On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court greenlit the Biden regime’s censorship of Americans via social media, 104 Republicans voted to keep a raise for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — which has been described as the “nerve center” of the government’s censorship activities — in this year’s military appropriations bill.
Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde offered an amendment to the 2025 Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would keep funding for CISA at its 2024 level — effectively decreasing the budgeted amount in the bill by a little more than 2 percent.
The current appropriations legislation provides $2,437,285,000 to CISA. The amendment would have — on Page 43, line 11 of the appropriations bill — struck “the first dollar amount and insert $2,379,485,000.”
During a speech on the House floor, Clyde chided CISA for its censorship activities, saying the agency does not need more funds to support unconstitutional operations.
“CISA’s bloated budget and the agency’s increased weaponization mission to police free speech has gone on simultaneously,” Clyde said. “Given extraordinary increases in funding, CISA has used taxpayer dollars to censor Americans and target speech that they find disagreeable.”
“Flatfundng CISA for FY 25 is simply putting them on notice … to get their attention and cease the weaponization of this agency,” Clyde continued.
Nevertheless, 104 Republican legislators helped Democrats vote down the amendment.
The vote came on the same day the Supreme Court issued its 6-3 decision in Murthy v. Missouri, which allowed the Biden
