President Joe Biden’s goal of building half a million electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the United States by 2030 is being delayed by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements, according to documents and statements obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

To qualify for federal grant funding to build EV chargers, the Department of Transportation (DOT) says applicants should promise to engage in “intentional outreach to underserved communities” by  hosting “neighborhood block parties” and other engagement activities, according to documents obtained by the Free Beacon. DOT officials who spoke with the Free Beacon cited these policies as the reason for why it was  behind on its charging station goals, with only seven having been built as of April 1, despite $7.5 billion in allocated funds.

Policies like these “are screwing everything up,” one senior DOT official told the Free Beacon. “It’s all a mess,” they continued.

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Congressional Republicans are introducing a bill that would *BAN* Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) programs throughout the federal government.

The draft legislation, introduced by @JDVance1, does the following:

– No funds for DEI offices or positions
– No DEI… pic.twitter.com/thVbK1Zq97

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 12, 2024

Other examples of outreach activities provided by the DOT included “sporting or cultural events” as well as “games and contests,” adding that applicants should make available “multilingual staff or interpreters” for community members who don’t speak English, according to DOT documents.

“This all just slows down construction,” Jim Meigs, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told the Free Beacon. “These ‘public involvement’ requirements are impossible to quantify and even open builders up to lawsuits by members of the community where an electric vehicle charging station is set to be constructed,” he continued.

The semiconductor-focused CHIPS Act, another of Biden’s infrastructure priorities, is saddled with similar DEI requirements, mandating that firms taking federal funds develop strategies to “promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility,” Fox News Digital reported.

Applicants for federal EV charging station grants must, in many cases, submit reports that can be hundreds of pages long on how they will pursue equity in every step of the construction process, according to the Free Beacon. Equity requirements like this increase the costs of charging station projects and slow their progression, a senior DOT official told the Free Beacon.

In addition to public outreach, the DOT also encourages applicants for grant funding to “promote local inclusive economic development and entrepreneurship such as the use of minority-owned businesses,” the Free Beacon reported. One possible way applicants can do this is by committing to funding “support services to help train, place, and retain people in good-paying jobs or registered apprenticeships, with a focus on women, people of color and others that are underrepresented in infrastructure jobs.”

“These onerous diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements handcuff professionals from making proper evaluations and prevent the government/public from funding the most deserving projects, instead funneling money towards less qualified applicants,” the DOT official told the Free Beacon.

One of Biden’s first acts as president dealt with advancing racial equity, with the president signing an executive order on January 20, 2021, mandating that all federal agencies produce equity assessments.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced new tailpipe emission standards in March that would effectively require two-thirds of all light-duty vehicles sold after model year 2032 to be either EVs or hybrids. The Biden administration’s regulation came as organic demand for EVs were slumping, with their sales growing by just 2.7% during the first quarter of 2024, well under the 47% rate of growth the vehicles saw in 2023.

“Since the President took office, the number of publicly available charging ports has grown by over 90 percent, with more than 184,000 publicly-available EV charging ports operational today and 1,000 more coming online each week,” a DOT spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “There are currently projects underway in partnership with states and local grantees for 14,000 federally-funded EV charging ports across the country under the NEVI and CFI programs that will build on the 184,000 chargers operational today,” they continued.

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Biden Shoots Down $24 Billion Pay Raise For Enlisted Troops — After Spending 7 Times More On Ukraine

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy accused the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra on Wednesday of operating his agency in an illegal manner.

The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act mandates that the CFPB operate using funds from the “combined earnings of the Federal Reserve System.” However, Kennedy alleged during a CFPB “Semi-Annual Report to Congress” hearing that the Federal Reserve has not had any earnings and has been “losing money” since September 2022, claiming that this means the CFPB is “operating illegally.”

“For the longest time, the Federal Reserve was earning money, but that stopped in September 2022,” Kennedy said. “Now they are losing money. They don’t have any earnings. They’re no longer transferring earnings to the general fund, and the Supreme Court based its decision on saying, this funding scheme is Constitutional under the appropriations clause, by saying that these earnings would go to the general fund from the Federal Reserve so getting them directly from the general fund is no big deal,” he added.

