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In 1965, American radio host Paul Harvey gave an immense warning to the American
people about the fate of the nation. “We Were Warned: Freedom to Chains” is a short
film about the the parallels between the warning Harvey gave over fifty years ago, and
today with the Socialist influences in government and society.

Did Kamala Harris sponsor a new bill named “A Second Chance” that would require police officers to call their supervisor before drawing a weapon? No, that’s not true: the story was published by a police satire website as a joke, it is not real.

The story originated from an article published by Blue News Network on March 12, 2019 titled “New Bill Would Require Officers to Call Supervisor Before Drawing Weapons | Blue News Network” (archived here) which opened:

San Bernardino, CA- In a recent bill presented to the Senate, law enforcement officers would be required to request permission from their shift supervisor before utilizing their service weapon. The bill, titled “A Second Chance”, is geared towards “preventing police atrocities.” As part of the bill, officers finding themselves in a life threatening situation would first need to call their supervisor and ask before introducing their service weapon into the scenario. Further, the supervisor would then in turn have to call a local civilian committee to discuss the matter so that a community backed decision can be made. These steps would be taken prior to drawing not only their firearm but any other weapon, including tasers, OC spray and batons.

New Bill Would Require Officers to Call Supervisor Before Drawing Weapons | Blue News Network
BNN is your trusted source for fake news.

As you can see it clearly indicates “BNN is your trusted source for fake news“, and the site has another disclaimer in the footer that reads:
BNN is your source for law enforcement satire.
However when shared on Facebook the description text with the warning did not appear in at least some cases:

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 12:50 AM PT – Sat. March 16, 2019

Jewish activists stage a sit-in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office over the watered-down
House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, stemming from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s
anti-Semitic remarks.

John Bolton: North Korea Not Willing To Take
Steps To Denuclearize

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 12:30 PM PT – Sun. March 17, 2019

National Security Adviser John Bolton says President Trump found North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was unwilling to take steps toward denuclearization.

His comment on Sunday came after North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister said the Trump administration created an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust that thwarted the Hanoi talks in February.

FILE – In this Feb. 28, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, in Hanoi. John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, says North Korean allegations that he and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo created an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust at last month’s nuclear summit in Hanoi are “inaccurate.” North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said Friday that Trump was willing to talk, but was influenced by uncompromising demands by Pompeo and Bolton. She says the “gangster-like stand of the U.S. will eventually put the situation in danger.”
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In response, Bolton called those accusations inaccurate.
Bolton also mentioned the U.S. is willing to let China participate in the nuclear talks if the administration sees some movement on North Korea’s part.

This is how our immigrant ancestors came to America 

Not like this, these are invaders, they are illegal aliens, not
immigrants nothing like our immigrant ancestors!

Immigrants at Ellis Island filling out paper to enter the
United States of America.

Standing in line at Ellis Island waiting their turn

This is Ellis Island 

We were accepting people long before it was presented to us by France,
and the plague Democrats like to refer to all the time had nothing to
do with the statue of liberty it was put their by a garden club.
The original name of the statue was Liberté éclairant le monde: Liberty
Enlightening the World.  That statue represents Liberty holding a
torch which lights the passage of those of all nations who come
into this country.
Emma Lazarus’s Petrarchan sonnet is an awkward vehicle for defenses
of American greatness—perhaps because so many of those who quote
it miss its true meaning. The New Colossus’, which adorns the pedestal
of the Statue of Liberty, was Written in 1883, the Statue of Liberty  arrived
in the United States from France in 1886, three years after “The New Colossus
was written.‘The New Colossus’ was commissioned to help raise
money for the statue’s construction, but it was only after Lazarus
death, in 1887, that the poem was published. But it would not be
until 1945 that the poem would achieve widespread fame, when it
was inscribed over the entrance to the Statue of Liberty, long after
much of our immigration occurred.  We had accepted millions of
immigrants before this poem was put over the entrance of the ue
Statue, so the lines of the poem “‘Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, really had nothing
to do with our immigration it was written for a garden club fundraiser
fund the base of Statue of Liberty in 1883 but as stated earlier never
put on the Statue base till 1945, 62 years later.

