The Senate needs to pull the section in the OBBB that destroys federalism for 10 YEARS to allow AI to run rampant!!!
40 state Attorney Generals wrote a letter demanding the UNPRECEDENTED federal power grab be removed from the One Big Beautiful Bill!
40 State AGs!!!!
Notably missing is GAs AG Chris Carr. Fatal mistake for a Republican governor candidate by the way!
AI is going to replace mass amounts of human jobs in nearly every job sector over the next 10 years, which will lead to massive unemployment and that leads to poverty!
And ultimately death because there will be no other jobs to find. How do you keep a roof over your head and feed your family without a paycheck??? You can’t!!!!!
This will make the last 40 years of losing manufacturing jobs to foreign countries look like nothing as unemployment rates will reach levels never seen before in U.S. history.
States must have the right to be either wide open AI friendly, recruiting AI tech companies to their states or AI shut - defending human rights, jobs, and safety from an AI and robotic takeover or somewhere in between!!!
Americans must be allowed to choose which state they want to live in, in the future, as AI changes everything and the federal government has NO RIGHT to force every state to be compliant and the same!!!
Otherwise we are NOT FREE AT ALL!!!
Brett Guthrie, Chair of E&C, apologized to me yesterday for not briefing us on this little section in the over thousand page bill, about what the AI lobby is pushing for in order to compete with China.
By the way, if you want to compete with China then do it in our American framework that supports how our country was founded which is on federalism-supporting state rights and not big federal power. Otherwise, America is NO DIFFERENT than China!!!
The One Big Beautiful Bill is supposed to be about delivering President Trump’s campaign promises on taxes, America First energy, and sweeping border security, NOT destroying state rights for the AI industry or the NY SALT caucus lining their rich Democrat states pockets or anyone else’s pet projects.
Stop hijacking the bill!!!
By the way, ZERO Conservatives were warning about this before the bill was passed!!! Why not??? Either they didn’t know or they were fine with it!!! But they can’t lie either way!
And if America wants to defeat China, stop sending our meat to be processed there.
Stop depending on China for our medications.
China has killed too many Americans by sending deadly fentanyl into the U.S. by the cartels.
Make ALL of our food and critical chain supply in the USA and stop depending on China at all!!!
Didn’t you learn anything from Covid? And now two Chinese agents snuck another biological weapon into Michigan.
STOP dealing with China and PUT AMERICA FIRST!!!
I voted for President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill because it delivers his MAGA campaign promises and he endorses the bill and wants Congress to pass it in order to fund his MAGA agenda.
Do I love the price tag?
NO.
But I want OUR policies funded.
I campaigned across the country for YEARS with Trump, more than any member of Congress, and the man NEVER said he would destroy state rights for 10 years to let AI tech companies run rampant!!!
TAKE IT OUT OR I’M VOTING NO WHEN IT COMES BACK TO THE HOUSE!!!!!
And lastly, our debt crisis is OUT OF CONTROL. The interest is growing now at $1 trillion per year and getting bigger.
We can’t cut our spending enough and grow our economy big enough to dig our way out of this deep dark all consuming grave!!!
WE MUST CREATE THE AMERICAN SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND TO SAVE AMERICA!!!!!
America has natural resources that are assets around $200+ TRILLION that should be placed on America’s balance sheet against our debt!!!
It will erase the debt and ultimately pay the American people!!!
You might have thought we’d be working to secure our Southern border, find a solution to America’s mounting debt, or hold Joe Biden and his admin. accountable.
NOPE!
Today, I voting NO on the entire $96 BILLION America Last Foreign War spending bill package!
Here’s the list of amendments we SHOULD have passed on the package sending $61 BILLION of your money to Ukraine. 💸
First, I introduced an amendment to reduce the amount of money we send Ukraine to ZERO!
We should be demanding peace, not funding the military industrial complex’s blood money wars fueled by dead bodies in Ukraine.
I believe that if you want to fund endless foreign wars, you should have to fight them too.
That’s why I introduced an amendment to require any Member of Congress who votes for today’s bill to send $61 billion to Ukraine to enlist in Ukraine’s military.
