A Major Victory in the Fight Against Radical Transgender Ideology

A Major Victory in the Fight Against Radical Transgender Ideology

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One of the most important policies included in the Big Beautiful Bill is one that has been a top priority for me for years now – defunding taxpayer supported gender transition procedures and treatments on minors. This represents the most significant victory against radical transgender ideology that Congress has ever achieved. 

My policy is simple – Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will no longer cover life-altering and dangerous transgender medical procedures on kids once this bill becomes law. It will save countless kids from irreversible self-harm, and will send a signal to the American people that their government will no longer be willing participants in this pseudoscience.  

Gender transition procedures are the lobotomy of our generation. So-called ‘gender-affirming care’ isn’t healthcare—it’s fringe science with no proven benefit and massive risks. I’m proud to have spearheaded the policy to ban funding of these procedures for the last few years and urge my colleagues in the Senate to act swiftly to pass this into law.
A major victory in the fight against radical transgender ideology

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One Big Beautiful Bill Heads to the Senate

One Big Beautiful Bill Heads to the Senate

One Big Beautiful Bill Heads to the Senate
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This week, after marathon committee meetings, midnight debates on the House floor, and what seemed like endless delay tactics from Democrats, President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill passed the House. 

What does this mean for average American families? Fundamentally it means their taxes won’t drastically increase in December, which is what will happen automatically unless we take action to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts. 

The bill included much more than that, though, and represents the lion’s share of President Trump’s agenda that he promised on the campaign trail in 2024. We also reined in major spending programs by well over a trillion dollars. We reformed government programs like Medicaid to ensure these programs are solvent for the people who actually need them.

The reality of legislating is crafting the most conservative bill that can actually get the votes and become law. We accomplished that with this bill. It is a huge win for House Republicans, President Trump, and most importantly the American people. The Senate should act immediately to get this Big Beautiful Bill to President Trump’s desk so he can sign it into law and start delivering these wins for the country. 

Inside House Republicans’ new task force to battle criminal Mexican drug cartels

Inside House Republicans’ new task force to battle criminal Mexican drug cartels

CLICK HERE TO WATCH DAN CRENSHAW ON THE FIGHT AGAINST THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS

Successfully ridding the U.S. of the effects of Mexico’s criminal cartels operating along the southwestern border would be a 20-year ordeal, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said – but argued Congress could begin having an impact in a matter of weeks to months.

“Look, there’s places we can boost right now to help the administration – the administration is refocusing a lot of efforts, especially in the [Department of Defense (DOD)], on the cartel situation, but there’s no extra money for that. That is something we could produce in reconciliation,” Crenshaw told Fox News Digital.

“I already know what programs need to be boosted, I just need to know the numbers. And that will come from [the Office of Management and Budget] that’ll come from the Department of Homeland Security, it’ll come from the DOD, it’ll come from [Department of Justice]. And so over the next couple of weeks, even while we’re in recess, we’re working on getting those numbers.”

Fox News Digital spoke with Crenshaw days after he was tapped to lead a new task force on combating Mexico’s drug cartels. It’s operating under the House permanent select committee on intelligence, which Crenshaw sits on.

He said it differs from his initiative last year, a similar task force, albeit with few resources to execute his goals, according to the congressman.

“Last year’s cartel task force didn’t have any staff. We were a series of members conducting hearings, investigations,” Crenshaw said. “I think we’re past that stage at the moment. Now, what I lead is really the House’s effort to actually create some legislation to combat the cartels.”

He added that the intelligence panel was “the right place for it” given “a lot of the work we do is classified.” 

“So the goal here is to actually get some outcomes as opposed to continuing more hearings, continuing more investigation. I’ve got a pretty good outline of what needs to happen. We’ve got President Trump in the White House now, who wants to make it happen,” Crenshaw said.

“Another huge difference between now and last year is we have a Mexican administration under President Sheinbaum, who also wants to make it happen and take the fight to the cartels.”

That fight would largely be a two-phase approach, Crenshaw explained. The first would be funding, while the second would entail “additional authorities and laws that need to be changed” to combat what the Texas congressman likened to “a terrorist insurgency” within the U.S.’ close neighbor and trading partner.

