The House and Senate are back in session this week—-and will be in session next week when King Charles of England makes a historic address to Congress. This marks the second time a British monarch has addressed Congress.
The House and Senate are still tussling over how to proceed with the funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has now gone unfunded for two months.
Liberals in the Senate have refused to pass legislation that would fund all of DHS, objecting specifically to funding ICE and CBP. In response, Senate conservatives took out the funding for these two sub-agencies in an attempt to get the rest of DHS funded.
House conservatives say that separating ICE and CBP funding leaves the sub-agencies vulnerable to being held as leverage, which could stall deportations and leave the border less secure.
Former Senator and current DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is now warning that if a full funding bill for DHS is not passed before the end of April, the Department will run out of money.
However—late last night, the Senate passed a very narrow budget resolution, which will set up a reconciliation bill that funds the entirety of DHS, including ICE and CBP, for one year, and ICE and CBP for three years. Conservatives believe that normalizing the separation of ICE and CBP funding from DHS could turn ICE and CBP funding into bargaining chips in future battles.
As DHS funding dominates many of the headlines in Washington, another headline recently caught fire.
Yesterday The Daily Caller ran a story titled: “EXCLUSIVE: Biden FBI Probed GOP Members After Prosecutors Privately Called Allegation ‘Completely Incredible’”.
As I shared in last week’s Compass, the weaponization of the government under the Biden Administration likely goes far beyond what we can imagine.
This weaponization continues to come to light, thanks to the work of the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Sen. Chuck Grassley. The Committee found that the Biden DOJ—informed by liberal lawmakers—was targeting conservatives based on contrived connections to the events of January 6.
“The FBI’s “Rampart Twelve” investigation centered on allegations against Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, former Republican Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks and Republican Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona…”
Senator Eric Schmitt, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, added that “bad actors at the highest levels of our government and intelligence agencies targeted broad swaths of the America Right and sitting members of Congress with no evidence of wrongdoing.” He continued, “This fishing expedition was nothing more than a political agenda…”
This will not be the last of this story. The Trump DOJ is pursuing justice and accountability for the left’s weaponization of government, as it should.
ICYMI…
- The American Mind: We Shall Not Fight on the Beaches
- American Moment Podcast: The Secrets of Red State Power