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Jan 20 2026

Conservative Lawmakers Propose Budget Bill Defunding Big Abortion – Again

Conservative lawmakers recently unveiled a budget bill containing numerous pro-life policies with a full defund of Big Abortion organizations – including Planned Parenthood.

The Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) budget blueprint was unveiled on Jan. 8 by RSC Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) and Budget and Spending Task Force Chair Beth Van Duyne (R-TX). Titled “Restoring America’s Golden Age,” it contains proposals to beef up border security, cut wasteful spending, reform entitlement programs and increase American energy production.

The budget provides a “comprehensive fiscal roadmap that balances the federal budget within ten years, and returns spending to pre-pandemic levels.”

The budget also contains numerous pro-life policies. It “ensures Planned Parenthood no longer benefits from taxpayer dollars” and “completely eliminates Title X Family Planning funding to save the lives of countless innocent children.”

According to an RSC press release, the budget focuses on “making the American Dream affordable again” by:

Restoring the American dream of homeownership.
Delivering healthcare freedom and lower drug prices.
Reducing energy bills and gasoline prices.
Rebuilding the American family by eliminating marriage penalties, supporting stay-at-home parents and eviscerating radical gender ideology.
Cutting wasteful government spending.
Codifying President Trump’s executive orders.

“At its core, the RSC Budget is a fundamental rejection of the excessive government spending and regulatory overreach that characterized the Biden Administration’s approach to government,” the RSC budget reads.

The RSC is a congressional caucus of conservative members in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was formed in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and others to help advance conservative priorities and check the House’s Republican leadership, which they saw as too moderate. Currently 188 congressmen are members of the RSC.

Additionally, the budget supports multiple pro-life bills and priorities, including:

Rep. Warren Davidson’s (R-OH) bill, the Aid Accountability Act, which would eliminate funding for any federal employee or non-governmental organization violating the Helms Amendment, which prohibits the use of any U.S. foreign aid to perform or encourage abortion.
Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-TX) bill, the No Taxpayer Funding for the U.N. Population Fund, which would prohibit any federal agency from giving taxpayer dollars to the U.N. Population Fund – which has supported China’s population-control programs, including forced abortions and sterilizations.
Rep. Eric Burlison’s (R-MO) bill, the Life at Conception Act, which would recognize unborn children as “persons” under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Rep. Mark Harris’ (R-NC) bill, the Teleabortion Prevention Act, which would make it a federal offense for doctors to send abortion pills through the mail.
Rep. Mike Kelly’s (R-PA) bill, the Heartbeat Protection Act, which would prohibit abortions when a baby’s heartbeat is detected.
Rep. Ann Wagner’s (R-MO) bill, the Born-Alive Survivor’s Protection Act, which would ensure medical protections for babies who survive an attempted abortion.

The budget blueprint provides a roadmap for a second reconciliation bill in the 119th Congress. Republicans utilized the reconciliation process last year to enact the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which President Donald J. Trump signed into law on July 4.

The reconciliation process, a budget maneuver provided for under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, allows a budget bill to be passed with only a majority vote (51 votes) in the Senate, rather than the usually required three-fifths majority.

The OBBBA contained a provision defunding Big Abortion organizations – including Planned Parenthood – of all taxpayer dollars, costing the nation’s largest abortion mill roughly $850 million. However, the provision lasts only for one year.

“With so much of President Trump’s America First agenda still to enact,” the RSC added, “failing to seize this opportunity would be political malpractice.”

“The first reconciliation bill launched America’s Golden Age through economic and security reforms. The next reconciliation bill should focus on cementing the progress we’ve made on affordability in order to restore the American Dream for every family.”

Not every provision of the RSC’s proposal will be retained as the budget process moves forward. Nevertheless, it’s greatly encouraging that the RSC budget contains so many strong pro-life provisions.

Let’s hope and pray that if the House and Senate pass a second reconciliation bill later this year, Big Abortion providers will be defunded – again.

If you are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and want to learn more about your options, you can visit My Choice Network.

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Mar 13 2025

An Essential Primer on Defending the Reality of Male and Female

A revolution for truth and common-sense is breaking out in the United States Congress and it should be supported by all citizen of goodwill. We must all help it spread to our workplaces, classrooms, the public square and even our own families.

Earlier this week, Daily Citizen reported that Illinois Representative Mary Miller introduced the first openly “transgender” member of Congress as the man that he clearly is. Rep. Miller announced to the world, “Today on the House Floor, I refused to deny biological reality [because] I refuse to perpetuate the lie that gender is open to our interpretation. It is not.

Today on the House Floor, I refused to deny biological reality.

President Trump restored biological truth in the Federal Government, and I refuse to perpetuate the lie that gender is open to our interpretation. It is not. pic.twitter.com/Rin6PWT68O
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) February 6, 2025

On Tuesday, Rep. Keith Self of Texas referred to this same colleague as a male as he chaired a congressional hearing, and it blew up. Rep. Self chose to adjourn the hearing as things got out of control.

