Hardliner congressional Republicans are reportedly hellbent on defunding the Biden administration’s widely panned Disinformation Governance Board, even if that means shutting down the government.
“House GOP Republicans, including the offices of firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), [said] that Republicans would support using the government’s annual spending bill as a way to remove funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s new disinformation board, which the GOP sees as a vessel to censor conservative speech,” the Washington Examiner reported Sunday.
According to the Examiner, “some” Republicans are even “willing to shut down the government if Democrats resist.”
“We’re open to removing the funding for this board in any way necessary, including the appropriations and government funding process, because this board is tyrannical. We’re willing to go to the mattresses over this,” Boebert’s communications director told the Examiner.
Another Republican, Rep. Dan Bishop, said he agrees.
“We should use the power of the purse to stop this disinformation craziness that the Biden administration is doing. But we should use that power for other things too, like securing the border, because the Democrats need us for certain things like keeping the government open, and we should use that leverage to get what we want,” Bishop told the Examiner.
Republicans should, in general, act “far more aggressive” in regard to the nation’s purse, he added.
The problem, of course, is that for a shutdown to succeed, congressional GOP leaders Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell would likely have to be on board, and they don’t appear to be fond of shutdowns.
When several hardliner GOP senators threatened to push a government shutdown last December because of President Joe Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate, McConnell quickly nipped the idea in the bud.
“We are not going to shut the government down. That makes no sense for anyone. Almost no one on either side thinks that’s a good idea,” the Senate GOP leader said.
Senate Republican Leader McConnell just now on FNC: “We are not going to shut the government down. That makes no sense for anyone. Almost no one on either side thinks that’s a good idea.”
— Jared Halpern (@JaredHalpern) December 2, 2021
On the effort to block spending bill without vaccine mandate ban, McConnell says “I don’t think shutting down the government over this issue is going to get an outcome.” He says courts have pushed the pause button and next week Senate will vote on measure to overturn mandate.
— Jared Halpern (@JaredHalpern) December 2, 2021
But there may be some good news.
“To avoid a government shutdown, Democrats will have to allow this disinformation board to have its wings clipped,” an unnamed senior House Republican aide told the Examiner.
“Democrats won’t want to be known for shutting down the government over a controversial and politically unpopular disinformation board with the midterms around the corner. Republicans will have a field day attacking them relentlessly on this.”
While these words of an aide aren’t necessarily indicative of what GOP leaders themselves think, they’re still a good sign.
All this comes as anger continues to mount over the Disinformation Governance Board and its assigned leader, Nina Jankowicz, a radical far-leftist who thinks any dissenting facts and opinions are a form of so-called “disinformation.”
This includes opinions on Vice President Kamala Harris’s sordid rise to the top, opinions on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s proven marriage to her brother, facts about the Biden family’s corrupt business dealings in Ukraine, and the simple, biologically rooted fact that a man is a man, regardless of how he identifies himself.
Here’s Nina Jankowicz, the Mary Poppins lady over at the “Ministry of Truth,” claiming that “liberal voices are being silenced” on social media. Now that’s some Grade A gaslighting right there. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/OOjCOzU5G9
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) May 6, 2022
Nina Jankowicz was asked about a Senate committee report on the Biden family’s involvement in Ukraine.
She accused the Senate committee of spreading disinformation. Seems like some Senators should want to ask her about this. pic.twitter.com/Rtb0OboKiC
— Maze (@mazemoore) May 7, 2022
Nina Jankowicz – “Gender disinformation is a threat to national security.”
What is gender disinformation you ask? pic.twitter.com/6ekomXJLoY
— Maze (@mazemoore) May 6, 2022
Jankowicz is also a proponent of critical race theory, a racial essentialist ideology that seeks to organize all people into a racial hierarchy where the supposed “oppressed” are granted the most rights and the supposed “oppressors” are granted the least.
They’re based on the idea that the discrimination and injustices committed in the past by whites and males can only be rectified by modern discrimination and injustice against whites and males, especially white males.
Footage of Jankowicz accusing GOP of ‘weaponizing’ emotions with disinfo emerges; GOP Judiciary turns up the HEAT https://t.co/zcCDPGblH8
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) May 5, 2022
According to reports, Jankowicz even includes quotes from the founder of CRT in her 2020 book, “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict.”
She quotes Kimberle Crenshaw in her book, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Nina Jankowicz is propagating Marxist propaganda talking points about Critical Race Theory.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 5, 2022
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This third Obama term in the White House (and be honest, that’s what it is) has put a cabal of absolute human debris in positions of high power . . . I just hope it can be reversed in a smooth transition.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stand firm on this as DO something! Get a coalition together & push push push. I don’t know how to make it plainer…
Instead of talking about it, I wish for once the republicans would do something. Whether right or wrong do it and put the bidump administration on notice!!!