June 15, 2025

Happy Father’s Day

A very heartfelt thank you to every dad for your strength, guidance and your abounding wisdom.  We pause to recognize your steady hand that has guided and supported us through every triumph and trial.  May you feel the love and respect you deserve.  Happy Father’s Day!

Still Need to get a Gift this Father’s Day?

This Father’s Day, instead of getting your dad an ugly tie or a leaf blower that just collects dust, give him the gift of knowledge.  What’s that, you ask?  Give your Pops a subscription to the Gosar Newsletter this Father’s Day and join nearly 125,000 others who already subscribe.  By the way, my newsletter has more than double the number subscribers as the Arizona Republic has and it’s free!  Don’t be left out, sign up now.  It’s the gift that keeps on giving all year round!  Click here to subscribe.

Second Lady Summer Reading Challenge

The Second Lady Summer Reading Challenge has begun. The challenge began this Sunday, June 1 and will run through September 5, 2025, and is open to all kids in kindergarten through eighth grade.  All participants must do to enter is read 12 books, fill out the reading log, and submit it for a prize. To get started, download the participation information at www.wh.gov/read.  Participants who enter will receive a prize and a chance to visit the Nation’s Capital! Happy reading!!📕

Gosar Votes to Slash $9 Billion for PBS, NPR and Liberal, Woke Policies

This week, House Republicans passed legislation to cut $9.4 billion in wasteful government spending, fulfilling the promise we made to the American people to restore fiscal sanity to Washington and reverse years of reckless spending that drives inflation.

Taxpayers should not be on the hook for having to pay for liberal biased PBS and NPR to hire more leftist journalists.  Nor should they be forced to pay millions of dollars to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer programs across the globe.  The cuts included in this rescissions legislation are a necessary first step, of what I fully expect will be many more from Congress, toward restoring fiscal sanity by eliminating the woke, weaponized and wasteful federal spending that has torn our nation apart.

Happy 250^th Birthday, United States Army!

This weekend, America commemorates the 250^th anniversary of the founding of the United States Army, the oldest of the six branches of our Armed Forces.  Our soldiers and civilians are committed to defending our country, just as they have for the past 250 years.  We honor the sacrifices, achievements and true spirit of our greatest heroes.  HOOAH!

More Chinese Bioterrorists Arrested

I have a troubling update to a story I wrote about in last week’s newsletterconcerning the arrest of Chinese bioterrorists smuggling dangerous biological pathogens into the United States.   This week, the Department of Justice charged another Chinese immigrant with smuggling biological materials into the U.S. and making false statements.  The new case involves Chinese “researcher” Chengxuan Han, sponsored by the University of Michigan, smuggling roundworms into our country.  Take one guess where Han is getting her PhD from?  Give up?  She is getting it from Huazong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan.  Yes, the same Wuhan that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, or as President Trump rightfully refers to as the China Virus.

It’s Mail Time!

📬 Each week I receive hundreds of letters.   I do my best to respond to everyone who writes in.  Here are a few I received this week:

📨 Debbie V. from Golden Valley wrote in:

I am outraged to learn that Rep. Nancy Mace has filed a resolution to expel Rep. McIver from Congress.The charges against Rep. McIver are clearly based on lies: the video of her oversight activities has been widely shared. It is an alarming weaponization (sic) of justice for Alina Habba to have signed these obviously untrue and politically motivated charges.

I ask you to do oversight and find out who directed Habba to make the charges and who wrote them. Mace’s conduct brings Congress into disrepute. This partisan stunt reeks of hypocrisy: Mace did no such thing to George Santos when he faced legal jeopardy.  Do not allow Congress to devolve into a partisan parody of its role. What next? Mace will move to expel political opponents to manipulate legislative outcomes? Do you realized (sic) how important it is to make a united bipartisan condemnation of Mace’s stunt? You need to speak out together with other Democrats with one voice to say that you will not tolerate this partisan degradation of the dignity of Congress.

✍ Debbie, I understand your concern about the potential weaponization of the Department of Justice and believe me when I say, I sympathize with your desire for an impartial justice system. But it is difficult to argue that Representative McIver did not assault ICE agents while protesting outside of a federal immigration facility. There are bodycam videos showing Representative McIver push through an ICE agent, and an unidentified man in a navy suit, with both of her elbows raised at her chest. The statute under which she is being charged, 18 U.S.C. 111, provides that a person commits a felony assault by assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, or interfering with an officer performing official duties. 

In this case, Representative McIver impeded and interfered with ICE agents trying to control the flow of protestors. I understand that Representative McIver claims to have been at the ICE facility because of oversight powers, but her behavior shows a clear intent to disrupt ICE proceedings. As a member of Congress, Representative McIver swore an oath to defend the Constitution. This requires that she not only follow American law, but that she acts in a way befitting her office as a Congresswoman. Instead, Representative McIver used her office to disrupt federal law enforcement’s attempts to keep protestors from illegally entering an ICE detention facility. 

The expulsion of Representative George Santos provides recent precedence for removing a Representative charged with a federal felony before conviction. Representative McIver’s actions are not befitting a Member of Congress, and any charges against her serve as a reminder that no one is above the law.