You can see the exchange here:

Representative McBride, the member being referred to, responded to Rep. Keith Self by saying, “Thank you Madam Chair” and began to give his remarks. Rep. Bill Keating of Massachusetts interrupted abruptly and asked Rep. Self, “Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again?”

Rep. Self took the bait and endeavored, a bit unsteadily, to explain why he chose the truthful wording he did: “We have set the standard on the floor of the House…” Rep. Keating then proceeded to bombastically moralize before the committee, asking Self if “he had no decency.” It was then that Chairman Self gaveled the hearing adjourned.

There are several important points worth addressing here, as we seize this cultural moment to publicly refute the lie that male and female are defined and determined by self-perception.

Rep. Self, like Rep. Miller before him, was right to publicly refuse to participate in the confusion of what a man and woman are, particularly as members of the U.S. Congress.
It is important to point out that Rep. Self was not offended in the least by being “misgendered” by McBride when he referred to him as “Madam Chair.” Healthy men know what they are. Call them anything you want. They are secure in the truth. When others get offended at being “misgendered” it is a clear sign one is wrestling with his or her “new” adopted self.
Rep. Self should not have taken the bait. No one should. When you are put in a situation of needing to speak the truth about the objectivity of male and female, always stick to your guns. Self should have confidently responded, “I was crystal clear in what I said. Let’s continue.” Rule of thumb there: Never engage others who want to redefine biological reality on their terms. Doing so is a recipe for crazy-making.
When others challenge your adherence to reality, simply state in a determined voice, “You and I seem to have a very different definition of what a woman (or man) is. Can you give me your working definition as we seek to establish exactly what we are talking about here?” Gender activists cannot answer that simple question which is why it must be asked.
Always remember, anyone can identify anyway they want. That is their freedom. But it is irrational to expect everyone else to play along with one’s subjective gender identity. It is also a violation of basic self-determination and freedom of conscience to demand any of us to speak words we know to be untrue. Compelled speech is never compassionate nor democratic.
Finally, never let anyone weaponize your compassion against you. Do not ever feel shamed or pressured into thinking going along with the lie of false language is compassionate. It is not.

We are in an extremely critical cultural moment where the gender ideology movement is rightly being put back on its heels as more people realize the belief system is logically incoherent. All citizens of goodwill must continue to press in and demonstrate their conscientious objection to an a-scientific redefinition of humanity that male and female are not biological realities.

Additional Articles and Resources

How to Respond to “Trans” and Gender Ideology? Simple: Live Not by Lies

‘Transgender Means Many Different Things’ — And Nothing

Transgenderism and Minors: What Does the Research Really Show?

Parents Fight Back Against California School District’s Secret LGBT Clubs

What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?

The Shifting Ground of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Do Not Fall for the ‘Affirm Them or They Will Die’ Lie

How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family

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Mar 10 2025

Representative Speaks Truth, Congressional Record Edits Her, Then Retracts

While chairing the congressional House floor on last month, Representative Mary Miller officially referred to Representative Sarah McBride as “Mr. McBride” and “the gentleman from Delaware.”

Why would Rep. Miller make such a blatant mistake?

Well, because it wasn’t a mistake.

Rep. Miller was merely speaking truth and doing so boldly. The kind of confident honesty that more people need to speak.

Rep. McBride is a man. But he is celebrated by some as the “first openly transgender” member of Congress.

Tim McBride announced in his college newspaper on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, “Starting on Saturday, I will present as my true self” and asked everyone to start using “female pronouns (she/her) and [his] chosen name, Sarah.” It was then, as he explained, that he “re-imagined” himself “as a girl.”

This is not how male and female work.

Rep. Miller knew this when she correctly referred to McBride as a man on the House floor, demonstrating bravely that she simply refuses to live by lies or illusion.

It is time everyone stops pretending gender redefinition is normal. We must resist it at every turn, refusing to act as if speaking falsehoods is kind and compassionate. It is not. We must be like Rep. Miller and simply refuse to cooperate in any part of this lie.

Congressional Record “Corrects” Miller, Then Retracts

Rep. Miller took to X to complain that the Congressional Record, the formal recorder of what is officially spoken in Congress, changed her correct words to the false “gentlewoman” and “Ms.”

Miller explained, “This is absolutely appalling and a blatant disregard for the truth I have spoken. The Congressional Record is an official publication and should accurately reflect my words. I refuse to participate in this lie. Tim “Sarah” McBride is a MAN!”

Thankfully the Congressional Record corrected the error.

The Daily Citizen strongly salutes Rep. Miller’s courageous clarity. We will continue to hold up and celebrate examples of honorable citizens and community leaders who demonstrate clear thinking, common sense and moral courage in the face of reality-denying gender ideology.