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Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, has had a relationship with the communist Chinese spanning decades, a relationship that has caused much concern as the 2024 presidential election nears this November.
According to Time, the Minnesota governor has traveled to the People's Republic of China over 30 times, including for his honeymoon, which was mentioned in Walz' congressional biography.
But Walz' links to China have come under scrutiny in recent months, with Republicans pointing out the issue with having a potential vice president in the pocket of the Chinese Communist Party.
Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in a news release the DHS has information regarding Walz on file in both classified and unclassified documents that will be relevant to their investigation.
"The Committee has recently received whistleblower disclosures informing the Committee of serious concern among Department of Homeland personnel regarding a longstanding connection between the CCP and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz. Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees – titled 'NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync' – that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee's investigation. The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS," Comer said.
Comer stated the investigation into Walz had been going on for some time in order to understand to what extent the CCP had been able to infiltrate, influence, and weaken the U.S. through its relationship with a state governor.
"The Committee's investigation of the CCP – begun long before Governor Walz was elevated to be the vice-presidential candidate for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris – seeks to understand the extent of the CCP's infiltration and influence campaign and to identify legislative reforms to combat CCP political warfare targeting prominent Americans for elite capture. In particular, if a state governor and major political party's nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP's efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government's effort to defend the United States from the CCP's political warfare that must be urgently addressed," Comer wrote.
Walz fashions himself as a moderate Democrat, however, some of his past comments have come under the spotlight, including Walz once saying during an interview, "one person's socialism, is another person's neighborliness."
According to Fox News, Walz has attempted to downplay his visits to China, walking back previous statements he made during a congressional hearing in 2016, when he said he had visited China "dozens of times." A spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign is now insisting it was "closer to 15."
While the number of trips Walz made to China appear to be getting a whitewash by Harris' campaign, Walz lived and worked in both Hong Kong and mainland China as a teacher in an era when China was still largely cut off from the rest of the world. After a language training program in Hong Kong, Walz reportedly relocated to Foshan in the Guangdong province in southern China teaching English and American History.
Walz seems to have a habit of stretching the truth, however, after he was caught out during the vice presidential debate Tuesday, lying about his presence during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Hong Kong, where official numbers of protestors killed by the People's Liberation Army ranged from 400 to several thousand.
When asked to clarify the discrepancy in what Walz had previously claimed, he gave the moderator a non-answer, and then said he is a "knucklehead at times," and "I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance."
The next day, Walz was still unable to get his story straight, repeating that he only had "15 back and forths" to China with his students, and further claiming he wanted to teach Chinese students about democracy.
Fox News reported Tuesday, the travel had allegedly been paid for by the Chinese government.
The Daily Mail reported Walz' ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, the likely the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Walz has further come under scrutiny after it was discovered he secured approximately $7 million in funding for the Hormel Institute at the University of Minnesota, which published research and worked closely with Chinese scientists from the Wuhan lab.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., wrote a letter to the institute, which was obtained by the Daily Mail, and demanded to know the full extent of the institute's involvement with the Chinese lab, which Cruz said is a national security concern.
"I write to you today with growing concern regarding the Hormel Institute's long standing partnership with China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) … It is critical to understand the full extent of your institute's involvement in a partnership that risks benefitting our nation's chief geopolitical adversary … Your institute's ongoing partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and by extension the People's Liberation Army, reflects a troubling disregard for national security concerns," Cruz wrote.
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A federal judge in Washington, who has established her own bias by repeatedly and publicly criticizing and condemning President Donald Trump, now has taken Jack Smith's edited claims against Trump regarding the 2020 election and shoved them at voters just in time for Democrats to use them in their campaign against him.
The Gateway Pundit explained that Tanya Chutkan, who is hearing Smith's claims that it was criminal for Trump to disbelieve and challenge the 2020 count, unsealed Smith's 165-page "immunity motion" "to do the maximum damage to Trump before the election."
