The Daily Signal - New Government Funding Deal, Liz Cheney Accused of Witness Tampering, Biden Said to Push Abortion on Sierra Leone | Dec. 17

Starting point is 00:00:00 Republicans say they've made a new government funding deal. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell. This is the Daily Signals Top News in 10 for Tuesday, December 17th. House Republican leaders made a deal for a continuing resolution to fund the government into March. Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, said negotiations on the Senate side continue. The bill is expected to push back the funding deadline to March 14th, setting Congress up for a government funding. battle toward the tail end of Donald Trump's first 100 days as president. The deal reportedly will also deliver more than $100 billion in emergency aid for disaster relief following a

Starting point is 00:00:48 tumultuous hurricane season. The massive spending package is expected to include a bill to restrict U.S. investment in China, an extension of expiring health programs, a one-year extension of the farm bill, and $10 billion in economic assistance to farmers. Four anonymous sources also told Politico that the spending package will approve year-round and permanent E-15 ethanol sales nationwide. Members of the House reportedly have not seen the text of the spending package yet. Here's Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona on that. Hi, Andy Biggs here from Arizona's fifth congressional district. This week we're supposed to vote on a continuing resolution, which will keep spending money out

Starting point is 00:01:29 the wazoo for another three months because we can't do an annual budget. That's Congress's problem. The problem that goes with it, of course, is that we have a structural deficit that keeps amounting national debt going. And this particular CR is now being laden with all kinds of policy issues that are being thrown into the mix to create effectively an omnibus bill. The problem is, of course, it's just a short-term omnibus bill. And again, we're not going to help our budget balance.

Starting point is 00:02:04 We're not going to get rid of bad policy. We're just going to add a bunch of other policy to kind of buy off votes. That's the dysfunction that comes to the United States when Congress continues to rely on a CR as opposed to a true budget. I'll keep you posted. If the House passes the spending bill at the end of this week, the Senate will receive it Friday night, which is the deadline for government shutdown. Schumer said, obviously we're getting closer to the December 20th deadline, so talk about. Time is of the essence for Republicans to reach an agreement with us that we can act on quickly. Former Representative Liz Cheney was accused of witness tampering during the Democrat-led investigation of the January 6th riot.

Starting point is 00:02:49 The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee released a report Tuesday, saying the Republican Congresswoman turned Kamala Harris campaign supporter, improperly communicated with Cassidy Hutchinson, an ex-aid to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows under the Trump administration. Republicans are calling for an FBI investigation. The report says, Based on the evidence obtained by this subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former vice chair of the January 6th Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated

Starting point is 00:03:19 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Evidence uncovered by the subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson's attorney's knowledge. According to the report, Cheney encouraged significant changes, including details that contradicted other evidence to Hutchinson's testimony in the January 6 hearings in 2022. The report questions Hutchinson's credibility as well.

Starting point is 00:03:45 It says the former aide's testimony about Donald Trump's alleged attempt to seize control of his presidential limousine was refuted by Secret Service officials. Moreover, the subcommittee alleges there is evidence of collusion between special counsel Jack Smith and the January 6th committee. Representative Barry Loudermilk, who leads the subcommittee, urged fellow Congress, to take action in light of these findings. He wrote, Transparency, accountability, and equal application of the law are the only solutions to return our nation to one that is free, safe, and full of opportunity. The Biden administration is said to be pushing abortion on a West African country with pro-life values. A U.S. foreign aid agency

Starting point is 00:04:25 called the Millennium Challenge Corporation is threatening to withhold hundreds of millions from a U.S. agreement with Sierra Leone. Unless the parliament passes a bill, decriminalize, nationalizing abortion, a former senior U.S. government official who has worked in the region told the daily signal. The deceptively named Safe Motherhood Act would legalize abortion up to birth to protect the woman's mental health. Representative Chris Smith, who is co-chair of the pro-life caucus, called this pro-abortion bullying in a raw attempt at ideological colonialism. An informed NGO leader in Sierra Leone said the Biden administration is pressuring Parliament to pass the bill before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20. Trump has promised to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which establishes there is no international right to abortion. The first Trump administration introduced the Geneva Consensus

Starting point is 00:05:14 Declaration, and the Biden administration then removed the U.S. from the accord, which was designed to promote women's health and strengthen the family. Here's Trump in September of 2023. Under my leadership, the United States will also rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration created by my administration and signed by 36. nations to reject the globalist claim of an international right to abortion. This declaration affirms the family as the foundation of a good and great society and states that every human being has the inherent right to life. And Joe Biden withdrew the United States from this historic declaration, his very first

Starting point is 00:05:59 week in office, as he did so much else. Religious leaders in Sierra Leone opposed the abortion law as to the most. majority of Sierra Leoneans, according to the former U.S. official, who said he remains close to citizens there. Sierra Leone's population is 77% Muslim and 22% Christian. The Millennium Challenge Corporation's press secretary told the daily signal the foreign aid organization is unaware of any Sierra Leonean abortion legislation and has never made any request to the government of Sierra Leone regarding abortion policies. She said any such legislation would be an internal matter for Sierra Leone with no U.S. government developments funds made contingent on its passage.

Starting point is 00:06:39 Now let's hit our newsflash for the day. First up, far-left Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost her bid to lead the House Oversight Committee. Squad member AOC lost two key votes necessary to earn the top Democrat position on the powerful oversight panel. Representative Jerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, who was backed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, clenched the spot instead. Connolly has served 16 years on the Oversight Committee. President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of the woman behind the largest municipal embezzlement scandal in U.S. history.

Starting point is 00:07:19 71-year-old Rita Crundwell stole nearly $54 million from Ronald Reagan's hometown, Dixon, Illinois, over the course of 22 years. She pled guilty to the crime in 2012. Dixon City Manager Danny Langloss told Fox and Friends first that the town community is shocked, outraged and in disbelief. Following reports that the Biden administration is auctioning off border wall materials, Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick said he would bid on the wall, buy it in Texas, and give it to Donald Trump.

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The Daily Signal - New Government Funding Deal, Liz Cheney Accused of Witness Tampering, Biden Said to Push Abortion on Sierra Leone | Dec. 17

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