Get the Feds out of our classrooms

I attended public school from the first grade until my senior year of high school, as did my wife and our four children. I am pro-education. That’s why I introduced HR 899, a bill to eliminate the US Department of Education. Get the Feds out of our classrooms.

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 23, 2023

The difference in Ukraine spending under Republican control compared to when Democrats were in control

Under Democrat control, Ukraine spending was bundled with funding of everything else for USA. Under Republican control, Ukraine funding will be a separate vote. Senators need to brace themselves for the transparency and accountability that separate votes provide to tax-payers.

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 20, 2023

For 18 months, Twitter blocked my natural immunity tweets from likes and comments

For 18 months, Twitter blocked my natural immunity tweets from likes and comments (and searches?). It appears they were unblocked/unflagged in the last month. Did CDC, FDA, or a Pfizer lobbyist direct this censorship of a Congressman communicating with constituents? @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/IzqOadNABF

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 17, 2023

Here are the 201 Democrats who voted to keep Biden’s vax mandate for U.S. visitors

These are the 201 democrats who voted to keep Biden’s vax mandate, which applies to legal foreign visitors like Djokovic, but not to illegal immigrants! A double standard like this demonstrates this policy is based purely on politics without regard for science. (2 of 2) pic.twitter.com/rzJ3lPwOGO

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 16, 2023

Abolish the Department of Education

The Daily Caller reports, “Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie has reintroduced H.R. 899 for the 118th Congress, which seeks to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

I have introduced a bill to terminate the Department of Education.

There is no Constitutional authority for this federal bureaucracy to exist. pic.twitter.com/xKWHgPfVnq — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 14, 2023

‘I have introduced a bill to terminate the Department of Education. There is no Constitutional authority for this federal bureaucracy to exist,’ Massie wrote Feb. 14 on Twitter.

Massie previously introduced H.R. 899 during the 117th Congress in February 2021. The bill ran a single sentence: ‘The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2022.’

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development!https://t.co/uST5cEKYx5

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 14, 2023

‘Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development,’ Massie said in a press release for the bill’s introduction in 2021. ‘States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students. Schools should be accountable. Parents have the right to choose the most appropriate educational opportunity for their children, including home school, public school, or private school.”

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How much the FBI searches for U.S. citizens has skyrocketed

The number of searches done on U.S. persons by the FBI: ⚠️ 2020: Over a million searches ⚠️ 2021: Over three million searches#GetAWarrant #ampFW https://t.co/myBs6sFPGG

— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) February 13, 2023

The 'reverse targeting' of Americans enables our intelligence agencies to spy on citizens

The "reverse targeting" of Americans enables our intelligence agencies to spy on citizens and is an inward weaponization of the tools meant to protect our country. @OANN https://t.co/aXMZSHX8LC

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 11, 2023

End warrantless spying now

The following remarks by Rep. Thomas Massie were made during Thursday’s select subcommittee hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

"Speaking of fixing things, I want to talk about the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Service Act) program, which, Mr. Baker, you’ve talked about in your testimony. Particularly the 702 part of it. Parts of it that we are going to reexamine and reauthorize potentially.

On the surface of it, it sounds like a practical, legal concept that you would collect information on foreign targets who don’t have constitutional rights, and you might incidentally collect information that pertains to U.S. citizens who do have constitutional rights.

But because it was collected incidentally, and not in pursuit of that U.S. person… oh, we’ll go look at this data. You know, we’ll put some policies and procedures, but the Constitution does not apply here because it was incidentally collected.

While surveilling foreign targets under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the US government collects exabytes of data pertaining to American citizens.

The Constitution requires a warrant to query that vast database for Americans. End warrantless spying now. pic.twitter.com/dpaCAx3Npp — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 10, 2023

Well if the incidental collection were small enough that might be a valid concept. The problem is we’ve collected millions of exabytes of data. When what you’re collecting incidentally becomes the entire universe…

I think you might need a warrant to go look at that information.

And when the number of searches that is done on U.S. persons by the FBI - I’m not talking about CIA, NSA. We know in 2020 it was over a million searches into this fishing, into this database, where you don’t need a warrant.

Then in 2021 it want from a million to over three million searches.

This is problematic and I hope we look at this going forward."

The IRS plans to target food servers' tips

President Joe Biden promised that taxes would only go up on those making over $400,000 annually.

Do restaurant servers make over $400,000?

Los Angeles’ KTLA reports, “The Internal Revenue Service wants to do a better job of monitoring, and presumably taxing, tips in the service industry.

How many waiters and waitresses are making more than $400K per year Mr. President? IRS proposes new reporting program for tips in the service industry: “to improve tip reporting compliance” https://t.co/D2MZucZRLy

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 9, 2023

The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS on Monday introduced the Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA), which the agency says would be a ‘voluntary’ program involving restaurants, bars, food delivery and other businesses where workers earn money from tips…

Aspects of SITCA include monitoring how much revenue is generated through tips and annual reporting by employers…

Many service industry workers rely on tips as a large source of income since they typically earn less than minimum wage as an hourly rate.”

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If you enter the U.S. illegally, no vax required. If you fly here legally, you must be vaccinated

Enter the country illegally: U.S. policy is “no vaccine no problem.” But try to fly here legally and you’ll be stopped if you’re not vaxxed. What an insane policy. The House will vote today to lift the mandate and end this illogical policy.https://t.co/aQfI5V78Vb

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 8, 2023