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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
$40 trillion in debt and counting!  Agencies pushing out as much unspent money as possible days before the fiscal year ends to ensure the base the following year is not reduced.  It’s the bureaucracy playing games with our future.  Nothing unconstitutional about the executive branch preventing such abuse and waste. And these funds were for illegal aliens and leftwing groups and causes to boot.  This is less than $1 billion in a multi-trillion dollar budget!  We’re going over a fiscal cliff!
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.    This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.     Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.   The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.   I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Senator Collins voted to confirm OMB Director Vought, despite Vought’s known support for the President’s efforts to impound Congressionally-approved funds. thehill.com/homenews/senat… thehill.com/homenews/senat…
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
Replying to @SenatorCollins
Congress was never granted the authority under the constitution to take money from the American people under threat of arrest so that they could then donate it to foreign governments or foreign nationals whether abroad or here domestically. You never had the authority to designate money for the support of foreign nationals in this nation, The constitution never granted you that power Congress unlawfully granted itself this. The constitution is quite limited in your permissions here it is explicitly in the defense of this nation and its well-being. Supporting foreign nationals has nothing to do with either of those things. America is not an international refugee camp nor an international fucking charity.
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We don’t care anymore. We don’t care about your reports, your strongly worded letters, or your press releases- and we’re no longer stupid enough to not know that these empty gestures are being dropped in the weeks leading up to an election. When the headlines include indictments and accountability we’ll begin listening again.
Jim Jordan drops a 57-page report accusing Jack Smith and the Biden DOJ of trying to tilt the 2024 election with public disclosures of his probe's findings. The report alleges DOJ's own Public Integrity Section warned subpoenas to lawmakers could be unconstitutional but approved them anyway, calculating there was little "litigation risk" because the gag orders would keep lawmakers in the dark. Members of Congress were reportedly unaware of the surveillance for more than two years. Jordan says Smith's team "ran roughshod over key constitutional protections" and broke protocol by releasing a massive trove of alleged evidence weeks before the 2024 presidential election to sway public opinion. The report also claims Smith privately admitted to then-AG Merrick Garland that lawmakers "likely have a valid Speech or Debate privilege" — but Garland gave his blessing to proceed anyway. Story here: foxnews.com/politics/explosi…
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🚨MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN IS FACING CALLS TO RESIGN FROM INSIDE HER OWN PARTY AFTER HER USE OF THE AUTOPEN WAS CONFIRMED BY DOOR LOGS FROM THE WEST WING! Follow: t.me/+w2RPvwHALKlhNmE0 Warren entered the room on 116 separate occasions, corresponding to times noted on the signing of 112 documents, pardons, and executive orders. With the evidence mounting, lawmakers in her state and across the Hill are growing increasingly concerned. If Warren goes down, the entire autopen scandal blows up, and there goes the midterms. Share this everywhere so the autopen scandal blows up the midterms! Follow @mcafeenew for more drops.
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What kind of Congressman tries to Impeach a War Sec when our troops are at War Raise your hand ✋️ if you want @SpeakerJohnson to remove Massie from every committee he currently sits on Let Speaker Johnson know... he'll see this... This cannot go unpunished.. remove Massie
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John Thune Says at Least 15 Republican Senators Are a Hard ‘NAY’ on Nuking the Filibuster to Pass the SAVE America Act. They met with 20 GOP Senators. 15 said NO. We deserve to know the 15 are and why they are betraying their voters. Name them all.
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Replying to @SenTedBuddNC
Make no mistake, I will continue working to confirm President Trump’s nominees when the Senate returns from the state work period and fulfill my constitutional responsibility. That’s exactly what you should expect of Republicans in the majority.
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🚨🚨 BOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED — THERE IS NO HIDING THIS ANYMORE 🚨🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge just exposed the documents. China was BLACKMAILING the Biden family… and it was sitting in President Biden’s own daily brief. She found the records. She held them up on camera. The evidence is right there. And what did the FBI, CIA, and the entire legacy media do? They buried it. They looked the other way. They protected the regime. This isn’t politics. This isn’t a “scandal.” This is TREASON at the highest level. They knew. They covered it up. And they did it to keep power. No more excuses. No more “conspiracy theories.” The documents are out. The truth is staring America in the face. Share this everywhere. The American people deserve to know.
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🚨 JOHN SOLOMON JUST HIT THE MOTHERLODE. 🚨 NSA intercepts from 2022 just DROPPED. Ukrainian officials + Biden’s own USAID insiders in Kyiv were caught discussing a plan to take HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of YOUR tax dollars — money meant for “clean energy” — and launder 90% of it straight into Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign and the DNC. Fake infrastructure projects. Layered U.S. subcontractors. Designed so no one could follow the money. This wasn’t aid. This was a slush fund. They built biolabs with stolen American money… then they tried to steal the election with the rest of it. Tulsi Gabbard is now hunting the records. Criminal referrals are on the table. The same people who called YOU a “threat to democracy” were running a foreign money-laundering operation against you. Was the entire Ukraine war just the biggest Democrat money-laundering scheme in history? Watch Solomon drop the receipts. Then share this like your country depends on it. 🇺🇸🔥 #UkraineLaundering #BidenDNC #JohnSolomon #Motherlode
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
Yep - agree those Dems sure are bad. Now let's talk about you, @SenateGOP : - Won't pass the SAVE America Act even though you have the majority. - Left over 100 House Republican bills to die in the Senate without action. - Keep running Pro Forma sessions to block your own Republican President. - Keep giving away $100 Billion a year of taxpayer money to other countries, even though we are $40 Trillion in debt. - OK, you did put on a fine Dog Parade, but that's about it.
