20 Examples of Government Hypocrisy to Make You Angry

Hypocrisy update April 5, 2022:

#158: Democrat politicians tolerate shootings because they refuse to face up to the big problem with their gun violence narrative.

On Sunday Nancy Pelosi got in front of the weekend’s mass shooting in Sacramento:

As a Californian, I am personally devastated by this horrific shooting.³⁶³

Personally devastated for how this shooting reflects on her party’s failed, be kind to criminals anti-crime policies, perhaps. Pelosi is a prominent resident of a liberal state that is noteworthy for bringing back train robberies, If California doesn’t provide enough examples of violent crime, there is no lack of evidence in other states and big cities in the grip of her fellow Democrats.

After that hypocritical comment from a politician who should also be personally devastated by her district’s massive homeless problem, Pelosi tacked on the usual Democratic talking points. She dodged the truth and instead took credit for accomplishments that haven’t happened, as if ramming legislation through a Democrat-controlled House is a major feat:

Moved by the tireless activism of survivors and advocates, House Democrats have passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Background Checks Act: commonsense and urgent action that will help end the bloodshed. Democrats will not relent until we enshrine this life-saving legislation into law, because inaction is not an option.³⁶⁴

Gun violence hypocrisy: the Democrat narrative comes first, shooting deaths last.

The problem with Democrats’ approach to crime and gun violence comes from the same place as their refusal to acknowledge the violence that characterized the George Floyd peaceful protest riots. They are terrified of angering their base by speaking the truth, so they use a gun violence narrative that attacks legitimate gun owners and firearms dealers to score points with left-wing activists while urban shootings flourish.

We’re learning more about the Sacramento tragedy. Media outlets including WGN News reports³⁶⁵ that the individual arrested yesterday was charged in part with being a convict with a loaded firearm. However this tragedy plays out and whether or not more suspects will be arrested in the days to come, Democrats will ignore the big picture in favor of their vote-getting anti-Second Amendment crusade.

Most Americans already know the truth. Individuals who are banned by law from owning firearms and especially those who have outstanding arrest warrants are not going to voluntarily submit to background checks for anything. Neither are criminals, gang members, illegal immigrants, drug dealers, or anyone else intent on owning a gun to commit an act of violence and especially violence for profit.

These individuals will take advantage of Democrat Party policies in liberal cities with be kind to criminals policies that, to the amazement of no one but Democrats, have massive crime problems. That includes my state’s largest city. Chicago is notorious for street crime, car jackings, and gun violence. Far left Governor J.B. Pritzker responded with criminal justice legislation that includes a no cash bail provision. The new law takes effect in January 2023, two months after his next reelection bid.

Democrats will cry racism, but the following graphic tells the truth about gun violence:

Rates of Firearm-Related Homicide, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex.³⁶⁶

Left-wing politicians who try to explain away the rise in crime in Democrat-controlled cities will do anything in their power to shift the blame away from their liberal approach to criminal justice. Yes, black lives matter and mass shootings are devastating, but neither of these things is as important to the left as amassing political power even if that power means standing by while people of color murder each other with impunity.

Author’s note April 6, 2022: as of this morning two more individuals have been arrested for being prohibited persons in possession of a firearm. Democrats will tell you this mandates background check legislation. People who want to solve the problem will tell you that California and other liberal states have a criminal justice problem that includes no cash bail, community policing laws that prioritize forgiveness and social services, and letting people out of prison who should stay there for a very long time.

Hypocrisy update April 7, 2022:

#159: What do illegals and a rabid fox have in common? The most egregious kind of government hypocrisy.

In a stroke of genius Texas Governor Greg Abbott formally announced plans to ship illegals welcomed by President Biden’s open border policies to our nation’s capitol.³⁶⁷ The White House and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas leave Abbott little choice. With the elimination of Trump’s Title 42 the flood of illegal immigrants Biden’s policies have already welcomed is expected to turn into a veritable tsunami.

Your pain doesn’t matter as long as Democrats don’t feel it, too.

The Biden administration has repeatedly demonstrated that agenda and sticking to the radical left’s narrative are all that count no matter how much pain descends on the American people. The results have all but doomed the Democrat Party’s hopes to stay in power, but ironically this has only strengthened Biden’s resolve to inflict his damaging priorities on our nation.

In what started as a refreshing change of pace, a story about an aggressive fox on Capitol Hill went from funny to ugly after the animal was found to be rabid. NPR reports that the fox bit nine people before it was captured. This begs the question of why the animal was still running loose after attacking its first victim, but that’s an issue for another day. For now, let’s focus on what a rabid fox, illegal immigrants, and Democrats have in common.

A rabid fox and too many illegals have Democrats’ government hypocrisy in common.

Democrats followed up the oppressive state and local COVID restrictions flouted by party elites by punishing our country with radical policies designed to please activists and hang everyday Americans out to dry. They joined the president to usher in mass illegal immigration, unsustainably high food and gas prices, explosive inflation, rampant crime, and an LGBTQ-obsessed, anti-parent public school system knowing that most of these things will not affect them or their families.

Where does the fox fit in? Nothing symbolizes what Democrats under Joe Biden have done to our country better than a vicious, rabid animal that mindlessly attacks the innocent people in its path. It’s time the problems these arrogant, abusive, self-interested hypocrites dump on the American people for their own political benefit arrive in Congress’s backyard. Thanks to Texas’ governor, vengeance may be ours faster than we hoped.

Hypocrisy Update April 10, 2022:

#160: Not your typical Republican superspreader.

Democrats celebrate, throw COVID caution to the wind after blasting Republicans for maskless ceremony.

On Friday the New York Post reported that 53 of the guests attending Washington’s Gridiron Dinner have since tested positive for COVID-19.³⁶⁸ That didn’t stop a blatantly maskless Rose Garden celebration seven days later for the Biden administration’s first and we hope only Supreme Court confirmation. The event featured a mask-free Kamala Harris hugging an also maskless Ketanji Brown Jackson despite a cascade of infections among party elites that included Pelosi’s announcement the day before that she, too, has COVID.

At this point Americans had already seen the picture of COVID Nancy kissing the president, an act that by itself would be banned in most business places where touching others, especially others of the opposite sex, is strictly verboten. Apparently liberal elites aren’t as vulnerable to legal liability or the virus as the rest of us despite the astounding head count of high level Democrats who just revealed that they are COVID positive.

The excuses included Jen Psaki’s ridiculous assertion that the Pelosi-Biden kiss wasn’t close contact. When asked about safety precautions at White House events during her Friday press conference Psaki, who recently had her own bout with COVID, responded:

Well, clearly, we did the event — the historic event today outside. That was, in part, to ensure that we could have a huge number of people on the South Lawn celebrating the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. But also, we know that having events outside is better for safety protocols. There’s no question about that.³⁶⁹

The question is why Democrats didn’t apply the same guidelines to Donald Trump and his Rose Garden event for Justice Amy Coney Barrett?

Outside is safer for Democrats, but unsafe and irresponsible for Trump and the GOP.

Democrats adopted a very different stance after President Trump held the requisite Rose Garden ceremony to announce the Barrett nomination. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) claimed the process was illegitimate and that:

The masks were off at that Rose Garden ceremony, in more ways than one. Republicans made it clear they would stop at nothing to confirm Justice Ginsburg’s replacement before a presidential election just weeks away. Yes, the masks were off.³⁷⁰

Elizabeth Warren accused Trump of stealing a Supreme Court seat before she attacked Republicans for doing what Democrats just did:

The Rose Garden ceremony to celebrate the nomination turns into a coronavirus superspreader event? Republican Senators brush it off. Republican Senators will press ahead with hearings while members of the Judiciary Committee are in quarantine and some of them refuse to get tested.³⁷¹

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth accused Trump and the GOP of politicizing the virus and ignoring the science as she added her criticism to the Democratic vitriol:

As Donald Trump held numerous in-person rallies with thousands of maskless supporters in close proximity. As he held an unnecessarily in-person political convention and then, last weekend, as he hosted what now appears to have been a super-spreader event simply to further their desperate power-grab for a Supreme Court seat that could put millions of Americans’ healthcare at risk.³⁷²

We haven’t heard any outrage from Democrats about their top officials contracting COVID, but Duckworth didn’t hold back on Republicans:

Late this week, my disbelief turned to sadness as senior White House officials, several of my Senate colleagues and the President of the United States were stricken by this devastating disease. As the fear that more than 7.3 million Americans have faced in recent months suddenly became all-to-real for Republicans who have spent much of this year denying.

And this weekend, my sadness turned to outrage as it became clear that even this appears unlikely to change Republicans’ irresponsible behavior.³⁷³

When it comes to public health, hindsight can be a valuable tool. It’s possible that Democrats’ blind hatred for Trump and Barrett clouded their memory of the 2020 Rose Garden get together. More likely they hoped we wouldn’t remember as Democrat after Democrat tests positive for COVID after the Gridiron shindig. By Friday it was already clear that the virus was making the rounds among their elites. Nevertheless, they threw caution to the wind in favor of their orgiastic celebration of Jackson’s confirmation.

Remember this as the new variant makes the rounds and Democrats who run your cities and states tell you the masks have to go back on, or else. They won’t have to follow their orders, but you will and they’ll make you regret it if you don’t.

Hypocrisy update April 13, 2022:

#161: White House obstructs CBP and then blames Abbott for the very same thing.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is on a roll. First, he followed through on his promise to ship illegals to Biden and the Democrats’ doorstep in Washington, D.C. Then he decided that protecting Americans from whatever is being trucked over the border should be a priority despite the Biden administration’s turning a blind eye to the flood of fentanyl, human beings, and God knows what else coming into our country.

The White House precipitated the ongoing catastrophe across our Southwest border. The administration is still seeding an unknown number of illegals around the country. We don’t know who these people are or where they are being dropped off. The repeated surges that overwhelm Customs and Border Protection and our Border Patrol agents and prevent them from doing their jobs are about to get a lot worse thanks to the president’s cancellation of Trump’s Title 42 protections.

This is all happening because the Biden administration doesn’t care about America, Americans, or the consequences of its willful, historic failure to protect our nation’s sovereignty. Radical priorities come first.