Read my letter to my Republican colleagues explaining my decision to file a motion to vacate Speaker Johnson (🧵)
Dear Colleague,
Before we left for Easter break, I filed a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson after he passed the second minibus, H.Res.1102, which funded the Department of Defense; Financial Services and General Government; the Department of Homeland Security; the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; the Legislative Branch; and the Department of State and Foreign Operations.
This minibus, or rather, Part 2 of a two-part appropriations omnibus, broke our conference rules and the promises we made to our voters. We elected Mike Johnson in late October after three-and-a-half difficult weeks trying to decide on a new Speaker of the House. Mike Johnson sent us all a letter
making his promises to us as to what type of Speaker he would be and outlining his plans going forward. Specifically, he put forth seven tenets that would guide our conference under his speakership, which are quoted below:
1. Restore trust by ensuring total transparency, open processes, and regular order.
2. Advance a comprehensive policy agenda supported by Conference consensus.
3. Promote individual Members, and thus the whole team, by working to understand and emphasize each Member’s unique strengths, district dynamics and challenges, and individual goals and objectives.
4. Engage Members in productive working groups to formulate solutions in key policy areas and enhance our internal communications and team building.
5. Effectively message to persuasively inform the Republican base and the American people of our policy agenda, why we are pursuing it, and how it will ensure liberty, opportunity, and security for all Americans.
6. Build and utilize external coalitions in the conservative ecosphere, including think tanks, policy groups, and other allied organizations that can contribute to our efforts.
7. Develop and grow our majority by building upon our resources and expanding the base to successfully advance our conservative vision and agenda.
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Mike Johnson has unfortunately not lived up to a single one of his self-imposed tenets. Allowing us one day, rather than 72 hours, to review a 1000-plus page bill to which no amendments could be offered was not “ensuring total transparency, open processes, and regular order.” Relying on majority Democrat support to pass a two-part omnibus was not “advancing a policy agenda supported by Conference consensus.” Working behind closed doors with Democrats to produce appropriations texts, NDAA text, and other legislative items was not “working to understand and emphasize each Member’s unique strengths,” and it certainly was not “engaging Members” to work together on consensus legislation. Expelling George Santos, who has not been convicted of any crime, and watching Members retire left and right was not "developing and growing our majority." Fully funding abortion, the trans agenda, the climate agenda, foreign wars, and Biden's border crisis is not "ensuring liberty, opportunity, and security for all Americans."
Soon after he was elected Speaker, Mike passed a CR to prevent a government shutdown (November 14, 2023) which was understandable after being thrown into the Speakership and trying to get his feet under him and hire up new staff. Then we all tried to move forward to heal our fractured and severely damaged conference. Up until Kevin McCarthy was ousted, our GOP conference had passed seven appropriations bills, which were some of the strongest conservative bills passed in decades. Instead of picking up where we left off, with only five more appropriations bills to pass, Mike Johnson did not continue this important process. He instead led us to another CR on January 18, 2024, and got it passed with the support of 207 Democrats and only 107 Republicans, compared to 106 Republicans who voted against it. This time, Mike Johnson passed what he called a “laddered” CR, establishing two government shutdown dates, making government funding even more convoluted.
After this was passed, once again, instead of moving the remaining five appropriations bills to the floor, Speaker Johnson made no effort to finish our appropriations process, even though this is our constitutional duty. Months later, Mike Johnson passed a third CR, this time calling it a "process CR," as if that made continuing Nancy Pelosi's budget yet again any different from the previous CRs. Concurrently, the Senate was not passing their appropriations bills, giving us the upper hand in terms of both messaging and legislative leverage. Then, with little to no communication with our conference, Mike passed the first minibus on March 6, and passed the second minibus two weeks later, on March 22.
