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https://notthebee.com/article/mike-lee-seven-other-republican-senators-respond-to-lawfare-against-trump-pledge-to-no-longer-cooperate-with-any-democrat-legislative-priorities-or-nominations

Guys, Republicans might be starting to learn something.

A cohort of US Senators, led by Utah's Mike Lee, have signed a pledge to no longer cooperate in any way with the Democrats in the Senate. No more Democrat bills. No more Biden nominees. Nothing.

We've got the Mike Lee 8 here.

Mike Lee (R-Utah), JD Vance (R-Ohio), Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), Eric Schmitt (R- Missouri), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Rick Scott (R-Florida), Roger Marshall (R- Kansas), and Marco Rubio (R- Florida) have all put their names to this letter decrying the White House's "mockery of the rule of law" which has "fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways."

Biden went a step too far.

Only eight Republican Senators with balls?

Very disappointing.

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/tucker-talks-to-senator-mike-lee

Mike Lee talks about how DC grabbed a lot of power in 1937 when Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court to get them to agree to wildly expand the scope of the Commerce Clause.

And then after that, Congress delegated way too much power to unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch.

The net result is that DC has far more power than the Constitution intended, and most of that power is with those unelected bureaucrats.

https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1907829629706023307

https://x.com/basedmikelee/status/2009003045342806036

1. Congress should be passing the SAVE Act to stop noncitizens from voting—not paying leftists to lobby against it

The Labor/HHS spending bill advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee contains an earmark giving $500,000 to leftists falsely claiming the SAVE Act would “disenfranchise millions of Americans”



2. This earmark must go!

Also, earmarks as a whole are problematic, given their tendency to promote excessive spending and bad policy decisions

They coerce lawmakers in both parties to vote for bloated spending bills in a way that favors the left and other fans of big government

3. We need Congress to pass the SAVE Act and thereby protect election integrity—not use your money to pay far-left activists to undermine it

4. Share if you agree and tell your senators how you feel about this earmark—and all earmarks!

5. Remember: Republicans hold not only a controlling majority in the Senate, but also on the Appropriations Committee

I find it stunning that a bill containing this earmark would pass out of the Senate Appropriations Committee not just with the support of Democrats, but also the support of most of the committee’s Republicans

6. I’m sure many of the Senate Republicans on the Appropriations Committee are (and were at the time they voted on the bill) unaware of this earmark and how the $500,000 might be used by this leftist group

7. That is precisely the problem with earmarks: they operate in obscurity, lead many senators to vote for excessive and problematic bills (to advance their own pet funding projects), and often leave no meaningful opportunity for senators to object to, debate, and remove even the most abusive earmarks on the Senate floor