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Randy's Wrap-Up

2/16/2022

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Fentanyl Crisis

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America is in the midst of a drug epidemic fueled by fentanyl, a deadly substance, which is now the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45. 
President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ open border policies have allowed fentanyl to flow across our southern border and into our communities. In FY21, enough fentanyl was seized by Customs and Border Protection to kill every American nearly seven times over.
Instead of addressing the fentanyl crisis gripping our nation, Speaker Pelosi and Congressional Democrats are kicking the can down the road by blocking Republican legislation that would effectively ban the selling of the molecularly-altered fentanyl substance manufactured by criminals.
AMERICA’S FENTANYL CRISIS: 
  • President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ open-border policies have allowed for fentanyl to flow across our borders and into our communities. 
  • Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. topped 100,000 in 2021, for the first time ever in a year.
    • In 2021, U.S. drug overdoses due to fentanyl skyrocketed, and it is now reported to be the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45. 
  • Fentanyl is freely flowing across our borders as seizures increased by 134% in FY2021, under President Biden’s watch. 
    • In FY21, 11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.
  • Fentanyl poising deaths doubled in 30 states between 2019 and 2021, according to an analysis of U.S. government data.
  • Fentanyl and its analogs are easier to produce than cocaine or heroin – it only takes a few hours to make – and is up to 20 times more profitable. Since small doses of fentanyl create intense effects, it’s easier to illegally smuggle small batches across the border. 
  • Criminal drug cartels are flooding the U.S. with counterfeit pills. More counterfeit pills have been seized so far in 2021 than the previous two years combined, with two out of every five pills containing a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl.   
  • So much fentanyl and fentanyl-related poisons are flooding the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued its first public safety alert in six years warning the public about fake pills laced with lethal doses of fentanyl.
  • On February 18, 2022, the emergency class-wide scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances is set to expire. Instead of working with House Republicans to address this issue Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats are simply kicking the can down the road.
    • These poisons can be as deadly and even more dangerous than pure fentanyl. There are deadly consequences if Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats allow this order to expire or continue to kick the can down the road with temporary extensions. 
    • Republicans are taking swift action to make the emergency class-wide scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances permanent and make sure law enforcement has the tools they need to keep extremely lethal and dangerous drugs off our streets and from crossing the border.
    • Last week House Democrats blocked the common sense “HALT Fentanyl Act,” offered by Reps. Morgan Griffith and Bob Latta which would make it illegal for this drug to be used outside of research purposes, effectively banning the selling of the molecularly-altered fentanyl substance manufactured by criminals. ​
This week the Border Security Caucus (BSC) met with undercover journalist, Jorge Ventura, to get a glimpse into what the Administration and the mainstream media don't want you to know about the border crisis. 
The crisis at the border is affecting more than just border towns. Cartels are taking over small towns all over the west coast and the influx of fentanyl has reached record highs. The border crisis has been undeniably exacerbated by this Administration's border policy. Ventura, told BSC, "I always get the same answer when I ask human smugglers and drug traffickers if their job is easier or harder under President Biden."  It is undeniable President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ open-border policies have allowed for fentanyl to flow across our borders and into our communities. 
MAKE NO MISTAKE: 
America’s fentanyl crisis will only become more severe without serious Congressional action.

Unmask our Children

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​This week, 221 House Democrats blocked consideration of the Unmask Our Kids Act -H.R. 6619. 
This bill would block local education agencies from receiving Department of Education funding unless:
  • Schools are open for in-person learning
  • School mask mandates allow parents to opt-out on behalf of their children
House Democrats are playing politics and want you to believe they’re following the science. If they really trusted the science, they would have voted for the Unmask Our Kids Act because the data against school-mask requirements are abundantly clear.
COVID-19, mercifully, is simply not as deadly for children. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, preliminary data from 45 states show that between 0.00%-0.03% of child COVID-19 cases resulted in death.


When you combine these numbers with the CDC study that found mask mandates for students — along with hybrid models, social distancing, and classroom barriers — did not have a statistically significant benefit in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in schools, the insistence that we force students to jump through these hoops for their own protection makes no sense.
Democrat governors and local officials have forced children to mask in school with total disregard for the social, developmental, and emotional consequences. The damage, unfortunately, is already done for too many children who are behind in their education.

With many Democrats across the country suddenly waking up to this reality, seeking to reverse harsh and arbitrary school mask mandates, the American people cannot forget the harm that has already been inflicted. 

