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An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would end U.S. tax dollars from flowing to Nigeria over the Christian massacre in the country passed the lower chamber by a slim margin.

According to UN News, Islamic radicals have kidnapped, slaughtered, and displaced over 3.5 million Christians in the country.

The amendment introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., was approved by a voice vote on Wednesday and was added to the fiscal 2027 State Department spending bill.

The House later passed the State Department spending bill 217-209.

“Nigeria’s government failed to protect Christians and other religious minorities from years of violence and terrorism carried out with impunity, Steube told the Daily Signal.

“American taxpayers should never bankroll a government that looks away while Christians are abducted, tortured, and killed, particularly with our national debt nearing $40 trillion. Foreign aid cannot go to terrorists,” he continued.

A different bill had originally proposed withholding 50% of funds appropriated for Nigeria until the Secretary of State Marco Rubio certified that the country has taken “effective steps to prevent and respond to violence and hold perpetrators accountable.”

Steube’s amendment, however, raises that threshold to 100% while leaving the certification conditions unchanged.

“Withholding only half of U.S. assistance still rewards that failure, so I pushed to increase it to 100%,” Steube concluded.

UN Watch noted that in northwestern Nigeria, armed Islamic criminal groups have taken control of rural areas in states including Zamfara, Katsina, and Sokoto, carrying out mass kidnappings and extortion in what authorities describe as banditry.

The violence has forced entire villages to empty, with about 1 million people displaced across the region, according to United Nations estimates.

In Nigeria’s central belt, disputes between farmers and herders over land—exacerbated by climate pressures and environmental degradation—have fueled additional waves of displacement.

The amendment, which is attached to the larger State Department funding bill, is now headed to the Senate for a vote. If passed by the Senate, the legislation will head to the president’s desk for a signature, where it would take effect immediately.

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The Trump administration is exploring whether to transfer management of the federal student loan program from the Department of Education to the Small Business Administration, a potential shift that has raised concerns among current and former officials.

House Republicans have been discussing reconciliation for months, with one consistent priority: reinstating the ban on federal funding for abortions. However, the budget resolution to kick-start the reconciliation process, released Wednesday morning, included no directive to block the funding.

House Republicans introduced the $95 billion budget resolution with two goals in mind: pass the SAVE America Act and provide emergency supplemental defense funding.

When this Congress last July passed the first reconciliation bill, the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” it prohibited Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood for a year. That expired this month, and Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, is once again eligible for federal funding.

Pro-life Republicans are now calling on Congress to ensure that the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will no longer be given to Planned Parenthood, which was responsible for the abortion of 430,000 preborn American children last year.

Arrington Answers

The Daily Signal asked House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, why the priority didn’t make it into the final directive.

“It was brought up early when we had a much more extensive view of what we could get done,” Arrington said.

The Texas Republican explained that while they had to “stay narrow,” this plan will “support our troops, provide certainty to the food supply, and lastly, safeguard our elections.”

“The American people, by over 80%, want commonsense safeguards for the integrity of our national election, and we’re going to do that. We believe this vehicle will do that,” Arrington added.

The resolution instructs four committees to write reconciliation legislation: the House Administration Committee, at $10 billion, for SAVE America; the House Armed Services Committee, at $60 billion; the House Intelligence Committee, at $13 billion, both for defense and Iran spending; and the House Agriculture Committee, at $12 billion, for farmers.

In the past year, there have been multiple priority lists from various Republican caucuses, including the Republican Study Committee and the House Freedom Caucus. Priorities discussed for months included ending federal funding for abortion, fraud prevention, affordable housing, reforming President Joe Biden-era energy policy, and a Republican health care plan. None were included.

Arrington explained that it all came down to time and suggested that he believes Republicans will eventually be able to stop federal funding for abortions. However, this was Republicans’ last chance before the possibility of losing the majority in the midterms.

“We had the time, the luxury of time, in the One Big, Beautiful Bill, to work through that and get at least a partial win for the pro-life movement. I was very happy about that,” he said.

“We got to a point where the clock was just, was what it was,” Arrington continued. “I’ve been talking about this for months, and, you know, there’s just been a lot of other things … we as a unified Republican leadership team have had to deal with.”

Hawley’s Plan

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., says that this funding being reinstated is a “moral consequence.” 

“The United States Congress has a significant decision to make. Is this Congress, a Republican Congress, going to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to the worst, most notorious abortion provider in the United States of America?” he asked. 

“This Congress should have acted long ago,” Hawley continued. “There is no excuse, none, for Planned Parenthood to be receiving taxpayer money to be carrying out the mutilation of our children, to be carrying out the murder of the innocent unborn. And yet, that is exactly what this Congress is now planning to do.” 

Hawley has a long history of fighting abortion funding. During the last reconciliation, he filed an amendment to the budget resolution to ban the funding. Now he says it is the time to act. 

“It should have been done in the last go-round, and it should be done now. This is the time to act. It is a moment of moral consequence, and it is a moment for moral leadership,” Hawley continued. 

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California and New York have continued losing residents who are looking for a better life outside their Democrat-run states, according to a Fox News report.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sharply criticized Republicans’ budget reconciliation proposal Wednesday, calling it a “reckless” measure that Democrats are determined to defeat.

Speaking to reporters after House Democrats began debating the legislation, Jeffries argued that Republicans were struggling to advance their agenda despite holding the House majority.

“A few moments ago, yet again, another reckless Republican bill went down to defeat on the floor of the House of Representatives,” Jeffries said. “How are Democrats in the minority, but continue to control the floor as if we were in the majority?”

Jeffries pointed to what he described as recent Democratic policy victories, including legislation passed by House Democrats in January to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits. He said the measure helped protect health care coverage for more than 20 million Americans.

The New York Democrat also criticized the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require voters to present identification before casting a ballot. Jeffries said House Democrats would oppose measures they believe could hinder “free and fair elections.”

“House Democrats are committed to making sure that we have a free and fair election in November,” Jeffries said. “When that occurs, we’re confident that we’re gonna take back control of the United States House of Representatives.”

Jeffries also condemned the Republican-backed budget package for continuing to fund U.S. military operations against Iran.

The legislation, he said, would provide “$60 billion in additional taxpayer money for [President] Donald Trump’s reckless and costly war of choice in the Middle East.”

According to Jeffries, the conflict has left Iran in a stronger position than before military operations began, despite the United States having depleted more than a large part of Iran’s military, executive personnel, and the regime’s sources of income.

“The war in Iran has been a disaster for the American people,” he said.

Jeffries concluded by pledging that Democrats would oppose what he called the GOP’s “America last” budget resolution and instead push to restore funding for Medicaid and nutrition assistance programs.

He accused Republicans of forcing through “devastating cuts” to those programs in last year’s reconciliation package, which he referred to as the party’s “one big, ugly bill.”

House Republicans have defended the budget reconciliation measure as necessary to advance key spending and policy priorities, while Democrats have united in opposition to the proposal.

 

 

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