‘We’ve got a clear trend here: undermine border security, undermine the election system, undermine the Supreme Court, undermine the Senate, undermine our education system, undermine our country. If your goal is to deconstruct and completely reshape a country, these are the steps that you would take.’
‘Here in the United States of America, citizens have freedom and opportunities. And that is what we need to be focused on. Not giving handouts, not dismantling our institutions, but creating opportunity.’
‘Changing the rules to force one’s vision on everyone isn’t democracy. It’s tyranny.’
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) yesterday delivered the following remarks on the Floor of the United States Senate regarding President Biden’s failure to live up to his own rhetoric of uniting the country, and instead favoring progressive policies. Sen. Tuberville details the numerous unpopular actions taken by the Biden administration – including open border policies, a massive expansion of the federal government, and undermining our education system.
“I assumed that when he said he’d be a president for all Americans, it also included the 75 million Americans that voted for Donald Trump. I was ready and I still am to work with President Biden in good faith to find commonsense solutions to problems facing the country and to ensure the voices of Alabamians are heard.”
“But so far the president has neither united nor reached across the aisle. His actions have shown he is fine to play along with divisive tactics of the progressive left rather than unite a large and diverse country.”
“The Left has been waiting a long time for an administration to implement their vision. They need to use a Trojan Horse to put that vision into practice because it’s remarkably unpopular with majority of the American people. Their vision is unpopular because it centers around the core belief of imposing their vision on everyone. But to achieve this, that means taking away your freedom. Freedom to think differently, freedom to worship differently, freedom for you and your family to live differently, freedom to spend your hard-earned money the way you want to spend it.”
“Taking away those freedoms, freedoms that are the foundation of America is not progress. It’s called socialism. When progressives talk about equity, they mean equal outcomes, not opportunities. They want a government that’s so powerful, it owns everything and chooses how wealth is distributed to ensure equal outcomes. That in essence is socialism.”
“One of President Biden’s first moves was to signal to the world that America’s borders are open. The result? Absolute chaos.”
“Because of this insane open-door policy, the American taxpayers, not the Biden administration, but the American taxpayers, is footing a $60 million bill a week. $60 million a week to cover the cost of housing of unaccompanied minors at the border.”
“In the same rush, Democrats are working to undermine the integrity of the election process through H.R. 1 and S. 1, the federal government takeover of our elections.”
“Democrats are using things Americans desperately need, like traditional infrastructure, as a smoke screen for things Americans desperately don’t want, like the fantasy Green New Deal. And now Democrats in both chambers have introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court. And because they don’t have the votes to ram this through, such an extreme agenda through the Senate, many Democrats want to eliminate the filibuster, despite the fact that many wrote a letter asking to keep the filibuster just a few years ago when they were in the minority. The bottom line? Democrats want to change the rules so they can get their way because they are to the point where they want to transform our country.”
“As concerning as each of these actions have been, even more alarming is the progressive efforts to indoctrinate our children by favoring fringe theories over actual learning. For example, the California Department of Education is considering using a curriculum that says, ‘The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false.’ Their goal is to, ‘Dismantle racism in mathematics.’ Apparently 2 plus 2 does not equal 4 anymore, because it’s not politically correct. And just last year the U.S. ranked 37th in the world in math. What a disaster.”
“The U.S. Department of Education recently introduced a rule that would direct millions, millions of taxpayer dollars to schools that promised teaching critical race theory and the 1619 project for American history and civics.”
“The goal should be to have better laws and better application of those laws, not to tear them down.”
“For pushing this, it’s not about uniting our country. It’s about fanning the flames of the unfortunate human [tendency] to divide and separate into different rules instead of uniting us around a set of common morals. Shouldn’t we be fighting that impulse to divide into groups against each other? I think we need to do more uniting, and that should start in our schools.”
“Our schools should be places that encourage the open debate of ideas and teach important morals to our young people so that they know right from wrong. That’s why I joined Leader McConnell and 38 my Republican colleagues to send a letter to Education Secretary Cardona urging him to withdraw these divisive grant programs.”
“Part of our letter reads, ‘Families did not ask for this divisive nonsense. Voters did not vote for it. Americans never decided our children should be taught that our country is inherently evil. Secretary Cardona should direct these grant dollars to American history programs that teach the ideals and morals that have made America the greatest force for good in human history.’”
“I spent my career in education, 40 years. I’ve seen firsthand how a quality education can put a kid on the path to success in our great country, regardless of their race, religion, or economic background. When done right, education is the key to freedom. But the education we see in many schools today is just cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids can the chance to escape it.”
“We’ve got a clear trend here: undermine border security, undermine the election system, undermine the Supreme Court, undermine the Senate, undermine our education system, undermine our country. If your goal was to deconstruct and completely reshape a country, these are the steps that you would take.”
“Our country is not perfect. There’s a lot we’ve got to work on. But here in the United States of America, citizens have freedom and opportunities. And that is what we need to be focused on. Not giving handouts, not dismantling our institutions, but creating opportunity.”
“We have the ability to make it better. We have the rules to do so. Those rules are in place so that all of us can respect, if not always agree with, the changes that are made to make this country better. That’s called democracy. But changing the rules to force one’s vision on everyone isn’t democracy. It’s tyranny. My Republican colleagues will now continue to stand against that. That’s what America was founded on, after all. And it’s what America needs now.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans’ Affairs, and HELP Committees.
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