#SWAMPSPENDING THREAD: 1) We were sent vote times & “Omnibus” spending bill at 230AM. 2) It is 2700 pages & we vote at 1000AM. 4) Top-line spending appears to be $1.512 Trillion. 3) We are told it is a 6% increase year-over-year, NOT counting Ukraine or COVID Supp… (1/6)
… 4) We can’t identify their “baseline” for saying 6% increase, it appears higher, but we cannot tell. 5) We are aware of zero actual changes to USA Oil & Gas restrictions. 6) We are aware of zero changes to COVID vax mandates… (2/6) #DefundTyranny #DefundVaxMandates
…7) We are aware of zero meaningful policy changes for our open border - only more money for CBP/ICE - which means more money to process illegal immigrants, and more money for MPP/Return to MX, which DHS is ignoring anyway!… (3/6) #SecureBorderNow
…8) We have not been able to comb through earmarks yet - but it’s likely there are earmarks one way or other… 9) The Supplemental Ukraine money is $13.6BB (unoffset!) has had zero meaningful debate about what this means re: war / engagement / effectiveness… (4/6)
…10) there is $15.6BB in COVID supplemental for Lord-only knows what (apparently offset by previous COVID approps?). 11) We are also voting on a ban on Russian oil with no changes to the limits on USA oil - which means higher gas prices &/or $ to Venezuela/Iran?… (5/6)
…And for #SwampSpending icing on the cake, there will be significant @HouseGOP & @SenateGOP support for this rushed, massive spending while inflation is at 7+% - fails to secure the border, fails to open up USA energy, fails to protect Americans from a jab… #DefundTyranny (6/6)

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Mar 9
The text for the $1.5 TRILLION 2,741-page spending monstrosity that the HOUSE is voting on TODAY was released at 2:30am THIS MORNING

After taking a look at the bill, it’s pretty easy to understand why this garbage was released at the break of dawn - it funds tyranny.
This bill doesn’t do a THING to open up American oil and gas production.

It does give $14.1 billion to Biden’s Department of Interior, which has not conducted A SINGLE onshore federal oil and gas lease sale this year.

energyindepth.org/one-year-later…
This provision completely prohibits oil and gas production in a specific area in New Mexico.

Restrictions like this hurt Americans at the pump and increase our reliance on Russia for oil. Image
Read 17 tweets
Mar 7
This week, Republicans are again faced with the decision to fund unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandates for a vaccine that DOES NOT even prevent transmission or infection of COVID.

🧵🧵🧵 THREAD (1/ )
As we enter the third year of this nightmare, we must look at what we’ve learned by the decisions of our 'experts' so that our nation ensures that COVID tyranny NEVER happens again. We must hold them accountable.

Let's review...

(2/ )
First up, they said there would be NO MANDATE. But that of course, was a lie.

(3/ )

Read 25 tweets
Mar 2
At tonight's State of the Union, Americans will hear a lot about President Biden’s “accomplishments.”

What @POTUS WILL NOT tell you is how his radical energy policies empower our enemies at the expense of American prosperity and global security.

We will.

🧵🧵🧵THREAD 1/x
From day 1, President Biden has waged war on American energy by:

-Halting oil and gas leases on federal lands and in ANWR

-Killing Keystone XL

-Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord

-Imposing onerous regulations across the board

-Empowering the dangerous ESG movement

2/x
The impact of these policies is clear.

Despite record demand for oil, U.S. production has still not recovered from its COVID slump.

In December 2021, U.S. oil production was 41.6 MILLION barrels LOWER than it was two years prior.

3/X
Read 14 tweets
Feb 14
Christians are on trial in Finland for…

*checks notes*

“Being Christian”

You will not believe what is going on in Finland as two Christians @PaiviRasanen and Bishop Pohjola stand trial for publicly confessing Christ.

We'll break it down for you.

🧵Thread🧵 1/
Since the Summer of 2019, @PaiviRasanen and Bishop Pohjola have faced targeted harassment for living out their Christian faith; now, they’re facing criminal charges and years of prison time.

Why?
Paivi faces three charges of so-called “ethnic agitation” for expressing her belief in the teachings of the Bible by having published a pamphlet on marriage in 2004, for taking part in a discussion on a radio show in 2019, and for a tweet with a picture of a Bible passage.
Read 15 tweets
Feb 3
As Rep Roy said, Democrats’ so-called “China bill” is not about confronting China.

It’s about increasing deficit spending on crony programs, advancing a radical climate agenda, and enacting woke garbage that has nothing to do with beating ChiComs

Let’s take a look

THREAD (1/x)
This week, the national debt hit $30 TRILLION for the first time in history.

That’s almost $250k worth of debt PER U.S. TAXPAYER.

And this bill has a price tag of $325 BILLION with no real offsets, which will make our debt crisis even worse.

wsj.com/articles/u-s-n…

(2/x)
This bill condemns China’s “nonmarket economy” and the “mass subsidization of Chinese firms”.

But it literally spends HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars on crony programs, including $52 billion on the semiconductor industry, $45 billion for “supply chains,” and much more.

(3/x)
Read 16 tweets
Jan 27
During National School Choice Week we celebrate students, parents, and teachers in #TX21, across Texas, and across America, and the diverse schooling options that provide the freedom, opportunity, and high-quality education they ALL deserve.
As Big Education tries to push parents out of schools, indoctrinate our children, and do corrupt unions’ bidding, we need to keep up the fight for school choice and our students’ future. Parents in Texas, Virginia, and other states are waking up — we can never go back.
School choice is now more important than ever, that's why Rep. Roy is fighting to defund the bureaucrats trying to take away #EducationFreedom and re-empower American parents by putting them back in charge of their kids' education.
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