1/6 🚨 HUGE WIN! President @realDonaldTrump just invoked Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act, putting DC police under federal control and deploying the National Guard

This bold move addresses the rampant crime that’s plagued our nation’s capital for too long

Thank you, Mr. President, for prioritizing safety!
#FederalizeDC 2/6 The Constitution is clear: Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 gives Congress “exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever” over DC

Home Rule has been a disaster, enabling soft-on-crime policies that endanger residents and visitors alike

It’s time to repeal it entirely
#RepealDCHomeRule

🧵 1. With President Trump’s anticipated announcement tomorrow, August 11th, on stopping violent crime in DC, it’s time to push hard for federalizing our nation’s capital city

DC’s chaos under Mayor Bowser demands it—let’s revisit her 2020 blunder that sheds light on this

https://x.com/nytimes/status/1267324491912278018/video/1

2. Mayor Bowser evicted over 1,200 National Guard troops, including Utah’s 19th Special Forces Group, from DC hotels during the George Floyd protests in 2020

She called the troop deployment escalatory, but they were protecting federal buildings and keeping order when DC couldn’t—or wouldn’t!

🧵 1/ If the residents of DC want to be part of a state, the solution is *not* DC statehood

Any solution should involve reverting land ceded by Maryland for the creation of DC—excepting only a narrow corridor encompassing the White House, Capitol, & Supreme Court—to Maryland

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1953206179079045402

2/ Let’s start with some historical context

DC was established by Congress under the Residence Act of 1790, allowing President George Washington to select a site for the federal capital along the Potomac River, not exceeding 10 miles square (100 square miles)

🚨 Trump’s right to demand a federal takeover of DC after juveniles brutally attacked a DOGE staffer—it’s time to end the Home Rule disaster!

Here’s why Congress must act NOW:

🧵 1/12 Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to be DC’s lawmaking body “in all cases whatsoever”

Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 empowers Congress “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District … as may … become the Seat of the Government of the United States” 🇺🇸 #FederalizeDC
#BOWSERAct 2/12 In 1973, Congress began delegating that power to locally elected DC officials under the so-called DC Home Rule Act

🧵 1. The confirmation backlog keeps getting longer as Senate committees continue to approve nominees much faster than the Senate is voting on them 2. This morning alone the committee I chair—Energy & Natural Resources—just approved three more nominees, who will now be added to the quickly growing backlog

Another committee on which I serve—Foreign Relations—also reported out three more today

🧵1/ The TSA does violence to the Constitution and erodes liberty

Here’s why we must rethink its role
#TSA
#FourthAmendment #Liberty 2/ The Fourth Amendment protects us against “unreasonable searches and seizures”

TSA’s invasive pat-downs and body scanners—applied to every traveler without any specific, articulable basis for suspicion—clash with this core principle

Blanket searches aren’t “reasonable”

🧵1/ At the current pace, it’ll be April 2026 before we confirm the 135 Trump nominees now pending in the Senate

We need a game-changer

Otherwise, we risk extending rule by the leftist Deep State™️, which has outsized influence when GOP political appointees aren’t confirmed 2/ Shockingly, it’s about to get worse, as my projection focuses solely on the 135 nominees currently pending & awaiting floor votes

It does *not* account for new additions as committees keep reporting out nominees (including the 124 still in committee & future submissions)

🧵 1/ Marxism inspires people to wield government’s coercive power against their fellow citizens—inevitably causing immense harm—all while insisting that the harm is justified because “it’s for their own good” 2/ Once embraced, the “it’s for their own good” mantra can be misused to justify cruelty in almost any setting in which there is a pronounced power differential—including at work (mean boss), home (abusive spouse or parent), or school (tyrannical teacher)

1/ USAID has become a vehicle for pushing anti-American, radical far-left ideologies—all on the taxpayer’s dime. The problems go far beyond waste, fraud, and abuse. They undermine our security, promote extremism, and harm the very people they aim to help.
2/ USAID undermines American interests by failing to counter our adversaries like China. Instead of binding countries to us through trade and investment, we’ve wasted billions on a global green agenda that forces poor nations to rely on China for energy. Result? Recipients like South Africa (a top aid receiver) align with China in BRICS, support Hamas, and oppose us at the UN.

