October 6, 2024

Gosar Sponsors Bill Terminating FEMA’s Shelter and Service Program for illegals

This week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Mayorkas alleged that “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the remainder of hurricane season,” yet FEMA has allotted nearly one billion dollars to DHS specifically for issues related to the 13 million illegals who have been welcomed into our country by Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris in the past three years.  To put this into perspective, illegal aliens get $13,000 in EBT cards and $5,000 cash, not to mention nearly $4,000 for monthly expenses. The average senior citizen gets around $1,200 a month in their Social Security.  How is this right? If that doesn’t anger you, keep in mind last week, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris conveniently  found another $2.4 billion to hand over to Zelenskyy to fight a proxy war in Ukraine.

Disgraceful does not describe what is taking place in the storm-torn areas of our country recently besieged by Hurricane Helene.  The federal response has been non-existent.  Rather than focus on the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene, multiple news reports note that Kamala Harris was partying in Hollywood and rubbing elbows with celebrities while millions of Americans were struggling in the wake of the storm.  

By diverting billions of FEMA disaster funds to welcome and accommodate the illegals who continue to pour across our southern border, Kamala Harris and Secretary Mayorkas have turned their backs on Americans in their greatest time of need.  In response, I sponsored legislation that terminates FEMA’s Shelter and Service Program immediately and reallocates all remaining funds to critical disaster recovery in the wake of Hurricane Helene.  You can read the full bill text here. 

How Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Blew Up the Middle East

I’ve recently received hundreds of phone calls and letters from constituents voicing their concerns regarding the tumult in the Middle East. 

Military historian and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute Victor Davis Hanson penned this recent article that perfectly explains why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are singularly to blame for the current Middle East disaster.  What follows is a must-read for anyone interested in an honest assessment of the fateful steps taken by Biden and Harris to appease and encourage Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis:

When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it’s in the midst of a multifront war.

So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on Sept. 29, 2023 — and just eight days before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis — Biden’s national security adviser, Jack Sullivan, could still brag, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

So, what exactly happened to the inherited calm that led to the current nonstop chaos of the present?

In a word, theocratic Iran — the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict — was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.

Biden-Harris adopted a five-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

The result was a near guarantee that something akin to the Oct. 7 massacres would inevitably follow — along with a subsequent year of violence that has now engulfed the Middle East.

First, on the 2020 campaign trail, Biden damned long-time American ally Saudi Arabia as a “pariah.”

He overturned the policies of both the previous Obama and Trump administrations by siding with the Iranian-supplied terrorist Houthis in their war on Saudi Arabia.

Biden accused the kingdom of war crimes, warning it would “be held accountable” for its actions in Yemen. Biden-Harris took the murderous Houthis off the US terrorist list.

Almost immediately followed continuous Houthi attacks on international shipping, Israel and US warships — rendering the Red Sea, the entryway to the Suez Canal, de facto closed to international maritime transit.

Worse still, by the time of the 2022 midterms, when spiraling gas prices threatened Democratic congressional majorities, Biden opportunistically flipped and implored Saudi Arabia to pump more oil to lower world prices before the November election.

Appearing obnoxious and then obsequious to an old Middle East ally is a prescription for regional chaos.

Second, Biden-Harris nihilistically abandoned the Trump administration’s “Abraham Accords” initiative.

That diplomatic breakthrough had proven a successful blueprint for moderate Arab nations to seek détente with Israel, ending decades of hostilities to unite against the common Middle East threat of Iran.

Third, Biden begged Iran to reenter the appeasing, so-called Iran Deal that virtually ensured Iran would eventually get the bomb.

Worse yet, it dropped oil sanctions against the theocracy, allowing a near-destitute Iran to recoup $100 billion in profits.

And it greenlighted $6 billion in hostage ransoms to Tehran.

An enriched Tehran immediately sent billions in support and weapons to the anti-Western terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis to attack Israel, Americans, and international shipping.

Iran soon began partnering with China and Russia to form a new anti-American axis.

Biden-Harris also fled abruptly from Afghanistan, abandoning billions in weapons and American contractors. The humiliation thus virtually destroyed American deterrence in the Middle East, inciting enemies and endangering friends.

Fourth, Biden-Harris restored hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the West Bank and Gaza, but without any guarantees that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas would desist from their past serial terrorist acts.

In the case of Hamas, US and Western “humanitarian aid” simply freed up more fungible dollars in Gaza to arm Hamas and to expand its subterranean tunnel complex essential to its Oct. 7 massacres and hostage-taking.

Fifth, from the outset of the ensuing increased tensions, Biden-Harris began pressuring the Israelis to act “proportionally” in responding to the massacre of some 1,200 Israelis and nearly 20,000 missiles, rockets and drones launched at their homeland from Iran, the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Such straitjacketing of our closest Middle East friend further signaled to the Iranian-backed terrorists that there was now “daylight” between the United States and its closest regional ally. That opportunity provided still further incentives for Iran to test just how far it could safely go in attacking Israel.

But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?