Department of Justice standards previously have been that no such case, no such motion should be made public in the immediate runup to an election, when that case could affect the election.
The motion came about because Chutkan, in a hurry to try make the most of the attack on Trump, ruled earlier that Trump had no immunity for his actions as president. But she didn't establish any sort of evidence on the dispute. The Supreme Court pointed that out when it confirmed Trump does have various levels of immunity at different times, and it sent the case back to Chutkan.
Smith, appointed by Merrick Garland's Department of Justice to carry out this arm of the lawfare that has been assembled against Trump, submitted his claims now that Trump was a "private" individual for all regards concerning his re-election.
Smith's claims include, "The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct. Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted—a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role," the Gateway Pundit quoted.
In fact, many of Trump's actions and comments were, in fact, as president, not a private individual.
"The Biden-Harris Justice Department waited nearly three years to bring two unprecedented indictments against their bosses' former and future chief political opponent. Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, halted this unprecedented lawfare and obvious election interference."
He added, "Undeterred by these major legal setbacks, the Biden-Harris DOJ and DC Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan are unnecessarily and shamefully releasing a one-sided political story—for the non-crime of objecting to a presidential election just like Democrats did in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017—during the height of 2024 presidential election season.
"The American people—not partisan Democrat prosecutors, judges, witnesses, and other operatives in Democrat hellholes like DC—get to decide the presidential election."
He called for Trump, if president in January 2025, to have the DOJ "fully investigate this criminal conspiracy against rights."
The Gateway Pundit reported Smith earlier released part of his filing, "with cherry-picked quotes to do the maximum damage to Trump shortly before the presidential election."
Trump lawyers had pointed out that Smith's filing was four times as long as what normally would be allowed by the court, but that limit was overlooked by Chutkan.
They warned that Smith's allegations and claims, supported or unsupported, would now "enter the dialogue around the nation," just before the election.
WND had reported only hours earlier on a commentary that explained there were multiple suspicious circumstances of that election:
– President Donald Trump set a record for votes, but career political hack Joe Biden got MILLIONS more? That would be millions more votes than the super-popular Barack Obama had gotten previously.
– State and local elections officials repeatedly broke their own state laws to count votes during COVID, including accepting ballots long after the legal deadline had passed.
– Mark Zuckerberg handed out some $400 million to local elections officials to help with deal with election requirements, and those officials often used the flood of cash to recruit Democrat voters, a campaign financing scandal that now is illegal in some states.
– The FBI and other federal agencies, conspiring with major media and tech corporations, falsely claimed that the details about the Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were disinformation, and ordered the details suppressed. The scandals were true.
– A later polling showed that had that information been available ordinarily, enough voters would have withheld their support from Joe Biden to cause him to lose the election.
– Multiple lawsuits alleging elections misbehavior simply were tossed by judges who claimed the plaintiffs had no "standing," or valid interest in the alleged wrongdoing, so the actual claims, the merits of the lawsuits, never were addressed.
Even so, Democrats have claimed those who have doubts are "insurrectionists," leftist judges have used those thoughts against those who trespassed at the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, and extremists like Colorado's secretary of state, Jena Griswold, even have campaigned to ban Trump from the ballot over the issue.
Now Julie Kelly, a Real Clear Investigations researcher and writer and self-described "insurrection denier," explains online that those opinions are legitimate.
She wrote, "DOJ and federal judges have made election 'denial' a crime in Washington. J6ers texts and memes about the 2020 election are used as incriminating evidence and reason for excessive sentences. Judges routinely berate J6ers for believing 'lies' from a 'charlatan' that the 2020 election was stolen.
"Except it's not a crime to believe the 2020 election was illegitimate because it was. Two-thirds of Republicans still believe it was an unlawful election; independents have trended in that direction over the past 4 years."
The Washington Examiner said Smith is now accusing a Trump campaign worker of allegedly trying to disrupt operations at a vote counting center in Michigan.