🚨🧵 1/ Alexis de Tocqueville warned us against the evils of socialism in *Democracy in America*—without using the word “socialism,” which had not yet entered common parlance 2/ Without using the word itself, Tocqueville described socialist systems as exercising “an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate”

“That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild”

🧵 1/ I’ve been asked today why I think Jeffrey Epstein *might* have been a gov asset. Let’s unpack the case. His connections, wealth, & influence raise red flags. Was he just a financier? Or something more?

https://twitter.com/basedmikelee/status/1942732445604061399

2/ Epstein’s plea deal in 2008 was unusually lenient. Sex-trafficking charges dropped, 13 months in a cushy jail with work release. Prosecutors hinted at “intelligence” ties. The U.S. attorney handling the case said he was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence.”

Coincidence?

🧵 1. A judge has just issued a temporary restraining order “TRO” halting the implementation of an unambiguous statute—duly enacted by Congress and signed into law by the President—that defunds Planned Parenthood

https://twitter.com/profmjcleveland/status/1942341307763933445

2. Given the lack of ambiguity in the statutory text, one can surmise that the TRO was likely predicated on an assertion that the statute is unconstitutional

1. Americans fought for freedom to govern themselves, not to be ruled by faceless bureaucrats. When unelected officials write federal laws, they bypass the Constitution and strip power from the people. Here’s why this matters. 2. The Constitution vests legislative power in Congress—elected representatives accountable to YOU. Bureaucrats in agencies like the EPA or ATF aren’t elected. They don’t answer to voters. Yet they churn out thousands of pages of rules with the force of law. That’s not how our government is supposed to work under the Constitution.

🧵 1/ Until the 1930s, state and local governments outspent the federal government—combined. In 1900, states and localities handled most public services, from schools to roads. Federal spending was a measly 2.7% of GDP, while state and local was higher. 2/ This wasn’t just numbers—it was principle. States and localities were closer to the people, responsive to local needs—and indeed most needs. The federal government stepped in mainly for things like defense and trade. Limited scope, limited spending. That’s how the Founders designed it.

🧵 1/ No state should dictate to political parties the process by which they nominate candidates

Ever

It ends badly for everyone—especially for conservatives 2/ Utah does this—through a law known as “SB54”

It has been disastrous for political parties—especially the Utah Republican Party

🧵 Former FBI Director Jim Comey posted a cryptic message that—as far as I can tell—can be read only to mean “kill Trump”

I’m speechless

Literally speechless
1/

https://twitter.com/eric_schmitt/status/1923132199408144571

I first met Jim Comey 22 years ago when I was an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City
2/

1/ The REINS Act is a potential game-changer for restoring constitutional balance

It would prevent major regulations (those imposing compliance costs of at least $100M) from taking effect without being passed by Congress—not just rubber stamped by unelected bureaucrats!
2/ Under the Constitution, only the people’s elected lawmakers are authorized to make federal law

Congress & the Supreme Court have neglected that requirement for decades

The REINS Act would fix this problem, which costs Americans trillions of dollars a year

President Trump:

Making clean coal great again! “My predecessor put America last. I’m putting America first.”

🧵 1. Americans are drowning in red tape—100,000 pages of new federal rules in 2024 alone, all from unelected bureaucrats

The REINS Act would stop this by requiring Congress to vote on & pass “major rules” *before* they may take effect

We must take back our freedom in 2025! 2. What is the REINS Act?

It’s simple: any regulation with a $100M+ economic impact must get a thumbs-up from Congress and the President before it can take effect

No more lawmaking by faceless agencies and unelected bureaucrats—power returns to the people’s elected lawmakers

17. Republicans in Congress therefore need to take a stand—holding hostage something Democrats care about by attaching the REINS Act to that thing 18. To that end, Republicans should attach the REINS Act to any bill to increase the debt ceiling, forcing true compromise in an area where it’s badly needed—here, restoring separation of powers through the REINS Act

🧵 1. There was a time when the federal government didn’t play such an outsized role in our daily lives

We had a limited-purpose government in place at the national level

That began to change when, on April 12, 1937, the Supreme Court lawlessly “amended” the Constitution

https://twitter.com/marionawfal/status/1893984027092439119

2. On April 12, 1937, the Supreme Court dramatically expanded federal authority under the (previously narrow) Commerce Clause—severely undermining federalism—in response to FDR’s extortionate threat to pack the Supreme Court