What the heck happened on the House floor last night?
Here's what you need to know.👇
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1) Department of Defense: PASSED✅ 2) Homeland Security: PASSED✅
3)State and Foreign Ops: PASSED✅ 4) Ag Appropriations: FAILED❌
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1) DOD wins:
- Pay increase for service members
- Cuts all funding for Ukraine
- Defunds woke DEI & CRT training and censorship
- Eliminates taxpayer funding for abortions
- Prohibits COVID vax mandates for troops
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2) Homeland Security wins:
- Secures additional funds for wall construction
- Increases funding for border patrol
- Defunds DHS Sec Mayorkas' salary
- Prohibits funding for abortions
- Bans the use of funds to relocate illegals
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3) State and Foreign Ops wins:
- Defunds Sec of State Antony Blinken
- Prohibits funding for WHO
- Cuts wasteful foreign spending
- Bans funding for Wuhan Institute
- Defunds Office of 'Palestinian' Affairs
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4) Ag Approps *would have*:
- Cut wasteful gov't spending
- Defunded the Left's radical 'climate' agenda
- Holman Rule'd several USDA officials
- Prohibited funding for WHO, CRT, and chemical abortions
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HFC members voted to pass all four appropriations bills on the floor last night in an effort to get the work done and avoid a shutdown.
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🧵In the wake of the Covenant School shooting, there has been a movement by radical Leftists to victimize and legitimize the actions of the shooter because she identified as transgender.
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Make no mistake–she was a domestic terrorist who sought to kill and destroy. This type of targeted, brutal assault on Christians is nothing less than a hate crime.
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I joined my colleague, Rep. Lance Gooden (TX-05), in a joint letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging him to open a hate crime investigation into the Covenant School shooting.
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