If the immigrant’s papers were in order and they were in reasonably good health, the Ellis Island inspection process would last approximately three to five hours. The inspections took place in the Registry Room (or Great Hall), where doctors would briefly scan every immigrant for obvious physical ailments. Doctors at Ellis Island soon became very adept at conducting these “six second physicals.”

By 1916, it was said that a doctor could identify numerous medical conditions (ranging from anemia to goiters to varicose veins) just by glancing at an immigrant. The ship’s manifest log, that had been filled out back at the port of embarkation, contained the immigrant’s name and his/her answers to twenty-nine questions. This document was used by the legal inspectors at Ellis Island to cross-examine the immigrant during the legal (or primary) inspection.

The two agencies responsible for processing immigrants at Ellis Island were the United States Public Health Service and the Bureau of Immigration (later known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS).

Between 1880 and 1930 – 28 million immigrants came to America, 15 years before “The New Colossus” poem was put on the statue., so tell me what did that poem have to do with the immigration of the poor and huddled masses?  Immigration number from 1929 to 1939 were down dramatically because fo the Great Depression, then World war two caused another major dip in immigration, till after 1945.

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The Sky Over South Africa is Dark with Gathering Vultures!

Posted by Don Boys on March 1, 2019

My wife and I watched as huge, ominous Old World vultures circled overhead while elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, and water buffalos struggled for life as they grazed along the bank of the Zambezi River in Zambia. Southern African nations were experiencing a major drought reflected in the grazing animals along the river. Their ribs could be easily seen as they struggled to find enough food to keep them alive. The circling vultures were waiting to do what vultures do: devour the dead. Even I, always more concerned with people than with animals, was emotionally affected as we pitied the plight of the desperately hungry beasts on the banks of the Zambezi.

South Africa is about to be devoured by black vultures. The nation is dying or more precisely, it is being killed by its own leaders who will pick it to pieces like a flock of disgusting vultures.  But the U.S. media are silent and less so in the United Kingdom. Maybe, just maybe if the revolting affair is ignored, the vultures will go fly back to wherever vultures nest.

The mainstream press in the U.S. is once again silent after major politician Velaphi Khumalo, declared, “I want to cleanse this country of all white people…They deserved to be hacked and killed. You must be skinned alive and your children used as fertilizer.” The African National Congress (ANC) party member and government official was forced to apologize and pay a fine for his incendiary threat. He was suspended with full salary but is now back to work—a paid vacation. This case has been a major issue for about two years in South Africa but U.S. media seem to be so busy with a possible “Russian collusion” that they don’t have enough ink or media time to deal with the death of South Africa.

The U.S. media has also been silent about the president of a South African political party who called for the deaths of white people. Andile Mngxitama is the president of South Africa’s socialist Black First Land First Party (BFL) and it is shocking that he is not in the hoosegow. He yelled, “You kill one of us, we kill five white people,” at a Saturday rally where he called for revolution. “We kill their children, we kill their women, we kill their dogs, we kill their cats, we kill anything we find in our way.”

Andile is a real sweetheart.

Another BFL official, Lindsay Maasdorp, stated his views reflecting his party’s belief that all white people in South Africa are criminals by virtue of their existence.

Why would anyone think South Africa is on a suicidal road to destruction?

The sky is dark over South Africa as vultures, buzzards, and other birds of prey are gathering for a feast.

In a social media post, Mampuru Mampuru, a member of the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, called for white genocide in his country. Mampuru wrote in his own vernacular, “We need to Unite as black People, there are less than 5 millions white in South Africa vs 45 million of us. We can kill all this white within two weeks. We have the army and the police. If those who are killing farmers can do it what are you waiting for. Shoot the boer, kill the farmer.”