  • The Biden Justice Department issued an October 4th memo targeting parents based on a since-rescinded letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) which compared the outraged of concerned parents to “domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
  • In cities such as Chicago, teachers' unions have led the charge against the best interest of children and against the science, and Democrats have failed to send a clear signal to these left-leaning unions that kids belong in the classroom.
Ultimately, this administration is undermining parents' rights and harming children. Many school districts are mandating masks for children of all ages, against their parents’ wishes. Parents should have the option to send their kids to school in person and to decide whether they want their kids to wear a mask at school. 
Our kids deserve normalcy and parents should have the final say when it comes to personal health decisions that impact their families. I will never stop fighting for our children and families!

IRS Backlog and Surveillance Scheme 

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​This week marked the official start of tax season. Unfortunately, tax filers everywhere can expect a frustrating process and potentially lengthy delays on their returns.
The Biden administration blames a lack of IRS funding for the backlog. In reality, the IRS’s problems stem from two primary issues: the slowdown in service due to pandemic telework policies and a series of Democrat programs, like Obamacare subsidies and monthly Child Tax Credit payments, which have shifted agency resources away from its core missions of tax compliance and customer service.
President Biden has no plan to address the painful IRS backlog. Instead, President Biden and congressional Democrats and instead are adding more to the agency’s plate and prioritizing a weaponized IRS.  They have proposed an additional $80 billion for the IRS, this funding would be directed to enforcement – particularly new audits of farms and small businesses, not return processing and customer service.
President Biden has also proposed using the IRS to monitor Americans’ spending by requiring financial institutions to share certain banking transactions – a massive overreach and abuse of government authority which would create more work for local banks and credit unions. This is especially outrageous considering the agency has a long track record of targeting taxpayers for their political views, not to mention their history of data being leaked to the press. I adamantly oppose this change and have cosponsored legislation to prohibit this violation of taxpayer privacy.
 What you need to know: 
  • The Biden Administration now requires Americans to report to the IRS all business transactions using third-party payments – like Venmo and PayPal – for goods or services over $600 thanks to a provision hidden in Democrats’ partisan $2 trillion stimulus bill from March.
  • The new reporting requirements will ensure anyone who sells a couch or pays a babysitter electronically could trigger further IRS scrutiny.
  • This violates President Biden’s own promise that greater tax enforcement wouldn’t hit lower or middle-income Americans.
  • President Biden’s plan to flood the IRS with $80 billion in mandatory funding for an army of 87,000 new IRS auditors which will turn local banks into chapters of the IRS and increase audits for every American with a job and will also lead to drastically higher audit rates for all Americans at every income level according to the Congressional Budget Office.
  • There’s very little evidence suggesting the IRS estimate on unpaid taxes (dubbed the “tax gap”) is accurate, given that it may be based on data from seven years ago or wild guesses on foreign transactions, cryptocurrency, concealed income, and other sectors.
  • Given the agency’s inability to protect confidential taxpayer data over the last decade, the American people are rightfully concerned about the implications of giving the IRS a vast amount of new private data. 
How Republicans are fighting back: 
  • Republicans have introduced the Tax Gap Reform and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Enforcement Act, which allows for a better understanding of the tax gap, provides smarter enforcement, ensures the IRS uses all of the resources at its disposal and addresses the expertise gap at the IRS.
  • In January, top Republicans at the Ways and Means Committee and Appropriations Committee sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting a plan on how the IRS would address the more than 16 million outstanding tax returns.
  • In December, 99 House Republicans, urged the agency to resolve its processes and prepare for the tax filing season.

 Recent Legislation 

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  • H.R. 6502 - Religious Freedom Over Mandates Act
  • H.R. 6534 - SAVE Act of 2022
  • H.R. 6610 - To require a visit to the United States land border with Mexico and a report thereon by any Cabinet member appointed by the President to lead efforts related to immigration or securing such border, and for other purposes.

This Week's Poll Question 

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Friends, 


House Republicans recently uncovered that the ATF has been illegally keeping nearly a billion records of firearm transactions.  


We are extremely concerned that this database will be used to take firearms away from American citizens. The Biden Administration may use this to implement its ban on nearly 40,000,000 pistols later this summer!


According to a Rasmussen Reports survey in Nov. 2021, two-thirds of Republicans believe the policy will lead to gun confiscation, and even 40% of Democrats believe the same.  


The facts don't support the need for a gun registry. 
  • Most crimes that do involve registered guns, they’re usually recovered because the criminal was killed or injured.
  • In exceptionally few cases, the criminal will leave a registered firearm and it will be registered to the actual criminal.
  • Gun registries in Hawaii, Pennsylvania,  Maryland, Washington DC, New York, and Canada have done very little to help with criminal investigations.
If the trade-off for having a gun registry is giving the government a directory on who to take guns from in exchange for almost no aid to law enforcement, then anyone pro-gun should totally reject such a bad trade.  ​

But I want to hear from you!
Do you believe the U.S. government compiling information on Americans who own firearms could lead to all weapons being confiscated?
 
 
 Yes 
 
 No 
 
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