McCarthy Says U.S. House Preparing to Move Forward w/ Biden Impeachment

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McCarthy Says U.S. House Preparing to Move Forward w/ Biden Impeachment

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., confirmed that the GOP-led House of Representatives is moving toward impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden, as more damning whistleblower testimony and evidence continues to emerge linking the president, his son Hunter and other Biden family members and shell companies to multiple instances of bribery and corruption.

“If you’re sitting in our position today, we would know none of this, if Republicans had not taken the majority,” McCarthy told Fox News host Sean Hannity during a Monday interview.

Explaining that House Republicans have simply followed “where the information has taken us,” McCarthy said that the information and evidence “is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed.”

McCarthy directly accused Biden of using the Justice Department and other regime departments to actively protect the president and his family members from corruption charges.

“Because this president has also used something we have not seen since Richard Nixon used the weaponization of government to benefit his family and deny Congress the ability to have the oversight,” McCarthy said.

Despite the FBI agreeing that information implicating the Bidens, which was presented to their agents and former Attorney General Bill Barr, was “very credible,” McCarthy said that “The FBI kept this from the IRS individuals for them ever to see it. So not only do they claim that they were bribed, we now find information that 16 out of 17 payments from Romania were provided to the Biden shell companies while he was vice president.”

That stands in stark contrast to Biden’s repeated promises on the campaign trail, and in statements after he was allegedly elected president, assuring the American public that he had nothing to do with Hunter Biden’s suspect business dealings, McCarthy said.

“He said his family has never received a dollar from China, which we now prove is not true,” McCarthy said. “We now have some of the most credible whistleblowers. These 10-year IRS agents who have come forward said that the Biden family has been treated differently, that what Weiss has told us is different than what Garland and Weiss has told the public.”

In that light, and given everything that House probes have uncovered, McCarthy said, “I believe we will follow this all the way to the end, and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry, the way the Constitution tells us to do this, and we have to get the answers to these questions.”

Hannity invoked his own Nixon-era comparison to the dire straits facing Biden and his alleged crime family.

“In the words of John Dean, a malignant cancer now is surrounding the Biden presidency and those walls are closing awfully tight,” Hannity said.

Calif. Unleashes New ‘Woke’ Math Framework, Sparking Fierce Debate

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Calif. Unleashes New ‘Woke’ Math Framework, Sparking Fierce Debate

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The California State Board of Education has unveiled a new and contentious math framework, following years of heated debates and concerns from apprehensive parents who fear their children might be subject to indoctrination.

As reported by Education Week, the extensive 1,000-page framework aims to bridge the gap between theoretical math concepts and their real-world applications. Though non-binding, the framework urges teachers to make math more accessible to minority students who have faced historical marginalization in the subject.

Despite the uproar from critics, Linda Darling-Hammond, the chief of the California State Board of Education, championed the new plan. “The United States has not been teaching math effectively or equitably. We are one of the lower-achieving countries … and California is below the national average in its achievement in mathematics,” Hammond stated during a board meeting, as cited by EdWeek. “The same old, same old will not get us to a new place.”

However, opponents of the new framework were swift in voicing their concerns about the proposed changes in math education. Williamson Evers, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, expressed his reservations, stating, “Saying that we’re going to have trauma infused pedagogy that tells kids they are traumatized by capitalism and therefore they have to become activists, that’s what’s in there.”

The Twitter profile “Wall Street Silver” also chimed in, criticizing the move with a question: “California woke social justice warrior math coming. Numbers not allowed?”

The controversy surrounding the math framework started in 2021 when the school board introduced a new curriculum aimed at addressing perceived racism within math. The proposal faced fierce criticism, with more than a thousand signatures from math professionals collected by the Independent Institute voicing their disapproval of the curriculum.

The National Review reported that signatories referred to the framework as a plan “to build a mathless Brave New World on a foundation of unsound ideology,” and the initial petition against the framework garnered support from 6,000 individuals.

Fox News covered the issue as well, highlighting that the controversial framework promotes a “‘justice-oriented perspective and focus on historically marginalized people'” for teachers. It also replaces Algebra II with a data science course, featuring no problem-solving components.