Here was another public call to kill all white people in South Africa and the media is silent.
He also said, “Who is the devil? A white man is the devil.” Again, he wrote, “It’s time our people organize n kill wives, sons n daughters of any white USA police officer.” Showing his twisted knowledge of history, he wrote, “Never shall we forget how white people took our land away from our great grandfather’s. when time is right we will implement ‘Dubull_bhunu.’ [shoot, shoot] All white are evil.”

Such irresponsible racism was only encouraged when they heard their President Jacob Zuma singing the genocide song himself, leading a crowd in a musical chant, “We are going to shoot them with machine guns, they are going to run . . . The cabinet will shoot them, with the machine gun . . . Shoot the Boer, we are going to hit them, they are going to run.” The high court has declared the song a hate crime (oh, really) but it is impossible to charge thousands of people who sing it at political rallies. And when the song leader is the president.

Deputy Minister of Higher Education Mduduzi Manana, a member of the ruling African National Congress, declared on the floor of Parliament during a discussion of the killing of white farmers, “Bury them alive.”

Black thugs are listening and following their orders.

“My grandfather says a good farmer is a dead farmer,” declared Jason Mfusi the leader of the South African Students Congress of the North-West University. The Times of London reported in 2014 that four thousand white farmers have already been killed, and five are being killed each week.

Mseleni Mogolwane Gwabeni, who is a member of police force in Port Elizabeth, declared, “then we must continue to kill more of their farmers at least to make up for what they did to us.” Policeman Chris Gumotso, who works at the South African Police Service youth crime prevention desk placed the following on Facebook: “All white man…deserve to die…in future..f*©k u..Mr white man.”

The sky gets darker every day.

Julius Malema, Member of Parliament and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) commented, “The time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice. We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land.” He told his supporters he was “not calling for the slaughter of white people—at least for now.”

On Nov. 26, 2018, Malema “launched a brazen attack on ANC leaders (who had expelled him from the ANC), referring to them as “baboons.” Well, they may be thugs, thieves, and tyrants but they are not baboons. However, when you watch the televised sitting of their parliament and watch the fistfights and chaos on the floor, you might agree that baboons don’t act that way.

The nation’s first black president Nelson Mandela promised jobs and homes but he and his successors failed to keep the promise. Millions of poor Blacks have stood in line for years waiting for homes that cannot be produced. They are tired of waiting; and hunger and fear make their frustrations turn to dangerous anger.

What is usually overlooked by the media is that there are about half a million Whites living in abject poverty along with millions of Blacks. Now that the nation has been “liberated,” the Blacks have priority over Whites. Blacks don’t envy starving Whites, but they cast lustful eyes toward white farmers. I have seen posters warning white land owners, “Everything you have is ours. We’re coming for it.”

So, every problem of Blacks is blamed on apartheid; however, honest Blacks know this is not true. Even The New York Times did an article recently stating, “The African National Congress, always a Communist political party, has controlled South Africa since the ascension of Mandela in 1994.” The ANC is run by thugs, thieves, and tyrants, but internecine fighting has erupted into one faction putting murder contracts on others. The thieves are killing each other.

Since the once prosperous nation is swiftly moving into chaos, the now black-controlled government (remember how terrible it was for the government to be white-controlled) recently voted overwhelmingly to take land owned by whites without compensation and give it to Blacks. In polite circles, that is known as thievery but now it is legal thievery.

White farmers in South Africa go back to the 1600s when their white ancestors drained the swamps, leveled the jungle, dispensed with malaria and other diseases, and build roads, railroads, homes, hospitals, airports, schools, and modern infrastructure whereby South Africa became a great nation—until greedy Blacks (with some greedy Whites) stole everything that wasn’t nailed down.

