This happened a couple days ago, but I couldn't find it being discussed here previously.

Rep. Eli Crane proposed an amendment to the spending bill that the House is currently working on that would defund the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to the tune of $315 million. NED was talked about a ton during the initial DOGE revelations for reckless spending. Mike Benz has been very outspoken about how heavily involved NED is in funding and pushing censorship not only around the globe, but also toward American citizens. Trump already tried to cut the funding for NED, but was previously blocked by an activist judge.

Now R's had the opportunity to codify NED's defunding and 81 of them sided with the Dems who voted 100% in lockstep to keep the funding going. Absolute bull*****!

This is NED right here...

A Republican who votes yes for NED funding today is a Republican siding with the EU to fine Elon Musk's X $140 million for not letting the EU censor you https://t.co/dKq263fc6N

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 14, 2026

While NED's censorship ops started with Russian disinfo as the pretext, and NED claimed it was fighting Russian disinfo, here NED's Dean Jackson spilled the beans and said Elon Musk should treated as a graver threat than Russia. This while he & NED sided with Brazil in banning X https://t.co/VqN167jH8r pic.twitter.com/ILnbwFL66W

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 14, 2026

NED directly funded pressure attacks on advertisers to get advertisers to defund populist news sites. Here, NED's contractor Global Disinformation Index bragged to NED they caused a $70M ($100M Canadian) drop in ad revenue to news sites, and changed US advertiser trade policies pic.twitter.com/VJtsuMaGhs

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 14, 2026

If you need a list of Republicans that should be primaried, here it is.

• Aderholt (AL)
• Alford (MO)
• Bacon (NE)
• Baird (IN)
• Baumgartner (WA)
• Bentz (OR)
• Bice (OK)
• Bilirakis (FL)
• Bresnahan (PA)
• Buchanan (FL)
• Calvert (CA)
• Carey (OH)
• Carter (TX)
• Ciscomani (AZ)
• Cole (OK)
• Crawford (AR)
• Diaz-Balart (FL)
• Edwards (NC)
• Ellzey (TX)
• Estes (KS)
• Evans (CO)
• Feenstra (IA)
• Fitzpatrick (PA)
• Flood (NE)
• Franklin, Scott (FL)
• Garbarino (NY)
• Gimenez (FL)
• Goldman (TX)
• Guthrie (KY)
• Haridopolos (FL)
• Hill (AR)
• Hinson (IA)
• Huizenga (MI)
• Hurd (CO)
• Issa (CA)
• Johnson (SD)
• Joyce (OH)
• Kean (NJ)
• Kelly (PA)
• Kiggans (VA)
• Kiley (CA)
• Kim (CA)
• LaHood (IL)
• LaLota (NY)
• Latta (OH)
• Lawler (NY)
• Lucas (OK)
• Mackenzie (PA)
• Malliotakis (NY)
• Maloy (UT)
• Mast (FL)
• McCaul (TX)
• Meuser (PA)
• Molenaar (MI)
• Moore (UT)
• Moran (TX)
• Newhouse (WA)
• Nunn (IA)
• Obernolte (CA)
• Pfluger (TX)
• Rogers (AL)
• Rogers (KY)
• Rutherford (FL)
• Salazar (FL)
• Simpson (ID)
• Smith (NE)
• Smucker (PA)
• Stefanik (NY)
• Strong (AL)
• Taylor (OH)
• Tenney (NY)
• Turner (OH)
• Valadao (CA)
• Wagner (MO)
• Walberg (MI)
• Webster (FL)
• Westerman (AR)
• Wilson (SC)
• Wittman (VA)
• Womack (AR)

Unfortunately, you are spot on.

Ellzey. Congressman from my district. I have to take part of the blame because I believed what this hack told me to my face. I did all I could to help him get elected.


Then he went to Washington and knifed all of us in the back. I don't know if we can get rid of him now. Too many people keep voting and don't ever look at what these jerks do when in office.

I'm doing all I can now to get this rino out

I've received more flyers in the mail from him than everyone else combined. For that alone I quit voting for him.

So far, I haven't seen my Congressman vote for any of this crap, thankfully. I'm sure someone could surprise me though.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of these people didn't even know WTF they were voting for. Remember that their interns and aids are the ones doing all of the actual work. The elected officials are just told how to vote by their team.

Well this was a specific amendment just to defund NED, so it's pretty difficult for them to plead ignorance on this vote.

Dean Jackson has an incredibly punchable face.

I hate seeing my rep on this list. I was thrilled to see him get elected in 2024, but this is a bad vote (Bresnahan - PA).

Kay Granger was a disgrace and now her hand picked replacement, Craig Goldman, is a disgrace as well.

This is why primaries matter, people.

fightintxag13 said:

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Well this was a specific amendment just to defund NED, so it's pretty difficult for them to plead ignorance on this vote.

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Well, f* them then.

rocky the dog said:

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Nailed it. They are ALL our enemies.

That list of GOPers... they voted to fund NED? is that it?

DOGE - just another needed and honorable effort that suffered mission execution incompetence