Key Pro-Life Organizations Demand Republicans Repeal Weaponized FACE Act ‘As Soon As Possible’
‘Since its creation, 97 percent of all FACE Act cases have been brought against pro-life Americans,’ the letter notes.‘Since its creation, 97 percent of all FACE Act cases have been brought against pro-life Americans,’ the letter notes.The looming spending fight nobody is talking about
While reconciliation has dominated recent conversations on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers have yet to address the fast-approaching funding deadline.
Senate and House Republicans have dedicated the last few weeks to getting their respective budget blueprints passed. But as lawmakers lay out lengthy proposals to codify President Donald Trump's legislative priorities, they are also faced with a looming government shutdown.
The current continuing resolution, commonly referred to as a CR, is set to expire soon — on March 14. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and the GOP leadership have not yet put forth a drafted CR.
Despite Johnson's impressive reconciliation victory, he is up against another tall task in the near future.
Although the CR hasn't been the focal point of closed-door discussions, Republicans are beginning to talk spending strategy behind the scenes. One added complication as negotiations start to take place is how Republicans aim to extend the current rate of funding, as a CR does, while also advocating for DOGE-style cuts.
Johnson told Blaze News in an exclusive interview Monday that he has been in close communication with Elon Musk, reaffirming his commitment to codify the DOGE's directives. When asked about how he will balance a CR while also maintaining the DOGE cuts, he noted that there will likely be "anomalies" to amend the spending levels for certain agencies.
"You add anomalies to a CR," Johnson said Wednesday. "You can increase some spending. You can decrease some spending. You can add language that says, for example, the dramatic changes that have been made to USAID would be reflected in the ongoing spending."
"It would be a clean CR, mostly, I think, but with some of those changes to adapt to the new realities here," Johnson added. "The new reality is less government, more efficiency, a better return for the taxpayers, and I think that's something everybody should welcome."
Notably, the House will be out of session for two days leading up to the funding deadline and the week following. This is worth pointing out because spending fights have historically been resolved in the 11th hour.
To complicate matters further, Republicans have an incredibly narrow two-seat majority, which means Johnson can afford to lose only one GOP vote on the CR. It is unlikely that Democrats will lend a hand to Johnson, and he told Blaze News that he has no intention of relying on Democrats to pass legislation in the future.
Despite Johnson's impressive reconciliation victory, he is up against another tall task in the near future.
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Is the GOP anti-Trump resistance on life support?
Blaze senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford addressed this question in his latest Beltway Brief. Now, he joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to expound on why he thinks the GOP’s anti-Trump movement is on its way out.
“I think it's on its last legs, at least as far as its ability to create, to shape what goes on in the White House,” he says.
The best evidence that RINO power is waning can be seen in the failed attempts to sink several Trump nominees. Despite a vicious smear campaign, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed, albeit narrowly by Vice President JD Vance’s tie-breaking vote.
And even though RINOS “were unhappy with some aspects of RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda,” Kennedy scored enough votes from the Senate Finance Committee to advance to a full Senate vote. One of the votes that pushed him through came from Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who, in the end, reversed his "no" due to enormous pressure from a very vocal MAHA movement, or perhaps because he “is up for re-election next year in Trump-loving Louisiana.” Either way, it’s a MAGA win.
Further, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who they were “extremely against,” given that she is a “direct threat to deep-state intelligence community interests,” was also able to advance from committee when Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) both confirmed their support.
RINOs, says Bedford, are realizing that “to step out of line [is] to face the most popular Republican president in generations and the majority of the American voters who actually put him there.”
If Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, is confirmed, it will “signify the end of Senate GOP opposition to his chosen Cabinet and the beginning of a new Republican Party,” Bedford wrote in his op-ed.
“The only real threat to any of these nominees ... is Republicans and Republicans who promised to be a thorn in the side of MAGA,” he adds, but they “have basically been beaten at every single round by the Trump administration and by the people who push from the outside, the people who push from the inside, and honestly, a couple of good nominees.”
“They’re in full retreat,” he says.
To hear more of Bedford’s analysis, watch the clip above.
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Three of Trump’s most controversial nominees have yet to sit in the Senate hot seat: Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmation hearings for all three are set to take place this week.