On March 23, 2018, the Daily Mail reported that white farmers in South Africa “have the most dangerous job in the country, are twice as likely to be murdered than police and are killed at four times the rate of the wider community, a rights group claims. …Some of the killings are reported to have been barbaric, with farm owners tortured, raped, burned alive and slaughtered in front of their families.”

The conditions are ripe for revolution as millions of Blacks and Whites are hungry, out of work, and living in shanties as they watch ANC leaders living in gated mansions, driving around in expensive Mercedes from which they dispense fistfuls of money out of their trunk to the low level thugs.

It is one thing to browbeat and dismiss even half a million starving Whites but it is another thing to take land from white farmers and do so without compensation. White farmers are well armed and will fight. Gangs of black thugs have attacked hundreds of white farms killing as many as five per week. The farmers are taking measures to resist the “legal” taking of their land. They have organized, strategized, and regularly practice weapon handling.

They have vowed not to go quietly into the dark night.

The sky over South Africa is dark with birds of prey—waiting—more aware than the U.S., England, and the United Nations that weeks of feasting on the decaying flesh of hundreds of thousands of people is imminent—Blacks and Whites.

Boys’ book, Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! is available; to get your copy, click here. An eBook edition is also available.

Walls Work — and Democrats Know It

By Deroy Murdock
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Muslim Brotherhood in America: “Infiltration,
Information Operations, Subversion on a Grand Scale”

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‘Shame’: Victor Davis Hanson delivers scathing indictment of failed ‘coup’

By World Tribune on February 20, 2019

by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2019

The first “coup” in U.S. history in which government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president has failed, a columnist noted.

“Not thugs in sunglasses and epaulettes, not oligarchs in private jets, not shaggy would-be Marxists, but sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats in suits and ties used their government agencies to seek to overturn the 2016 election, abort a presidency, and subvert the U.S. Constitution,” Victor Davis Hanson wrote on Feb. 17 in an op-ed titled ‘Autopsy of a Dead Coup’ for the Center for American Greatness.

‘A host of the Washington hierarchy lied under oath, obstructed justice, illegally leaked to the press, unmasked and leaked names of surveilled Americans, and misled federal courts under the guise of a ‘higher loyalty’ to the cause of destroying Donald J. Trump.’ / Getty Images

“And they did all that and more on the premise that they were our moral superiors and had uniquely divine rights to destroy a presidency that they loathed,” Hanson wrote.

The effort by the Hillary Clinton campaign “to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed,” Hanson noted.

“So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history.”

Hanson continued: “The deep state is by nature cowardly. It does not move unless it feels it can disguise its subterranean efforts or that, if revealed, those efforts will be seen as popular and necessary – as expressed in tell-all book titles such as fired FBI Directors James Comey’s Higher Loyalty or in disgraced Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s psychodramatic The Threat.

“In candidate and President Trump’s case that prepping of the battlefield translated into a coordinated effort among the media, political progressives and celebrities to so demonize Trump that his imminent removal likely would appear a relief to the people. Anything was justified that led to that end.”

Hanson noted that “Journalists themselves consulted with the Clinton campaign to coordinate attacks. From the WikiLeaks trove, journalistic grandees such as John Harwood, Mark Leibovich, Dana Milbank, and Glenn Thrush often communicated (and even post factum were unapologetic about doing so) with John Podesta’s staff to construct various anti-Trump themes and have the Clinton campaign review or even audit them in advance.

“Some contract ‘journalists’ apparently were paid directly by Fusion GPS – created by former reporters Glen Simpson of the Wall Street Journal and Susan Schmidt of the Washington Post – to spread lurid stories from the dossier. Others more refined like Christiane Amanpour and James Rutenberg had argued for a new journalistic ethos that partisan coverage was certainly justified in the age of Trump, given his assumed existential threat to The Truth.”

Or as Rutenberg put it in 2016: “If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional. That’s uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, non-opinion journalist I’ve ever known, and by normal standards, untenable. But the question that everyone is grappling with is: Do normal standards apply? And if they don’t, what should take their place?”