📨 Barbara W. from Glendale, AZ shares:

President Trump has crossed another dangerous line by abruptly firing
Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. The White House delivered her sudden dismissal without cause or justification. It follows the unjustified firing of the National Archivist in February and an attack on our nation’s libraries with the elimination of IMLS. This pattern of political interference in our most trusted, nonpartisan institutions is outrageous and profoundly concerning. Dr. Hayden has served our country honorably. The Librarian of Congress should not be subject to arbitrary removal. Please respond with
courage!

✍ Barbara, President Trump dismissed Carla Hayden as a part of his campaign promise to restore American excellence to our political, academic, and social institutions. During her tenure as Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden promoted various LGBT books aimed at minors and used her office to promote DEI authors who would not otherwise receive public attention from the federal government. These actions do not show an “impartial and nonpartisan” perspective on social topics; rather, they show Carla Hayden’s biases by virtue of endorsing one viewpoint to the detriment of another. No matter how you frame it, choosing to promote a “minority” viewpoint is a political decision which chooses winners and losers.

While I agree with you in principle, many of our “nonpartisan” institutions predominantly favor Democratic beliefs. For instance, senior NPR editor Uri Berliner claimed that NPR has an unrepresentative left-wing bias, boasting 0 Republicans and 87 Democrats on its D.C. editorial staff. This bias – no matter how impartial and nonpartisan NPR reporters strive to be – is reflected in the perspective, tone, and nature of the stories it publishes. When one political group acquires a supermajority in nonpartisan institutions, any lack of change in its staff’s makeup will lead to “politicization.” But this politicization is not inevitable, it is caused by selecting for political loyalty versus actual merit. President Trump is attempting to bring merit back to nonpartisan institutions who select for political views, rather than diverse perspectives representative of Americans’ wider values.

📨 Seth D. from Surprise shared:

As your constituent and a person of faith, I urge you to support strong humanitarian protections for refugees, asylum seekers, and other displaced people. The United States has both a moral and legal responsibility to uphold commitments to this population, and these immigrants make the United States a stronger and better place.

Refugees and asylum seekers are the most vetted immigrants. They are also some of those most vulnerable. I believe that it is our duty to care for them, as people who are made in the image of God, especially in their time of need. I ask you to publicly defend refugee protections and due process, and push back against policies that erode our humanitarian commitments or the rule of law.

✍ Seth – the U.S. Refugee Admission Program was established by Congress to give persecuted individuals the opportunity to flee oppressive and dictatorial regimes. It was not established to give “economic refugees” or people dealing with domestic unrest a free pass to enter our country. In 1980, Congress modified the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 to provide the President discretionary powers to modify the annual cap on refugees. By establishing the Office of Refugee Resettlement under the Department of Health and Human Services, Congress gave the executive branch the ability to modify the number of refugees it admits annually. Thus the President can choose to admit more refugees, or less, depending on conditions he finds to be relevant. 

Similarly, the Refugee Act of 1980 provides the President with discretionary power to alter the number of refugees admitted. More specifically, 8 U.S.C. 1157 details the circumstances in which the Refugee Admission Program can be stopped. Subsection b states that, “the President may fix a number of refugees to be admitted to the United States during the succeeding period… in response to the emergency refugee situation.” This enables the President to allow 150,000 as Joe Biden did, or 10,000 as Trump didduring his first term in office. On January 20^th, President Trump announced that the Refugee Admissions Program will be suspended until an investigation by the Secretary of Homeland Security determines the program to be in the interests of the United States. 

This change of policy by the Trump administration follows long-established legal precedent by the executive branch. While I agree that our immigration policy must take faith and morality into account; we cannot admit hundreds of thousands of refugees during a time when our own veterans are not being provided for. Additionally, with nearly 20million illegal encounters under the Biden Administration, our top priority as a nation should be to secure the border against foreign terrorists. President Trump is committed to getting our border crisis solved, and this often means halting programs which potentially place our country in an uncertain situation.

Our government has a moral and legal responsibility to its citizens, not foreigners or illegal aliens. For the last four years illegal aliens have been prioritized over taxpayers getting free education, free health care, free food, free housing and even free travel.  And by “free” I mean taxpayers have funded it.  To me that is immoral and illegal.  

Tweet of the Week:

Photo of the Week:

📸 Roger Cox shares this amazing sunrise he recently snapped from Verrado.  Wow!  Great photo, Roger. Thanks so much for sharing.

Do you want the chance for your photograph to be featured as our “Picture of the Week?”   If so, send your best shots along with a brief description to Anthony.foti@mail.house.gov.  Remember to include your name and where you live.

Gosar in the News and Other Must-Read Stories:

📰 Breitbart: Exclusive: Freedom Caucus Members Champion Rescissions Package as First Step to Fiscal Responsibility

🗞 Daily Signal: House Gets Opportunity to Defund USAID, PBS, and NPR

📰 Newsweek: Disapproval of Democrats in Congress Ticks Upward—New Poll

🗞 Daily Caller: CNN’s Harry Enten Blown Away By Surge In Immigrant Support For Trump

📰 Daily Signal: Trump’s Deportation Efforts Backed by Wide Margin, Poll Finds

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