Thread by @Rep_Clyde

The Swamp’s first spending package is out.

Follow along for all the policy wins that were SURRENDERED during backroom negotiations.

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❌ Surrendered: My amendment to defund the prosecution of a presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking funds from being used to provide legal representation to illegal aliens.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to enforce COVID-19 vaccine passports.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding Joe Biden’s unconstitutional pistol brace rule.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding Joe Biden’s EO to expand background checks.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking funds from being used to implement red flag or extreme risk protection laws.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds to be used for gun buyback or relinquishment programs.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding ESG investments.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used by the U.S. Census Bureau to include illegal aliens in apportionment determinations in future censuses.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding woke DEI offices and initiatives.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds to be used by the Bureau of Prisons to assign men to women’s prisons or women to men’s prisons.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding CRT training.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to sue state or local governments over transgender issues.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking funds for the DOJ’s “Reproductive Rights Task Force.”

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to create or maintain an unconstitutional federal firearms registry.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding the ATF’s unconstitutional universal background check rule.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding environmental justice.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to enforce Joe Biden’s de facto EV mandate.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding the Biden Administration’s burdensome WOTUS rule.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to cancel or suspend ANWR oil and gas leases in Alaska.

❌ Surrendered: Rescinding $1,353,000,000 of environmental and climate justice grants.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to restrict Americans’ use of firearms on federal lands.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking funds from being used to consider or incorporate the social cost of carbon.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding burdensome environmental regulations.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking California’s woke EV mandate.

❌ Surrendered: Preventing DOT & HUD from discriminating based on traditional marriage beliefs.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting the flying of LGBTQ, BLM, or other woke flags at DOT & HUD facilities.

❌ Surrendered: Rescinding $25,035,000,000 of unobligated funds from the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.”

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to require equity action plans for DOT grants.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding sanctuary cities.

*REMINDER: Athens-Clarke County, GA, where 22-year-old Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal alien, is a sanctuary jurisdiction.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used by the USDA to promote CRT.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking the Biden Administration’s changes to mifepristone, the abortion pill.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding the Biden Administration’s woke racial equity EOs & eliminating the USDA’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking funds from being used to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to support the Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other laboratory owned by our adversaries.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used to rename civil works projects, such as Georgia’s Lake Lanier.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding the DOE’s DEI training.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding the DOE’s Office of Scientific Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding Joe Biden’s American Climate Corps.

❌ Surrendered: Protecting American consumers’ washing machines from environmental extremists.

❌ Surrendered: Protecting American consumers’ gas stoves from the Biden Administration’s absurd overreach.

❌ Surrendered: Protecting American consumers’ gas furnaces from Joe Biden’s burdensome regulations.

❌ Surrendered: Protecting American consumers’ water heaters from the Biden Administration’s extreme overreach.

❌ Surrendered: Protecting American consumers’ ice makers and air conditioners from Joe Biden’s radical regulations.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking Biden Administration rules with a $100,000,000+ economic impact.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding CRT at the VA.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding the VA’s abortion services.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting the Biden Administration from altering or removing the VA’s mission statement.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting the flying of LGBTQ, BLM, or other woke flags at VA facilities or national cemeteries.

❌ Surrendered: Blocking funds from being used by the VA to enforce COVID-19 mask mandates.

❌ Surrendered: Defunding DEI training at the VA.

❌ Surrendered: Prohibiting funds from being used by the VA for transgender surgeries.