This was really a two-part omnibus, split into two minibuses, crammed down our throats, passed under suspension of the rules, breaking the 72-hour rule, giving us one day to read over a thousand pages, and tying our hands behind our backs by not allowing us to make any amendments. Rules? What rules? Remember the precious rules? Apparently, they no longer matter to Mike Johnson, even though he promised to abide by them and enforce them. Speaker Johnson's omnibus did nothing to stop Biden's deadly border invasion—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop the energy-killing Green New Deal climate agenda—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop the weaponized DOJ and FBI—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop the trans agenda on kids—it fully funded it. It did nothing to stop abortion—it fully funded FULL-TERM abortion clinics, and so much more. Here are some of the things funded by Mike’s omnibus:
• $280,000 for Climate Change Abatement Research (p. 174, DOE Joint Explanatory
Statement [JES])
• $2.5 million for Energy Resilience for Disadvantaged Communities (p. 251, THUD JES)
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• $1 million for EV Infrastructure in Chicago (p. 61, THUD JES)
• $400,000 for an LGBT care center for minors (p. 129, LHHS JES)
• $400,000 for a group with a “Gender Affirming Clothing Program” for kids (p. 146, LHHS JES)
• $400,000 for an LGBT group that provides undergarments to transgender people that hide breasts and genitalia (p. 172, LHHS JES)
• $1.8 million for a hospital in Rhode Island that provides abortions up to 22 weeks (p. 145, LHHS JES)
• $650,000 for a hospital in New Hampshire that provides late-term abortions (p. 118, LHHS JES)
• $200 million for FBI headquarters (p. 230, Omnibus Part 2)
As a matter of fact, there is little daylight between Nancy Pelosi's omnibus in the 117th Congress and Mike Johnson's omnibus in the 118th Congress, in spite of Americans giving Republicans the
majority in order to stop the Democrats’ “America Last” destructive agenda.
Some people are claiming weak excuses like, "this is just how you have to govern in a divided government." However, in the 1990s, Republicans won the House under Democrat President Bill Clinton and a Democrat-controlled Senate. Under Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich, the
Republican-controlled House fought for their agenda and was able to balance the budget, get conservative wins, and do the job that Republican voters sent them to do. This led to actually paying down the debt over several years by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Even with our razor-thin Republican majority, we could have at least secured the border, with it being the number one issue in the country and being the issue that is causing Biden to lose in poll after poll. This came on the heels of Laken Riley being brutally murdered, women and children being raped by illegal alien monsters, and our own Border Patrol and Texas National Guard being run over by hordes of military-aged illegals. Great legislation like H.R. 2 and the Laken Riley Act are only messaging bills unless we fight to enforce them in our government funding bills.
We could have also taken out funding for abortion and the trans agenda on kids if our own Speaker would have allowed us to offer amendments. We could have achieved other worthy victories if we had only put up a fight against Democrats.
Instead, Mike Johnson worked with Chuck Schumer rather than with us, and gave Joe Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted—no different from how a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries would have done. Speaker Johnson fully funded Special Counsel Jack Smith's witch hunt and 91 indictments
against President Trump, our Republican Presidential nominee. If convicted, this would be a deathsentence for President Trump. A death sentence for President Trump is precisely what the Democrats
want. They want him dead, and our power of appropriations could have stopped it, but Speaker Johnson didn't even try.
The weaponized DOJ is arresting a new January 6th election protestor every single day. Biden's DOJ is putting nonviolent election protestors in jail for years. People who peacefully walked in the Capitol
🚨 Mike Johnson fully funded the weaponized Department of Justice at the same level Nancy Pelosi did as Joe Biden is trying to put President Trump in jail for the rest of his life!
🧵 IMPORTANT THREAD
Biden’s weaponized DOJ isn’t just coming after President Trump, look at what they are doing to peaceful J6 defendants.
Just yesterday, the weaponized DOJ convicted a MAGA grandma who walked in open doors, spoke to a Capitol Police officer, and walked out.
She remained completely nonviolent.
Every day, the weaponized DOJ arrests a new person who protested the 2020 election. Mike Johnson is FULLY funding this. He didn’t even put up a fight.
“Pro-life” Speaker Johnson fully funded the weaponized DOJ that just arrested 4 more peaceful pro-life protestors who prayed outside an abortion clinic.
They didn’t destroy property or assault innocent Americans like BLM did, they prayed peacefully.