House Republicans are seeking to defund the Biden administration's controversial Disinformation Governance Board, and conservative members are eager to threaten a shutdown to do so if necessary.
House GOP Republicans, including the offices of firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Jim Banks , told the Washington Examiner that Republicans would support using the government’s annual spending bill as a way to remove funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s new disinformation board, which the GOP sees as a vessel to censor conservative speech.“We should use the power of the purse to stop this disinformation craziness that the Biden administration is doing,” Republican Rep.
The board will be led by Nina Jankowicz, a former disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and adviser to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, who has a history of controversial and misleading statements. “We’re open to removing the funding for this board in any way necessary, including the appropriations and government funding process, because this board is tyrannical,” said Ben Stout, Boebert’s communications director. “We're willing to go to the mattresses over this.”
Despite the strong GOP support, the measure is unlikely to move to the floor, given the Democratic majority in Congress.
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