Therefore, Smith claims, "Shortly after election day, the defendant began to target the electoral process at the state level by attempting to deceive state officials and to prevent or overturn the legitimate ascertainment and appointment of Biden's electors."
Smith claims that statements regarding problems with election fraud were "false."
Smith's arguments extend to desperation, as the entire case could collapse if the courts ultimately decide Trump's immunity stands.
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Cleanup work from the devastating, and historic Hurricane Helene that decimated parts of Florida, Georgia and North Carolina over the weekend is under way.
And the lives for many never will be the same.
Joe Biden commented immediately that the federal government was working on aid for the states hit by the category 4 behemoth that has left more than 100 dead.
He was asked if there were any more resources the federal government could provide, and he said, "No."
Virtually all of the descriptions of the storm and its aftermath included, somewhere, the word "catastrophic."
Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane and reports called it the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.
The storm also impacted South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said 25 in his state have died, including a 27-year-old mother and her month-old twin boys, who died when a tree fell on their home.
The Buncombe County region in North Carolina was among the hardest hit, with 35 fatalities there and an estimated 600 individuals still remaining unaccounted for.
Some points reported up to 30 inches of rain from the storm and flooding covered fields, streets, homes and businesses, cutting off travel. Much damage came from trees that were toppled in the fierce winds and hit buildings and vehicles.
As of Monday, millions still remained without power or the ability to travel.
As the week began, the storm, still filled with thunderstorms and the threat of violence, was moving into the mid-Atlantic.
Online, Biden and Harris were facing a backlash over a slow response, with one commenter suggesting they get that "check" back from Ukraine and send it to Asheville, N.C., which was a bull's-eye for the storm.
A report at BizPacReview scorched the Democrats for, as the storm destroyed lives, "Biden had returned to his beach and Harris had her handout as she continued bucking for a promotion."
The Center Square reported damage estimates of up to $100 billion already had been calculated.
A report at the Federalist unleashed a critical assessment of Biden and Harris as "Biden remained lounging at the beach this weekend while Appalachian valleys in North Carolina and Tennessee suffered deadline flooding."
"Biden's public schedule had him depart for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Friday, the day after the hurricane's initial landfall. He was initially expected to be there through late Sunday evening, but the president reportedly returned to Washington earlier on Sunday as tensions escalate in the Middle East," the report noted.
It cited the assessment of Ryan Cole, the assistant director for emergency services in Buncombe County, over the "biblical" flooding from the storm.
"You've heard us say, 'catastrophic devastation within our county.' I would go a little bit further and say we have biblical devastation through the county. We've had biblical flooding here, and it has been extremely significant."
"We are in the midst of the most significant natural disaster in our community," said Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder.
Newsweek reported President Trump criticized Biden and Harris, saying the Democrats were "sleeping" while the storm hit.
In fact, Harris was at a fundraiser.
Trump said he plans to visit some of the devastated areas soon.
Harris also plans to visit "as soon as it is possible without disrupting emergency response."
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President Donald Trump, facing Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, over the weekend delivered a one-liner about Harris that a publication confirms "ended" her career.
What he said was, "Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way!"
The Gateway Pundit's blunt reaction was, "The Wisconsin crowd roared as Trump ended Kamala Harris's career with an epic one-liner."
That crisis was created when virtually all of Trump's border security plans implemented during his first term were trashed by the Democrats. The result is that millions and millions of illegal aliens have since invaded America, including thousands of those convicted of rape or murder.
Trump's comments included how violent crime has been more of a problem under Harris' actions under her assignment, from Biden, essentially to be the nation's "border czar."
"More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age men – have invaded the U.S. under Kamala Harris's watch," the report said. "ICE revealed last week that there are currently 13,000+ illegal aliens convicted of homicide AND 15,000+ illegals convicted of sexual assault who are roaming the U.S. thanks to 'Border Czar' Kamala Harris."
Trump featured the mugshots of criminal illegal aliens on stage.
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A federal court ruling has ordered Louisville, permanently, to stop enforcing its speech restrictions in areas just outside of abortion businesses.
