Kelly Cosponsors Bill to Defund the Biden Administration's "Ministry of Truth"
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) announced his support for a bill, introduced by House Republican Conference Vice Chairman Mike Johnson (LA-04), that would defund the Biden Administration’s “Ministry of Truth."
The bill follows Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ announcement that DHS will convene a “Disinformation Governance Board.”
"We must protect the First Amendment to ensure that no administration censors American citizens and threatens their Constitutional right to free speech," Kelly said. "The Biden administration has not laid out a clear, specific plan for ways the so-called 'Disinformation Governance Board' will balance filtering actual disinformation from censoring Americans and policing free speech. American taxpayer dollars should not be supporting this effort."
BACKGROUND
The legislation bars federal funding for DHS’ recently announced “Disinformation Governance Board” to be headed by Executive Director Nina Jankowicz.
Jankowicz, who refers to herself as the “Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” is a frequent purveyor of falsehoods, and appears sympathetic to the cause of censoring Americans.
Recent falsehoods peddled by the Biden Administration include: the falsehood that Secretary Mayorkas has done an effective job managing the border crisis; the falsehood that economic contraction in Q1 of 2022 is actually hiding broad economic resiliency; the falsehood that Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending bill costs zero dollars; the falsehood that inflation is a “high-class problem”; and the falsehood that 70% of our current inflation is actually being caused by Vladimir Putin.
This week, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr blasted the Department of Homeland Security's new Disinformation Governance Board to combat online disinformation on Monday, calling it "Orwellian," "un-American" and "unconstitutional." This follows 20 Republican-led states threatening legal action against DHS over the board.