Furthermore, it shifts Algebra I from the 8th- to the 9th-grade level, potentially preventing students from taking calculus in their graduating year. Algebra, Fox reported, is often essential for pursuing degrees in fields such as medicine, science, or engineering.

Roger Stone Baits Joe Rogan into Cage Match Challenge

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Roger Stone Baits Joe Rogan into Cage Match Challenge

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) MAGA stalwart Roger Stone said he is ready, willing and able to step into a cage match brawl with Joe Rogan to secure an appearance for Donald Trump on the wildly popular podcaster’s show.

The challenge from the long-time Trump ally comes in the wake of Rogan reportedly refusing multiple requests from the Trump camp to have the former president appear on The Joe Rogan Experience, which averages an audience upwards of 11 million per episode, according to the Daily Beast.

Rogan has been a frequent and harshly effective critic of the Biden administration, and recently confessed his belief that the 2020 election was rigged to secure a Trump defeat. But Rogan has stopped short of interviewing Trump, despite forecasts that it would attract a huge audience.

“I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan told podcaster Lex Fridman last year. “I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”

Stone, a favored advisor to the former president, reportedly began a push to secure Trump a spot on Rogan’s podcast after the two met and shook hands at a recent UFC fight in Las Vegas. Stone was present at the same event, which seemed to have planted the cage-match seed.

Along with Stone’s proposal, Trump has reportedly been encouraging his campaign and allies to publicly hype the upsides of an appearance on Rogan’s podcast.

“The mere discussion of Donald Trump on a blockbuster podcast like Joe Rogan builds a remarkable audience,” a Trump adviser told the Daily Beast. “Perhaps the only person bigger in the new media world than Joe Rogan is Donald Trump and the whole idea that the two of them would be together at long last—it would be an incredible audience.”

Stone doubled-down on the cage match challenge during an interview with InfoWars host Alex Jones.

“I know I can definitely take him,” Stone boasted. “I hit the heavy bag for an hour every Saturday.”

If the octagon battle comes to fruition, it could make for a perfect double-bill if logistics and fate intervene to couple it with the proposed cage match tilt between billionaire Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. An opening act could potentially feature GOP presidential contender and plus-size RINO Chris Christie, who has been called out for a hybrid wrestling match/debate by former Trump advisor Peter Navarro.

Stone dismissed any concerns that Rogan could best him in a cage match, tossing a jab at the podcaster after their meeting at the Las Vegas UFC event.

“Well, let me put it this way, Alex,” Stone quipped on InfoWars. “He was wearing a really nice suit. I wonder what it would cost in a man’s size.”

FBI Corroborated Key Parts of Biden Bribery File, Sources Confirm

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FBI Corroborated Key Parts of Biden Bribery File, Sources Confirm

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sources close to the FBI have come forward to confirm that key aspects of the controversial informant file, alleging a bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and a Burisma executive, were corroborated by the FBI.

According to the Federalist, the Pittsburgh FBI office briefed U.S. District Attorney David Weiss of Delaware and confirmed certain information gathered by a highly credible confidential human source’s investigation into an alleged $5 million bribe that Biden purportedly received.

The damning report stated that the “Pittsburgh FBI office had corroborated several details contained in the FD-1023 as part of the intake process that former Attorney General William Barr established before the election under the leadership of the Western District of Pennsylvania’s then-U.S. Attorney Scott Brady.”

One of the verified pieces of information includes the travel records of a confidential human source. The report specified, “Following the late June 2020 interview with the CHS, the Pittsburgh FBI office obtained travel records for the CHS, and those records confirmed the CHS had traveled to the locales detailed in the FD-1023 during the relevant time period.” The travel dates mentioned indicated potential trips to Ukraine either in late 2015 or early 2016.

As widely reported, the allegation suggests that a Burisma executive paid $5 million each to Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 to shield them from a corruption investigation led by Viktor Shokin, the then-prosecutor general of Ukraine.

In response to the emerging information, Biden denied on Monday ever being involved in business dealings with his son. This new assertion, however, directly contradicts years of claims that he had “never spoken” to Hunter about his foreign dealings.

