranking member, pressed Taibbi and author Michael Schellenberger about how they vetted internal Twitter emails and instant messages, which revealed how the social media platform allegedly worked with government agencies, including the FBI, to suppress conservatives on the platform.
During the hearing, Taibbi told Congressman Chris Stewart (R-UT) that he and Schellenberger witnessed in the Twitter Files that Twitter executives did not distinguish between specific government agencies, including the Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP).
&#8220;For instance, we would see a communication that said, From CISA escalated by EIP,&#8221; Taibbi said. &#8220;So they were essentially identical in the eyes of the company. … So, yes, we have come to the realization that this bright line that we imagine that exists between, say, the FBI or the DHS or the GEC and these private companies is illusory and that what&#8217;s more important is this constellation of kind of quasi-private organizations that do this work.&#8221;
Plaskett accused Taibbi of misleading the public and members of Congress for a specific tweet the independent journalist posted the morning of the hearing, which alleged that the EIP worked with the CISA to ask social media companies to eliminate millions of tweets of so-called disinformation on their platforms.
The tweet Plaskett referenced shows an error from Taibbi, where he mistakenly used an incorrect acronym involving two groups accused of relaying information to Twitter about content moderation. Instead of writing &#8220;CISA,&#8221; referring to the federal government&#8217;s Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency, Taibbi used &#8220;CIS,&#8221; which is short for the non-profit group Center for Internet Security.
Plaskett said that Taibbi contradicted his response in an April 6 televised interview with Mehdi Hasan on MSNBC, who attempted to raise inconsistencies or errors from Taibbi by referencing his tweet, which added a parenthetical [A] to the acronym &#8220;CIS.&#8221;
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Taibbi acknowledged the error during his interview with MSNBC, saying he had &#8220;gotten one thing wrong or a few things wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;When presented with this misinformation, you acknowledged that you had made &#8216;an error&#8217; by intentionally altering the acronym CIS and you subsequently deleted your erroneous tweet,&#8221; Plaskett said.
Plaskett further called Taibbi&#8217;s reporting on the Twitter Files &#8220;rife with numerous other false and misleading claims,&#8221; which included an inaccurate total of tweets labeled as disinformation from the EIP, omitting pertinent dates about taxpayer-funded organizations that flagged tweets as disinformation, and that the EIP was founded in response to the government pausing the operations of the Disinformation Governance Board.
&#8220;These instances raise serious questions about other potential inaccuracies in the testimony provided to Congress,&#8221; Plaskett said in a <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Although it appears Taibbi conceded he unknowingly made a mistake without intentionally trying to mislead the committee, Plaskett writes in her letter to the witness that he understood &#8220;[k]knowingly providing material false information to this committee/subcommittee, or knowingly concealing material information from this committee/subcommittee, is a crime . . . up to five years imprisonment.&#8221;
In her attempt to prove that the federal government isn&#8217;t weaponized against Americans in the committee hearing, Plaskett sent a letter to Taibbi threatening jail time for misspeaking about the subject.
Plaskett said Taibbi could have an opportunity to correct the hearing record to ensure accuracy in a congressional hearing by answering a series of questions by April 21.
Taibbi said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1648466182037733381">tweet</a> on Tuesday that he would &#8220;have to weigh in on this eventually, since the controversy revolves around a serious (but grossly incorrect) accusation leveled at me.&#8221;
The Daily Wire contacted Taibbi for comment, but has not received a response.