“That means boosting up certain funding lines in existing authorities, especially places like the Department of Defense. You know, NORTHCOM owns this area of operation when it comes to Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. They’re going to need extra resources because we’re going to need to do a lot more training on Mexican special forces,” he said.

Crenshaw called for sending military-grade gear to forces at the border, including Blackhawk helicopters, and bolstering reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering efforts.

“Things they really don’t have and that currently cause them to be outgunned by these pretty massive militias that have unlimited funding and are ruthless in the way that they terrorize the Mexican population,” Crenshaw explained. “So there’s a lot to do there.”

He’s hoping the funding can largely be allocated through the budget reconciliation process, a means for Republicans to pass a massive conservative policy overhaul while totally sidelining Democrats.

They can do so because reconciliation brings the Senate’s passage threshold down from 60 votes to 51, provided the legislation deals with taxation, spending or the national debt.

Republicans are looking to increase funding for President Donald Trump’s border initiatives, but it’s not immediately clear what shape that will take.

The contours of that plan will become clear in the next several weeks, with lawmakers returning from a two-week recess at the end of this month.

But House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said his full faith was in Crenshaw to execute the task force’s goals.

“Now it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure this good work can continue by providing the President with the tools he needs to dismantle the drug cartels for good,” Johnson said in a statement. “No one has worked harder on this important issue than Congressman Crenshaw, and I am grateful he is willing to continue leading at this pivotal time.”

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Fighting Back Against Activist Judges

Fighting Back Against Activist Judges

This bill will end the power of activist judges - for good

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Right now, activist judges can shut down an entire national policy—immigration enforcement, border security, you name it. They’re using that power to block deportations and stall President Trump’s agenda before it even gets off the ground.

I don’t believe the judicial check was ever meant to be used so prolifically. It’s a necessary check, undoubtedly. There will often be disagreement between the Executive (charged to “execute” the law), and the courts. This is usually the fault of Congress for writing laws that are vague in nature. But that “check” cannot be a single unelected judge, effectively empowered with the same “execution” authority as the President. We must properly balance this important mechanism of checks and balances. 

That’s why I support the No Rogue Rulings Act. This bill reins in activist judges by stopping them from issuing broad, nationwide rulings in cases that should only apply to the people directly involved. It restores balance between the courts, Congress, and the executive branch—just like the Constitution intends.

The HALT Fentanyl Act: Increasing Criminal Penalties For Fentanyl Traffickers

The HALT Fentanyl Act: Increasing Criminal Penalties For Fentanyl Traffickers

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This week, the House of Representatives passed the most obvious policy in the world: increasing criminal penalties for fentanyl traffickers.

There shouldn’t have even been a debate on this policy, but of course House Democrats found a way to be against this. You can watch my rebuttal to their nonsensical arguments on the House floor in the video above. 

The main argument pushed by Democrats against this bill is one we’ve heard before, claiming that permanently scheduling illicit fentanyl as a Schedule I drug will lead to “mass incarceration” for those who use fentanyl. That’s just not true.

Illicit fentanyl has been Schedule I since 2018—if their claims were true, we’d have already seen these so-called negative effects. We haven’t.

This bill doesn’t target users—it targets traffickers. The criminals lacing drugs with illicit fentanyl and killing Americans every single day. Letting temporary scheduling expire would mean weaker enforcement, weaker laws, and more lives lost.

The House did its job by increasing criminal penalties for illicit fentanyl dealers and giving law enforcement more tools to combat fentanyl trafficking. There was a bipartisan vote for this policy, but 107 Democrats still voted against it. Hopefully, the Senate will follow the House’s lead and swiftly send this commonsense policy to President Trump’s desk.

Protecting Military Readiness From Radical Transgender Ideology

Protecting Military Readiness From Radical Transgender Ideology

Protecting Military Readiness From Radical Transgender Ideology

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In another case of common sense vs. crazy, President Trump issued another executive order related to combating the mission creep of transgender ideology – this one related to its impact on our military. 