The new information represents a partial blow to the Democratic Party and Biden’s allies who had dismissed the informant file, known as an “FD-1023,” as containing false information originally promoted by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani without evidence.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., asserted that the allegations in the file had been debunked years ago by the Trump-led DOJ. However, former Attorney General Bill Barr, known for his opposition to Trump, countered Raskin’s claims, stating that the information did not originate with Giuliani and was referred to the Delaware district attorney for further investigation.

Biden Regime Ready to Ban Water Heaters, Gas-Powered Generators

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Biden Regime Ready to Ban Water Heaters, Gas-Powered Generators

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After attacking gas stoves, the Joe Biden administration has launched a war against water heaters and gas-powered generators, even though regular Americans need both.

On Friday, the Department of Energy announced a plan to crack down on home water heaters.

“Today’s actions — together with our industry partners and stakeholders — improve outdated efficiency standards for common household appliances, which is essential to slashing utility bills for American families and cutting harmful carbon emissions,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.

The DOE would force cheaper gas heaters off the market, even though non-condensing gas-fired heaters are cheaper and have a smaller size and lower installation costs, the Daily Wire reported.

The department also added that the new rule would go into effect in 2029 if adopted within the proposed timeline. The DOE claimed that the proposed standards could still be revised after it will listen to public comments and hold a public hearing.

In addition to water heaters, the Biden administration also pushed a proposal to ban almost all portable gas generators, with people saying that it would be disastrous for the millions of Americans who rely on the devices during emergencies like power outages, the Epoch Times reported.

The policy that was proposed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission would remove nearly all existing portable gas generators from the market.

The new rule would also restrict the amount of carbon monoxide that generators can emit by forcing these generators to switch off when they reach a certain level of emissions, the news source reported.

While smaller gas generators would have to cut carbon monoxide emissions by 50%, larger generators would have to cut emissions by up to 95%. Nearly all models of gas generators that are currently available on the market are expected to not be in compliance with the new standard.

Manufacturers would have to comply with the proposed rules once they come into effect in just six months, even though it usually takes several years. Additionally, manufacturers would be banned from stockpiling noncompliant generators before the new standards are enacted.

The agency’s proposal will “create a shortage of essential portable generators during regional and national emergencies because it will prevent the sale of portable generators that are currently available on the market,” Susan Orenga, executive director of the Portable Generator Manufacturers’ Association, said.

Mom Accuses FBI of Entrapping Her ‘Neurodiverse’ Teenager in Terrorism Scheme

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Mom Accuses FBI of Entrapping Her ‘Neurodiverse’ Teenager in Terrorism Scheme

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In June 2022, Colorado woman Deanna Meyer contacted her local sheriff’s office about violent and terroristic statements that her mentally ill 17-year-old son, Davin Meyer, was making at the time.

The local sheriff, in turn, contacted the FBI, which then began communicating with the teenager online. Months later, the FBI arrested Davin as he was about to board an airplane, ostensibly to travel to the Middle East to join ISIS.

But Davin’s mother says he is no ISIS fighter. Instead, he’s an 18-year-old with no friends, who suffers from numerous mental health issues, including autism, depression and anxiety, according to the mom.

At a detention hearing on Friday, Deanna reportedly expressed remorse that she ever sought help from law enforcement, blaming the FBI for ensnaring her son in a phony terrorism plot.

“I bet my life he would never do that without that encouragement [from FBI informants],” she said Friday, describing how her son communicated with at least two FBI informants in chat rooms from last November until he was arrested.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter disregarded Deanna’s pleas on Friday and ordered Davin to remain in custody. Neureiter pointed to the fact that Davin allegedly threatened his mother’s life when he was still a juvenile—even though the mother said he hasn’t threatened her since he turned 18.

The judge did acknowledge the mother’s arguments in his five-page order.

“The mother testified at the detention hearing that she never believed he would likely move ahead with his expressed intentions, and the defendant only took steps to travel to the Middle East after finding a ‘community’ online, which included confidential FBI sources,” Judge Neureiter said.

“According to the defendant’s mother, he has ‘never had a friend’ and finding this community that appeared to be supportive of his plans is what likely caused him to act by buying the ticket to fly to Turkey.”

Neureiter also acknowledged Davin’s mental health problems.

“The defendant is ‘neurodiverse’ and was diagnosed at the age of nine of being on the autism spectrum, and he has also been diagnosed with having a low processing speed and massive depression. The defendant may also have obsessive compulsive disorder,” the judge said.