We found out this morning from Jen Psaki that the White House does care about pushback in the wake of Governor Abbott’s enhanced border safety inspections:

The continuous flow of legitimate trade and travel and CBP’s ability to do its job should not be obstructed. Governor Abbott’s actions are impacting people’s jobs, and the livelihoods of hardworking American families.³⁷⁴

The Biden administration has obstructed CBP’s ability to do its job since the president’s first day in office by ensuring its resources are constantly overwhelmed. We don’t know how much of what’s coming across the border is “legitimate trade and travel” and how much is illegal activity. What we do know is that the White House will ignore anything that contradicts the Democrat Party narrative that illegals are coming here for the sole purpose of making America a better place even if they’re stashed in trucks with pockets full of fentanyl.

The Biden administration is determined to make America a worse place for everyone except big money liberal elites. That much has been obvious from Day One. Now Abbott has stepped up to show America what a real leader does while Biden shows America what a president who despises our country and its people does.

Hypocrisy update May 2, 2022:

#162: First Amendment hypocrisy: Biden’s guardians of the truth are enemies of the people.

At the end of a week during which our Democrat-controlled government announced plans for a Disinformation Governance Board, Joe Biden attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and made what sounded like a joke:

The free press is not the enemy of the people — far from it. At your best, you’re guardians of the truth.³⁷⁵

It turned out this was not a joke. The president was serious.

The Biden administration is not joking about its plans to guard the truth, either, though many of us agree with Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) that placing the sanctity of the First Amendment in the hands of Homeland Security also sounds farcical:

“I confess, I at first thought this announcement was satire. Surely no American Administration would ever use the power of Government to sit in judgment on the First Amendment speech of its own citizens. Sadly, I was mistaken. Rather than protecting our border or the American homeland, you have chosen to make policing Americans’ speech your priority,” wrote Senator Hawley. ³⁷⁶

Perhaps the person who hired Nina Jankowicz to run the White House’s information filtering efforts never bothered to inform the president that our new arbiter of truth called the news story about his son Hunter’s laptop a “Trump campaign product.”³⁷⁷

If they had, would it have changed anything? Not likely. Campaign product or not, unlike the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump Steele Dossier this time the story was true. Our guardians of the truth made sure voters either didn’t know about it or assured them it was disinformation.

Jankowicz testimony: allegations of voter fraud and ballot harvesting are pollutants.

In a statement to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Disinformation Fellow Jankowicz compared allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election to QAnon:

It [Facebook banning QAnon conspiracy accounts] is an encouraging step, but QAnon is only one of the pollutants affecting the health of the information ecosystem and our democracy. As the 2020 election season draws to a close, unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud and ballot harvesting continue to gain prominence on the platform.³⁷⁸

Unsubstantiated is in the eyes of the partisan. Considering she works for an increasingly radical Democratic administration what will it take for allegations of voter fraud to be sufficiently substantiated? The Hunter Biden story was true, but with Jankowicz Disinformation Board in charge would this “Trump campaign product” have seen the light of day?

At the Correspondents’ Dinner the president made another confusing remark that wasn’t a joke:

The First Amendment grants a free press extraordinary protection, but with it comes, as many of you know, a very heavy obligation: to seek the truth as best you can — not to inflame or entertain, but to illuminate and educate.³⁷⁹

The press has been doing plenty of illuminating and educating to the Biden administration’s benefit. Now it has the extraordinary protection it needs to push tales of the president’s historic accomplishments without fear of contradictory “disinformation.” In its current, primarily left wing incarnation our “guardians of the truth” are no friends of the people and no matter what the president says, the Biden White House just demonstrated that it is no friend of the First Amendment.

Hypocrisy update May 4, 2022:

#163: How can Democrats defend women if they don’t know what they are?

Democrats are good with colors. They recognize black people, brown people, and even white people when they need someone to blame.

Gender is different. When it comes to simple, basic concepts even children understand like man vs. woman they tend to get tripped up in their own hilariously foolish, woke rhetoric. Ridiculous, gender-denying terms like “birthing people” and “menstruating people” raise a very simple, very basic question:

How can you defend someone because of their gender when you can’t define what it is?

Enter Nancy Pelosi. She stood up for the rights of women while joining fellow Democrats who are beating their chests and tearing out their hair because they finally have a midterm election issue that isn’t about the failure of everything they stand for. First, she blamed Trump³⁸⁰ for the second time since the leak was announced on Monday. Then she made a statement that seems impossible:

The Republican assault on Roe v. Wade is the latest manifestation of their decades-long disrespect of women. Democrats respect women and their freedom.³⁸¹

Correct me if I’m wrong, but last time I checked Republicans don’t have an issue identifying women. They know what they are. They are even comfortable with divisive terms like “woman” and “women.” Disrespecting the very idea that women exist is the province of Democrats and a woke base that has veered so far off the rails that we’re supposed to agree that the concept of gender that has served mankind for centuries is 100% completely inaccurate and wrong.

Perhaps this explains Pelosi’s cheerleading for Joe Biden’s new Supreme Court pick. Despite Ketanji Brown Jackson’s inability to define what a woman is during her confirmation hearings, the speaker insists she will defend our rights:

On the bench, Judge Jackson will be a relentless defender of individual rights and the rule of law.³⁸²

Whether or not this is true remains to be seen, but how can our new SCOTUS justice defend the rights of women when neither she nor Democrats who applauded her cofirmation can pinpoint just who precisely these rights should apply to?

Can men have abortions?

The woke left has entered the realm of pure ideological stupidity with pregnant man emojis and their insistence that simple, biological functions like menstruation and pregnancy are unrelated to gender. As Democrats strive to come up with something that doesn’t make them look like failures and fools, are we about to hear the gender-inclusive argument that men can have abortions, too?

Hypocrisy update May 4, 2022:

#164: Did Pelosi just say that fewer black and brown people would be a good thing?

Hysteria never leads to anything good. Democrats are tripping all over themselves in their eagerness to miscommunicate the impact of a Supreme Court decision that hasn’t been issued and won’t restrict anyone’s right to do anything unless voters decide it’s what they want. Like it or not, this is how government by the people works even if it’s inconvenient for the left.

In addition to their unquestionable support for abortion rights, Democrats also claim minority communities and people of color as their own despite a lackluster record for advancing anyone but themselves. Are the issues of supporting minority communities and promoting abortion compatible?

The answer depends on your motives. It’s safe to say that Democrats haven’t given this a lot of thought. In fact, if we take a remark that Nancy Pelosi made yesterday at face value it sounds like she thinks that fewer people of color would be a good thing:

By eviscerating women’s fundamental freedom to full reproductive care, radical Republican-appointed Justices are poised to inflict unthinkable suffering on tens of millions of families across our country, especially in communities of color and low-income communities.³⁸³

The “reproductive” part of full reproductive care is an oxymoron. Pelosi is referring to abortions, of course, which are the antithesis of reproduction. This is a term like “undocumented immigrant” that’s intended to make something unpleasant and offensive palatable for mass consumption.

A white Republican making this remark would be instantly blamed for white supremacy, racism, even genocide for arguing that denying a procedure that reduces the black and brown population inflicts unthinkable suffering. As a top voice in the Democrat Party Pelosi probably feels she is exempt from these sorts of accusations that her party gleefully reserves for the GOP. She said what she said, though, and I think the nation deserves an explanation and an answer.

Madam Speaker, why does not aborting black and brown children inflict unthinkable suffering on minority communities?

Hypocrisy update May 8, 2022:

#165: Harris the hypocrite: vice president talks about rooms and more rooms, her big decisions, and the importance of sovereignty.

I don’t want to set the bar too high for our vice president. We’ve learned that expectations for Kamala Harris should be much lower than for most politicians even if she is #2 in line for the most powerful leadership position in the world, or at least the world before Joe Biden got his hands on us.

Harris talks rooms and more rooms.

In an address at Tennessee State University yesterday Harris patted herself on the back for her lifelong determination to “be in the rooms where the decisions were being made:”³⁸⁴

As Vice President, I spend a lot of time in these rooms. I preside over debates in the United States Senate. I consult with experts at the Goddard Space Flight Center as the Chair of the National Space Council. I host bilateral meetings with heads of state at the White House.³⁸⁵

She got tripped up by the word “rooms” and descended into one of her word salad loops:

These are the rooms where decisions are being made. And these are the rooms that I was taught early on by my family, my mentors, and professors, who always believed that I should know that I could be and should be in those rooms, just as I believe you should be in these rooms. (Applause.)³⁸⁶

The audience applauded. It was graduation. Perhaps they were feeling extra indulgent.

The vice president didn’t say anything about what happened when she was tasked with making big decisions in the all-important border security room. What has she done to defend America’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, a phrase the administration has repeatedly used to justify our intervention in Ukraine?

President Putin’s action contradicts Russia’s commitments under the Minsk agreements, refutes Russia’s claimed commitment to diplomacy, and undermines Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.³⁸⁷

Harris used the phrase on Saturday as she spoke of post-WWII peace and security in Europe:

We believed that the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity had, for the most part, prevailed — that democracy had prevailed. But now, the certainty of fundamental principles is being called into question, including the principles of equality and fairness.³⁸⁸

She failed to mention America’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In her role as Border Czar there must be one of her rooms somewhere in Washington where Harris can make the all-important decisions to protect our border instead of allowing it to be overrun by illegals. With President Biden’s decision to complicate matters by repealing Title 42, if Harris is going to make a move this is the time to do it. Blaming Donald Trump for policies that worked won’t get the job done:

The Biden-Harris administration is working to rebuild our immigration system after four years of chaos and mismanagement.³⁸⁹

Lying about the success of White House border policies won’t help, either:

The administration has made significant progress at establishing a well-managed and secure border while also treating people fairly and humanely. The American people support this approach.³⁹⁰

Do we? I thought most Americans support a secure border and are not in favor of allowing drugs, sex offenders, and other criminals into the country because we refuse to control the massive influx of foreign invaders the Biden administration welcomes with open arms.

Was the door to the special room where Border Czar Harris makes her big decisions about protecting our sovereignty and territorial integrity locked? Does someone on her staff have they key? They had better find it fast. A disaster is on track to turn into a catastrophe by the end of this month and Harris is the one Biden tapped to fix it while he goes out of his way to make the situation even worse.

Hypocrisy update May 12, 2022:

#166: Roe v. Wade is a priority. Infant formula shortage? Not so much.