John Kennedy Tells Chief Biden Regulator Point Blank That His Agency Is 'Operating Illegally' pic.twitter.com/RoWVgwvcK7

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 12, 2024

The Supreme Court ruled by 7-2 vote in May that the unconventional way the CFPB obtains funding is constitutional. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the dissenting opinion that the ruling could establish a precedent wherein a federal agency can “bankroll its own agenda without any congressional control or oversight.”

“How are you entitled to any money right now?” Kennedy asked. “The Federal Reserve doesn’t have any earnings.”

Chopra responded that this is a “theory,” to which Kennedy said it is a “congressional statute.”

“You raise the difference between revenue and net income,” Chopra said. “There are other places throughout our laws. I can tell you we’ve looked at this issue. We do believe wholeheartedly everyone is complying with the statue.”

Chopra also disputed that the Federal Reserve has not had any earnings since September 2022.

“I know you don’t like to hear this, but the law is the law. You’ve been operating illegally,” Kennedy said.

“No, that’s not true, sir,” Chopra said.

Kennedy again asserted the Federal Reserve has had no earnings.

“We didn’t say revenue in the statute, we said earnings,” the Kennedy said. “How can you possibly argue that the Federal Reserve has had earnings? They’re losing money.”

“I’m happy to discuss this with you, but we have looked at this theory before,” Chopra responded.

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Biden Shoots Down $24 Billion Pay Raise For Enlisted Troops — After Spending 7 Times More On Ukraine

The Biden administration “strongly opposes” a proposal to raise the pay of junior enlisted service members in the military — even after nearly spending seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and the broader region’s security.

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would give all junior troops a pay raise, representing a rough total of $24.4 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Biden administration said in a statement on Tuesday that it does not support the proposed “significant, permanent” pay hike until it has had a chance to conduct a compensation review.

“The Administration is strongly committed to taking care of our Servicemembers and their families, and appreciates the Committee’s concern for the needs of the most junior enlisted members, but strongly opposes making a significant, permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation,” the White House budget office said.

The Biden administration has spent over $175 billion on aid to Ukraine and European security since 2022 — roughly one-seventh of the proposed pay hike for the junior troops, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The $175 billion amount is broken into several packages over the course of two years, including the most recent aid package of $61 billion in April.

“When accounting for inflation, the average American makes less today than when Joe Biden took office. The White House wants to block Republicans from giving our troops the raise they need to make ends meet in the Biden economy,” Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a HASC member, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Meanwhile, they’ve sent the Ukrainian government $11,500 per Ukrainian household. It’s shameful.”

Bipartisan members of the HASC promoted the pay increase for junior troops as a way to improve recruiting and retention, a problem that the military has increasingly struggled with. A year-long study conducted by the HASC and published in April found that “servicemembers, especially junior enlisted servicemembers and servicemembers supporting large families, struggle to afford housing and feed their families.”

The pay level for junior troops has failed to remain competitive with the civilian job market, especially with rising inflation, the study found. Junior troops received smaller pay raises than senior servicemembers — or no raise at all — in eight of the last 40 years.

“Joe Biden must hate our military,” Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, also on the committee, told the DCNF. “While families of our junior enlisted struggle on food stamps, this administration opposes their pay raises and wants to force-feed them pronoun training and drag queen story hour. If Biden had any PRIDE at all in our troops, he’d support the long overdue pay raise House Republicans have passed.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Biden Now Wants to Get Rid of All of Your Gas Appliances — Not Just Stoves

The Biden administration contends that it is not targeting gas stoves and other domestic conveniences afforded by fossil fuels, but its “building electrification” agenda is poised to effectively do just that, several energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The notion that the federal government would like to ban gas stoves is a “myth” and “misinformation,” according to the Department of Energy (DOE), which uploaded the blog post in May 2023 after Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. suggested that a gas stove ban is “on the table” in a January 2023 Bloomberg interview. However, the administration is also working to advance its “building electrification” agenda that would bring about similar outcomes under a different name, energy policy experts told the DCNF.

REP. CORI BUSH: "This proposed rule is not a ban on gas stoves! We are regulating indoor air pollution."