“The defendant has received diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood; specific learning disorder with impairment in mathematics; and major depressive disorder, recurrent episode, moderate.”

However, Judge Neureiter said it’s in the public interest to keep Davin incarcerated.

“This is a difficult situation, and must be extremely heart-wrenching for the defendant’s family, in particular his mother, who has long believed the defendant needs help and therapy,” he said.

“Putting a defendant with his disabilities in jail, pending trial, will not address his condition nor provide the therapy that he apparently needs. It will, however, ensure that he cannot do violence to anyone.”

The judge concluded by saying he’d reconsider his order if the Meyer family can find a suitable mental health facility to house Davin.

Other bizarre details about the Meyer case can be found in the arrest affidavit of FBI task force officer Joni Tangeman.

For instance, Tangeman said Davin followed “white supremacist ideology” when he was 15-years-old, before he began practicing Islam in late 2020. Tangeman further said that Davin said when he was 17 that if he didn’t go to the Middle East, he would build a fertilizer bomb in the United States—the same bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Additionally, the FBI officer admitted she knew about Davin’s mental health issues when investigating him.

“I am aware that MEYER has previously received mental health treatment, including residential treatment programs,” she said, adding that Davin apparently refused to take his medication when he converted to Islam.

“MEYER refused to take any prescription medication prescribed by the psychiatrist because it would be against his Islamic religion, and he also refused to go to school or participate in online school programs,” Tangeman said.

“Records show that MEYER has received diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood; specific learning disorder with impairment in mathematics; and major depressive disorder, recurrent episode, moderate.”

The Meyer case follows the FBI arresting another mentally challenged 18-year-old, Mateo Ventura, for allegedly intending to help ISIS. Last month, The Intercept published an interview with Ventura’s father, who also accused FBI informants of entrapping his son.

“He was born prematurely, he had brain development issues. I had the school do a neurosurgery evaluation on him and they said his brain was underdeveloped,” Ventura’s father, Paul Ventura, told The Intercept. “He was suffering endless bullying at school with other kids taking food off his plate, tripping him in the hallway, humiliating him, laughing at him.”

Ventura is currently in a private mental health facility as his case proceeds. Meyer’s preliminary hearing is set for July 31.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Disability Claims Are Increasing at a Record Pace Under Biden. Why?

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Disability Claims Are Increasing at a Record Pace Under Biden. Why?

(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) Despite the many economic challenges people are facing today, including stubbornly high inflation and 401ks that are still reeling from the worst stock market drop since 2008 , many contend that we’re witnessing the triumph of “Bidenomics.”

The White House has been touting statistics showing 13.2 million jobs have been created during the Biden administration and that the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% in June. Not bad, right?

At least some seem to think so.

“America under President Biden has better employment numbers … than the America of 1984 when President Reagan ran morning in America ads touting the economy,” said Matthew Dowd, a former political strategist for George W. Bush and MSNBC.

The thing about statistics is they can be deceiving — “Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” to paraphrase the British statesman Benjamin Disraeli.

A closer look at government data reveals the labor participation rate, which has been declining for decades, is at its lowest in the last 45 years if you exclude the pandemic (more on why in a minute).

How do these data mesh with the White House’s figures, which show 13 million added jobs and an employment rate of 3.6%? The answer is surprisingly simple.

Government data show there has been considerable job growth since early 2020 , with 130 million total jobs in April 2020 to 156 million in June 2023, but almost all of that job growth involved replacing jobs that were erased during the COVID-19 pandemic (there were 152 million total non-farm jobs prior to lockdowns).

In other words, Biden is taking credit for jobs that are primarily returning after huge swathes of the economy were shut down.

But as noted, labor participation remains significantly lower than it was prior to the pandemic.

There are a multitude of reasons more people are choosing not to work. More families homeschooling, a trend that took off during the pandemic, is likely one reason. Lower (real) wages may be another factor. Perhaps some workers are refusing to return to the workforce because they don’t want to get vaccinated or wear a mask (as some businesses still require). There are government-created poverty traps , which occur when poor workers lose support payments when they earn more income, which can discourage work. And of course more working-age people are able to retire early.