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Yes, life begins at 40. But 50 is the new 40. And 70 is the new 60, they now say.
But it&#8217;s not. When you&#8217;re 70, you&#8217;re old. And you&#8217;re too old to serve in Congress by then.
Still, we&#8217;ll give you to 75. Once you hit 75, you&#8217;re out, finished at Faber, expelled. As Dean Wormer says in &#8220;Animal House,&#8221; &#8220;I want you off this campus by 9 o&#8217;clock Monday morning!&#8221;
Consider this: America is 246 years old. But the combined age of the former three top Democrats in the House is 248. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is 83; as is former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD); and former Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) is 82. All gave up their powerful posts at the beginning of this congressional session.
The Republicans are much the same. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina is 79. Rep. John Carter of Texas is 81. And Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky is 85, the oldest Republican in the House. But the Democrats are far older. In fact, of the oldest 20 lawmakers in the chamber, 15 are Democrats. And five of them were born in the 1930s.
Now, here&#8217;s the problem: What does the 83-year-old Pelosi — <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/how-nancy-pelosi-net-worth-vastly-increased-while-house-speaker-1762361">worth</a> some $115 million — know about what it&#8217;s like to live in the U.S. as a struggling worker making five figures and trying to buy a house and raise kids?
But hang on. Let&#8217;s say one more thing at the top: Thank you for your service. Some of the oldest lawmakers have been doing it for decades, and whether you agree with their politics or not, they chose public service.
That said, now beat it — and don&#8217;t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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The Senate&#8217;s just as bad as the House. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (D-IA) is 89, as is Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is 81 and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is 80.
The age thing has jumped back into the headlines with Feinstein missing 60 of 82 Senate votes while being hospitalized for shingles and McConnell being out for five weeks after suffering a concussion in a fall at a private dinner at the Waldorf Astoria.
Even Democrats have called for Feinstein to resign. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said it is “obvious” she can no longer do her job.
“It’s time for @SenFeinstein to resign,” Khanna said on Twitter. “We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.”
So why don&#8217;t they leave? Seriously, you&#8217;ve served your country for decades, you&#8217;re in your twilight years — and you&#8217;ve certainly got plenty of money, members of Congress mysteriously get rich like crazy — so why not buy a house on a lake and just chill?
The top answer is ego. Lawmakers who are still in Congress can&#8217;t get enough of themselves. Their job is — literally — to talk, and they all love the sounds of their own voices. The dinosaurs can bloviate like nobody&#8217;s business.
But another — certainly connected to ego — is that many want to stay in the limelight until they die. You ever see those stories that say, &#8220;former member of Congress Joe Blow dies at 89?&#8221; A blip in the news. But the current House Speaker dies? Wall to wall coverage.
Plus, many want to lie in state. Presidents, military commanders, and members of Congress are eligible for the honor, where a corpse is placed in the rotunda of the Capitol and grieving Americans stream by to pay their last respects.
Take Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). He died in office after a lengthy battle against brain cancer. He lay in state in the Arizona State Capitol, then his remains were moved to Washington, D.C. to lie in state in the rotunda. There was one more honor: a service at the Washington National Cathedral attended by the president and political luminaries.
A couple hundred years ago, members of Congress served as a favor to a fledgling country. They had lives and jobs and dreams, but they&#8217;d put that on hold for a few years and help America. After that, whoosh, they skedaddled back home.
That, sadly, was before you could get rich and famous in Congress and the job became a lifelong endeavor. You think Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doesn&#8217;t plan to stay until 2073? Think again.
But America should move to limit the age of lawmakers. Look, 89 is just too old. Make room for some people who are going to live with the consequences of the decisions they make.
And while we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s set some term limits — two terms in the Senate, six in the House (both total 12 years in office). When you hit those limits or turn 75, as Dean Wormer says, &#8220;You&#8217;re out. Expelled.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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End The Reign Of The Dinosaurs: Congress Needs An Age Limit ASAP — For Democrats And Republicans

End The Reign Of The Dinosaurs: Congress Needs An Age Limit ASAP -- For Democrats And Republicans

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) slammed Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA), the former Speaker of the House, for suggesting this week that calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to resign were rooted in sexism.
Feinstein, 89, has been battling health issues in recent years and was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dianne-feinstein-hospitalized-in-san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospitalized</a> last month after being diagnosed with a case of shingles and has continued to experience issues related to infection.
Khanna was the first major Democrat to call for Feinstein to resign, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrat-congressman-calls-for-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-immediately-can-no-longer-fulfill-her-duties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that while she &#8220;has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.&#8221;
“Not speaking out undermines our credibility as elected representatives of the people,” he added.
Pelosi responded by telling reporters that she found the situation &#8220;interesting.&#8221; &#8220;I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.&#8221;
Khanna joined Fox News&#8217; &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; on Thursday where he discussed his call for Feinstein to resign, saying that while he has a lot of respect for her, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know any other job where if you&#8217;re unable to fulfill your duties, you can continue to have the position.&#8221;
&#8220;So I think she should do the dignified thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I respect her years of public service and she should know when it&#8217;s time to step aside.&#8221;
When asked about Pelosi&#8217;s comments, Khanna said, &#8220;This has nothing to do with gender.&#8221;
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&#8220;I know she&#8217;s very much for Adam Schiff getting that seat, but I don&#8217;t question people&#8217;s political motives,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is simply about whether someone can do their jobs.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinstein-asks-schumer-to-let-another-democrat-take-committee-spot-2nd-democrat-calls-for-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feinstein Asks Schumer To Let Another Democrat Take Committee Spot; 2nd Democrat Calls For Resignation</a>