And they called you paranoid for thinking they were coming for your gas stoves…They're just 'regulating indoor air pollution.' pic.twitter.com/5ZkMKLSPvr

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 24, 2023

“The whole ‘building electrification’ effort is part of the centralized control impulse of people who gravitate to government or stand to cash in on the latest fad, irrespective of its costs or impacts on regular Americans. It’s also part of the ‘electrify everything’ agenda of planners and masterminds,” Dan Kish, a senior research fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the DCNF. “The U.S. established a Constitutional Republic to limit government control, and yet control freaks want to tell us how to live by expanding the government’s reach.”

The DOE released a report in April describing all of the ways it would like to decarbonize America’s building stock in the coming decades by pushing electric vehicles, electric appliances and substantial changes to how the utility industry operates. The Biden administration has also banned the use of natural gas in new federal buildings starting in 2030 and spent considerable sums of money to help state and municipal governments craft their own ambitious green building codes.

On Thursday, the DOE announced its official definition for “zero-emissions” buildings. Two of the three minimum criteria that a building must meet to fit into the definition are that it is “free of on-site emissions from energy use” and “powered solely from clean energy.”

“The feds are outlining yet another set of ‘rules’ for decarbonization, this time focused on zero-emissions buildings,” Steve Everly, a senior managing director for FTI Consulting’s energy and natural resources practice, wrote in a post to X addressing the DOE’s Thursday announcement. “But remember there is no federal effort to ban or restrict natural gas use, so stop the culture war or something.”

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"We've seen them go after gas stoves…how many more home appliances will Americans eventually have to replace?" pic.twitter.com/JgjQyiPGK0

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 24, 2023

OH Skinner, the executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, echoed Everly’s suggestion that “building electrification” is a backdoor to significantly changing how Americans live, including by distorting markets in ways that disadvantage consumers.

“Basically, they’re saying, ‘We’re not banning gas stoves, we’re just pushing broad housing efficiency and building code standards for health and safety that make it nearly impossible for normal consumers or businesses to access products they may want, but we’re not banning anything,’” Skinner told the DCNF. “I think a good example that applies to the spirit of the green buildings agenda is the fuel efficiency standards for vehicles. Bureaucrats say, ‘We’re not trying to ban gas powered cars, but we are going to impose efficiency standards that can only be met if the vast majority of cars sold are electric cars.’ So, in theory, you can still, right now, get a gas powered car, but they are making it so that that access is not going to be actually possible for everyday people, just an elite and ever-shrinking few.”

The administration has also issued a bevy of regulations targeting household appliances, including furnaces, water heaters, dishwashers, portable gas-powered generators pool pump motors and more. In many cases, these standards are designed to push more energy efficient, and often electric or more expensive, appliances on consumers over time.

“The Biden administration doesn’t think its policies are being challenged or are unpopular, but the reality is pretty clearly the opposite,” Gabriella Hoffman, the director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), told the DCNF. “Attacking your constituents is not really a recipe for success in terms of winning over people to support your policies. And that’s why people are not supporting this administration’s regulations and electrification push. That’s why people don’t want to be dictated choices, especially with personal decisions like what type of stove you use, what car you drive, your gas furnace and so on.”

IWF has kept track of the administration’s appliance rules and estimated that the total costs of upgrading a home to align with the administration’s regulations are in the thousands of dollars. These expenses may not be especially onerous for the well-to-do, but they figure to weigh heavily on average Americans already feeling inflation’s pinch, Hoffman told the DCNF.

The DOE did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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‘It’s Terrifying’: Ex-FBI Director Says Bureau Officials May Flee Country if Trump Re-Elected

Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized statues and threw items at a National Park Service ranger near the White House during a Saturday protest calling for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to multiple videos.

“Surround the White House for Gaza” was held Saturday afternoon and deemed a “national mobilization” to call for an “immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine,” according to a description of the event.

More vandalism: Anti-Israel crowd cheered after a red smoke bomb was popped on the Rochambeau Statue, which has been heavily defaced with graffiti. pic.twitter.com/TjsGOJOYvo

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 8, 2024

Videos posted on social media appeared to show protesters vandalized statues, harassed a National Park Service ranger and set off smoke bombs.

Workers scrub graffiti from statues in Lafayette Square after Palestine protests. pic.twitter.com/aCDFY5aXmR

— Storyful Viral (@StoryfulViral) June 10, 2024

Attendees at the protest also shouted anti-Israel slogans, including “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” according to a video feed from Fox 5 Washington D.C.