According to a report from the American Center for Law and Justice, the district court handed down a "favorable resolution," stopping the city completely from enforcing a so-called buffer zone against people in Louisville.
The fight began in 2021 when two sidewalk counselors protested the city's use of its governmental power to impose "unconstitutional speech restrictions" outside of abortion businesses as well as health care facilities.
Specifically involved were EMW Women's Surgical Center and Planned Parenthood, which provided abortion at the time.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals soon was called into the dispute, and ruled that the counselors likely would be able to prove their constitutional speech rights were being limited.
When the case then was returned to the lower court, city officials claimed the case should be thrown about because abortion no longer was allowed in the state.
But the ACLJ pointed out that the counselors' speech rights continued to remain under threat from the city. The city's motion to dismiss failed and the court soon released its opinion supporting the speech rights of the counselors.
The city now is permanently banned from enforcing its speech restriction ordinance.
The ACLJ reported, "This ruling is a victory for free speech and the rights of sidewalk counselors. Should abortion ever be reinstated in Kentucky, and should EMW resume abortion services, our clients will be protected in their mission to offer women alternatives to abortion immediately outside the clinic's entrance. In the interim, our clients, along with any other citizens, are free to pray and offer counseling outside any healthcare facility in the city, including EMW and Planned Parenthood."
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Joe Biden assigned Kamala Harris to handle the crisis at the southern border they created when they took office and immediately smashed down all of the security plans implemented by President Donald Trump.
That would be the remain-in-Mexico practice, the border walls, the deportations and more.
As a result, Harris soon was known as the "border czar" and her extensive travels included to Central America to determine the "root causes" of the catastrophe, with one political voice explaining that would be to make those economies as good as America's, to eliminate the incentive for illegal immigration.
But her work has, according to a report from Fox News, left "tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with sex offenses and homicide convictions … loose on the streets."
"Border Czar Kamala Harris has had nearly four years to protect America and failed," RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, told Fox News Digital. "She is allowing tens of thousands of murderers and rapists to roam free. She puts criminals first and the safety and security of you and your family last."
The numbers are from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Specifically, the agency told Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, that as of July, there currently are more than seven million people listed as being ordered to be removed, but are not in ICE custody.
"The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges," Fox reported.
The numbers are intimidating: There are 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide, the report said.
Another 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,611 have sexual assault convictions.
The "pending" charges list another 52,000 names.
"As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE's national docket—13,099 criminally convicted MURDERS!" Gonzales charged.
ICE actually issued a note blasting the "sanctuary" practices of leftist enclaves, where authorities do not cooperate with the federal government in tracking and removing alien criminals.
"ICE recognizes that some jurisdictions are concerned that cooperating with federal immigration officials will erode trust with immigrant communities and make it harder for local law enforcement to serve those populations. However, 'sanctuary' policies can end up shielding dangerous criminals, who often victimize those same communities," it said.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling out Ukrainians for election interference after President Volodymyr Zelensky stumped for Kamala Harris during a "tour" of swing state Pennsylvania.
WND previously reported Harris was under another major federal review for the developments.
Trending Politics had confirmed the investigation focuses on the tax-funded tour taken by Zelensky over just the past few days.
It seems House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is focusing on potential misuse of taxpayer resources.
"Comer's investigation was launched after reports surfaced that Zelensky was flown on a U.S. Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, in the lead-up to the 2024 election," the report noted.
That could be considered an abuse of power, the report noted.
The Gateway Pundit explained while Zelensky was in the U.S., "begging for more U.S. taxpayer dollars and munitions," he also "used some of his time to stump for the Harris campaign and attack Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance on American soil."
He pointed out the promotions were a battleground state with only Democrats, and was "clearly election interference."
Johnson wrote, "The tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference. This shortsighted and intentionally political move has caused Republicans to lose trust in Ambassador Markarova's ability to fairly and effectively serve as a diplomat in this country. She should be removed from her post immediately."