While Democrats are focused on attacking Kash Patel, whom Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford calls the most “Trumpy” of the three, Republicans, specifically the “neo-conservatives,” are working against Gabbard and Kennedy.
Mike Pence, for example, has waged a smear campaign against RFK Jr. for “pro-life” reasons. Despite his personal views, Kennedy has made it clear that he will “execute the president's vision on abortion.”
Bedford, however, says Pence’s “stand up for babies” act is just a guise to hide his true intentions.
“Mike Pence [is] trying to sink a Donald Trump nominee who's outside of the mainstream in some of his views,” he tells Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”
As for Gabbard, she must overcome the “neoconservatives and the hawks who are suspicious” of her due to her “independent thinking about what the Blob's up to,” adds Bedford.
“Those are the two nominees this week who I think are in more trouble. They're going to have a harder path, and that's not because of the Democrats, even though, of course, Democrats aren't going to vote for them, but it's because of the Republicans who might flake off.”
Kash Patel, on the other hand, faces less scrutiny from the GOP but a great deal from Democrats who fear his vision of major FBI reform.
Democrats oppose him because “he's going to be effective” and because there’s potentially a lot they want “to hide,” says Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.
“That’s totally true,” says Bedford.
“The Trump administration is working on uncovering a lot more of the sins of the deep state once they're actually in there and inside, and I know that Kash Patel's people have been working closely with former FBI agents who saw this up front and personal in their years of service, who witnessed the politicization, who saw every single case the FBI was working on, whether it was child sex trafficking, whether it was foreign spies, whether it was organized crime, put on the back burner so the FBI could … [put] hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in prison over January 6,” he explains.
“So the Democrats are going to try and use J6 against him. They’re going to try and ask him questions like, ‘Do you support attacks on law enforcement?’ in an effort to “[tie] him to pardons and commutations for those people who were convicted of attacks on law enforcement,” says Bedford, noting that Patel in his response will need to carefully “toe that line in a way that makes Republicans still feel comfortable.”
To hear more of his predictions for Senate confirmation hearings, watch the episode above.
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How Trump is thwarting mainstream media attacks AND creating a new GOP through sheer SPEED
Since his inauguration one week ago, the country has had its eyes fixed on Donald Trump. And why wouldn’t it? He’s been signing executive orders left and right, delivering on the promises made in his campaign and carrying out the mandate given to him by the American people.
But while the majority of people have been gawking at Trump — either in awe or in horror, depending on which side they’re on — Liz Wheeler has been watching the reactions of two different groups: the mainstream media and the GOP at large.
It’s crystal clear that things have changed since Trump’s first term.
Unlike Obama who would pass “a landmark piece of legislation” and then “surveil the landscape” to see the impact, Trump “is pioneering a new type of campaigning.”
Liz calls it “shock and awe.”
“He's doing so many significant, Earth-changing things all at once,” she says.
This highly effective strategy is causing lefties and those with the mainstream media to lose their minds — not just because of the changes Trump is making but also because “they don't have time to propagate fake news about him” before he’s “on to the next big thing.”
“Speed,” she says, will characterize “47's administration from start to stop.”
Not only does this lightning momentum thwart the left’s attempts to churn out propaganda, it’s also having an impact on Trump’s own party.
“Republican members of Congress” specifically, Liz says, are benefitting from this rapidity.
Many of them who are “not as based” as we would hope are “fearful of mainstream media attacks, of being called a racist or a xenophobe or a Nazi or inhumane or anti-migrant or whatever stupid thing the left decides to call us,” she explains.
But because of the speed at which the Trump administration is operating, these Republican members of Congress are “not really sustaining that kind of fire from the mainstream media.”
“Maybe they'll get heat for like two seconds, but then it's over, and anyone can tolerate the heat for two seconds,” says Liz.
“There are squishy Republican members of Congress who in the past would not have wanted to support [mass deportations] because they would not have wanted to sustain the criticism of the mainstream media, but now what are these squishy Republican members saying?” she asks.
“They’re saying, ‘Trump was elected by the American people, and we're going to stand by their desires.”’
“Oh, so for once, you, as a member of Congress, are actually going to represent the voters that sent you there?”’ laughs Liz.
This, in turn, “gives Trump the power to conduct the mandate — even the legislative mandate, not just the executive mandate — that we voted him into office to achieve,” she says.
To hear more of Liz’s analysis, watch the clip above.
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