EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans will unveil legislation Thursday to ban the Department of Homeland Security from forming another Disinformation Governance Board after the panel was shuttered last year amid censorship concerns from conservatives.
The bill, which is being introduced by Rep. August Pfluger along with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ronny Jackson , aims to mandate that federal funds cannot be"authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available" to the DHS for establishing a governance board.
For instance, as part of an effort to fight apparent censorship, the GOP-led House Foreign Affairs Committee is mulling not reauthorizing the Global Engagement Center, a State Department-housed interagency the Washington Examiner reported granted $100,000 to the Global Disinformation Index, a British group covertly blacklisting conservative outlets, according to a source familiar.
"Instead of censoring and controlling every aspect of the American public’s lives, DHS should focus on the crisis at the southern border," Jackson told the Washington Examiner."I have faith in the American people to decipher knowledge for themselves. I do not have any faith in so-called 'disinformation experts' from the Biden administration."
Jankowicz was subpoenaed in March to appear before Congress by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan . Jordan said in his subpoena that she had"declined to comply voluntarily with our request for a transcribed interview," and he sought information on how the DHS board"planned to collect information and from what sources" as well as"how it anticipated countering disinformation, and how it proposed to protect First Amendment rights.
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