Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and 11 Republican senators are demanding President Joe Biden hold Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin accountable, after a Department of Defense inspector general report released this week found he failed to follow the law when he hid multiple hospitalizations from the White House, breaking the chain of command and jeopardizing the safety of the nation. The IG report found Austin violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) twice in December 2023 and January 2024, but also on two additional occasions unknown to the American public in June 2024. In a letter to Biden sent Thursday, Wicker and the senators wrote: For days in December, January, and June, no one in Congress or in your administration knew that Secretary Austin was unable to perform the functions and duties of the Secretary, or that Deputy Secretary Hicks was the acting Secretary… At the time of these absences, your administration was still reeling from a Chinese intelligence and reconnaissance balloon sailing across the United States, Putin continued his violent and illegal war on Ukraine all the while rattling the nuclear saber, and violent Islamic terrorists and other Iran-backed extremists were ramping up for an historic assault on Israel, emboldened by your disastrous abandonment of Afghanistan. The world was far from stable, and America was not safe. What makes this situation so much worse, however, is that the moment Secretary Austin’s office became vacant, no one had control of the nuclear football and the entire American nuclear enterprise was left idling. The DOD IG report was released to the public with just days left in the Biden administration and no seeming accountability for Austin is imminent. However, the senators urged that he “must be held accountable for betraying his office, betraying the trust of the American people, violating the FVRA multiple times, and fumbling the nuclear football.” “There must be accountability for Secretary Austin’s irresponsible behavior, your administration’s multiple violations of the FVRA, and the mishandling of the nuclear football. Certainly, if a uniformed officer had done only one of these things he or she would be facing the end of their career. Sadly, those in charge seem to believe that the same standards do not apply to them. The American people will no longer accept a lack of accountability for the failures of our senior military leaders, whether civilian or uniformed,” the senators wrote.” WASHINGTON, DC – President Joe Biden on Friday made the bizarre proclamation that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by 38 states to become part of the U.S. Constitution, an announcement that is legally dead wrong and a disgraceful disservice to the country and the rule of law. The Constitution requires that any amendment must be proposed by both two-thirds of the House (290) and two-thirds of the Senate (67). After that, a majority (over 50 percent) in the legislatures of three-fourths of the states (38) must vote to ratify the proposed amendment to make it part of the Constitution. All this has happened only 27 times in American history, starting with the Bill of Rights in 1791. Congress proposed the ERA in 1972 as a top priority of the Far Left. It says, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Nonetheless, on January 17, 2025, Biden declared the ERA had been ratified as part of the Constitution. Without even officially overruling OLC’s opinion or directing his OLC to issue a new opinion, the defeated outgoing president simply announced that the Supreme Law of the Land had changed. @patrician What a despicable creature. "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44, ESV)
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Joe Biden Falsely Declares States Ratified Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to Constitution:
