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Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee · Jan 7, 2026

🧵1. Congress should be *passing* the SAVE Act to stop noncitizens from voting—not paying leftists to lobby against it…

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A Senate Appropriations Committee spending bill contained a $500,000 earmark to leftist groups opposing the SAVE Act, which aims to prevent noncitizen voting. The author criticizes both this specific earmark and earmarks in general as problematic vehicles for excessive spending and bad policy that operate without adequate transparency or debate.

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    🧵1. Congress should be *passing* the SAVE Act to stop noncitizens from voting—not paying leftists to lobby against it The Labor/HHS spending bill advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee contains an earmark giving $500,000 to leftists falsely claiming the SAVE Act would “disenfranchise millions of Americans”

    Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando · Jan 7, 2026

    WHY is a GOP controlled Congress allowing Democrats to fund their paid activists with earmarks?!

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    2. This earmark must go! Also, earmarks as a whole are problematic, given their tendency to promote excessive spending and bad policy decisions They coerce lawmakers in both parties to vote for bloated spending bills in a way that favors the left and other fans of big government

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    3. We need Congress to *pass* the SAVE Act and thereby protect election integrity—not use your money to pay far-left activists to undermine it

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    4. Share if you agree and tell your senators how you feel about this earmark—and all earmarks!

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    5. Remember: Republicans hold not only a controlling majority in the Senate, but also on the Appropriations Committee I find it stunning that a bill containing this earmark would pass out of the Senate Appropriations Committee not just with the support of Democrats, but also the support of most of the committee’s Republicans

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    6. I’m sure many of the Senate Republicans on the Appropriations Committee are (and were at the time they voted on the bill) unaware of this earmark and how the $500,000 might be used by this leftist group

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    7. That is precisely the problem with earmarks: they operate in obscurity, lead many senators to vote for excessive and problematic bills (to advance their own pet funding projects), and often leave no meaningful opportunity for senators to object to, debate, and remove even the most abusive earmarks on the Senate floor