Despite all the prescience, hard work, and historic success the Biden administration draws together to address each and every crisis the president creates, Americans never seem to understand. In yesterday’s DNC address the president remarked that one of the big problems with inflation is that we’re afraid of it. Today we “remain concerned” about the infant formula shortage despite the administration ensuring that we’re cranking out more formula than ever:

So, you know, since mid-February, we have been working closely with USDA and FDA on a suite of actions that they have taken, which is why we are able to say today that production today is — you know, exceeds production in the period just before the [Abbott] recall was — the recall was initiated.³⁹¹

“Suite of actions” is impressive jargon, to say the least. Unfortunately for Biden the public doesn’t appreciate the extent of the White House’s efforts:

But we also know that families across the country remain concerned about the availability of infant formula, especially families that rely on specialty products that are harder to substitute and some of which are only produced at the Michigan facility.³⁹²

Are we too dumb to understand that the adults running the country have everything under control? They’ve been on this since mid-February so we should be in the clear, correct?

Not exactly.

A senior administration official was asked during a press call today when the store shelves would be restocked:

I don’t have a particular timeline for you. But we are — we are working closely with partners across the federal government to mitigate these shortages and improve experiences for American families as they’re shopping for formula across the country.³⁹³

The official didn’t say what “improved experiences” means, exactly. Free coffee and cookies to ease your disappointment at finding empty shelves again? Wipes to remove COVID from shopping carts? Decorative Out of Stock signs?

Perhaps Biden and the Democrats believe their lie that Roe v. Wade will end abortions nationwide and they fear that our population will surge and make shortages worse. Backburnering the formula shortage and starving the most vulnerable of all Americans is not an acceptable workaround. We are a developed country. Our government should be able to ensure we have the resources to feed all of our people, even babies.

It would be less anger-inducing if the White House would just fall back on the excuse it used when the government ran short of COVID tests as the very predictable omicron surge struck. “We didn’t see it coming” is absolutely believable considering who it’s coming from. Besides, it’s not as if we expect anything better from this president or anyone in his administration. At the moment they are preoccupied with their other baby problem, the one they are truly concerned about.

Hypocrisy update May 14, 2022:

#167: Our president wants you to feel safe from crime. Did he check with his party first?

When I read the new White House fact sheet on making communities safer I wondered whether Congressional Defund the Police Democrats were asked to comment before it was released:

President Biden believes that Americans deserve to feel safe no matter where they live, and he is committed to using every tool at his disposal to fight violent crime.³⁹⁴

Assuming he’s not referring to helping Americans living along our border with Mexico feel safer, this is still an astounding statement. This is the man the party of defund the police put in office, the man who opened our borders to human trafficking and fentanyl and whose Justice Department targeted concerned parents while children are shot dead in the streets of our cities. This is the president who thinks background checks will stop criminals from buying guns, who oversees a party with a vast network of liberal public officials who endorse a be kind to crime approach with many insisting that offenders should not even have to post cash bail before they are released to the streets to commit more crimes.

Now Biden wants to keep us safe? How could this possibly be??

It seems there is no amount of violence and killing that will convince Congress’s empty-headed, left wing ideologues that law enforcement is the answer to crime. Despite her city having one of the highest, if not the highest murder rate in America, Cori Bush (D-MO) applauded St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones’ budget proposal to defund the police by cutting $4 million from the department’s budget:

Today’s decision to defund the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is historic. It marks a new future for our city. We are building a St. Louis where elected officials lead in partnership with activists, organizers, and our communities.³⁹⁵

As a taxpayer-supported elected official doing quite a bit better than many, if not most of her constituents, Bush can afford her own private security. This hypocrisy among radical, Defund the Police Democrats is so extreme that Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) proposed H.Res. 1026 to condemn lawmakers who advocate this woke imperative. The resolution recommends that these politicians not be allowed to use our tax dollars to protect themselves while they promote withdrawing police funding for everyone else.³⁹⁶

Not a single Democrat co-sponsored Murphy’s resolution.

What is Biden offering to make us feel safer?

Biden’s Friday the 13th commitment to making communities safer only says that we deserve to feel safe. It’s not quite the same thing as actually being safe.

To that end, our new anti-crime president adopted the same approach he uses for every other failure on his hands. He blames Republicans for the failings of Democrats:

Unfortunately, every Republican in Congress voted against the American Rescue Plan public safety funding for cities and rural counties across the country.³⁹⁷

Then he tells us how much more he’s done than any other president in modern history to fix the crisis of the moment without mentioning why it’s still with us:

Along with ongoing state and local support from the Justice Department, American Rescue Plan investments made 2021 among the largest single-year commitments of federal resources for state and local law enforcement and public safety on record.³⁹⁸

… and then the persons unknown who write these screeds for Biden conclude with an overlong list of spending priorities to solve the problem. It’s a formula that sounds good and hasn’t worked yet.

This doesn’t sound like defunding the police.

Did the White House finally figure out too late that the crime Americans have been talking about for many months is a very real problem?

More important, does Biden care? He doesn’t seem to care about anything else that hurts us, including reserving baby formula for illegals while our own kids go hungry.

I can offer two admittedly cynical explanations for this hypocritical about-face on crime.

The first is fear. The surge in violent crime will be punished in November. It’s time to spend some cash now so credit can be taken later, even though we have absolutely no reason to think that this summer’s bloodbath in cities like Chicago will be any different, if not worse than last summer. Spreading money around violent urban hellholes won’t stop crime, but it will engender some good political will from those who bring in the votes.

Second, there is a lot of suspiciously woke-sounding crime prevention jargon afoot here, including money for crisis intervention and health support, community violence intervention, crisis responders, substance use disorder and mental health services, mobile crisis intervention, and so on and so forth. It sounds like a big, steamy pile of social spending, exactly the kind of spending Defund the Police Democrats promote in the wake of the violent George Floyd riots.

There is much ado in Biden’s remarks about crises, but not much about criminals. If there is money dedicated to more prosecutors and jail cells, I couldn’t find it.

Perhaps we could also spend some money on the campaigns of candidates opposing liberal, woke DAs and prosecutors and even governors like Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker whose new, no cash bail law won’t take effect until after the next gubernatorial election?

Pritzker’s ploy is the same problem we’re facing with the president and Defund the Police Democrats in Washington. Time is running out for them to pass out billions in taxpayer dollars to their cities under the guise of crime prevention. By the time Republicans retake the House and put a stop to it the money will be gone and violent crime will still be with us.

Hypocrisy update May 25, 2022:

#168: no matter what Democrats promise, protecting kids from school shootings is not their priority.

Last night our divisive president blamed the gun lobby for the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Nancy Pelosi took advantage of the opportunity to blame Republicans without naming them:

For too long, some in Congress have offered hollow words after these shootings while opposing all efforts to save lives.³⁹⁹

Across the hall Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer luxuriated in the political mileage to be gained from senseless tragedy and murdered children:

The problem in the Senate is simple. Too many members on the other side of the aisle are disconnected from the suffering of the American people. Too many members on that side care more about the NRA than they do about families who grieve victims of gun violence.⁴⁰⁰

This isn’t true. Even Schumer probably cares about keeping kids safe, though no doubt politics will always come first.

That’s the problem.

School shootings promote congressional stonewalling.

It would be foolish and irresponsible to blame this tragedy on Joe Biden or Democrat Party divisiveness or to target Republicans with the spurious argument that we can prevent mass shootings with politically-motivated gun control legislation. In the days and weeks and months ahead there will be lots of talk about all these things and maybe another executive order from the White House that will be shot down in the courts. Both sides will insist they are right. There is no tragedy, however horrible, that can’t be exploited for political benefit when an election is just around the corner.

Having just sent tens of billions to Ukraine and with even more COVID relief money unspent we should ask Democrats and the Republicans who agreed to this spending why funding school security isn’t a priority. It’s not as if school shootings are something new. Neither are the platitudes and legislative nonsense offered in response.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) spoke of the shootings at Sandy Hook and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High when she introduced H.R. 5428, the School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act to collect data to make schools safer:

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to publish an annual report on indicators of school crime and safety.⁴⁰¹

Annual reports don’t stop bullets. They are good for press releases and credit-taking. Instead of action, Americans were offered this:

Crucially, this law would create a definition for ‘school shooting,’ which does not exist in federal law.⁴⁰²

The bill was marketed as “a key prevention measure providing the framework to obtain the data needed to be pro-active.”⁴⁰³

That’s a lot of Kamala Harris-style gobbledygook that means doing absolutely nothing, which is what H.R. 5428 is doing as it sits months after it was introduced in the House.

This is how Democrats address children murdered in our schools while they sit on billions of dollars of our money.

Democrats horde your tax dollars. Why won’t they use billions to save children’s lives?

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that we had 130,930 elementary and secondary schools for the period 2017-2018.⁴⁰⁴ This is government so the numbers lag, but it still gives us a ballpark figure.

Congress just sent $40 billion to Ukraine. There is also $100 billion⁴⁰⁵ in unspent American Rescue Plan funding and who knows how much more unspent taxpayer cash lying around Washington. Instead of spending some of this money to save kids from bullets, congressional Democrats occupy themselves with progressive priorities like using the public school system to sexualize elementary school students.

$1 billion is a lot of money. $140 billion is a phenomenal amount of money. I’m not naïve enough to think the solution is that simple, but that’s not my point. Congress spends on what is important to congressional politicians. Right now Democrats are the ones calling the shots. This is what is important to them and to President Biden:

The gun lobby and Republicans have stonewalled gun legislation efforts for years, but we will not give up. It is the responsibility of Congress to answer this call. The American people are waiting on us to take immediate action to save innocent lives.⁴⁰⁶

If that’s true, Democrats should do it. How much security can we buy with $40 billion, $50 billion, $100 billion, or even $1 trillion, a figure progressives toss around like pocket change? How many door barricades, metal detectors, lockdown devices, bulletproof glass panels, and armed security guards can we buy instead of funding their Green New Deal socialism?

Democrats are right. We can fix the problem if we want to. They just don’t want to badly enough because fighting with Republicans over gun rights is more important that the lives of our kids.

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⁶³Ibid.

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⁷¹“Remarks at Media Availability with Leader Schumer.” Speaker.gov. November 12, 2020. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/111220-0, retrieved November 15, 2020.

