February 13, 2024

The United States has traditionally had a government whereby citizens elected officials who were empowered to make decisions for the public. That is the core principle of a representative republic.

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Just in the past year, however, we have seen our representatives in both the House and the Senate undermine the will of the people who elected them.

Let’s consider just three issues: the debt ceiling, the border, and the Ukraine War.

The Debt Ceiling: Despite Kevin McCarthy’s promises to hold the debt ceiling, he caved to Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. In meeting at the White House, he not only agreed to raise the debt ceiling, but he agreed to let President Biden spend without caps not for one, but two years.

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According to a left-leaning CNN poll, 79% of Republican voters opposed raising the debt ceiling unless serious budget cuts were made.

Fourteen of those voters’ representatives in the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling. In the House, 149 of 222 representatives, or nearly 70 percent, voted for the unlimited, no-capped debt ceiling raise.

They went against the will of their constituents and agreed to fund all the injurious policies of the Biden Administration.

The Border: The now infamous McConnell border security bill, which would have codified the ‘legal’ crossing of 5,000 illegal migrants a day under the supervision and control of DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, was so outrageous that even Senator James Langford and his boss and bill instigator Senator McConnell could not vote for it in the end.

This bill had no funds for finishing the wall, implementing ‘Remain in Mexico,’ or any deterrent to illegal immigration. It was a sneaky ploy to ensure that illegal immigration would go on in perpetuity at a minimum rate of 5,000 migrants a day.

According to a PEW report, 91 percent of Republicans want the border to be secured. The McConnell-Langford bill was so out-of-line that the Oklahoma state legislature censured the senator.