I have stated for years that military readiness cannot and should not be undermined by those who choose to undergo gender reassignment surgery. CNN tried to hit me with a “gotcha!” clip in an interview this week, attempting to show that I changed my position on this issue by selectively editing an interview from 2021. You can watch the full interview above to see what I’m talking about. 

Here are the facts on Trump’s executive order and this issue on transgenders in the military broadly: undergoing a gender transition fundamentally impacts a person’s ability to meet military readiness standards. These procedures often require extended recovery times, ongoing medical treatments, and create significant physical and mental challenges.

I am happy to be the face of common sense in this debate. I know what our warfighters need in an increasingly dangerous world to be a lethal fighting force. That does not include forcing a radical, DEI-focused ideology into our military.

Protecting Our Children From Dangerous, Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures

Protecting Our Children From Dangerous, Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures

Protecting Our Children From Dangerous, Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures

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President Trump signed an executive order this week that states unequivocally what has been clear to the vast majority of Americans for a while: taxpayer dollars, and the U.S. government as whole, should not support irreversible and dangerous gender transition procedures on children. 

It is hard to overstate the importance of this executive action from President Trump. The Biden Administration was not only funding, but actively encouraging, these procedures on children. Now, we have an administration that is “following the science,” as the left likes to say, and halting any support for what amounts to the mutilation of children. 

Even with this executive order, Congress still has an important role to play. 

I’ve been pushing legislation in Congress to block taxpayer funding for hospitals that transition minors. I’m pleased to see this first step that seeks to block federal programs from covering these procedures for minors and prevent grant funding for institutions that promote this. We still need to pass legislation to defund this permanently, and I’m ready to work with President Trump to get that done in our budget reconciliation package.

My position, and President Trump’s position, is squarely in line with the American public. 70 percent of Americans oppose using puberty blockers on minors according to polling, and that doesn’t even include harmful procedures like double mastectomies on children. 

The left will continue to label efforts like President Trump’s executive order and my legislation in Congress as “bigoted, anti-trans” policy. But, in reality, our position is a commonsense view shared by the American people: we should not treat our children like lab rats in an ideological experiment that has irreversible consequences.

Why I push back on the haters, and the TRUTH about their lies

Why I push back on the haters, and the TRUTH about their lies

Friend and Fellow Patriot, 

I hope you had a great holiday season spent with family, friends, and loved ones. This past year was incredibly hectic and at times exhausting, for all of us. But America enters 2025 with a lot of promise. President Trump will be returning to the White House with a Republican majority in Congress to help him undo the damage done to our country by Joe Biden. It’s going to be a busy year, but I am confident that we will make serious headway on the important issues facing American families – tackling the Mexican drug cartels, securing our southern border, getting our economy back on track, and restoring peace through American strength around the world. 

I’m looking forward to this year, as it is the first time since I was elected to Congress that Republicans have control of the White House, Senate, and House. 

But I thought it was worth starting this year by addressing my recent back and forth on social media with people who spread lies about me. So here it goes. 

First, an explanation for why I even bother to do this: Primarily, it’s because you deserve to hear from me about serious allegations. You deserve the truth, straight from me. 

You know by now that I do not shy away from these public fights. It is in my nature to push back forcefully when I am being lied about in such a public way, no matter who is spreading the lie.

Do I want to be spending my time doing this? Of course not. I would rather be spending my time on the issues that matter to me and to the country – coming up with a national strategy to combat the Mexican drug cartels, helping our veterans access the treatment they need to stop the unacceptable rate of veteran suicide, and making sure our country is secure from our foreign enemies. I would rather spend Christmas break relaxing with my daughter than worrying why thousands of people believe lies told by anonymous accounts on X. Nevertheless, people who profit off of social media engagement have discovered using my name in a lie gets them a lot of engagement and a lot of money. So they do it constantly. It is a feedback loop fed by money and outrage, which is the nature of politics these days, unfortunately.

But every time one of these lies gains traction on social media, I hear from people like you who reach out to me directly asking whether a specific allegation is true. When I respond by saying of course it isn’t true, you usually ask me why I’m not pushing back. So, that’s exactly what I do. Your support is invaluable to me, and I feel that my supporters are being slandered whenever I am being slandered online with no response. 