⁷²“Emergency Travel Order.” Chicago.gov. Updated November 17, 2020. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/emergency-travel-order.html, retrieved November 24, 2020.

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⁷⁴“Mayor Lightfoot’s 2021 Budget Receives Approval by Chicago City Council.” Chicago.gov. November 24, 2020. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/
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⁸¹“Chairman Jeffries: “President Trump is Missing in Action. He Seems to Have Quit on the American People.” House Democrats. November 22, 2020. https://www.dems.gov/newsroom/press-releases/chairman-jeffries-president-trump-is-missing-in-action-he-seems-to-have-quit-on-the-american-people, retrieved November 29, 2020.

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⁹¹“Illinois House Democrats Blasts [sic] Remarks by Congresswoman Mary Miller Praising Hitler.” Jan Schakowsky. January 6, 2021. https://schakowsky.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-illinois-house-democrats-blasts-remarks-congresswoman-mary-miller-praising, retrieved January 8, 2021.

⁹²Ibid.

⁹³”Chairman Jeffries: “Donald Trump is a Living, Breathing Impeachable Offense.” Dems.gov. January 13, 2021. https://www.dems.gov/newsroom/press-releases/chairman-jeffries-donald-trump-is-a-living-breathing-impeachable-offense, retrieved January 14, 2021.

⁹⁴Rep. Mondaire Jones in “Pressley, Omar, Colleagues Unveil Privileged Impeachment Resolution Against President Donald J. Trump.” Pressley.house.gov. January 7, 2021. https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/pressley-omar-colleagues-unveil-privileged-impeachment-resolution-against, retrieved January 14, 2021.

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⁹⁶Sullivan, Peter. “Biden under pressure to deliver more COVID-19 shots.” The Hill. January 23, 2021. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/535479-biden-under-pressure-to-deliver-more-vaccine-shots, retrieved January 23, 2021.

⁹⁷“Fact Sheet: President Biden’s New Executive Actions Deliver Economic Relief for American Families and Businesses Amid the COVID-19 Crises.” WhiteHouse.gov. January 22, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/22/fact-sheet-president-bidens-new-executive-actions-deliver-economic-relief-for-american-families-and-businesses-amid-the-covid-19-crises/, retrieved January 23, 2021.

⁹⁸“Veterans and Military Families for Biden.” JoeBiden.com. https://joebiden.com/vmf/, retrieved January 23, 2021.

⁹⁹“Congressional Tribute to U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick.” Speaker.gov.February 3, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/2321, retrieved February 3, 2021.

¹⁰⁰“Remarks by President Biden at Signing of Executive Orders Advancing His Priority to Modernize Our Immigration System.” Whitehouse.gov. February 2, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/02/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-executive-orders-advancing-his-priority-to-modernize-our-immigration-system/, retrieved February 3, 2021.

¹⁰¹“CBP Announces January 2021 Operational Update.” CBP.gov. February 10, 2021. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-announces-january-2021-operational-update, retrieved February 11, 2021.

¹⁰²“Rep. Carson on Partisan Acquittal of President Trump.” Carson.house.gov. February 5, 2020. https://carson.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-carson-on-partisan-acquittal-of-president-trump, retrieved February 14, 2021.

¹⁰³“Scott Statement on Senate Vote to Acquit Donald Trump.” February 13, 2021. Bobbyscott.house.gov. https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-statement-on-senate-vote-to-acquit-donald-trump, retrieved February 14, 2021.

¹⁰⁴“Rep. Sewell Statement on Senate Acquittal of Former President Donald J. Trump.” Sewell.house.gov. February 13, 2021. https://sewell.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-sewell-statement-senate-acquittal-former-president-donald-j-trump, retrieved February 14, 2021.

¹⁰⁵“DeLauro Statement on the Acquittal of Donald Trump.” DeLauro.house.gov. February 13, 2021. https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-statement-acquittal-donald-trump, retrieved February 14, 2021.

¹⁰⁶“McConnell on Impeachment: “Disgraceful Dereliction” Cannot Lead Senate to “Defy Our Own Constitutional Guardrails.” McConnell.senate.gov. February 13, 2021. https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/
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¹⁰⁷Ibid.

¹⁰⁸Ibid.

¹⁰⁹“Durbin to Garland: You Can Restore the Faith of the American People in the Rule of the Law.” Judiciary.senate.gov. February 22, 2021. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/
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¹¹⁰“Chairman Jeffries: “The American Rescue Plan is the Right Response to a Once-in-a-Century Pandemic.” Dems.gov. February 24, 2021. https://www.dems.gov/newsroom/press-releases/chairman-jeffries-the-american-rescue-plan-is-the-right-response-to-a-once-in-a-century-pandemic-, retrieved February 27, 2021.

¹¹¹Democratic Policy & Communications Committee.” Retrieved from https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/
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¹¹³“Transcript of Pelosi Weekly Press Conference Today.” Speaker.gov. February 25, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/22521-0, retrieved March 1, 2021.

¹¹⁴“Phase 1B in Illinois.” Coronavirus.Illinois.gov. https://coronavirus.illinois.gov/s/phase-1b, retrieved March 3, 2021.

¹¹⁵“African Americans and Tobacco Use.” CDC.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/african-americans/index.htm, retrieved March 3, 2021.

¹¹⁶“Pelosi Statement on February Jobs Report.” speaker.gov. March 5, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/3521, retrieved March 6, 2021.

¹¹⁷Ibid.

¹¹⁸Ibid.

¹¹⁹“Letter to President Biden Urging him to Reconsider Cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline.” pfluger.house.gov. January 21, 2021. https://pfluger.house.gov/letter-president-biden-urging-him-reconsider-cancelling-keystone-xl-pipeline, retrieved March 6, 2021.

¹²⁰“HEAT Leaders Call on President Biden to Reverse Keystone XL and Paris Agreement Decisions.” mullin.house.gov. January 20, 2021. https://mullin.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4414, retrieved March 6, 2021.

¹²¹“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, March 2, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. March 2, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/03/02/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-march-2-2021/, retrieved March 6, 2021.

¹²²“Remarks by President Biden on the Anniversary of the COVID-19 Shutdown.” whitehouse.gov. March 11, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/11/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-anniversary-of-the-covid-19-shutdown/, retrieved March 12, 2021.

¹²³Ibid.

¹²⁴WSBTV.com News Staff. “Georgia spa shootings: Suspect confesses, claims he was not racially motivated, sheriff says.” March 17, 2021. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta-spa-shootings-suspect-confesses-says-not-racially-motivated-sheriff-says/KSUOKEPYSJGIPE6LXDXBIVASHY/, retrieved March 18, 2021.

¹²⁵“Pelosi Statement on Shootings in Georgia.” speaker.gov. March 17, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/31721-2, retrieved March 18, 2021.

¹²⁶Ibid.

¹²⁷Ibid.

¹²⁸“Floor Speech in Support of H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act.” speaker.gov. March 18, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/31821-3, retrieved March 19, 2021.

¹²⁹“Floor Speech in Support of H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021.” speaker.gov. March 18, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/31821-4, retrieved March 19, 2021.

¹³⁰“Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas Regarding the Situation at the Southwest Border.” dhs.gov. March 16, 2021. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/03/16/statement-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-n-mayorkas-regarding-situation, retrieved March 22, 2021.

¹³¹Ibid.

¹³²Ibid.

¹³⁴“Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas Regarding the Situation at the Southwest Border.” dhs.gov. Op. cit.

¹³⁵“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, March 22, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. March 22, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/03/22/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-march-22-2021/, retrieved March 22, 2021.

¹³⁶Ibid.

¹³⁷“Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting.” whitehouse.gov. March 7, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/07/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting/, retrieved March 28, 2021.

¹³⁸“Remarks by President Biden in a Virtual Fundraiser for Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.” whitehouse.gov. March 26, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/27/remarks-by-president-biden-in-a-virtual-fundraiser-for-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms/, retrieved March 28, 2021.

¹³⁹“Pre-Taped Remarks by Vice President Kamala Harris As Delivered to Brown Chapel AME Church.” whitehouse.gov. March 7, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/07/pre-taped-remarks-by-vice-president-kamala-harris-as-delivered-to-brown-chapel-ame-church/, retrieved March 28, 2021.

¹⁴⁰“Feinstein, Schumer, Klobuchar Call on McConnell to Cancel Vote on Nomination Of Cory Wilson To The Fifth Circuit.” Feinstein.senate.gov. June 22, 2020. https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/
index.cfm/press-releases?ID=65556FBD-3645-4F48-AD60-391212A7286F, retrieved March 28, 2021.

¹⁴¹“Larsen, Veasey Introduce Bill to Fight Discriminatory Voter ID Laws.” larsen.house.gov. February 17, 2021. https://larsen.house.gov/ news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2462, retrieved March 28, 2021.

¹⁴²“Attorney General Becerra Co-leads Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy.” oag.ca.gov. June 26, 2018. https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-co-leads-lawsuit-against-trump-administrations-child, retrieved March 29, 2021.

¹⁴³“CAPAC Members Oppose Detention of Migrant Children at Former Japanese Internment Camp.” capac-chu.house.gov. June 13, 2019. https://capac-chu.house.gov/press-release/capac-members-oppose-detention-migrant-children-former-japanese-internment-camp-0, retrieved March 29, 2021.

¹⁴⁴“Remarks by President Biden After Air Force One Arrival.” whitehouse.gov. March 26, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/26/remarks-by-president-biden-after-air-force-one-arrival/, retrieved March 28, 2021.

¹⁴⁵“Remarks by President Biden on the American Jobs Plan.” whitehouse.gov. March 31, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/31/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-american-jobs-plan/, retrieved April 1, 2021.

¹⁴⁶Ibid.

¹⁴⁷Ibid.

¹⁴⁸Ibid.

¹⁴⁹Ibid.

¹⁵⁰“COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Plan.” idph.illinois.gov. https://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/vaccine-distribution, retrieved April 7, 2021.

¹⁵¹“People of color, women shoulder front-line work during pandemic.” nbcnews.com. May 4, 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/people-color-women-shoulder-front-line-work-during-pandemic-n1199291, retrieved April 8, 2021.

¹⁵²“Rate ratios compared to 5-17 year olds.” cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html, retrieved April 7, 2021.