Ro Khanna Slams Nancy Pelosi Over Claim That Call For Feinstein Resignation Is Sexist

Former Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA) announced on Tuesday he is ending his bid to get back into Congress because of a brain injury.
In a statement posted to Twitter, Rouda explained the whirlwind series of events that led to his decision not to seek the seat held by Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), who is running for U.S. Senate in 2024.
Rouda said he had an &#8220;unfortunate fall&#8221; late last month, after which he was taken to a hospital where tests revealed he suffered a moderate traumatic brain injury with two intra parenchymal hemorrhages.
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Today, I’m unfortunately ending my campaign for Congress in CA-47. Please read my full statement below. <a href="https://t.co/AGzCAkZkLo">pic.twitter.com/AGzCAkZkLo</a>
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&#8220;Thankfully, my doctors say that I have started on a path to a full recovery. I want to thank the incredible nurses, doctors, and medical staff who made this possible, and whose professionalism and care was a comfort during this trying time,&#8221; Rouda said.
&#8220;But on their advice, I am ending my campaign for California&#8217;s 47th congressional district today,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This is not the outcome I wanted. But my family comes first, and to be there for them, I need to focus fully on my recovery in the months ahead.&#8221;
Rouda was first elected to represent California&#8217;s 48 Congressional District in 2018, defeating longtime GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. Two years later, Rouda lost his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-17-gop-women-newly-elected-to-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">re-election bid in 2020</a> to Republican candidate Michelle Steel.
Afterward, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/us-redistricting/california-redistricting-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">redistricting shook up California&#8217;s map,</a> and Rouda <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/politics/2022/01/04/former-orange-county-representative-ends-campaign-to-return-to-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> his 2022 campaign when he was lined up to face Porter in the 47th district. After Porter announced in January a campaign to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dianne-feinstein-not-running-for-re-election-in-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)</a>, Rouda <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/politics/2023/01/11/former-rep--harley-rouda-announces-bid-to-fill-rep--katie-porter-s-seat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed suit</a> by declaring his candidacy for Porter&#8217;s seat in Orange County.
Although Rouda is no longer running, he said in his statement that he would continue to &#8220;do as much as I can as a private citizen.&#8221; He also stressed the importance of moderates in office, saying, &#8220;I believe we need to elect people who don&#8217;t care for antics, props, and sound bites, but care about serving the greater good.&#8221;
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A number of other candidates are competing for Porter&#8217;s seat in the 2024 race. Among them are state Sen. Dave Min, a Democrat who <a href="https://davemin.com/news/announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has Porter&#8217;s endorsement</a>, and former state Assembly member <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottBaughCA47/status/1643362854383538176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Baugh</a>, a Republican.

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Ex-Dem Lawmaker Drops Re-Election Bid Over Brain Injury

