The Senate rightly decided to keep the legislative filibuster. It protects the voice of millions of Americans. It keeps our laws and republic steady. It defends those not in the majority. I am glad to have cast my vote in favor of the rules and against this Democrat power grab.

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) January 20, 2022

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Matt Kibbe is joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to discuss the bloated end-of-year budget that always keeps Congress in town right up until Christmas. This year, it’s particularly grim, as the bill contains funding to implement the Biden administration’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate.

While many Republicans are hoping the courts will strike down the mandate, this creates a dangerous precedent in which Congress abdicates its responsibility to the voters, ceding that power to unelected judges. While there’s a good chance that the vaccine mandate will not be allowed to stand, it doesn’t excuse the legislative branch from properly fulfilling its role to rein in the executive power of the president.

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Q: “Are you alleging that (Fauci) lied under oath?”

PAUL: “Absolutely. Because when you take two viruses and you make it stronger that’s gain of function. If you take two viruses and you try to infect human cells, and you find it’s more infectious or more lethal, that’s gain of function by anybody’s common sense understanding of it.

No amount of smarmy word salad will get Fauci out of the fact that he lied before Congress. #FauciResign pic.twitter.com/lo81FphHeq

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 4, 2021

So what he’s trying to do is redefine it. He’s using sort of smarmy word salad to try to get around the fact that it happened.

But it’s not just responsibility for the last pandemic it’s trying to prevent the next.

If we don’t understand how dangerous this research is, this could happen again.”

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Townhall’s Brian Darling writes, “While all eyes are on Afghanistan, Congress is getting ready to shatter spending records with massive new spending plans. Hold on to your wallet!

This fall, Congress has to tackle a debt limit hike, appropriations, the Democrat reconciliation measure and a so-called ‘infrastructure bill.’ Congress is broken and maybe it is time for Republicans to block a debt limit hike like conservative Republicans attempted in the 2011 debt limit fight. That fight resulted in a provision in law, the Sequester, that was scheduled to trigger mandatory spending cuts if Congress did not abide by certain spending targets.

One way Democrats are trying to avoid a tough vote is to pass legislation to create a ‘Resolution of Disapproval’ mechanism so the Biden administration can raise the debt limit, Then, Democrats who are in trouble at home could vote against the Biden debt limit hike and this would allow them to make believe they opposed the bill to constituents. It is much like the most recent vote in the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) set up a vote on a deeming resolution that allowed Democratic moderates to vote for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill with a rule that deems the Biden $3.5 trillion budget measure as passed without them having to vote for it. The bottom line is that Democrats know they are facing some serious headwinds next fall in the midterm elections thanks to a radical left spending agenda, yet they forge forward.”

Read the entire column.

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