It was earlier that Comer wrote to Joe Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, who has presided over the weaponization of the Department of Justice, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, pointing out the "parallels between this case and the 2019 impeachment, which accused Trump of attempting to use Zelensky to influence his 2020 re-election campaign."
Comer noted the irony of the Democrats now using Zelensky for their politics, "In 2019, the Democrat-controlled House impeached President Donald J. Trump for abuse of power under the theory that he attempted to use a foreign leader—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—to benefit his 2020 presidential campaign, despite a lack of any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of President Trump." Trump was acquitted in the Senate.
Now the review is on whether the Biden-Harris regime committed a similar "offense" by "using taxpayer dollars to transport a foreign leader for political gain."
Comer wrote, "The committee seeks to determine whether the Biden-Harris administration attempted to use a foreign leader to benefit Vice President Harris's presidential campaign and, if so, necessarily committed an abuse of power."
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Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign, which was launched from the top of the coffin of Joe Biden's campaign after the Democrat party's elites kicked him to the curb and hand-picked her to be at the top of their ticket, is under another major federal review.
Trending Politics reports it focuses on the tax-funded tour of swing state Pennsylvania taken by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over just the past few days.
It seems House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is focusing on potential misuse of taxpayer resources.
"Comer's investigation was launched after reports surfaced that Zelensky was flown on a U.S. Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, in the lead-up to the 2024 election," the report noted.
That could be considered an abuse of power, the report noted.
Comer wrote to Joe Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, who has presided over the weaponization of the Department of Justice, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, pointing out the "parallels between this case and the 2019 impeachment, which accused Trump of attempting to use Zelensky to influence his 2020 re-election campaign."
Comer noted the irony of the Democrats now using Zelensky for their politics, "In 2019, the Democrat-controlled House impeached President Donald J. Trump for abuse of power under the theory that he attempted to use a foreign leader—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—to benefit his 2020 presidential campaign, despite a lack of any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of President Trump."
Now the review is on whether the Biden-Harris regime committed a similar "offense" by "using taxpayer dollars to transport a foreign leader for political gain."
Comer wrote, "The committee seeks to determine whether the Biden-Harris administration attempted to use a foreign leader to benefit Vice President Harris's presidential campaign and, if so, necessarily committed an abuse of power."
The report confirmed Zelensky's stops including meetings with high-profile Democrats and during an interview made comments "critical" of the GOP ticket of President Donald Trump.
The investigation could result in a determination of ethics violations, or criminal counts.
Comer wondered, "The committee seeks to understand the circumstances that led and any facts that could justify the Biden-Harris administration to transport President Zelensky on a Department of the Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania."
According to Fox News, the scandal involving Zelensky allowed him to "interfere" in the 2024 presidential election.
And the report noted Congress cited the description of the Pennsylvania vote as the "trickiest battleground for Vice President Kamala Harris to win."
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Just weeks ago, David Kupelian, an award-winning journalist and long-time managing editor for WND.com as well as the author of bestsellers like "The Marketing of Evil," documented how Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party, the national news media and many social-media "influencers" "have, since 2016, continually likened Donald Trump to the single most reviled human being in history, Adolf Hitler."
He explained, "After all, the most moral and righteous response to the real Hitler was to try to kill him. There were, in fact, 16 known plots to assassinate Hitler, and every one of the participants – from revered German theologian Deitrich Bonhoeffer to '20 July plot' ringleader Col. Claus von Stauffenberg – are to this day universally considered patriots and heroes."
The analysis found, "But Hitler was a raging psychopath who murdered 11 million people, while Trump is a successful, much-loved American president who murdered zero people. Comparing the two is therefore not only obviously insane, it's also straight-up evil – because it implicitly encourages unstable, confused and rage-filled people to consider assassinating Donald Trump."
The actions follow the encouragement of Democrats, like Joe Biden, who said, "We're done talking about the debate, it's time to put Trump in a bull's-eye."
Hillary Clinton, after having failed twice to gain the White House, directly compared Trump to Hitler.