All of these factors likely played a role (big or small) in the weakened labor participation, but we have clear data on one front that sheds light on the matter.

“Disability claims [are] soaring,” economist Peter St. Onge recently tweeted . “A big part of that impressive unemployment rate: if you’re living on disability, you’re no longer counted.”

St. Onge was referring to Federal Reserve data showing that disability claims, which remained flat between 2014 and 2020, began to skyrocket in 2021.

In January 2021, there were 29,851,000 disability claims. By June 2023, that figure had reached 34,152,000 — an increase of 15% in just 30 months, the fastest increase on record. (Data go back to 2008.)

There are undoubtedly various reasons disability claims are surging, but the biggest one might be related to “long COVID” (COVID symptoms that continue or develop long after initial infection).

“The bottom line is that long COVID is why the labor force participation rate has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, even in a situation with solid wage growth,” Torsten Slok, the chief economist and partner at Apollo Global Management, wrote in a note earlier this year.

Can workers even collect disability for long COVID? Apparently so, and reports suggest the Biden administration has been working to make it easier to do.

“The Biden administration has already taken some steps to try to protect workers and keep them on the job, issuing guidance that makes clear that long COVID can be a disability and relevant laws would apply,” MPR News reported in 2022.

Now, many may contend that it’s the government’s job to provide assistance for workers who are considered disabled. But as the economist Murray Rothbard once noted , “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

Whether one supports the payments or not, it’s clear that the job triumphs of “Bidenomics” are smoke and mirrors. Fewer people working and more collecting disability is hardly an economic triumph — even if it makes the unemployment rate look smaller.

DOJ Sues Texas over Rio Grande Barriers to Prevent Illegal Immigration

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DOJ Sues Texas over Rio Grande Barriers to Prevent Illegal Immigration

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) On the same day the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil complaint against Texas over a floating barrier of buoys strung together in the Rio Grande River, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Joe Biden saying that Texas has a right to defend its border.

The Department of Justice said the floating barrier was constructed without federal authorization as required under the Rivers and Harbors Act and creates a humanitarian threat. The complaint seeks to stop construction of the barrier and to require Texas to remove it.

But Abbott is having none of it.

The Texas governor’s formal letter sent Monday is a follow up to the notice he gave on Friday in response to the DOJ saying its civil action was coming. DOJ’s lawsuit also was filed Monday.

Abbott’s two-page letter copies Attorney General Merrick Garland and three Texas officials: the provisional attorney general and heads of the Texas Military Department and Department of Public Safety. He also includes copies of two letters he previously sent to the president, the first of which was sent last November explaining Texas’ constitutional right to secure its border. The second he hand delivered on Jan. 8, 2023, outlining solutions the president could take immediately to secure the border.

Abbott, a former Texas Supreme Court justice, wrote, “In accordance with Article I, § 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, I have asserted Texas’s “sovereign interest in protecting [her] borders,” citing Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case, Arizona v. United States.

“I have done so in my role as the commander-in-chief of our State’s militia under Article IV, § 7 of the Texas Constitution,” citing a ruling in the 2023 case, Abbott v. Biden, when the federal judge in this case held that “the Constitution forbids President Biden from bypassing the States [and] stepping into Governor Abbott’s shoes.”

Abbott also states that the president’s “ongoing violation of Article IV, § 4 of the U.S. Constitution has left me no other choice” than to secure the Texas border and block illegal entry. He also points to arguments he made in the letters he previously sent and reiterates what he told the president in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8: “All of this is happening because you have violated your constitutional obligation to defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws.”

In response to DOJ attorneys claiming Texas’s floating marine barriers violate Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, Abbott says their analysis “misses the mark. In that statute, Congress decreed that ‘it shall not be lawful to build . . . any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any . . . water of the United States.’

“To state the obvious, that statute does not describe any action by the State of Texas.”

Texas began the Rio Grande initiative to prevent illegal entry on state land between ports of entry.

Abbott also places the blame on Biden for any humanitarian crisis at the border. Responding to DOJ attorney accusations, he writes, “Mr. President, your finger points in the wrong direction. Neither of us wants to see another death in the Rio Grande River. Yet your open-border policies encourage migrants to risk their lives by crossing illegally through the water, instead of safely and legally at a port of entry. Nobody drowns on a bridge.

“If you truly care about human life, you must begin enforcing federal immigration laws,” he continued. “By doing so, you can help me stop migrants from wagering their lives in the waters of the Rio Grande River. You can also help me save Texans, and indeed all Americans, from deadly drugs like fentanyl, cartel violence, and the horrors of human trafficking.”

The letter came as over 175,000 foreign nationals were reported illegally entering the southern border alone in June, including at least 70,200 in Texas and as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to claim the border is secure.

Soros Operatives Attack on Election Integrity, Despite HR1’s Failure

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Soros Operatives Attack on Election Integrity, Despite HR1’s Failure

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Behind the slogans of “election integrity” and “voting rights,” the left–led by operatives funded by oligarch George Soros–has continued to undermine free and fair elections despite the failure of the far-left HR1 bill in congress.

The workaround plan will be enacted by a nonprofit called NewDEAL, which is reportedly backed by Soros.

“The NewDEAL Forum is a non-profit organization which identifies and promotes innovative, future-oriented state and local pro-growth progressive policies that can improve the lives of all Americans,” the organization’s website says.

The organization recently churned out a “Democracy Playbook” that serves as a handbook for rigging elections in favor of the left by promoting election integrity, voting access and civic engagement.

In order to achieve such ends, the group promises to teach leftists “how to recruit poll workers” and how to “combat misinformation to specific legislation that makes registering to vote easier and more secure.”

The document was penned by four election-rigging superstars. The group included a slew of Soros-backed public figures.

Among the authors are Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Democrat secretary of state, Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who routinely calls Republicans “fascists,” Sandra Jauregui, a Las Vegas assemblywoman who penned legislation meant to slow right-wing “domestic terrorism,” and Ken Lawrence, election board chairman for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, which certified the 2020 election despite receiving numerous ballots after election day.

The report also suggests that certain 2020 election strategies be made permanent fixtures, in order to enshrine “voting rights” by transforming the United States Postal Service into a mail-in ballot collection machine.

In order to protect voting rights, NewDEAL also wants to loosen the rules on signature matching, in order to not “discriminate against voters who already face other obstacles to voting.”

And while the organization is “proud that American democracy has stood strong for hundreds of years, even though the past several years have tested our resolve,” its leaders remain concerned that “January 6 will remain a dark stain in America’s history.”

‘Defund Police’ Squad Member Has Paid Hubby $30K in 2023 for ‘Private Security’

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‘Defund Police’ Squad Member Has Paid Hubby $30K in 2023 for ‘Private Security’

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mass., a member of the far-left ‘Squad‘ and advocate for  de-funding the police, paid her husband $30,000 for private security in 2023 alone, continuing her hypocritical record of privately-funded security.

Bush’s late second quarter disclosure of expenditures showed how much she spent on her private security detail, including her husband, whose name is Courtney Merritts, according to Fox News.

Bush paid Merritts $12,500 for security services in the first quarter of 2023. She paid him $17,500 for security services and what her campaign calls “wage expenses” between April and June. The total of $30,000 puts Merritts on pace by himself to earn what Squad member Ayanna Pressley spent on all of her security in 2021.

Bush exceeded Presley’s exorbitant expenditures of 2021 in the first two quarters of 2023. She also paid $62,000 to PEACE, a St. Louis-based security firm. PEACE employs several current and former police officers.

Bush also paid Nathaniel Davis, who claims to be 109-trillion-years-old shaman who can read minds, summon mythical beings and manipulate the weather. Davis also holds many anti-Semitic views and is the best paid of Bush’s individualized security guards. Since his hiring in 2020 he cleared $137,000, as of March.

Overall, since 2019, Bush has spent over half of a million dollars on security, according to Breitbart News.

Collectively, members of the “Squad” spent more than $325,000 on private security while demanding Americans “defund the police” in 2021.

When Bush has been criticized for her defund the police stance and her use of taxpayer funds to purchase private security, the leftist lawmaker has responded with more hypocrisy.

“I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do. They would rather I die?” she hysterically asked in 2021.

“You would rather me die? Is that what you want to see? You want to see me die? You know because that could be the alternative,” she said, not accounting for the danger her policy goals poses to Americans without the ability to fund private security.

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