In part, the administration naively tried to resurrect the old, discredited Obama administration notion of “creative tension” — empowering a rogue Iran and its terrorists to play off Israel and the moderate Arab regimes, as a new sort of balance of power in the region.

In part, Biden-Harris was caving to increased antisemitism at home and the rise of powerful, pro-Palestinian groups on US campuses and in critical swing Electoral College states.

In part, Biden-Harris was naive and gullible. The two bought into the anti-Americanism and anti-Israel boilerplate of our enemies.

So, they thought to make amends by seeing Iran and its terrorists as the moral equivalent of democratic, pro-American Israel.

Their malignant legacy is the current Middle East disaster. – Victor Davis Hanson

Passport Renewal is Now Easier Than Ever

If you are planning international travel, passport renewal is now easier than ever. That is because the Department of State's passport renewal system is now online for U.S. citizens who want to renew their passports.

This 24/7 system will allow for an easy online renewal process at your convenience and from the comfort of your own home. This is a significant step forward in ensuring that Americans can more easily access passport services. Gone are the days of printing a paper application, writing a check, and physically mailing your application; passport renewal is now easier and more efficient than ever before. 

You can check out the new online renewal system at Travel.State.Gov/renewonline.  As always, if you need help with a federal agency for any reason, we may be able to assist.  Please call my district office at 623-707-0530 or go to my website at https://gosar.house.gov.

Reminder: Deadline Nearing for Military Service Academy Applications

Service Academy nomination applications are due soon! The deadline to submit your application is October 31.  If you’re interested in attending a U.S. Service Academy, be sure to complete and submit all required materials before then.

It’s Mail Time!                                               

📬 I receive thousands of letters each month from constituents. Here are a few of those who wrote in this week:

📨 Ed W. from Buckeye, AZ wrote in:

I believe the border is open so illegal aliens can vote. I would respectfully suggest that you sponsor a bill that requires a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in federal prison for every person who illegally votes in a federal election. That may stop a few illegals and dead people from voting.

✏ Ed, I like your idea and you’re right: their entire premise is to allow as many illegals as possible into our country, give them driver’s licenses, register them to vote and then create an impenetrable “wall” of new Democrat voters.  It’s simple math: one illegal alien = one Democrat voter.  For Democrats, politics comes first, not America.

📬 David C. from Topack, AZ shares:

Ending the liability shield from big pharma for vaccine manufacturers by amending the Public Health Services Act is just the kind of forward-thinking leadership the GOP needs.  Does Robert Kennedy Jr. know about this?  

✏ David, you will be happy to know that Children’s Health Defense Founder and Chairman of the Board on Leave Robert F. Kennedy Jr, endorses my legislation and adds: “The four American vaccine makers are criminal enterprises that have paid tens of billions in criminal penalties over the past decade.  By freeing them from liability for negligence, the 1986 statute removed any incentive for these companies to make safe products.  If we want safe and effective vaccines, we need to end the liability shield.”

📬 Penelope N. from Buckeye AZ wrote:

The devastation that has taken place in FL, GA, TN, SC and NC is sickening. But even more sickening is that we have committed more money to Ukraine while ignoring our own citizen. What is also sickening is that we have millions of illegals receiving billions of dollars to live on, while our own citizens suffer.  Stop it! Not another dime! We need to take care of OUR citizens.

✏ Penelope, it’s more than sickening, it’s disgraceful.  That’s why I sponsored legislation this week that would demand FEMA to stop funding illegal aliens and redirect funding to support Hurricane victims.  It’s outrageous that the Biden-Harris Administration is providing shelter and five-star hotel rooms and clothing to illegals for free yet are not taking care of our own suffering from Hurricane Helene.  By the way, I have voted against every single bill to send a single penny to Ukraine.  America first!

Tweet of the Week:

Photo of the Week:

📸 Dr. Randy Mow, a fellow dentist from Phoenix, shares this amazing picture of a beautiful evening sunset he recently snapped in the Ahwatukee Foothills.  Thanks for sharing, Randy!

Do you want the chance for your photograph to be featured as our "Picture of the Week?"   If so, send your best shots along with a brief description to Anthony.foti@mail.house.gov.  Remember to include your name and where you live. 

Gosar in the News and Other Must-Read Stories:

📰 Life Site News: Rep. Paul Gosar introduces bill to end vaccine manufacturer immunity from injury lawsuits

🗞 Popular Rationalism: It’s Only Logical: Gosar Bill Will End the Era of Vaccine Liability Protection

📰 Sputnik News: Biden Admin. Response to Hurricane 'Non-Existent,' Turning Back on Americans - Lawmaker

🗞 Breitbart News: FEMA Does Not Have Funds to Make It Through Hurricane Season, $640M Allotted for Illegal Immigrants

📰 The Federalist: Biden-Harris Admin Used FEMA Disaster Funding For Illegal Immigrants

🗞 The National Pulse: Biden-Harris Govt Says FEMA Needs Money for Hurricanes After Agency Spends $1 Billion Housing Illegals.

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