Kupelian's analysis noted, "The left's comparison of Trump with Hitler has been incessant and never-ending. When in 2020 a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, was being attacked night after night by violent leftwing radicals attempting to burn it down – with people inside – Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to secure the building, as was his constitutional right and obvious duty. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's response? 'The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way.' Get it? 'Stormtroopers'? Trump is another Hitler."
And the violent rhetoric continues. Unabated.
The political organization said, "Harris-Biden Commerce Secretary @GinaRaimondo calls for President Trump to be 'extinguished for good.' Ten days ago, a deranged Harris supporter tried to assassinate President Trump. Yet, Democrat lunatics continue to spew this dangerous rhetoric."
A social media site commenter immediately pointed out, to the FBI, "If a random citizen said this you'd be at their doorstep. Can we hold this woman accountable?"
And another, "What a nasty woman."
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Literally all of America knows, because of this year's presidential campaign, that Kamala Harris was designated the "border czar" and told by Joe Biden to seek out the root causes of the illegal alien disaster that developed when Biden canceled literally all of President Donald Trump's border security plans.
The issue is known as one of her biggest fails, as millions and millions of illegals simply broke the law and walked into the United States under the Biden-Harris regime. It's hurt American schools, hospitals and communities, jobseekers and taxpayers, and has triggered even leftists who normally advocate for illegal migrants to protest over the disaster the situation has become.
Now Harris is becoming known for another big fail – this one involving the internet and more than $42 billion American tax dollars.
A report Politico documents that Senate Republicans recently blasted her "failed" role in that program, which was allocated more than $42 billion in tax money and so has connected no one to the web.
"It appears that your performance as 'broadband czar' has mirrored your performance as 'border czar,' marked by poor management and a lack of effectiveness despite significant federal broadband investments and your promises to deliver broadband to rural areas," Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., Senate Commerce ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and others wrote her.
A report at the Gateway Pundit took Harris to task over this failure.
"Border Czar Kamala Harris, who failed miserably protecting our borders, was tapped to lead another component of the Biden-Harris agenda, connecting rural Americans to high-speed internet. The program was launched in 2021 at a cost of $42 billion to American taxpayers. President Biden put VP Harris in charge of the effort, and after 985 days under her leadership, NOT ONE person has been connected, and zero Americans have benefitted from this boondoggle. Brendan Carr, who serves as Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, shared the abject failure of the Biden-Harris plan, which broadband infrastructure builders have said is 'wired to fail.'"
Politico said the concerns are over the Biden-Harris regime's allocation of $42.45 billion for an internet expansion scheme called the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program, or BEAD.
They came up with the plan for the 2021 infrastructure law.
So far, under the Biden-Harris leadership, there have been no actual projects begun, no one has been connected to the web and Republicans in the Senate now are arguing that the Democrats have demanded that climate change, union labor and more requirements be met in order for any part of the project to move forward.
While Harris' campaign "writes that she worked to pass landmark legislation including the infrastructure law and American Rescue Plan, adding, 'This has included investing billions to help connect all Americans to accessible, affordable internet,'" the work has failed.
The administration claims that it has "met or exceeded all statutory deadlines to keep (the program) on time and on track."
Further, the Gateway Pundit noted that 32 people from various telecom corporations already have written Commerce chief Gina Raimondo, to "sound the alarm."
"It is with both a sense of alarm and urgency that we write to alert you to the reality that growing numbers of the hundreds of local and regional rural broadband providers we represent are increasingly concerned about their ability to participate in the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which your agency administers. Without significant and immediate changes of approach toward its implementation, we are concerned the program will fail to advance our collective goal of connectivity for all in America. We and our members sincerely want this program to work, but we believe that your agency's administration of the low-cost service option requirement in particular risks putting the overall success of BEAD in jeopardy. We urge you to immediately take several specific remedial steps as outlined below to help ensure the program will be able to fulfill the critical connectivity needs of the millions it is meant to serve."