This Week With Gosar

June 1, 2025

COVID Vaccine Update

I have an update to a story I shared last week in my newsletter concerning a damning Senate report recently issued showing that Biden administration officials knew about the potential heart-related complications caused by the COVID-19 vaccine yet downplayed the risks and actively “took steps to delay warning the public.”  If you missed it, the report notes that federal health officials were aware of significant reports of myocarditis in young people who receive the Pfizer vaccine but waited more than half of a year to make the side effects known on the vaccine’s label. 

This week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  revealed that the COVID-19 jab would no longer be recommended for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.  The announcement reverses previous CDC guidance which recommended the vaccine to everyone aged six months old and over has long been criticized, given that the groups face a low risk of hospitalization and death from the virus.  This is in line with several other nations that have already stopped recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for children, including Canada and Germany.

Making this announcement, Kennedy stated, “Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing President Trump’s promise to Make America Healthy Again.”  With the pandemic far behind us, this decision is a much-welcomed step forward.

Congress to Vote on Rescinding $10 Billion in Wasteful Spending

Next week, Congress will begin considering legislation cutting nearly $10 billion in DOGE-identified waste through a legislative process known as “rescission.”  What I am hoping will be the first of several, these rescissions consist of long overdue cuts including, for example:

• $1.9 million to NPR for a grant to hire more "moderate" editors and journalists, as they recognized their complete leftist bias
•  $167,000 for free education and healthcare to Ecuadorian and Venezuelan migrants
•  $33,000 for "Being LGBTI in the Caribbean"
• $643,000 for LGBTQI+ programs in the Western Balkans
• $567,000for LBGTQI+ programs in Uganda
•  $500,000 for electric busses in Rwanda
• $4 million for legume systems research
• $1 million for programs to strengthen the resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer global movements
• $6 million for supporting media organizations and civic life of Palestinians
• $3 million for sexual reproductive health in Venezuela
• $135 million in contributions to the World Health Organization
• $3 million for circumcision, vasectomies, and condoms in Zambia
• $5.1 million to strengthen the "resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer global movements"
•  $833,000 for services for "transgender people, sex workers and their clients and sexual networks" in Nepal

Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the President may transmit a request to Congress to rescind previously appropriated funds through a rescissions package. The good news is that this rescissions package only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate to be enacted so liberal New York Senator Chuck Schumer and RINO Senator Mitch McConnel can’t block it.  Congress has 45 days to vote on the recissions, during which time all the funds included in the rescissions package cannot be spent by bloated federal bureaucracies.  By voting, Congress is codifying DOGE’s mission and delivering on President Trump’s mandate to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.  I will be sure to keep you updated as Congress takes up this important bill.

12 Million Fake Names Removed from Social Security

Here’s a story you will only read about in the Gosar Newsletter: this week DOGE announced that 12.3 million people who were marked as being 120 years old or older have been marked as deceased as part of a "major cleanup."  President Trump has promised to take action to protect Social Security, beginning with his signing of an executive order in April barring illegal immigrants from obtaining Social Security benefits and cracking down on fraudulent claims.  Democrats are losing their minds over any effort aimed at stopping illegal aliens and other ineligible people from obtaining Social Security Act benefits.

Team Gosar Welcomes Fluence Manufacturing to Goodyear!

Fluence Energy recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the start of production at a new manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona, that will produce enclosures made with U.S. steel and battery management system (BMS) hardware for Fluence’s grid-scale energy storage systems.  This latest manufacturing facility represents another milestone to strengthening domestic manufacturing, reducing supply chain risk and advancing domestic energy security The onshoring plans have contributed to the investment of $700 million in manufacturing partnerships to date and will create at least 250 jobs in Goodyear.  Welcome to Arizona!

It’s Mail Time!

📬 I receive hundreds of letters each and every week and I love hearing from everyone.  Here are a few letters I received this week:

📨 Debbie V. from Golden Valley, AZ writes:

Please support Representative Al Green's articles of impeachment. Advance them in the House; impeach and remove Trump in Senate (sic). Trump has been undermining the constitution and the rule of law, dismantling federal agencies against the constitution, arrogating the powers of congress to himself, defying court orders, betraying our allies, depriving us of our rights, all while sowing hatred and division so as to endanger judges and safety for all.  A republic so assaulted cannot long endure unless those who swore to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic honor that oath.

✍ Debbie, as you alluded to, two Democratic lawmakers, Representatives Shri Thanedar and Al Green, have introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump for allegedly committing high crimes and misdemeanors. These articles have no merit, as they are merely another example of Democrats prioritizing demonizing President Trump for political theatre rather than serving their constituents.

Like the many other tactics to obstruct President Trump’s agenda, these impeachment articles should not be taken seriously. In fact, their own party shares this view. The Hill reported that even “House Democrats . . . pressed hard on Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) to abandon his effort to force a vote on impeaching President Trump.” 

There have now been four articles of impeachment filed against President Trump, including two passed by the House in his first term in office. Each has been as unsubstantiated as they are politically motivated. Ironically, the party that insists President Trump is a threat to Democracy has now abused the impeachment process four times in attempts to remove a duly elected President from Office.

