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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing a invoice — known as the Ending DHS Funding for Liberal Propaganda Act — that may slash Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) grant funding from going towards entities that discriminate in opposition to conservative viewpoints.
“The Biden Administration has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to weaponize its energy in opposition to conservatives,” Hawley informed Fox Information Digital. “My invoice merely bars Secretary Mayorkas from funneling taxpayer {dollars} to packages devoted to focusing on this Administration’s political opponents.”
Based on the invoice textual content, the laws would bar taxpayer {dollars} from going towards the event of “any programming referring to countering narratives or views on political subjects, together with COVID-19, vaccination, media bias, immigration, and crime.”
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Sen. Josh Hawley. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)
Final yr, the Biden administration doled out taxpayer cash by means of an anti-terrorism grant initiative to a college program that has explicitly lumped the Republican Celebration, in addition to Christian and conservative teams, into the identical class as Nazis, in line with paperwork shared solely with Fox Information Digital on the time.
The Media Analysis Heart, a conservative watchdog group, obtained paperwork by means of Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) requests displaying a Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) program meant to struggle terrorism is funding a bunch whose work has explicitly focused the American political proper. The MRC outlined its findings in a report, arguing what the group discovered warrants felony prosecution.
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The Division of Homeland Safety brand is seen throughout a information convention in Washington. (AP Photograph/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
One other instance cited by Hawley features a grant to the College of Rhode Island’s Media Training Lab, funded by means of the administration’s Focused Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, to create “counter-propaganda” in opposition to conservative viewpoints, the Each day Wire reported this month.
The $700,000 grant was utilized to handle “propaganda and misinformation regarding subjects together with immigration, racial justice, the coronavirus, and vaccination” and “construct on high of issues about so-called ‘faux information’ and ‘cancel tradition.’”
“That is an outrageous use of federal funds and abuse of energy,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Mayorkas final week. “All these funds needs to be clawed again by the federal authorities instantly, and anybody concerned in making this grant needs to be fired.”
MAYORKAS NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED: SEN. JOSH HAWLEY
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., (left) and Homeland Safety Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas (proper). (Getty Photographs)
Fox Information Digital has reached out to DHS for remark.
Fox Information’ Aaron Kliegman contributed to this report.