California

Elections

A key Democrat in Congress who is black excoriated a group of far-left, highly-paid, largely white technologists in the Biden administration for jeopardizing cybersecurity and potentially enabling fraud in the government while they justified their misconduct by citing racial “equity.”
On Wednesday, Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), the ranking member of a House Oversight Committee subpanel, called the equity-justified lies a “very, very serious issue.”
The criticism of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Service (TTS) came following an inspector general report that found that the group tasked with creating Login.gov declined to implement facial recognition despite being required for certain high-security accounts. Officials decided that facial recognition was racist and lied to agencies that the service was compliant anyway. That misrepresentation put one million accounts at risk.
It also came on the heels of a four-part Daily Wire series that found that TTS lost millions of dollars, repeatedly lied, and put the security of sensitive data at risk with wanton noncompliance with basic security rules, while being consumed instead with far-left politics. Employees included a self-proclaimed Marxist organizer and a man who identifies as transgender who raised money from colleagues to “void their gender warranty,” and the group spent its time on projects like creating a social justice robot.
“This is a very damning report against GSA, the one agency we trust to do the sort of oversight of other agencies and the government&#8217;s money. It&#8217;s very disconcerting. The GSA clearly has tarnished its own name here, and the question is how do they get out of that hole,” Mfume said.
“Login.gov has never met” the security standard that it for years claimed that it did. “It did not then and for many of us it still does not. Yet it continued to mislead until January of last year when the agency released its equity action plan” that it used to retroactively justify its actions, Mfume said.
Sonny Hasmi, the commissioner of GSA&#8217;s Federal Acquisition Service who oversees TTS and appeared before the panel, acknowledged that &#8220;certain members of the Login.gov team did indeed misrepresent intentionally.&#8221;
&#8220;These misrepresentations represent the worst in how government should operate,&#8221; he said.
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Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida, another committee Democrat who is black, also slammed the culture of TTS, which The Daily Wire found was comprised of highly-paid, uniformly leftist Silicon Valley-type technologists who skirted government rules. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t y&#8217;all do more sooner?&#8221; he asked, calling &#8220;the breach of trust so upsetting.&#8221;
Republican Andy Biggs of Arizona suggested that the “equity”-inspired liars should face criminal punishment. &#8220;This is criminal fraud,&#8221; Biggs said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a deliberate scheme to obtain financial gain through concealment or misrepresentation. That&#8217;s the classic elements of fraud.”
TTS brought in $187 million for Login.gov after falsely representing that it was compliant with NIST security standards known as IAL2, and another $10 million from agencies that were billed for IAL2 service, but got something significantly less secure.
But committee members said the true cost of the scandal could be much higher, since people can use Login.gov to apply for government services, and if the government had used photo recognition for coronavirus payments and other programs instead of bureaucrats deciding that it was racist, billions of dollars could have been saved. The government has acknowledged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sba-wont-even-try-to-collect-on-ppp-loans-that-are-supposed-to-be-paid-back-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sky-high</a> rates of people pretending to be someone else to draw unemployment checks, particularly during the coronavirus bailouts.
“We rely on Login.gov to help us root out potential fraudsters. There&#8217;s a lot of bad guys out there. For this to go on, we don’t know if they were out there siphoning out money,” Mfume said. “Has anyone worked with the DOJ to see whether there was criminal activity that denied the right of taxpayers to have the money used as it should?”
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While the highly-paid computer programmers virtue-signaled leftist politics by creating a bot to police language for “gendered” and “colonialist” references, their equity-inspired lack of security meant that government money could be paid out wrongfully. That, Mfume said, could mean less money available for actual impoverished people who need money like food stamp benefits.
Despite Mfume expressing concerns that employees&#8217; names were redacted from the IG report, Hashmi declined to provide them.
Even so, on Twitter, Noah Kunin, previously the group&#8217;s Director of Infrastructure who quit over his hatred of Donald Trump and who the IG suggested made false statements and circumvented rules, lashed out that the IG had not sufficiently hidden the names of employees, complaining that people could still decipher their names based on the character lengths. The GSA itself acknowledged the unit was plagued by &#8220;gross mismanagement.&#8221;
Hashmi said that no one who made false representations still works for TTS — though some key former TTS employees have since been appointed to higher roles by President Joe Biden.
Hashmi also touted that he has brought in new leadership—though the newly named director of the TTS previously worked at MoveOn.org, the Democrat fundraising group.
Dave Shive remains the GSA&#8217;s Chief Information Officer, despite leading a collective meltdown of TTS staffers the day after Donald Trump&#8217;s election that one participant described as &#8220;the most partisan meeting I&#8217;ve ever attended in government.&#8221;
Pete Sessions (R-Texas), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, told The Daily Wire that “equity concerns stemming from selfie-checks are not a legitimate reason for Login.gov, 18F, TTS, or any agency to disregard a requirement, and it certainly does not excuse them for lying about it.”
“Identity theft remains a key component in massive fraud in COVID-relief and other federal programs,” he said. “We want to know what Login.gov and GSA are doing to correct their lack of a biometric comparison as well as examine rumors the Biden Administration may do away with the biometric comparison requirement altogether, due to erroneous equity concerns.
“TTS’s pattern of dishonesty is unacceptable,” he added. “This is a public black eye for all of GSA, but also the Biden Administration – a key component of their anti-fraud efforts has shown itself to be a fraud.”
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco</a>
Part 3: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-focused-on-leftist-politics-and-pronouns-as-gross-mismanagement-put-cybersecurity-at-risk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk</a>
Part 4: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chat-records-reveal-epic-meltdown-in-federal-agency-after-trump-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chat Records Reveal Epic Meltdown In Federal Agency After Trump Win</a>

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Black Democrat Slams Leftist Feds For Lying, Wasting Money In The Name Of ‘Equity’