¹⁵³“Mayor Lightfoot and CDPH Announce Significant Improvement in Racial Equity in Vaccine Distribution.” chicago.gov. February 19, 2021. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/
provdrs/health_protection_and_response/news/
2021/february/mayor-lightfoot-and-cdph-announce-significant-improvement-in-rac.html, retrieved April 7, 2021.

¹⁵⁴“CCDPH IDENTIFIES 32 PRIORITY COMMUNITIES FOR VACCINATION EQUITY MEASURES – Municipalities chosen by CCVI factors.” cookcountypublichealth.org. March 19, 2021. https://cookcountypublichealth.org/2021/03/19/
ccdph-identifies-32-priority-communities-for-vaccination-equity-measures-municipalities-chosen-by-ccvi-factors/, retrieved April 8, 2021.

¹⁵⁵Ibid.

¹⁵⁶“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, March 26, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. March 26, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/03/26/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-march-26-2021/, retrieved April 10, 2021.

¹⁵⁷Ibid.

¹⁵⁸“Executive Summary” retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/archive/opd/
ExecSum.htm on April 10, 2021.

^159-Ibid.

¹⁶⁰Ibid.

¹⁶¹CST Editorial Board. “Behind the grim numbers on Chicago gun violence in 2020.” chicagosuntimes.com December 30, 2020. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/30/
22206618/chicago-gun-violence-homicides-policing-community-outreach-university-of-chicago-crime-lab-editorial, retrieved April 10, 2021.

¹⁶²“Pressley, Advocates Re-Introduce People’s Justice Guarantee to Transform Criminal Legal System.” pressley.house.gov. March 11, 2021. https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/pressley-advocates-re-introduce-people-s-justice-guarantee-transform-criminal, retrieved April 10, 2021.

¹⁶³“FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epidemic.” whitehouse.gov. April 7, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/07/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence-public-health-epidemic/, retrieved April 11, 2021.

¹⁶⁴Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib). April 12, 2021. Twitter. https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status
/1381745303997534216?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet, retrieved April 13, 2021.

¹⁶⁵“Phillips Statement on the Shooting of Daunte Wright.” phillips.house.gov. April 12, 2021. https://phillips.house.gov/media/press-releases/phillips-statement-shooting-daunte-wright, retrieved April 13, 2021.

¹⁶⁶Ibid.

¹⁶⁷“Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Statement on the 2nd Impeachment of Donald Trump.” tlaib.house.gov. January 13, 2021. https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-rashida-tlaib-statement-2nd-impeachment-donald-trump, retrieved April 13, 2021.

¹⁶⁸“Congressman García’s Statement on Adam Toledo.” chuygarcia.house.gov. April 15, 2021. https://chuygarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-garc-s-statement-adam-toledo, retrieved April 16, 2021.

¹⁶⁹Ibid.

¹⁷⁰Ibid.

¹⁷¹“Remarks by Vice President Harris on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd.” whitehosue.gov. April 21, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/21/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-on-the-verdict-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial-for-the-death-of-george-floyd/, retrieved April 22, 2021.

¹⁷²“Remarks by President Biden on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd.” whitehouse.gov. April 20, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/20/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-verdict-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial-for-the-death-of-george-floyd/, retrieved April 21, 2021.

¹⁷³“Statement from Rep. Pressley on Derek Chauvin Trial Verdict.” pressley.house.gov. April 20, 2021. https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/statement-rep-pressley-derek-chauvin-trial-verdict, retrieved April 22, 2021.

¹⁷⁴“Remarks by Vice President Harris on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd.” whitehouse.gov. Op. cit.

¹⁷⁵“A Proclamation on Workers Memorial Day, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. April 27, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/04/27/a-proclamation-on-workers-memorial-day-2021/, retrieved April 27, 2021.

¹⁷⁶“Remarks by President Biden Before Meeting with Members of the Congressional Black Caucus.” whitehouse.gov. April 13, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/13/remarks-by-president-biden-before-meeting-with-members-of-the-congressional-black-caucus/, retrieved April 27, 2021.

¹⁷⁷“Remarks by President Biden on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd.” whitehouse.gov. April 20, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/20/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-verdict-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial-for-the-death-of-george-floyd/, retrieved April 27, 2021.

¹⁷⁸“Pelosi Statement on April Jobs Report.” speaker.gov. May 7, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/5721, retrieved May 8, 2021.

¹⁷⁹“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, May 7, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. May 7, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/05/07/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-secretary-of-the-treasury-janet-yellen-may-7-2021/, retrieved May 8, 2021.

¹⁸⁰Ibid.

¹⁸¹Ibid.

¹⁸²Ibid.

¹⁸³“Walorski Statement on Disappointing April Jobs Report.” walorski.house.gov. May 7, 2021. https://walorski.house.gov/jobs-report-april-2021/, retrieved May 8, 2021.

¹⁸⁴“Floor Speech on H.R. 3233, the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act.” www.speaker.gov. May 19, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/51921-4, retrieved May 24, 2021.

¹⁸⁵Ibid.

¹⁸⁶“Remarks by President Biden at an Annual Memorial Day Service.” whitehouse.gov. May 30, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/30/remarks-by-president-biden-at-an-annual-memorial-day-service/, retrieved May 31, 2021.

¹⁸⁷“Dear Colleague to All Members in Observance of Memorial Day.” speaker.gov. May 28, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/52821-2, retrieved May 31, 2021.

¹⁸⁸“Remarks by President Biden at an Annual Memorial Day Service.” whitehouse.gov. May 30, 2021. Op. cit.

¹⁸⁹“Chairman Jeffries Statement on Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Affordable Care Act.” dems.gov. June 17, 2021. https://www.dems.gov/newsroom/press-releases/chairman-jeffries-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-upholding-the-affordable-care-act, retrieved June 18, 2021.

¹⁹⁰“Illinois Democratic Congressional Delegation to Trump Administration: Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Cases & Deaths Are Unacceptable.” bustos.house.gov. April 14, 2020. https://bustos.house.gov/illinois-democratic-congressional-delegation-to-trump-administration-racial-disparities-in-covid-19-cases-deaths-are-unacceptable/, retrieved June 18, 2021.

¹⁹¹Ibid.

¹⁹²“Transcript of Pelosi Weekly Press Conference Today.” speaker.gov. June 17, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/61721-5, retrieved June 19, 2021.

¹⁹³Ibid.

¹⁹⁴“Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Strategy to Reduce Gun Violence and Violent Crime.” whitehouse.gov. June 22, 2021. https://www.whitehose.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/06/23/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-on-the-strategy-to-reduce-gun-violence-and-violent-crime/, retrieved June 23, 2021.

¹⁹⁵“Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gun Crime and Ensure Public Safety.” whitehouse.gov. June 23, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/23/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-comprehensive-strategy-to-prevent-and-respond-to-gun-crime-and-ensure-public-safety/, retrieved June 23, 2021.

¹⁹⁶Ibid.

¹⁹⁷“As House Dems Rescue the Economy, Republicans Root Against It.” speaker.gov. July 2, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/7221-1, retrieved July 6, 2021.

¹⁹⁸Ibid.

¹⁹⁹“Employment Situation Summary.” bls.gov. July 2, 2021. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm, retrieved July 6, 2021.

²⁰⁰“Dear Colleagues to All Members on Fourth of July Weekend. ” speaker.gov. July 2, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/7221-3, retrieved July 6, 2021.

²⁰¹“Amendment to Defund Operation Legend Passes House by Voice Vote.” ocasio-cortez.house.gov. July 31, 2020. https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/amendment-defund-operation-legend-passes-house-voice-vote, retrieved July 23, 2021.

²⁰²“Lightfoot on Trump’s Threat to Send in Military: ‘Not Gonna Happen.’ nbcchicago.com. June 2, 2020. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/lightfoot-on-trumps-threat-to-send-in-military-not-gonna-happen/2282775/, retrieved July 23, 2021.

²⁰³“AG Merrick Garland to visit Chicago as DOJ announces gun trafficking ‘strike force.'” abc7chicago.com. July 22, 2021. https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-merrick-garland-news-mass/10903315/, retrieved July 23, 2021.

²⁰⁴“Congresswoman Cori Bush’s Statement on Eviction Emergency.” bush.house.gov. August 3, 2021. https://bush.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-cori-bushs-statement-eviction-emergency, retrieved August 5, 2021.

²⁰⁵“Biography.” bush.house.gov. https://bush.house.gov/about, retrieved August 5, 2021.

²⁰⁶“Congresswoman Cori Bush Says the Federal Government Must Account for Its Role in Perpetuating and Upholding White Supremacy.” bush.house.gov. February 17, 2021. https://bush.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-cori-bush-says-federal-government-must-account-its-role, retrieved August 5, 2021.

²⁰⁷Ibid.

²⁰⁸“Remarks by President Biden at Signing of H.R. 3325, Awarding Congressional Gold Medals to Those Who Protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6.” whitehouse.gov. August 5, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/05/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-h-r-3325-awarding-congressional-gold-medals-to-those-who-protected-the-u-s-capitol-on-january-6/, retrieved August 6, 2021.

²⁰⁹“Remarks by Vice President Harris on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd.” whitehouse.gov. April 21, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/21/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-on-the-verdict-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial-for-the-death-of-george-floyd/, retrieved August 6, 2021.

²¹⁰“Congresswoman Cori Bush’s Statement on Mayor Tishaura O. Jones’ Fiscal Year 2022 Budget.” bush.house.gov. April 29, 2021. https://bush.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-cori-bushs-statement-mayor-tishaura-o-jones-fiscal-year-2022, retrieved August 6, 2021.

²¹¹Ibid.

²¹²Walker, Jackson. “Cori Bush defends private security at Capitol: ‘You would rather me die?'” thehill.com. August 5, 2021. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566562-cori-bush-defends-private-security-at-capitol-you-would-rather-me-die, retrieved August 6, 2021.

²¹³“Raskin Reintroduces 25th Amendment Legislation Establishing Independent Commission on Presidential Capacity.” raskin.house.gov. October 9, 2020. https://raskin.house.gov/2020/10/raskin-reintroduces-25th-amendment-legislation-establishing-independent, retrieved August 27, 2021.

