AAF: Letter on Holman Rule for Antisemitic Biden Staffer

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Dear Congressional Republicans:

Yesterday, news broke that President Biden’s National Security Council had hired a special assistant who has called for the total destruction of Israel and previously interned for UNRWA, a terrorist organization that actively participated in the October 7th attack on Israel.1

As members of Congress, you alone hold the power of the purse. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 58, “The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse…”

The American people will not stand idly by while the Biden Administration abuses their tax dollars to keep a virulent antisemite on the federal payroll.

On behalf of Advancing American Freedom and the Jewish Community, I urge you to use the Holman Rule to cut funding for the salary of Maher Bitar in the upcoming appropriations bill.2

Paul Teller Executive Director Advancing American Freedom

1 Libs of TikTok. Twitter/X, March 19, 2024, https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1770249152766812213

2 Congressional Research Service, The Holman Rule (House Rule XXI, Clause 2(b)), January 10, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44736