Fraud

Technology

Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> unanimously passed legislation on Monday meant to revoke the United States treating <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> as a &#8220;developing country&#8221; in treaties and international organizations.
Nations designated as developing countries, sometimes called emerging markets, can often receive special treatment in loan application processes from international entities such as the World Trade Organization. The PRC is Not a Developing Country Act, which passed with the affirmative votes of 415 lawmakers, would require the United States to influence international organizations to designate China as upper middle income, high income, or developed.
“We cannot let the People’s Republic of China exploit countries in need and take advantage of international treaties and organizations,” Rep. Young Kim (R-CA), a sponsor of the bill, said in a <a href="https://youngkim.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-young-kims-push-hold-prc-accountable-passes-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “The PRC is Not a Developing Country Act will ensure that the Chinese government is not receiving favorable treatment and influence at the expense of truly developing nations. I thank my colleagues for their bipartisan support of this bill.”
China presently has a GDP per capita of $12,556, according to <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?most_recent_value_desc=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the World Bank, an amount of annual economic output per person comparable to those of Russia and Costa Rica. The United States has a GDP per capita of $70,249.
The World Trade Organization, in which the United States and China are both members, does not maintain an official definition of “developing country” or “developed country.” Some agreements with the entity “provide developing countries with longer transition periods before they are required to fully implement the agreement,” according to the group’s <a href="https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/devel_e/d1who_e.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
&#8220;The PRC exploits their developing country status by applying for development assistance and loans from international organizations despite spending trillions on infrastructure projects in developing countries as part of their debt trap diplomacy scam known as the Belt and Road Initiative,&#8221; Kim contended in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTWuyGNN_0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> on the House floor. &#8220;In fact, the PRC’s withdrawal of loans takes away from actual developing countries and helps the PRC finance its Belt and Road program. We are long overdue to level the playing field.&#8221;
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has similarly <a href="https://www.romney.senate.gov/romney-van-hollen-introduce-bill-to-end-chinas-unfair-international-advantages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> the Ending China’s Developing Nation Status Act, which directs officials to prevent China from receiving developing nation status in future treaties and within international organizations. “It’s absurd that, given their defense expenditures and massive amount of outbound and inbound foreign investment, China continues to be treated as a developing nation on the global stage,” the lawmaker said.
The moves to end developing nation status for China occur amid increasingly strained relations between the United States and the communist country. American lawmakers are seeking to ban the social media platform TikTok, which is owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, across the United States over national security and data privacy concerns. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-ceo-swears-company-is-not-an-agent-of-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> last week before the House Energy and Commerce Committee that neither TikTok nor ByteDance is an “agent of China or any other country.”
Relations were also strained after at least one Chinese surveillance balloon traversed the continental United States last month. The vessel crossed Montana, the location of many defense assets and missile silos, then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-flies-out-of-montana-and-over-new-u-s-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled</a> over states such as Kansas and Missouri before it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-after-biden-let-it-travel-across-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot down</a> by the American military off the coast of the Carolinas. The balloon was reportedly one of several deployed over military sites across the planet.

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House Unanimously Passes Bill To Revoke China’s Special Treatment As A ‘Developing Country’

House Advances Bill To End China's Treatment As A 'Developing Country'