²¹⁴“Transcript of Pelosi Weekly Press Conference Today.” speaker.gov. January 7, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/1721-1, retrieved August 27, 2021.

²¹⁵“Congressman Madison Cawthorn Formally Requests Cabinet Officials Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.” cawthorn.house.gov. August 26, 2021. https://cawthorn.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-madison-cawthorn-formally-requests-cabinet-officials-invoke-0, retrieved August 27, 2021.

²¹⁶“Capitol Police officer who shot pro-Trump rioter speaks out.” CNN.com. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/08/27/capitol-police-michael-byrd-ashli-babbitt-january-6-trump-newday-ldn-vpx.cnn, retrieved August 27, 2021.

²¹⁷“Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Remarks at San Francisco Press Event on Women’s Equality Day.” speaker.gov. August 26, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/82621-2, retrieved August 28, 2021.

²¹⁸“A Proclamation on Women’s Equality Day, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. August 26, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/08/26/a-proclamation-on-womens-equality-day-2021/, retrieved August 28, 2021.

²¹⁹“A Proclamation on Overdose Awareness Week, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. August 7, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/08/27/a-proclamation-on-overdose-awareness-week-2021/, retrieved August 31, 2021.

²²⁰“CBP Announces February 2021 Operational Update.” cbp.gov. March 10, 2021. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-announces-february-2021-operational-update, retrieved August 31, 2021.

²²¹“CBP Announces June 2021 Operational Update.” cbp.gov. July 16, 2021. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-announces-june-2021-operational-update#, August 31, 2021.

²²²“Portman on Border Crisis: What We’re Doing is Not Working and the Biden Administration Must Change Course.” hsgac.senate.gov. July 27, 2021. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/minority-media/portman-on-border-crisis-what-were-doing-is-not-working-and-the-biden-administration-must-change-course, retrieved August 31, 2021.

²²³“Majority of U.S. public favors Afghanistan troop withdrawal; Biden criticized for his handling of situation.” pewresearch.org. August 31, 2021. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/31/majority-of-u-s-public-favors-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-biden-criticized-for-his-handling-of-situation/, retrieved September 3, 2021.

²²⁴“Statement by President Joe Biden on Rosh Hashanah.” whitehouse.gov. September 5, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/05/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-rosh-hashanah/, retrieved September 5, 2021.

²²⁵“Waltz to Introduce Censure Resolution Condemning Reps. Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley.” waltz.house.gov. June 14, 2021. https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=507, retrieved September 5, 2021.

²²⁶“Schiff Statement on Anti-Semitic Comments Made by Rep. Ilhan Omar.” schiff.house.gov. February 11, 2019. https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/schiff-statement-on-anti-semitic-comments-made-by-rep-ilhan-omar, retrieved September 5, 2021.

²²⁷“Schakowsky Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks.” schakowsky.house.gov. September 10, 2021. https://schakowsky.house.gov/media/press-releases/schakowsky-statement-20th-anniversary-september-11th-attacks, retrieved September 11, 2021.

²²⁸“Jayapal, Omar, Tlaib, and Chu Introduce September 11 Congressional Resolution.” jayapal.house.gov. September 10, 2021. https://jayapal.house.gov/2021/09/10/9-11-congressional-resolution/, retrieved September 11, 2021.

²²⁹Ibid.

²³⁰“A Memorandum for the Secretary of State on Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2022.” whitehouse.gov. September 15, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/09/15/a-memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-state-on-presidential-determination-on-major-drug-transit-or-major-illicit-drug-producing-countries-for-fiscal-year-2022/, retrieved September 15, 2021.

²³¹“FACT SHEET: Urgent Relief to Central America.” whitehouse.gov. April 26, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/26/fact-sheet-urgent-relief-to-central-america/, retrieved Septembr 15, 2021.

²³²“Dear Colleague on Build Back Better Act Progress and Security Concerns Ahead of September 18th.” speaker.gov. September 17, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/91521-1, retrieved September 17, 2021.

²³³Ibid.

²³⁴” Secretary Mayorkas Delivers Remarks in Del Rio, TX.” dhs.gov. September 20, 2021. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/20/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-del-rio-tx, retrieved September 21, 2021.

²³⁵“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, September 20, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. September 20, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/09/20/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-september-20-2021/, retrieved September 21, 2021.

²³⁶“Pelosi Statement on Reports of Mistreatment of Haitian Migrants at the Border.” speaker.gov. September 20, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/92021-2, retrieved September 21, 2021.

²³⁷Ibid.

²³⁸ Samuels, Brett. “Harris ‘deeply troubled’ by treatment of Haitian migrants.” thehill.com September 21, 2021. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/573198-harris-deeply-troubled-by-treatment-of-haitian-migrants, retrieved September 21, 2021.

²³⁹Ibid.

²⁴⁰“Remarks by President Biden on the Need to Raise the Debt Ceiling.” whitehouse.gov. October 4, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-need-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling/, retrieved October 4, 2021.

²⁴¹“Sanders: Democrats considering $6 trillion spending package.” sanders.senate.gov. June 17, 2021. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/in-the-news/sanders-democrats-considering-6-trillion-spending-package/, retrieved October 4, 2021.

²⁴²“Remarks by President Biden on the Need to Raise the Debt Ceiling.” whitehouse.gov. Ibid.

²⁴²“A Proclamation on National Character Counts Week, 2021.” whitehouse.gov. October 15, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/10/15/a-proclamation-on-national-character-counts-week-2021/, retrieved October 15, 2021.

²⁴³Ibid.

²⁴⁴Ibid.

²⁴⁵“Pallone to Introduce Legislation Creating New Agency to Respond to Natural Disasters & Assess Army Corps Projects.” Pallone.house.gov. September 6, 2005. https://pallone.house.gov/press-release/pallone-introduce-legislation-creating-new-agency-respond-natural-disasters-assess, retrieved October 17, 2021.

²⁴⁶“Remarks by President Biden at the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service.” whitehouse.gov. October 16, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/16/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-40th-annual-national-peace-officers-memorial-service/, retrieved October 16, 2021.

²⁴⁷“Secretary Mayorkas Delivers Remarks in Del Rio, TX.” dhs.gov. September 20, 2021. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/20/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-del-rio-tx, retrieved October 17, 2021.

²⁴⁸“DHS to Terminate Border Barrier Contracts in Laredo and Rio Grande Valley.” dhs.gov. October 8, 2021. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/10/08/dhs-terminate-border-barrier-contracts-laredo-and-rio-grande-valley, retrieved October 17, 2021.

²⁴⁹“Chairwoman Roybal-Allard Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Ruling to Reinstate “Remain in Mexico” Policy.” roybal-allard.house.gov. August 25, 2021. https://roybal-allard.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=401866, retrieved October 17, 2021.

²⁵⁰“Welch Votes to Pass George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.” welch.house.gov. March 4, 2021. https://welch.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/welch-votes-pass-george-floyd-justice-policing-act, retrieved October 18, 2021.

²⁵¹“Congressman Thompson’s Statement on Officers Charged in George Floyd’s Death.” benniethompson.house.gov. June 3, 2020. https://benniethompson.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-thompson-s-statement-officers-charged-george-floyd-s-death, retrieved October 18,2021.

²⁵²“Remarks by President Biden at the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service.” whitehouse.gov. October 16, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/16/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-40th-annual-national-peace-officers-memorial-service/, retrieved October 16, 2021.

²⁵³Ibid.

²⁵⁴Ibid.

²⁵⁵“Pelosi Statement on Three Years Since the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting.” speaker.gov October 27, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/102721, retrieved October 27, 2021.

²⁵⁶“Rep. Young Kim Takes Action to Hold Rep. Omar Accountable.” youngkim.house.gov. June 11, 2021. https://youngkim.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-young-kim-takes-action-hold-rep-omar-accountable, retrieved October 27, 2021.

²⁵⁷“Hartzler Supports Israel and House Resolution Censuring Anti-Semitic Members.” hartzler.house.gov. June 15, 2021. https://hartzler.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/hartzler-supports-israel-and-house-resolution-censuring-anti-semitic, retrieved October 27, 2021.

²⁵⁸“Gov. Pritzker Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis, Pledges $250 Million Investment for Hardest Hit Communities.” Illinois.gov. November 1, 2021. https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.24090.html, retrieved November 2, 2021.

²⁵⁹“Executive Order 2021-29. Executive Order Implementing a Comprehensive Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence in Illinois.” Illinois.gov. November 1, 2021. https://www.illinois.gov/government/executive-orders/executive-order.executive-order-number-29.2021.html, retrieved November 2, 2021.

²⁶⁰“Gov. Pritzker Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis, Pledges $250 Million Investment for Hardest Hit Communities.” Illinois.gov. Op. cit.

²⁶¹“Executive Order 2021-29. Executive Order Implementing a Comprehensive Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence in Illinois.” Illinois.gov. Op. cit.

²⁶²“Statewide Violence Prevention Plan: 2020-2024.” vpp.icjia.cloud. https://vpp.icjia.cloud/, retrieved November 2, 2021.

²⁶³>”Pelosi Statement on Republican Obstruction of John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” speaker.gov. November 3, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11321-4, retrieved November 4, 2021.

²⁶⁴Ibid.

²⁶⁵Ibid.

²⁶⁶“Dear Colleague on Moving the Build Back Better Act Forward.” speaker.gov. November 3, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11321-3, retrieved November 4, 2021.

²⁶⁷“Pelosi Statement on President Biden’s Leadership Delivering Historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation.” speaker.gov. November 6, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11621-1, retrieved November 6, 2021.

²⁶⁸Ibid.

²⁶⁹Starting Today Fully Vaccinated Travelers Permitted to Enter U.S. via Land and Ferry Border Crossings. dhs.gov. November 8, 2021. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/11/08/starting-today-fully-vaccinated-travelers-permitted-enter-us-land-and-ferry-border, retrieved November 8, 2021.

²⁷⁰Ibid.

²⁷¹“FACT SHEET: How the Build Back Better Act Will Deliver Critical Investments in American Veterans and their Families.” whitehouse.gov. November 11, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/11/fact-sheet-how-the-build-back-better-act-will-deliver-critical-investments-in-american-veterans-and-their-families/, retrieved November 11, 2021.

²⁷²Ibid.

