Hero of Conservatives Speaker Mike Johnson Agreed with Democrats to Re-Authorize the Leftwing State Department's Censorship Program

Gabe Kaminsky
@gekaminsky

We have Exclusive details in @dcexaminer on the new Republican leadership-approved provision that would give a one-year lifeline to the State Department's Global Engagement Center -- the office our outlet reported worked to suppress speech in recent years w/ social media platforms and foreign NGOs.

-- Senior GOP staffers involved in "censorship" investigations into the Biden administration feel betrayed. Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee and Small Business Committee, in particular, worked over the last year to issue subpoenas and unearth documents on the GEC's activities showing it skirted its mandate to not act domestically; @FDRLST and @realDailyWire then sued the GEC with the help of @KenPaxtonTX.

--"This is literally tearing down the work and wins of Republican-led committees that investigated the GEC," a Republican aide close to GEC investigations told me. "Are we going to add the cost of that investigation to the total cost of this bill?"

--House Speaker Mike Johnson, now facing significant scrutiny from conservatives, defended the provision in a statement shared w/ me:

--"Speaker Johnson has killed multiple efforts to pass a 5-year reauthorization of the GEC during the past year, including as recently as the National Defense Authorization Act last week," a spokesperson for Johnson said. "This bill ensures the incoming Trump Administration has the maximum ability and authority to determine how to handle the office, its authorities, and funding."

--According to a congressional source familiar with the matter, the GEC provision was a private demand from Senate Democrats in exchange for Republicans getting a provision aiming to protect small businesses from certain fines approved by the Biden administration under a bill called the Corporate Transparency Act.

More from Gabe Kaminsky here.

Sean Davis @seanmdav

Mike Johnson isn't refusing to shut down the corrupt censorship-industrial complex. He's breathing new life into it and giving it more money. The Global Engagement Center (GEC) has illegally censored conservatives for YEARS to the point that we were forced to sue them in federal court, and Mike Johnson's response is to give them more money.

Mike Lee @SenMikeLee

Why is the Republican House about to reauthorize a government censorship and propaganda operation?

What are we even doing here?

Ace of Spades @AceofSpadesHQ

Trump can kill this with a single statement:

"If you re-authorize the government's censorship regime, *I promise that I will use it to the utmost.*"

And Santa Mike gave the Democrats -- and his fellow Regime Handmaidens -- other wonderful toys, too:

Jon Herold @patel_patriot

This CR is putting in a section that allows them to "quash or modify any legal process...if compliance with the legal process would require the disclosure of House data..."

House data = "any electronic mail or other electronic or data communication"

They're also applying this section to any pending matters.

Basically if somebody was trying to subpoena emails of a member of congress because of a potential crime or something, this would allow them to quash such a subpoena.

Derrick Evans
@DerrickEvans4WV

JUST IN: The 1,547 page CR would allow for Congress to BLOCK an investigation into the January 6th committee.

As a Jan 6th Prisoner, I find it appalling that they put me in solitary confinement, & now they are trying to give themselves immunity for their own J6 crimes.

Christopher Bedford
@CBedfordDC

@MikeJohnson promised:

1) An open process led by..
2) Committee chairs to produce..
3) Not a Christmas omnibus, & giving..
4) Members 72 hours to read

If the House votes at 5pm, as is rumored, he will have broken 1, 2 & 4, and bent 3 beyond recognition

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!

Officer Lew @officer_Lew

BREAKING: The House Republicans so far that have announced they will vote AGAINST the 1,500+ page Spending Bill to fund the Government.

Rep. Nancy Mace
Rep. Wesley Hunt
Rep. Kat Cammack
Rep. Andy Biggs
Rep. Bob Good
Rep. Paul Gosar
Rep. Ralph Norman
Rep. Tim Burchett
Rep. Chip Roy

I've tried to give Mike Johnson a chance, but I'm done. This fearful little weakling is not a leader.

Fox News reports that "conservatives" are "revolting" over the bill.

I hope so. This is bad. Once again our Republican Party spends all of its political capital furthering the political aims of the Democrat-Marxist Cult.

Sean Davis @seanmdav

If every Democrat votes for the omnibus abomination, they would need 76 Republicans to join them to pass the bill, because 287 total votes will be needed to pass it (2/3 vote threshold from the current 430 lawmakers because the omnibus is on the suspension calendar).

All the effort right now needs to be geared toward educating every single Republican lawmaker understands what will happen to their political careers if they pass this monstrosity.

Holy crap, even this weaking cuck is now knocking the "cramdown" bill:

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

UPDATE: Senator John Cornyn is now slamming the spending bill.

"How on earth did a 3 month Continuing Resolution grow into this Cramnibus?"

If they won't do the jobs we hired them to do, we can easily replace them with some other midwit careerist nobodies who will do the jobs we tell them to do.

posted by Ace at 03:15 PM

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