Socialism has never produced lower prices, or more freedom. The new Marxist Democrats would send America back to inflation levels worse than the 9% under Biden.
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🚨🚨 THE GREATEST HEIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY JUST GOT EXPOSED 🚨🚨 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into HHS… and discovered the vault door had been left wide open on purpose. $2.2 TRILLION of your money. 4 MILLION transactions every single day. 50 states + 5 territories. The anti-fraud team that was supposed to guard it? 80 people. Xavier Becerra and the Biden crew transferred 76 of them out. Left with SIX. SIX people. What happened next was pure chaos: • Phony hospices in Los Angeles billing $6,000 a month for patients who never existed • Durable medical equipment scams draining tens of billions • Autism services looted for tens of billions more The store was unlocked. The thieves cleaned it out. And nobody was watching the cameras. This wasn’t a mistake. This wasn’t incompetence. This was the deliberate dismantling of America’s last line of defense against the biggest government fraud in modern history. RFK Jr. just called it what it is: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY. And now the American people know exactly who left the door unlocked. Share this until every single taxpayer sees it. They thought we’d never find out. They were wrong.
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
SILVER ALERT 72 DAYS AND STILL MISSING NO STATEMENTS, NO PHOTOS, NO PHONE CALLS AND NO VISITORS??? mmmmmm Mitch has been in politics all of his life and NOT one colleague will call or visit Mitch. Elaine is running Mitch's seat and who is on the 3 Committees Mitch sits on?
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
Skipping a vote on the Iowa Farm Bill is a strange way to ask Iowans for a promotion.
Josh Turek is a fraud. He says he'll fight for Iowans, but didn't bother to show up for nearly 60% of his votes in the state legislature. He didn't even vote on the Iowa Farm Bill. @hinsonashley will show up, fight, and deliver for working families.
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And just like that, there is no one asking where Mitch McConnell and Maxine Waters are. The corruption in congress knows no bounds.
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
Today the Senate will be holding yet another pro-forma session to prevent President Trump from making recess appointments. @SenateGOP @LeaderJohnThune
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
They are all @LeaderJohnThune ! Every. Single. One. Of. Them!
If the next president is a Democrat they can literally undo everything Trump's done on day one & start their presidency where they left off with Biden. Congress has done nothing so Trump's had to run by executive order & Congress hasn't codified any EO's! @SenateGOP screwed us!
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
We had 20 senators who said they would stop the recess They didn't Now we find out that it only takes 1 senator to disrupt the proforma gaveling in scheme And not one of these 20 senators will do it That is positive proof that these SOBs are frigging lying liars Stop
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
Tip of the iceberg up here in Alaska. Maybe this will illustrate (better than I’ve been able to explain) a bigger political problem driven by the GOP machine. It’s enabled unethical political dynasties by accepting #Murkowski’s Ranked Choice Voting, her nonsensical opposition to #SaveAmericaAct, and a haughty obstructionist mindset that hurts all Americans. And yet, GOP power-players actually increase her power with committee assignments, favors, endorsements, and FAILURE TO SUPPORT THOSE OF US WITH THE CLARION CALL bringing attention to political corruption for years. @JamesOKeefeIII @ScottPresler @foxnewspolitics @CNN @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @SenateGOP @johnthune @MikeJohnson
HOLY COW This needs to break the Internet. @JamesOKeefeIII went to Alaska during the primary on August 18th & Election Day Workers were ready to hand him Brian Murkowski’s ballot! Brian Murkowski is the bother of Senator Lisa Murkowski. Yes, the same Senator AGAINST the SAVE America Act — who won’t support photo voter ID & proof of citizenship to vote. You can’t make this up! If you live in Alaska, please share this with everyone you know & ask them to peacefully call, email, & contact Senator Murkowski’s office. Please also make a plan to vote ✅ YES to Ballot Measure 2 to DEFEAT Ranked Choice Voting this November. This is a massive, earth-shattering story. Our elections aren’t secure & the Senate is doing nothing about it.
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So far, three "Republican" Senators have presided over pro-forma sessions in the Senate to prevent President Trump from making recess appointments John Boozman of Arkansas Jim Banks of Indiana Jim Justice of West Virginia How does this benefit American citizens? @SenatorBanks @JohnBoozman @JimJustice_WV
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Mark A. Taylor retweeted
Tell Trump's 77 million voters why @foxnews is not covering the @senategop's unprecedented obstruction of recess appointments Why isn't @TheFive or @greggutfeld or or or talking about the anger boiling over at @LeaderJohnThune? We demand attention
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