The Daily Signal - Republican Showdown Over Foreign Aid Bills, A Third Republican Wants to Oust Speaker Johnson, Biden Opens Girls’ Sports to Boys, Biden Closes Off Alaska to Critical Minerals Mining, Banks Introduces Bill to Defund NPR | April 19

Starting point is 00:00:01 I'm Brian Gottstein, and this is the Daily Signal top news for Friday, April 19th. Here are today's headlines. The House of Representatives failed to gain the support of more than 25% of Republicans in a crucial vote on Friday. Daily Signal executive editor Rob Bluey reports that it's the latest showdown between Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican lawmakers. The rule passed with significant Democrat support. It combines four unrelated foreign aid bills. into a single package. The four bills include a funding bill for Ukraine, one for Israel, another that would impose more sanctions on China, Iran, and Russia, and a fourth bill mandating TikTok's parent company severed ties with the communist Chinese government or cease operations in the United States. Johnson pledged that lawmakers will get to vote on each of the four bills individually. However, since the rule passed the House Friday, following those separate votes, the bills will be consistent.

Starting point is 00:01:13 consolidated into one $95 billion package without further deliberation. Defeating the rule presented conservatives with their best opportunity to block the foreign aid package in the House. Conservatives have advocated prioritizing a border security bill and then considering each foreign aid bill separately. 55 Republicans voted against the consolidation rule, Heritage Action for America, a partner organization of the Heritage Foundation and the Daily Signal announced its opposition to combining the four bills. Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker said that

Starting point is 00:01:52 promising votes on four separate bills that are immediately tied back together is a disingenuous maneuver that lawmakers should reject. A third Republican has announced his support for ousting fellow Republican Mike Johnson as the Speaker of the House. According to the Daily Signals, Katrina Trinko, Arizona Representative Paul Gosar announced that he would join Representative Marjorie Taylor Green's effort to remove Johnson. If passed, the motion to vacate would end Johnson's tenure as House Speaker after fewer than six months. Gosar said, rather than spending the resources to secure our southern border and combating the invasion of 11 million illegal aliens, and despite repeated promises that there'd be no additional money,

Starting point is 00:02:40 going to Ukraine without first securing the border, the speaker is on the verge of sending another $61 billion to Ukraine. GoSAR added, our borders cannot be an afterthought. We need a speaker who puts America first, rather than bending to the reckless demands of the warmongers, neocons, and the military industrial complex, making billions from a costly and endless war half a world away. Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky announced earlier this week that he supports Greens' motion to vacate. If all 213 House Democrats vote in support of the motion to remove Johnson as Speaker, only three Republicans would need to cross over for the motion to carry once Republican Representative Mike Gallagher from Wisconsin resigns, as he plans to do imminently.

Starting point is 00:03:32 The Department of Education just released its long-delayed re-reliased. of Title IX, the 50-year-old civil rights law guaranteeing equality of the sexes in education, including providing for women's high school and college sports. The rewrite is so vast that it promises to turn Title IX's protections for women completely upside down, according to the Heritage Foundation Sarah Partial Perry. Perry says Biden's Department of Education has unilaterally expanded the prohibition against sex discrimination to include a prohibition against discrimination based on gender identity. Under the Biden administration sweeping new rule,

Starting point is 00:04:13 any K-12 school, college, or university that receives any federal funding would have to open up girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, housing, sports teams, and any other sex-separated program to biological boys who claim to identify as girls. Similarly, boys' facilities would have to be accessible to biological girls who identify as boys. The regulations also require K-12 schools to accept a child's gender identity regardless of actual biological sex without providing any notice to or seeking the approval of the child's parents. Earth Day is Monday, but on Friday, President Joe Biden made

Starting point is 00:04:56 large swaths of Alaska off limits to the development of oil, natural gas, and critical minerals. White House Senior Advisor for climate policy, John Podesta, said that the President's actions are meant to protect lands and waters in the Western Arctic and ensure their continued use by Alaska's native communities. However, with oil prices at more than $80 a barrel, Biden's Interior Department is banning oil development on 13 million acres in Alaska, including 40% of the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve. According to the Heritage Foundation's Diana Furch got Roth, this comes at a time when American oil companies and refineries have watched Biden destroy their industry to appease environmentalists while blaming these same producers for fuel

Starting point is 00:05:42 shortages and a lack of critical minerals for the U.S. Furch got Roth says that America, Russia, and China are in a race for valuable deep-sea minerals to power their electric vehicle batteries. America has some of the largest offshore Arctic deposits but will cede them to foreign adversaries. if American companies are not permitted to mine them. Republican Representative Jim Banks introduced legislation Friday to cut off federal funding to national public radio. According to the Daily Caller, this comes after 25-year NPR editor, Yuri Berliner,

Starting point is 00:06:19 alleged in the news outlet the free press that NPR has an extensive left-wing political bias. Berliner, who noted that NPR's Washington Bureau had 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, was suspended by NPR after his essay came out. Earlier this week, he announced his resignation. NPR's new CEO, Catherine Mahar, has also made headlines recently as researcher and city journal author Christopher Rufo found old tweets demonstrating some of her more extreme political leanings to the left.

Starting point is 00:06:53 She's used phrases like structural privilege and cis-white mobility privilege. She supported Black Lives Matter from its earliest days. She's compared driving cars with smoking cigarettes. She's concerned about toxic masculinity and called former President Donald Trump a racist, and has also described the First Amendment as the number one challenge to combating misinformation. In an interview with The Daily Caller, Banks and Indiana Republican said that Mahar is a left-wing activist who doesn't believe in free speech or objective journalism. and he says his constituents shouldn't be writing her paychecks.

Starting point is 00:07:31 NPR and PBS receive about $500 million a year from taxpayers. Banks told the daily caller that it was time to pull the blog on NPR and that Congress must stop spending other people's hard-earned money on what he called a national embarrassment and low-grade propaganda. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thanks for listening to The Daily Signal's top news. If you haven't gotten a chance, check out our morning show right here in this podcast feed, where we interview lawmakers, experts,

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The Daily Signal - Republican Showdown Over Foreign Aid Bills, A Third Republican Wants to Oust Speaker Johnson, Biden Opens Girls’ Sports to Boys, Biden Closes Off Alaska to Critical Minerals Mining, Banks Introduces Bill to Defund NPR | April 19

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