Anti-Israel protesters formed a mob and chased US Park Police and Secret Service out of Lafayette Square after officers apparently tried to arrest someone. Police are no longer inside the park and are on the boundaries of the protest: “F*ck the police!” pic.twitter.com/N5EctSe8Ya

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 8, 2024

Israeli forces rescued four hostages from Gaza on Saturday, the IDF announced. Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27 and Shlomi Ziv, 40, were freed during raids on two locations in Nuseirat.

“Israeli special forces conducted a complex hostage rescue mission and successfully rescued four of our hostages from Hamas,” IDF spokesman RAdm. Daniel Hagari said in a video. “They are back home in Israel. They are alive, they are well.”

One speaker at the rally called the Israeli rescue a “massacre,” according to the Fox 5 video.

President Biden is in France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, as well as a state dinner.

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Newly revealed bank records subpoenaed from the First Family’s personal and business financial accounts show how Biden family members sold America out to foreign interests.

The House Oversight Committee provided the bank record summaries to the public along with criminal referrals for both Hunter Biden and James Biden, who are related to sitting President Joe Biden.

“The subpoenaed bank records revealed that from 2014 to 2023, Hunter Biden, James Biden, their associated companies, and certain other Biden family members received over $18 million from foreign sources,” the committee’s report stated. “Additionally, the bank records established that when Biden business associates and their companies are included, over $27 million was received from foreign sources during the same time period.

“The Bidens, their business associates, and their related companies received funds from individuals and entities associated with Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Romania, Panama, and other locations,” the report continued.

“These figures do not include the approximately $8 million in loans Hunter Biden
and James Biden received from Democratic benefactors such as Kevin Morris, Joey Langston, and John Hynansky,” the report added. “The amount of money Hunter Biden, James Biden, and even Joe Biden sourced from foreign and domestic companies and then later described as a ‘loan,’ often without documentation to show the terms of the loan and much of which was never repaid, is alarming.”

“In total, since 2014, the Committees have accounted for over $35 million received by Biden family members, their companies, and business associates, which includes financial transactions described as ‘loans’,” the report noted. “Despite much effort, the Committees have not identified legitimate services warranting such lucrative payments.”

The House Oversight Committee summarized the subpoenaed bank records of foreign payments to certain Biden family members and their business entities:

• Russia: $3,500,000 (Yelena Baturina to Rosemont Seneca Thornton)
• Ukraine: $3,986,869.53 (Numerous Burisma Holdings Ltd. transactions to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, Owasco P.C.)
• Kazakhstan: $142,300 (Novatus Holdings to Rosemont Seneca Bohai)
• China: $7,283,188.76 (Numerous transactions through intermediary companies to Biden family members)
• Romania: $1,038,627.08 (Bladon Enterprises Ltd. to Biden family members)
• Panama: $1,040,000.00 (Stanhope Worldwide Services, Briest Trading International Company to James Biden)
• Other Global Investments: $1,031,572.16 to Biden family members

It should be noted that Biden family members did not sell anything concrete to these foreign interests beyond access to the former vice president and current president.

The committee provided a general overview of the Biden family’s foreign influence peddling scheme.

“The Oversight Committee’s investigation revealed a pattern in which Hunter Biden would use a business associate’s corporate bank account (an intermediary account) to receive millions of dollars in foreign funds,” the report stated. “For instance, Hunter Biden used Devon Archer’s limited liability company (LLC), Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC (Rosemont Seneca Bohai), and Rob Walker’s LLC, Robinson Walker, LLC, to receive money from foreign companies and individuals. Devon Archer and Rob Walker were business associates of Hunter Biden. After the business associates’ LLCs received the foreign wires, the business associates would transfer Hunter Biden, his companies, and other Biden family members significant payments.”

The House Oversight Committee then accused both James Biden and Hunter Biden of lying to Congress. Congressman James Comer (R-KY), Chairman of the Oversight Committee, promised that the efforts to hold the Bidens accountable was “only the beginning.”

“Our investigation has revealed President Biden knew about, participated in, and benefitted from his family cashing in on the Biden name around the world. Despite this record of evidence, President Biden continues to lie to the American people about his involvement in these influence peddling schemes. It appears making false statements runs in the Biden family. We’ve caught President Biden’s son and brother making blatant lies to Congress in what appears to be a concerted effort to hide Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s schemes. As part of our efforts to hold the Bidens accountable for profiting off public office, we are today referring Hunter and James Biden to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution for making false statements to Congress. This is not the end of our efforts to hold the Bidens accountable; it’s only the beginning,” said Chairman Comer.

