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we allow wokism in our military. now democrats allege republicans are trying to hijack the bipartisan defense spending bill by attacking reproduct i have freedom. democratic congressman of new york pat ryan says most colleagues will vote no on the defense bill calling the republican abortion amendment a quote, poison pill. the far right, who s hijacked the congress and the speaker, unfortunately, has not been able to exert any leadership on this, and now we re at a point where after 62 years of a bipartisan defense bill, that s now going to get blown up. if republicans do pass the entire defense spending bill with their amendments tsenate is expected to take up its own version of the bill next week. aid for ukraine is also a hot continuing to. some republicans want funding cut. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene prepped a bill that would strip $300 million in aid and that was overwhelmingly
back a fraction of that. maybe there is bargaining there to say, we need more of the irs funding cut, so you don t see targeting certain people for whatever unfair reasons that i have. ashley: before i let you go, what was biggest loss for republicans in this? i think the headline 4 trillion debt limit increase, 4 trillion is a significant increase. republicans, i have seen some say when you are at the one-point line, why punt the football and they saw this was opportunity to force president biden s deal who got to this point by not negotiating, but forced his hand to get under 4 tril knowion, maybe under 3.
makers are actually pushing back. new legislation in new jersey would protect against the banning of books in public libraries and schools and if passed, any library that bans books could see the funding cut. joining us now are the two democratic state senators who introduced the bill. thank you both for being with us. why does you decide to interdue t introduce this bill. i grew up in school with books. my mom was a high school english teacher and talked about the importance of ideas, reading books, learn what is going on around the world around us. when i talked to a library in the district i represent that talked about how she stood up to the censorship and the bullying and the harassment she received i knew it was time for us to do something about this in new jersey. this is memorial day. people sacrificed our freedom of expression, speech and ideas.