China

Chinese Communist Party

The House of Representatives, in a virtually straight party-line vote, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3916114-house-republicans-pass-parents-bill-of-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the Parents Bill of Rights bill on Friday. Democrats unanimously opposed the measure; they were joined by five Republicans: Andy Biggs (AZ), Ken Buck (CO), Matt Gaetz (FL), Mike Lawler (NY), and Matt Rosendale (MT).
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11898875/House-approves-Parents-Bill-Rights-AOC-calls-fascist.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the bill fascist, stating on the House floor, “When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.” She was echoed by New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, who snapped that the bill was “Orwellian to the core.”
But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrated the victory, declaring, “The Republicans put out our commitment to America. In our commitment to America, we said we&#8217;re gonna have a Parents Bill of Rights. This is exactly what we passed on the floor today; we&#8217;re keeping our commitment to America. &#8230; Today was a win for every mother, every father, but most importantly, for every student in America. You have a Parents Bill of Rights now, but unfortunately, the Democrats are too extreme to believe that parents should have a say in their kids’ education.”
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“This bill is not complex or complicated,” stated Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA), who sponsored the bill. “Nor should it be partisan or polarizing, and contrary to what you may hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, it is not an attack on our hard-working teachers, who will always be the heroes in my eyes.”
“It is not an attempt to have Congress dictate their curriculum or determine the books in the library,” she continued. “Instead, this bill aims to bring more transparency and accountability to education, allowing parents to be informed and when they have questions and concerns to lawfully bring them to their local school boards.”
The bill <a href="https://congress.gov/118/bills/hr5/BILLS-118hr5rh.pdf">states</a> that parents should have the right to review, and make copies of, at no cost, the curriculum of their child’s school, which should be publicly available; the right to a list of the books and other reading materials available in the library of their child’s school; the right to inspect such books or other reading materials; and the right to know if a school employee or contractor acts to change a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name; or allow a child to change the child’s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.
The bill also would give parents a right to know if their child’s school has athletic programs or activities that allow trans-identifying students to participate in a sport not consistent with their biological sex. It also would give parents the right to know if their child’s school allows a trans-identifying student access to a bathroom or changing room not consistent with their biological sex.
“Educators, policymakers, elected officials, Executive Branch officials and employees, and other stakeholders should never seek to use law enforcement to criminalize the lawfully expressed concerns of parents about their children’s education,” the bill adds.
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Because the Senate is controlled by Democrats, there is little chance the bill will be passed; House Democrats already nicknamed the bill the “Politics over Parents Act.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Holds Weekly Press Conference

‘Today Was A Win For Every Mother, Every Father’: House GOP Passes Parents Rights Bill

House GOP Passes Parents Rights Bill

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Parenting

Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> failed Thursday to override the veto issued by President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> which overturned their resolution to nix a Labor Department rule supportive of the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>.
The Labor Department issued a <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/fact-sheets/final-rule-on-prudence-and-loyalty-in-selecting-plan-investments-and-exercising-shareholder-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final rule</a> in November which permits retirement fiduciaries to consider climate change and other ESG factors “when they make investment decisions and when they exercise shareholder rights, including voting on shareholder resolutions and board nominations.” Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the House and Senate voted earlier this month to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-and-senate-send-rebuke-of-bidens-esg-agenda-to-his-desk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturn</a> the rule; their resolution was nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-uses-first-veto-of-his-presidency-to-kill-rebuke-of-federal-esg-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vetoed</a> by Biden on Monday.
Lawmakers could have overturned the veto with supermajorities in both chambers; the resolution <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/30/all-actions?overview=closed&amp;q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to meet the threshold in the House on Thursday in a vote of 219-200.
“With his veto, the President once again insists on undermining the financial security of the very people who elected him,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said in <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> ahead of the vote. “Republicans will stand with American workers and retirees in protecting their savings. ESG investing puts the future of millions of Americans in jeopardy when they are already facing economic hardships and inflation brought on by this administration’s reckless spending.”
The final rule from the Labor Department overturns a previous <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20201030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> created by former President Donald Trump, which prevented “fiduciaries from selecting investments based on non-pecuniary considerations” and required them to “base investment decisions on financial factors” alone. Skeptics of the ESG movement contend that the investment philosophy intermixes political and social causes, such as decreasing carbon emissions or diversifying company leadership with respect to race or sex, in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability.
Members of the House had voted 216-204 earlier this month in favor of the resolution to eliminate the Biden administration rule, while members of the Senate approved the resolution 50-46. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), both of whom face reelection campaigns next year in broadly conservative states, voted to advance the measure, while Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) also voted for the resolution and joined the attempt to overturn the veto.
“West Virginians are under increasing stress as we continue to recover from a once in a generation pandemic, pay the bills amid record inflation, and face the largest land war in Europe since World War II,” Manchin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-infuriating-manchin-blasts-biden-for-vetoing-rebuke-of-esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the veto. “The administration’s unrelenting campaign to advance a radical social and environmental agenda is only exacerbating these challenges.”
American investors are broadly wary of the ESG movement and desire that their retirement funds are allocated in a politically neutral manner. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire showed last year that 64% of respondents believe “individual investors whose savings are being invested” should decide whether funds are appropriated according to ESG standards, while a mere 20% believe that “Wall Street asset managers” should make such decisions.
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Republicans had considered the resolution a rebuke of the White House’s recent nods toward the ESG movement. Biden, on the other hand, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/20/message-to-the-house-of-representatives-presidents-veto-of-h-j-res-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> on Monday that the “Republican-led resolution would force retirement managers to ignore” risk factors such as climate change, as well as spurn “the principles of free markets” and harm the retirement savings of households.

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