Here is the committee’s summary of false statements allegedly made by Hunter and James Biden:

• During his deposition, Hunter Biden made false statements about holding a position at Rosemont Seneca Bohai (RSB)
• Hunter Biden lied about threatening a Chinese business partner while invoking his father’s presence. Hunter Biden testified he transmitted this threat to an unrelated individual. However, Hunter Biden made this threat to the intended individual, and bank records prove it. The Chinese business partners wired millions of dollars to his company after his threat. A portion of the proceeds were traced to Joe Biden’s bank account.
• During James Biden’s transcribed interview, he stated that Joe Biden did not meet with Tony Bobulinski in 2017 while pursuing a deal with CEFC China Energy. His statements were contradicted not only by Bobulinski, but Hunter Biden. Bobulinski also produced text messages that establish the events leading up to and immediately following his meeting with Joe Biden on May 2, 2017.

“Lying to Congress is a serious crime with serious consequences. Both Hunter and James Biden did just that,” said Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH). “They lied to coverup President Biden’s involvement in their family’s international influence peddling schemes that have generated millions of dollars. These criminal referrals are a reflection of criminal wrongdoing by the Biden family, and the Department of Justice must take steps to hold the Bidens accountable.”

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Biden’s Inner Circle is Complicit in Foreign Influence Peddling: Politico

Politico has published a devastating exposé that reveals in detail that President Joe Biden’s inner circle has been complicit in his family’s foreign influence peddling.

The Politico report is a damaging rejoinder to staunch Democrats who deny that President Joe Biden and his aide had knowledge of or participation in the Biden family’s foreign influence schemes.

Ben Shreckinger, who authored the story, addresses the Biden administration’s denials of complicity in the illicit business schemes head on:

For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate.

Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president’s closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives’ business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit.

Those overlaps reflect an all-in-the family approach to business and politicking that dates back a half-century to the president’s first Senate bid, run primarily by his parents and siblings. Since then, his political patrons have at times forged business ties with his relatives, who in turn have converted some of their business partners into campaign supporters. And over a lifetime in public life, some of the president’s aides have taken on roles as surrogate members of the tight-knit Biden clan.

The Bidens’ approach complicates their efforts to distance the president from his family’s ventures.

That is an understatement. The report names Biden assistants who functioned as go-betweens between Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.

These go-betweens include Eric Schwerin, who was Joe Biden’s personal bookkeeper and Hunter Biden’s business partner; Mel Monzack, who was a personal attorney for both Joe and Jim Biden; Fran Person, who was Joe Biden’s body man, sought to engage Hunter Biden in Chinese real estate business ventures; White House physician Kevin O’Connor, who was also Joe Biden’s doctor as vice president, and pursued a potential health care deal alongside Jim Biden in 2017; and Dale Pupillo, who oversaw Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail during his vice presidency, and then worked as a private investigator for Jim Biden.

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday referred both James Biden and Hunter Biden for criminal prosecution for  making false statements to Congress about key aspects of the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.

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We Are Referring Hunter and James Biden for Criminal Prosecution

Our Committee, along with @JudiciaryGOP and @WaysandMeansGOP, today sent criminal referrals to the DOJ recommending Hunter and James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress about… pic.twitter.com/gWM7S8grQm

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 5, 2024

“These false statements implicate Joe Biden’s knowledge of and role in his family’s influence peddling schemes and appear to be a calculated effort to shield Joe Biden from the impeachment inquiry,” the Oversight Committee stated.

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There’s almost no historical precedent for the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to have Steve Bannon serve time in jail for his conviction on contempt of Congress charges.

After an appeals court upheld in May Bannon’s conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a Jan. 6 select committee subpoena, the DOJ asked the district court judge who initially issued Bannon’s four-month prison sentence to order him to report to prison. Judge Carl J. Nichols agreed Thursday, ending the hold on his nearly unprecedented sentence that had been in place during his appeal.

Bannon now must report to prison by July 1. Besides former President Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro, who is currently serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, one of the most recent historical precedents for such a sentence dates to the Cold War, when a group of writers, directors and producers known as the “Hollywood Ten” were sentenced to jail time for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), according to the Washington Post.

