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Islamophobes In Republican Party Need To Be Condemned By Own Party Leadership!

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The Republican Party under President Donald Trump has become, sadly, a party of massive racism, nativism, and Islamophobia.

No major political party should promote such hateful causes, and for one to say it is alright to be any of these, needs to be repudiated by party leaders, particularly Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Among those in the Republican Party in Congress who are notable regarding their incendiary Islamophobia are:

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, running to be Governor of his state

Florida Congressman Randy Fine

Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles

Texas Congressman Brandon Gill

Texas Congressman Keith Self

Texas Congressman Chip Roy

The New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has come under vicious attack, because he is a Muslim, as has the Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi.

Also, in the House of Representatives, there has been vicious attacks over time against Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, because of their Muslim faith and criticisms of Israel.

And former Minnesota Congressman and presently Attorney General Keith Ellison has also had regular threats due to his faith.

A total of 42 Muslim Americans have been elected to office in the off year elections of 2025, over a total of nine states, including

New York
Virginia
Michigan
New Jersey
Washington
Maryland
Ohio
North Carolina
Pennsylvania

There are about 4.3 million people in the country who are Muslim, about 1.3 percent of the nation’s population.

While there certainly is a problem of Islamic terrorism, that does not mean that there should be discrimination and threats against Muslims who run for and serve in public office.

Finally, The Physical Infrastructure Legislation Is Passed In The House Of Representatives With Bipartisan Vote!

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Finally, overnight, the House of Representatives passed the Physical Infrastructure bill that had passed the US Senate with a bipartisan vote of 69-30 in August.

And happily, there were 13 Republicans who supported the legislation in the House, making the legislation truly a bipartisan accomplishment, with a final vote of 228-206.

This is a major victory for Joe Biden and the Democrats, despite the tortuous delay of more than two months, and the $1.2 trillion of spending on roads, airports, bridges, rail systems, broadband, environmental cleanup, and electric vehicles will advance the American economy dramatically!

The nation desperately needed this legislation, and it will help the Democratic argument to keep them in the majority in the 2022 Midterm Congressional Elections a year from now!

However, with all of the excitement that this legislation engenders, it IS a fact that without the 13 Republicans, including a number who voted to impeach Donald Trump the second time, the legislation would NOT have passed, as 6 “Progressives” voted against it, including

Jamaal Bowman of New York
Cori Bush of Missouri
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan

The latter four have been called the “Squad”, and the first two have been considered to be additions to the group by the news media, and seemingly, have indicated they are glad to be part of the group.

Four of the 13 House Republicans who supported the legislation also supported impeachment of Donald Trump in January 2021:

Adam Kinzinger of Illinois (not running for reelection)
Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio (not running for reelection)
Fred Upton of Michigan
John Katko of New York

Even without the other nine Republicans, those four principled Republican House members who did the right thing on both impeachment and the infrastructure bill, basically saved the legislation, as with their votes alone, the legislation would have passed 219-215!

The present House of Representatives has 221 Democrats, and 213 Republicans, so there is a working majority of just three members, although the Democrats have eight more members than the Republicans.