Each of these allegations – insider trading, spearheading efforts to get a congressional pay raise, me making millions off of my public service – all of it is entirely false. 

Here’s the truth. No, I have never engaged in “insider trading”

Yes, I have made investments in the stock market since I’ve been in Congress. It is not something I started when I was elected; it’s something that I’ve done since I was a private citizen – just like anyone allowed to save money and invest it for their future –  and it is much less glamorous than you think. I have not made millions from the stock market. In fact, I’ve profited around $25,000 TOTAL since 2018. 

Some misleading stories or graphics on social media report a percentage gain, not the monetary value, of my trading volume to make it seem like I am investing millions and getting millions in return. Other misleading stories take the public reporting Members of Congress are required to submit on stock trades and make dishonest interpretations of the report. They do this by inferring the highest possible dollar amount from those reports. Here is what you probably didn’t know: Each report doesn’t have exact values of the stock trade, but rather ranges of investment amounts. We have to click a box in the online reporting. The first range is $1,000 – $15,000 per stock trade. Of course, the stories (and more importantly the headlines) infer the highest possible total from that range. In reality, every time I have made an investment in the stock market it is near the bottom of the range. Right now, my only brokerage account has about $23,000 invested in the stock market TOTAL. It has been around this amount during my entire time in Congress. Shocking, I know, considering how extreme the accusations against me have been. But as you can see, I am not exactly the Wolf of Washington. Quite the opposite. 

Now, to the allegation of “insider trading.” That is a serious allegation. In fact, it’s a crime. Let me be clear: I have never once used non-public information from my committee work, legislative work, or congressional investigations to make gains in the stock market. Period. 

And let’s apply some common sense logic: my records are public, which means everyone knows when I buy and sell stocks. This means everyone accusing me of insider trading knows I have only bought stocks ONCE in the last 3 YEARS. It’s hard to “insider trade” if you aren’t doing any trading. I buy and hold investments, many of which are not even individual stocks, but ETF’s. That simple fact makes the claims against me all the more malicious. 

I have said publicly, multiple times, that I would vote to ban Members of Congress from trading in stocks. I would be happy to rid ourselves of these BS claims about insider trading. I hope the bill to ban stock trading is one of the first we take up in the new Congress so I can be one of the first to vote for it. 

No, I did not “spearhead the effort behind the scenes” to raise pay for Members of Congress

Before Christmas, there was a heated and public debate surrounding a government funding bill that included a pay raise for Members of Congress. The pay raise wasn’t nearly as much as some online claimed (the raise was actually 3.8%… $6,600 total… not a 40% pay increase as was claimed), but it was a raise nonetheless.

I was accused of “spearheading the effort behind the scenes” to have this pay raise included in the government funding bill. That, of course, was a lie. I never talked to anyone in Republican leadership about the government funding bill itself, much less the pay raise for Members of Congress, and I was listed as a NO on voting for the bill before it was tanked. If I wanted a raise, I would have fought for the funding bill to pass. But I was a no on that bill. 

That lie grew legs from a podcast interview I gave before Thanksgiving, almost a month before the government funding fight. In the podcast, I pointed out that Members of Congress had not gotten a raise in 15 years and it is one of the reasons why much of Congress is populated by uber wealthy individuals. I did not say I would fight for a pay raise. I did not even say that I wanted one. I simply stated a fact – Congress is made up of a lot of rich people, in part, because Members of Congress have not even seen a cost of living increase in their salaries since 2009. 

No, I am not a millionaire nor did I become one since taking office. 

This is the easiest one to debunk. All of my finances are publicly reported. I honestly don’t know where some of the crazy numbers I see online even come from, which makes it hard to explain. We report ranges when reporting assets, so it’s possible that people wrongly assume the highest end of the range, I don’t know. In the end, some people get a kick out of spreading lies, what can I say.

Many Members of Congress can say they are millionaires (and they should not be shamed for that by the way… most of them worked for it, earned it honorably, and that’s the beauty of America!). I am not one of those members. I went straight from military service into Congressional service – not exactly a pathway to earn wealth. I wrote a book that was a best-seller, and it still didn’t make me a millionaire! I live in Atascocita, Texas, which is a middle-class community, not a gated one. I have not “profited” off my service in Congress. I am 40 years old, and my wealth is easily comparable to any 40 year old who has had consistent employment and good financial sense. I saved money while I was deployed to Iraq and invested in real estate as a young officer in the military.  I wrote a best-selling book. Does any of this sound like I’ve profited unfairly? Of course not. 

That’s the truth.

Of course, those aren’t the first ridiculous claims made against me and my character since I’ve taken office. And I know they won’t be the last. 

I’ve debunked lies in the past that I was “part of the WEF,” and lies that I “voted for red flag laws.” There was even a viral tweet these last few weeks that listed the “kickbacks” paid to Members of Congress from Ukraine aid. All of it was completely fabricated. False. Lies. Not even a hint of truth.

Why do the haters do this? I’ve got plenty of theories. But it really comes down to this: the twitter trolls know they can’t control me, and they know I will call them out. Truth telling is a threat to people who make a living off social media engagement, often gained by exaggerating, twisting, or entirely destroying the truth. 

In the end, that’s what this is all about. TRUTH. And I guarantee you that I will push back, at times aggressively, on smears against me. I simply won’t ignore lies about me, even when it would be politically convenient or beneficial for me to do so.

I tell you the truth and take the time to do it because I believe you deserve it. You are owed that as one of my supporters. 

Politics is a tough business and it always will be. But I am a fighter and always will be. I fight back when lies are told about me. I fight back when you’re being lied to. And I fight back when politicians and those grifting off of politics deliberately try to hurt our country. 

I am grateful for your dedicated support. Thank you for being in my corner and for reading these messages. 

Here’s to a safe and prosperous New Year for you and all Americans. 

In Service,

Dan Crenshaw 

Watch Kamala End Her Presidential Prospects

Watch Kamala End Her Presidential Prospects

Watch kamala harris end her presidential prospects

WATCH KAMALA HARRIS END HER PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS

Welp, Kamala Harris basically obliterated the central thesis behind her candidacy for president this week. 

Kamala Harris’s entire campaign is premised around her being a “change” candidate. Literally, the motto for her presidential campaign is: “New Way Forward.”

So, naturally, when Kamala Harris was asked on The View what she would do differently than Joe Biden as president, her answer was…. “NOT A THING.”

It is almost hard to believe until you watch her say it, so please watch the clip above to see for yourself. 

As a reminder, Kamala Harris has sat by while Joe Biden:

  • Unleashed inflation, raising costs for groceries, gas, rent, and everything else while wages have barely kept pace with rising prices.
  • Opened our borders and mass paroled criminal illegals into our country, which led to the senseless deaths of innocent American women and girls.
  • Fled Afghanistan in such horrific fashion that 13 Americans died, thousands of our allies were abandoned, billions in weapons were handed over to terrorists, and America’s credibility on the world stage was destroyed leading to unprecedented aggression from our adversaries. 

Kamala wouldn’t change anything? “Not a thing” comes to mind? 

This is what you’re going to get with a President Kamala Harris, the same failed policies packaged in a far-left, San Francisco radical. 

Vote for Donald Trump.

The Poster Child For Trump Derangement Syndrome

The Poster Child For Trump Derangement Syndrome

The poster child for Trump Derangement Syndrome

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Debating liberals is one thing I enjoy in politics probably more than anything else. I like these debates because, usually, they are substantive discussions over which policies** are better suited to handle issues we all agree need to be addressed (immigration, foreign policy, taxation, etc.). 

Debating someone who calls themselves a “conservative” while also endorsing Kamala Harris over Donald Trump was a new one for me. But I decided to do it anyways because I thought it was important to expose just how shallow the arguments against Donald Trump really are. 

You can watch the debate above for yourself. The guy I was debating is the poster child for Trump Derangement Syndrome – none of his arguments were based on policy; all of his arguments were emotionally centered attacks on Donald Trump’s character. 

It’s a long one, but it is worth your time if you want a few tactics for debating people like this you might encounter.