The ten believed questions posed by the HUAC violated their First Amendment rights, but the House voted to hold them in contempt in November 1947 for refusing to state whether they were members of the Communist Party, according to Politico.

Former Richard Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy and former Nixon Attorney General Richard Kleindienst pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress charges but did not go to jail, according to the Washington Post

“While there is a fair amount of precedent for lying to Congress, there is far less for people convicted of contempt of Congress,” John Malcolm, vice president for the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government and former deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s Criminal Division, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in January.

Navarro, former trade advisor to Trump, was ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19, where he began his four-month sentence. After Navarro was indicted in June 2022, the FBI arrested him at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., when he was heading to a Nashville speaking engagement, according to Politico.

Hunter Biden, who defied a congressional subpoena in December, choosing to hold a press conference on Capitol Hill rather than sit for his deposition, has not yet been found in contempt of Congress.

Criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Philip Holloway told the Daily Caller News Foundation in December that the law “must be applied equally or it has no meaning,” arguing Hunter Biden should “be held to the same standard” as Bannon.

My Statement on Steve Bannon's Prison Sentence:

We have had constitutional executive privilege for 250 years–going back to George Washington–so the President of the United States can receive candid, confidential advice from his advisors without fear their advice will get…

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) June 6, 2024

The House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee voted in May to advance resolutions to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for defying their request to turn over audio recordings from special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden.

After the House voted to cite former President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in 2012, Holder faced no jail time, as the DOJ did not initiate criminal prosecution.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said at the time that it is “an established principle, dating back to the administration of President Ronald Reagan, that the Justice Department does not pursue prosecution in a contempt case when the president has asserted executive privilege,” according to CNN.

“We have had constitutional executive privilege for 250 years–going back to George Washington–so the President of the United States can receive candid, confidential advice from his advisors without fear their advice will get publicly aired before courts or Congress,” Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, wrote Thursday on X. “President Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland have shamefully destroyed this, in their partisan quest to politicize and weaponize the Biden Justice Department to go after President Trump and his top aides.”

Bannon said Thursday outside the courthouse that there is “not a prison built or jail built that will ever shut me up.”

“They’re not going to shut up Trump, they’re not going to shut up Navarro, they’re not going to shut up Bannon, and they’re certainly not going to shut up MAGA,” Bannon said. “There is nothing that can shut me up and there is nothing that will shut me up.”

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Bill Maher Slams Biden’s ‘Bizarre Scheme’ to Fool Americans on Illegal Immigration

Comedian Bill Maher said on Friday  that President Joe Biden’s newly unveiled immigration executive order is an attempt to boost his reelection chances that is doomed to fail.

Biden unveiled the order Tuesday following months of asserting there was no action he could take to mitigate the crisis, with the executive action halting new asylum requests once the number of migrants crossing into the U.S. reaches a daily average of 2,500 over the span of a week. Maher said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” the immigration issue is a key barrier to Biden’s reelection, but that the executive order will not satisfy anybody.

“I think if Biden loses this election, it’s gonna be because of two things,” Maher said. “He’s old and he can’t get past that issue and people just hate that about him. And immigration. I mean, just on a political level, I don’t think they could’ve handled it worse. Because now what’s going on … he’s finally, after saying he couldn’t do anything, he’s gonna issue an executive order. By the way, this is the same executive order Trump tried to get through the courts and they didn’t let him do it.”

“But he’s gonna finally try it six months before the election, which says we’ll put a cap of 2,500 now asylum seekers coming in,” the comedian continued. “If it passes 2,500, if it’s 2,501 then we automatically close the border. Fire marshal says, ‘No more.’ He’s gonna come here and close the club. And if you don’t have a stamp on your hand, you can’t get back in.”

There have been at least six million southern border encounters during Biden’s presidency. Biden faced criticism from both sides of the aisle after announcing the executive order.

“But when it goes down to 1,500, then we resume standard asylum procedures. It’s like surge pricing with Uber,” Maher joked. “It’s a bizarre scheme that of course has pleased nobody. It looks like he did nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Of course, he did try through Congress and the Republicans purposely spiked that football … but now it looks like this is his last minute before the election Hail Mary pass. And it’s not going to succeed.”

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