Politically speaking, the Republican representative of the United States, Anna Paulina Luna de Florida, is not my cup of tea. She is, by her own admission, one of the most conservative members of Congress.
In fact, in 2023, he defended an effort to censor and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff for leading President Trump's first accusation when Schiff was president of the Chamber Intelligence Committee in 2020.
That censorship effort failed because legislators were reluctant to raise a fine of $ 16 million to a member of a member. But Luna, who was not even in office at the time of the political trial led by Schiff, was not discouraged.
“I tell you,” he said at that time: “I'm persistent and I'm not joking, censoring will happen.” And he did so, except the fine, the second time.
Luna is, due to a more elegant phrase, a kind of bad rear.
The legislator, a veteran of the Air Force, the first Mexico American woman chosen for the Congress of Florida and mother of a small child, has now assumed its leader, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson de Louisiana, who, as his republicans, provides lip service to support families, but dedicates himself to make their lives more difficult.
Since January, Luna and her Democratic colleague, the representative of Brittany Pettersen of Colorado, a mother of two children, have been trying to get the camera to approve a measure that allows the members of Congress that they have babies vote for power until their babies are 12 weeks old.
Without dice, says Johnson.
“I have great sympathy, empathy for all our young legislators who are childbirth. It is a real dilemma,” Johnson said last month. “But I fear that it does not fit the language of the Constitution, and that is the unavoidable truth we have.”
Its impotence sounds hollow.
During the pandemic, when the Democrats had control, the camera approved a rule that allowed to vote for the first time in the history of the United States. Johnson was among the Republican legislators who demanded to revoke the rule, but hey, even he and dozens of other members took advantage of the new rule. When the Republicans recovered control of the camera, they put an end to practice, citing the concerns that it could be abused.
Last week, Luna and Pettersen essentially arrested the House of Representatives after challenging Johnson, and using a procedure turn to make an end around him.
Before Johnson's refusal to vote the power measure, they rounded enough bipartisan support to force the measure to the floor with the use of a “high request.”
Then Johnson, so, so helpless, right? – He designed a special rule to avoid vote, but as NPR reported, nine Republicans stole their leader and voted with the Democrats to block it.
“I could not vote in good awareness for an unprecedented rule that would take the carpet from the high request of the Luna representative that obtained the firms required fairly and squarely,” said Republican representative Max Miller, who has a one -year -old baby.
Pettersen expressed him more succinctly: “No f— with moms.”
You can remember that Pettersen arrived at the headlines in February when she hastened Washington with her 4 -week son, Sam, to vote against the Republican Budget Plan. She was photographed cradling her baby on the floor of the house.
“I was a complete, you know, Zombie here trying to represent my voters,” Pettersen told the USA Today.
Luna became a mother first time in 2023. He had complications derived from high blood pressure, and his doctors urged him not to travel while recovering. As a result, 137 votes were lost.
“How is it not discriminatory to tell a duly chosen member of Congress that he cannot vote because he gave birth to a child?” He said in January. “The new mothers in Congress should not be forced to choose their careers about children or choose children on races.”
It is not surprising that most of the Republicans of Congress, in Thrall to Trump, are so hostile for children and families.
The magical animus towards children – Our most precious resource blah blah blah – I was on display at the beginning of the Trump first term when it implemented the grotesque family separation program. We know that many of the children separated from their parents on the southern border suffered severe psychological trauma and, shamefully, some families have never gathered.
In what other ways Trump's policies and the Republican party hurt children?
In his first mandate, he tried to repeal the Law of Health Care at a low price, and pay for tax cuts now, the administration with the help of the Republicans of the Congress, is trying to reduce Medicaid, which provides medical attention to millions of low -income children.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., cares about the potential dangers of artificial food color, but has contributed to a wave of skepticism of vaccines that will undoubtedly result in real deaths. He currently presides over a measles outbreak that has killed two people not vaccinated so far, one in Texas, and has recommended that children at risk of measles take vitamin A, which does nothing to prevent the disease.
When the insensitive young members of Elon Musk's White House advisory team, which he calls the Government's efficiency department, or Doge, killed USAID, the foreign aid agency that is the most effective soft power tool in the United States, cut the help to children in developing countries, with a probable result that the tense of thousands of children and millions of people of all ages, which does not go to the intention of the countries, which does not It goes to the intention, there is a result that is not about tensions, and accelerate to those who accelerate and accelerate to the people who are disturbing the tense and those who accelerate, and are granted to the people who are disturbing the more or more in the open of the people who are disturbing, hunger They grant people. diseases.
The abolition of the Department of Education will hurt children in low -income communities that benefit from federal aid that is disbursed through schools and school districts, and children of special education and special education as well.
It is not clear at this point what happens next to the Moon and Pettersen bill. On Tuesday, Johnson was forced to cancel the votes for the rest of the week, which means that the Chamber did not add up to the Maga Law that would prevent federal courts from issuing national mandates and require proof of citizenship to vote.
Then, on Thursday, Trump intervened. “I don't know why he is controversial,” journalists told Air Force One. “If you have a baby, I think you should be able to call and vote. I am in favor of that.”
Hell froze; You are right.
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