Democrats’ impeachment efforts of President Trump are even more hypocritical when compared with their efforts to obstruct investigations into the Biden administration’s documented corruption. On August 19th of 2024, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the House Committee on the Judiciary, and the House Committee on Ways and Means published a report of the impeachment inquiry of Biden.  The executive summary of this report says that evidence demonstrates that “…  Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family.”  Moreover, it says that evidence obtained during the committees’ impeachment inquiry shows “…  Hunter Biden and his business associates leveraged Vice President Biden’s official position to garner favorable outcomes in foreign business dealings and legal proceedings.”

I could go on and on, but I won’t.  I do have a serious question for you: do the recent statements from high-ranking Biden officials that they were willing to do “undemocratic things” to keep mentally unfit Biden in power bother you at all?  CNN’s Jake Tapper admitted this week that the Biden’s cognitive decline was worse than Watergate. Shouldn’t Biden have been impeached for scandal after scandal and subsequent cover ups? You don’t have to answer, I know what you will say.

Here's the thing, I do not take these impeachment articles seriously, nor do I believe the Democrats introduced them for any reason other than as a public relations stunt.  I would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stop abusing the impeachment process to try to score cheap political points and spend more of their time serving the people who elected them to office.

📨 Dawn N. from Surprise sent in this letter:

The proposal to eliminate the Public Integrity Section (PIN) of the Department of Justice is a deeply concerning and undemocratic overreach that threatens the integrity of our system of checks and balances. PIN plays a critical role in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of elected officials and ensuring impartial oversight of corruption cases involving public servants. Removing this safeguard would open the floodgates for the weaponization of the justice system against members of Congress who dare to speak out or disagree with the current administration.
 
The facts are alarming - since taking office, the Trump administration has already gutted PIN, slashing its staff from 30 prosecutors to fewer than 5. Several experienced attorneys have resigned, been reassigned, or fired after clashing with the Attorney General and other political appointees. This blatant undermining of an essential watchdog is unacceptable and raises grave concerns about the administration's commitment to upholding the rule of law.
 
Moreover, PIN oversees critical election-related matters, including voter fraud and campaign finance violations. Under the previous administration, it led the Election Threats Task Force, which played a vital role in responding to the alarming rise in threats against election workers. Dismantling PIN would severely undermine the integrity of our electoral process and embolden those seeking to subvert the will of the people.
 
We demand that Congress take immediate action to safeguard the independence and authority of the Public Integrity Section. Allowing political interference in the administration of justice poses an existential threat to our democratic institutions and the principles upon which our nation was founded. We cannot stand idly by as the checks and balances that have protected our republic for centuries are systematically eroded.

✍ Dawn, The Public Integrity Section is designed to work independent of the U.S. Attorneys’ Office to ensure that the investigation of public officials is not politically motivated. While this is no doubt a very noble idea, it has not worked to prevent the legal persecution of President Trump in the lead up to the 2024 election.  Neither has its supposed even-handedness been applied to Joe Biden. As the recently revealed Biden-Hur interview tapes show, President Joe Biden committed the same “violation” that President Trump was indicted for in 2023.  Yet, Joe Biden was never indicted nor subjected to a raid by armed FBI personnel like President Trump was on August 8, 2022.

This discrepancy in how Trump and Bider were investigated, for the same violation of 18 U.S.C. §1924, is strong evidence of political weaponization in the Department of Justice. The Public Integrity Section was established in the wake of the Watergate Scandal, where a sitting President was investigated for allegations of committing a serious crime. Their failure to investigate Joe Biden’s criminal conduct beyond an interview seriously undermines their claim of investigating political corruption. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s proposed changes to the Public Integrity Section would remove a layer of review by unelected lawyers who, operating with the facts alleged by the Department of Justice, decide whether an investigation should proceed. As the great Justice Robert Jackson once said, “If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his case, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone." The Founding Fathers of this country designed the Constitution to include checks and balances against each branch.

The Executive Branch may be impeached or voted out of office, Congress may have its power declared unconstitutional or voted out of office, and the judges may be impeached. However, there are no real checks and balances against lawyers in the Public Integrity Section. The only “checks” against them are removals for good cause, which largely involve bribery or other demonstrably illegal acts. If the Attorney General’s proposal is followed through, then corruption cases will be referred to attorneys who may be removed by constitutional means. 

I am sick and tired of the corruption in Washington D.C. The Democrats may laud certain programs as reducing corruption; but as the actions of the Biden DOJ demonstrate, President Trump is the greatest threat to the Deep State’s continued control of the levers of justice.

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Photo of the Week:

📸 Bruce Paul shares this picture of a double rainbow taken from his deck in Golden Valley, AZ.  Great photo, Bruce!

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Gosar in the News and Other Must-Read Stories:

📰 The National Pulse: CDC Drops COVID Vaccine Push for Kids, Pregnant Women.

🗞 Fox News: Planned Parenthood using 'loophole' to get minors gender transitions without parents' OK: watchdog

📰 New York Post: Biden aides were willing to do ‘undemocratic things’ to keep faltering president in power

🗞 New York Post: Jake Tapper admits Democratic cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline may be ‘worse than Watergate’

📰 Washington Times: House Republicans tighten Medicaid rules to stop scams, save taxpayers more than $10 billion

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