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Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 14, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Arizona and the chairman of the committee for his hard work on this bill.

Mr. Chairman, I support this amendment because you think about the National Endowment for Democracy, you think the United States is working productively in places like Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. If we are, let's face it, we have been an abject failure.

Let me tell you where your taxpayer dollars are really going. Where they had been going is to pressure advertisers to demonetize and suppress American political speech by naming the ten riskiest cites to include the New York Post, the Federalist, Newsmax, The Blaze, The Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, One America News Network, The American Spectator, and The American Conservative.

Mr. Chair, 98 percent of the political donations coming from the National Endowment for Democracy go to the Democrat Party. This is your taxpayer dollars paying for socialists and communists to subvert the American system, and it ought to be stopped.

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