²⁷³Pelosi Statement on Veterans Day. speaker.gov. November 11, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/111121, retrieved November 11, 2021.

²⁷⁴“Statement by President Joe Biden on Surpassing 100,000 American Overdose Deaths in the Past Year.” whitehouse.gov. November 17, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-surpassing-100000-american-overdose-deaths-in-the-past-year/, retrieved November 17, 2021.

²⁷⁵Ibid.

²⁷⁶“A Surge of Drugs Adds to Biden’s Border Crisis.” rpc.senate.gov. November 3, 2021. https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/a-surge-of-drugs-adds-to-bidens-border-crisis, retrieved November 17, 2021.

²⁷⁷“Obesity and Overweight.” cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm,retrieved November 20, 2021.

²⁷⁸“In Response to Racist Terrorism in Charlottesville, Jayapal Introduces Resolution Demanding President Trump Fire White Supremacists from the White House.”

²⁷⁹“The Way Forward After Charlottesville.” beyer.house.gov. Not dated. https://beyer.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=F3SNICZ66V752, retrieved November 24, 2021.

²⁸⁰“Statement from President Joe Biden on Unemployment Insurance Claims.” whitehouse.gov. December 2, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/02/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-unemployment-insurance-claims-2/, retrieved December 2, 2021.

²⁸¹Ibid.

²⁸²Ibid.

²⁸³Ibid.

²⁸⁴“Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-?19 Winter Plan.” whitehouse.gov. December 2, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/12/02/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-covid-19-winter-plan/, retrieved December 3, 2021.

²⁸⁵“Chairman Jeffries: “Democrats Deliver. Republicans are Having a Complete and Total Meltdown.” dems.gov. December 1, 2021. https://www.dems.gov/newsroom/press-releases/chairman-jeffries-democrats-deliver-republicans-are-having-a-complete-and-total-meltdown-, retrieved December 5, 2021.

²⁸⁶Ibid.

²⁸⁷“FACT SHEET: The Biden-?Harris Administration is Taking Action to Restore and Strengthen American Democracy.” whitehouse.gov. December 8, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/08/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-is-taking-action-to-restore-and-strengthen-american-democracy/, retrieved December 11, 2021.

²⁸⁸Ibid.

²⁸⁹“Chairman Jeffries: “The Build Back Better Act Will Relieve the Pressure that Everyday Americans are Experiencing.” dems.gov. December 14, 2021. https://www.dems.gov/newsroom/press-releases/chairman-jeffries-the-build-back-better-act-will-relieve-the-pressure-that-everyday-americans-are-experiencing-, retrieved December 19, 2021.

²⁹⁰Ibid.

²⁹¹Ibid.

²⁹²“Dear Colleague on Activities to Mark One Year Since January Sixth.” speaker.gov. December 30, 2021. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/123021, retrieved January 2, 2022.

²⁹³Ibid.

²⁹⁴“McBath Statement on Protecting our Democracy.” mcbath.house.gov. January 11, 2021. https://mcbath.house.gov/2021/1/mcbath-statement-on-protecting-our-democracy, retrieved January 2, 2021.

²⁹⁵“Associated Press: Pelosi says ‘democracy won’ on Jan. 6.” speaker.gov. January 5, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/1522-0, retrieved January 6, 2022.

²⁹⁶Ibid.

²⁹⁷Ibid.

²⁹⁸“Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks on the First Anniversary of the Attack on the Capitol.” justice.gov. January 5, 2022. https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-first-anniversary-attack-capitol, retrieved January 5, 2022.

²⁹⁹“Remarks by Vice President Harris During Service Event at Martha’s Table.” whitehouse.gov. January 17, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/17/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-during-service-event-at-marthas-table/, retrieved January 19, 2022.

³⁰⁰Ibid.

³⁰¹“Biden’s Favorite Economists Find The Real Cost Of Inflation To Average American Household Is An Extra $175 A Month.” gop.gov. October 7, 2021. https://www.gop.gov/bidens-favorite-economists-find-the-real-cost-of-inflation-to-average-american-household-is-an-extra-175-a-month/, retrieved January 28, 2022.

³⁰²“Highlights From The Republican Roundtable on The Economy.” gop.gov. January 20, 2022. https://www.gop.gov/highlights-from-the-republican-roundtable-on-the-economy/, retrieved January 28, 2022.

³⁰³“Statement by President Joe Biden on $15 Minimum Wage for Federal Workers and Contractors Going into Effect.” whitehouse.gov. January 28, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-15-minimum-wage-for-federal-workers-and-contractors-going-into-effect/, retrieved January 28, 2022.

³⁰⁴Ibid.

³⁰⁵Ibid.

³⁰⁶“A Proclamation on National Black History Month, 2022.” whitehouse.gov. January 31, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/01/31/a-proclamation-on-national-black-history-month-2022/, retrieved January 31, 2022.

³⁰⁷Ibid.

³⁰⁸Ibid.

³⁰⁹“Pelosi Remarks at Hearing on the Beijing Olympics and the Faces of Repression.” speaker.gov. February 3, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/2322-2, retrieved February 7, 2022.

³¹⁰Ibid.

³¹¹Ibid.

³¹²Ibid.

³¹³“House Passes Cicilline Bill to Protect Global LGBTQI+ Community.” cicilline.house.gov. February 9, 2022. https://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/house-passes-cicilline-bill-protect-global-lgbtqi-community, retrieved February 10, 2022.

³¹⁴“Criminal Justice Reform” ocasio-cortez.house.gov. https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/legislation/criminal-justice-reform, retrieved February 15, 2022.

³¹⁵Ibid.

³¹⁶“Amendment to Defund Operation Legend Passes House by Voice Vote.” ocasio-cortez.house.gov. July 31, 2020. https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/amendment-defund-operation-legend-passes-house-voice-vote-0, retrieved February 15, 2020.

³¹⁷“Pelosi Statement on Four Years Since Parkland Shooting.” speaker.gov. February 14, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/21422, retrieved February 15, 2022.

³¹⁸“Fact Sheet: The Biden Administration to Begin Distributing At-Home, Rapid COVID-?19 Tests to Americans for Free.” whitehouse.gov. January 14, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/14/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-to-begin-distributing-at-home-rapid-covid-19-tests-to-americans-for-free/, retrieved February 19, 2022.

³¹⁹“Launching a New Made in America Council.” whitehouse.gov. January 19, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2022/01/19/launching-a-new-made-in-america-council/, retrieved February 19, 2022.

³²⁰Ibid.

³²¹“Standing With Ukraine.” diggett.house.gov. February 20, 2022. https://doggett.house.gov/media/press-releases/standing-ukraine, retrieved February 24, 2022.

³²²“No Federal Relief Funds to Build Abbott-Trump Wall.” Doggett.house.gov. June 28, 2021. https://doggett.house.gov/media/press-releases/no-federal-relief-funds-build-abbott-trump-wall, retrieved February 24, 2022.

³²³“Chairman Schiff on Sanctions Against Russia for Invading Ukraine.” intelligence.house.gov. February 22, 2022. https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1184, retrieved February 24, 2022.

³²⁴“Pelosi Statement on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.” speaker.gov. February 24, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/22422, retrieved February 26, 2022.

³²⁵Ibid.

³²⁶“Pelosi, Schumer Joint Statement on Trump’s Latest Attempt to Steal Military Funding for Wasteful, Ineffective Wall.” speaker.gov. February 13, 2020. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/21320-3, retrieved February 26, 2022.

³²⁷“Pelosi Statement on Second Court Ruling Against President Trump’s Border Wall This Week.” speaker.gov. December 11, 2019. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121119-3, retrieved February 26, 2022.

³²⁸“Immigration Reform.” speaker.gov. https://www.speaker.gov/issues/immigration-reform, retrieved February 26, 2022.

³²⁹Ibid.

³³⁰“Press Gaggle by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.” whitehouse.gov. March 2, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/02/press-gaggle-by-principal-deputy-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-6/, retrieved March 2 , 2022.

³³¹Ibid.

³³²“Pelosi Statement Following President Biden’s First State of the Union Address.” speaker.gov. March 1, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/3122-3, retrieved March 2, 2022.

³³³“Pelosi Statement on February Jobs Report.” speaker.gov. March 4, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/3422, retrieved March 6, 2022.

³³⁴“Pelosi Statement on November Jobs Report.” pelosi.house.gov. December 6, 2019. https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-on-november-jobs-report-8, retrieved March 6, 2022.

³³⁵Ibid.

³³⁶“Pelosi Statement on December Jobs Report.” pelosi.house.gov. January 10, 2020. https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-on-december-jobs-report-8, retrieved March 6, 2022.

³³⁷Ibid.

³³⁸“Pelosi Statement on February Jobs Report.” speaker.gov. March 4, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/3422, retrieved March 6, 2022.

³³⁹Ibid.

³⁴⁰“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, March 7th, 2022.” whitehouse.gov. March 7, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/03/07/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-march-7th-2022/, retrieved March 8, 2022.

³⁴¹Ibid.

³⁴²Ibid.

³⁴³Ibid.

³⁴⁴“Transcript of Speaker Pelosi Remarks Introducing President Biden at 2022 House Democratic Issues Conference.” speaker.gov. March 11, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/31122-1, retrieved March 13, 2022.

³⁴⁵Ibid.

³⁴⁶Ibid.

³⁴⁷Ibid.

³⁴⁸“Remarks by Vice President Harris at the DNC Winter Meeting.” whitehouse.gov. March 12, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/12/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-the-dnc-winter-meeting/, retrieved March 13, 2022.

³⁴⁹“Most Americans Are Critical of Government’s Handling of Situation at U.S.-Mexico Border.” pewresearch.org. May 3, 2021. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/05/03/most-americans-are-critical-of-governments-handling-of-situation-at-u-s-mexico-border/, retrieved March 13, 2022.

³⁵⁰“Remarks by Vice President Harris at the DNC Winter Meeting.” whitehouse.gov.

³⁵¹“Something Far Scarier than Ghosts or Goblins.” long.house.gov. October 30, 2020. https://long.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=2XGYFU3Z4BR32, retrieved March 21, 2022.

³⁵²“Hoyer Statement on the Historic Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.” hoyer.house.gov. February 25, 2022. https://hoyer.house.gov/content/hoyer-statement-historic-nomination-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court, retrieved March 21, 2022.

³⁵³“Secretary Blinken With James Landale of the BBC.” state.gov. March 4, 2022. https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-with-james-landale-of-the-bbc/, retrieved March 27, 2022.

³⁵⁴“Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Israeli Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid at a Joint Press Availability.” state.gov. March 27, 2022. https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-israeli-foreign-minister-and-alternate-prime-minister-yair-lapid-at-a-joint-press-availability/, retrieved March 27, 2022.

³⁵⁵“Rouzer Lays Out Case Against Impeachment Sham.” rouzer.house.gov. December 18, 2019. https://rouzer.house.gov/press-releases?ID=CF93AA82-1486-4472-8A62-901DFD9DC17F, retrieved March 27, 2022.

³⁵⁶“Impeached Forever.” Pelosi.house.gov. February 10, 2020. https://pelosi.house.gov/media-center/pelosi-updates/impeached-forever, retrieved March 27, 2022.

³⁵⁷“Pelosi Statement on the Beginning of Ramadan.” speaker.gov. April 1, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/4122-0, retrieved April 2, 2022.

³⁵⁸Chan Swe, Nyein et al. “The effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on cardiovascular and skeletal health: A literature review.” Metabolism open vol. 13 100173. 3 Mar. 2022, doi:10.1016/j.metop.2022.100173.

³⁵⁹“The Congressional Black Caucus Condemns Killing of George Floyd by Police.” cbc.house.gov. Mary 26, 2020. https://cbc.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2191, retrieved April 2, 2022.

³⁶⁰“Meng Announces Daughter of Anti-Asian Hate Crime Victim from Queens Will be Her Virtual Guest at President Biden’s State of the Union Address.” meng.house.gov. March 1, 2022. https://meng.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/meng-announces-daughter-of-anti-asian-hate-crime-victim-from-queens-will, retrieved April 2, 2022.

³⁶¹“Chair Grijalva Denounces Racist, Pro-Trump Attack on Oklahoma Native Americans, Calls for GOP Leadership Pushback & Policy Response.” naturalresources.house.gov. March 29, 2019. https://naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/chair-grijalva-denounces-racist-pro-trump-attack-on-oklahoma-native-americans-calls-for-gop-leadership-pushback-and-policy-response, retrieved April 2, 2022.

³⁶²“Pelosi Names Kemba Hendrix Director of House of Representatives Office of Diversity and Inclusion.” speaker.gov. March 10, 2020. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/31020-1, retrieved April 2, 2022.

³⁶³“Pelosi Statement on Shooting in Sacramento.” speaker.gov. April 4, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/4322, retrieved April 4, 2022.

³⁶⁴Ibid.

³⁶⁵Associated Press. “Arrest made in connection with Sacramento mass shooting.” wgntv.com. April 2, 2022. https://wgntv.com/crime/arrest-made-in-connection-with-sacramento-mass-shooting/, retrieved April 5, 2022.

³⁶⁶QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Rates of Firearm-Related Homicide, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:1491. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7042a6external icon, retrieved April 4, 2022.

³⁶⁷“Governor Abbott Takes Aggressive Action To Secure The Border As President Biden Ends Title 42 Expulsions.” gov.texas.gov. April 6, 2022. https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-takes-aggressive-action-to-secure-the-border-as-president-biden-ends-title-42-expulsions, retrieved April 7, 2022.

³⁶⁸Nelson, Steven. “DC gala was COVID super-spreader event, Biden delays correspondents’ dinner RSVP.” nypost.com. April 8, 2022. https://nypost.com/2022/04/08/dc-gala-was-covid-super-spreader-event-biden-delays-correspondents-dinner-rsvp/, retrieved April 10, 2022.

³⁶⁹“Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, April 8, 2022.” whitehouse.gov. April 8, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/08/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-8-2022/, retrieved April 10, 2022.

³⁷⁰“Statement On Confirmation Vote Of To Be Justice Amy Barrett “The Masks Are Off.” leahy.senate.gov. October 25, 2020. https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/statement-on-confirmation-vote-of-to-be-justice-amy-barrett-the-masks-are-off, retrieved April 10, 2022.

³⁷¹“Warren Delivers Floor Speech Opposing Barrett Nomination to the Supreme Court.” warren.senate.gov. October 26, 2020. https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-delivers-floor-speech-opposing-barrett-nomination-to-the-supreme-court, retrieved April 10, 2022.

³⁷²“After Trump’s Hospitalization, Duckworth Tells GOP Colleagues: Your Actions Now Can Set an Example and Save Lives.” duckworth.senate.gov. October 5, 2020. https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/after-trumps-hospitalization-duckworth-tells-gop-colleagues-your-actions-now-can-set-an-example-and-save-lives, retrieved April 10, 2022.

³⁷³Ibid.

³⁷⁴“Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Impact of Texas Border Delays.” whitehouse.gov. April 13, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/13/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-the-impact-of-texas-border-delays/, retrieved April 13, 2022.

³⁷⁵“Remarks by President Biden at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.” whitehouse.gov. May 1, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/01/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner/, retrieved May 2, 2022.

³⁷⁶“Hawley Slams Biden Administration’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board,’ Demands It Be Dissolved.” hawley.senate.gov. April 28, 2022. https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-slams-biden-administrations-disinformation-governance-board-demands-it-be-dissolved, retrieved May 2, 2022.

³⁷⁷“Disinformation Governance Board.” norman.house.gov. April 29, 2022. https://norman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1285, retrieved May 2, 2022.

³⁷⁸“Before the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Concerning “Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and ‘Infodemics’: Stopping the Spread Online.” docs.house.gov. October 15, 2020. p. 4. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20201015/111087/HHRG-116-IG00-Wstate-JankowiczN-20201015.pdf, retrieved May 2, 2022.

³⁷⁹“Remarks by President Biden at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.” whitehouse.gov. Op. cit.

³⁸⁰“Pelosi, Schumer Joint Statement on Reported Draft Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade.” speaker.gov. May 2, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/5222-2, retrieved May 3, 2022.

³⁸¹“Pelosi Statement on Reported Supreme Court Assault on Reproductive Rights.” speaker.gov. May 3, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/5322-0, retrieved May 4, 2022.

³⁸²“Pelosi Statement on Confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.” speaker.gov. April 7, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/4722-3, retrieved May 4, 2022.

³⁸³“Pelosi Statement on Reported Supreme Court Assault on Reproductive Rights.” speaker.gov. Op. cit.

³⁸⁴“Remarks by Vice President Harris at the Tennessee State University 2022 Spring Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.” whitehouse.gov. May 7, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/07/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-the-tennessee-state-university-2022-spring-undergraduate-commencement-ceremony/, retrieved May 8, 2022.

³⁸⁵Ibid.

³⁸⁶Ibid.

³⁸⁷“FACT SHEET: Executive Order to Impose Costs for President Putin’s Action to Recognize So-Called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.” whitehouse.gov. May 8, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/21/fact-sheet-executive-order-to-impose-costs-for-president-putins-action-to-recognize-so-called-donetsk-and-luhansk-peoples-republics/, retrieved May 8, 2022.

³⁸⁸“Remarks by Vice President Harris at the Tennessee State University 2022 Spring Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.” whitehouse.gov. Op. cit.

³⁸⁹“Action the Biden-Harris Administration Has Taken to Address the Border Challenge.” whitehouse.gov. June 15, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/action-the-biden-harris-administration-has-taken-to-address-the-border-challenge/, retrieved May 8, 2022.

³⁹⁰Ibid.

³⁹¹“Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials to Address Infant Formula Shortage.” whitehouse.gov. May 12, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/05/12/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-to-address-infant-formula-shortage/, retrieved May 12, 2022.

³⁹²Ibid.

³⁹³Ibid.

³⁹⁴“FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Call for State and Local Leaders to Dedicate More American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Our Communities Safer – And Deploy These Dollars Quickly.” whitehouse.gov. May 13, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/13/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-call-for-state-and-local-leaders-to-dedicate-more-american-rescue-plan-funding-to-make-our-communities-safer-and-deploy-these-dollars-quickly/, retrieved May 13, 2022.

³⁹⁵“Congresswoman Cori Bush’s Statement on Mayor Tishaura O. Jones’ Fiscal Year 2022 Budget.” bush.house.gov. April 29, 2021. https://bush.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-cori-bushs-statement-on-mayor-tishaura-o-jones-fiscal-year-2022-budget, retrieved May 14, 2022.

³⁹⁶“Murphy Introduces Resolution to Prevent ‘Defund the Police’ Lawmakers from Accessing Taxpayer-Funded Security.” gregmurphy.house.gov. April 4, 2022. https://gregmurphy.house.gov/media/press-releases/murphy-introduces-resolution-prevent-defund-police-lawmakers-accessing-taxpayer, retrieved May 14, 2022.

³⁹⁷Ibid.

³⁹⁸Ibid.

³⁹⁹“Pelosi Statement on Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas.” speaker.gov. May 24, 2022. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/52422-0, retrieved May 25, 2022.

⁴⁰⁰“Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Plague Of Gun Violence And Yesterday’s Mass Shooting At Robb Elementary School In Uvalde, Texas.” democrats.senate.gov. May 25, 2022. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-floor-remarks-on-the-plague-of-gun-violence-and-yesterdays-mass-shooting-at-robb-elementary-school-in-uvalde-texas, retrieved May 25, 2022.

⁴⁰¹McBath, Joined by Colleagues, Introduces New Law to Study America’s School Shootings. mcbath.house.gov. October 4, 2021. https://mcbath.house.gov/2021/10/mcbath-joined-by-colleagues-introduces-new-law-to-study-america-s-school-shootings, retrieved May 25, 2022.

⁴⁰²Ibid.

⁴⁰³Ibid.

⁴⁰⁴“Digest of Education Statistics 2019 Tables and Figures.” nces.ed.gov. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_105.50.asp, retrieved May 25, 2022.

⁴⁰⁵“Carter leads bill to combat inflation, pay federal debt.” buddycarter.house.gov. May 10, 2022. https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=9152, retrieved May 25, 2022.

⁴⁰⁶“DeLauro Statement on Uvalde, Texas School Shooting.” delauro.house.gov. May 24, 2022. https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-statement-uvalde-texas-school-shooting, retrieved May 25, 2022.