Hanson wrote: “I suppose Rutenberg never considered that half the country might have considered the Hillary Clinton presidency ‘potentially dangerous,’ and yet did not expect the evening news, in 90 percent of its coverage, to reflect such suspicions.”

CNN “soon proved that it is no longer a news organization at all – as reporters like Gloria Borger, Chris Cuomo, Eric Lichtblau, Manu Raju, Brian Rokus, Jake Tapper, Jeff Zeleny, and teams such as Jim Sciutto, Carl Bernstein, and Marshall Cohen as well as Thomas Frank, and Lex Harris all trafficked in false rumors and unproven gossip detrimental to Trump, while hosts and guest hosts such as Reza Aslan, the late Anthony Bourdain, and Anderson Cooper stooped to obscenity and grossness to attack Trump,” Hanson wrote.

“Both politicos and celebrities tried to drive Trump’s numbers down to facilitate some sort of popular ratification for his removal. Hollywood and the coastal corridor punditry exhausted public expressions of assassinating or injuring the president, as the likes of Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro, Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and a host of others vied rhetorically to slice apart, shoot, beat up, cage, behead, and blow up the president.

“Left wing social media and mainstream journalism spread sensational lies about supposed maniacal Trump supporters in MAGA hats. They constructed fantasies that veritable white racists were now liberated to run amuck insulting and beating up people of color as they taunted the poor and victimized minorities with vicious Trump sloganeering – even as the Covington farce and now the even more embarrassing Jussie Smollett charade evaporated without apologies from the media and progressive merchants of such hate.”

During the 2016 election, “the Obama Department of Justice warped the Clinton email scandal investigation, from Bill Clinton’s secret meeting on an airport tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, to unethical immunity given to the unveracious Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to James Comey’s convoluted predetermined treatment of “likely winner” Clinton, and to DOJ’s Bruce Ohr’s flagrant conflict of interests in relation to Fusion GPS,” Hanson wrote.

“About a dozen FBI and DOJ grandees have now resigned, retired, been fired, or reassigned for unethical and likely illegal behavior – and yet have not faced criminal indictments. The reputation of the FBI as venerable agency is all but wrecked. Its administrators variously have libeled the Trump voters, expressed hatred for Trump, talked of “insurance policies” in ending the Trump candidacy, and inserted informants into the Trump campaign.

“The former Obama directors of the CIA and National Intelligence, with security clearances intact, hit the television airways as paid ‘consultants’ and almost daily accused the sitting president of Russian collusion and treason – without cross-examination or notice that both previously had lied under oath to Congress (and did so without subsequent legal exposure), and both were likely knee-deep in the dissemination of the Steele dossier among Obama administration officials.”

Hanson continued: “John Brennan’s CIA likely helped to spread the Fusion GPS dossier among elected and administrative state officials. Some in the NSC in massive and unprecedented fashion requested the unmasking of surveilled names of Trump subordinates, and then illegally leaked them to the press.

“The FISA courts, fairly or not, are now mostly discredited, given they either were willingly or naively hoodwinked by FBI and DOJ officials who submitted as chief evidence for surveillance on American citizens, an unverified dossier – without disclosure that the bought campaign hit-piece was paid for by Hillary Clinton, authored by a discredited has-been British agent, relied on murky purchased Russian sources, and used in circular fashion to seed news accounts of supposed Trump misbehavior.”

The “Crown Jewel” of the coup, Hanson noted, “was the appointment of special counsel Robert Muller to discover supposed 2016 Trump-Russian election collusion. Never has any special investigation been so ill-starred from its conception.”

Mueller’s team “soon discovered there was no Trump-Russian 2016 election collusion – and yet went ahead to leverage Trump campaign subordinates on process crimes in hopes of finding some culpability in Trump’s past 50-year business, legal, and tax records.”

While it has failed to prove “collusion,” the Mueller probe “succeeded brilliantly in two ways,” Hanson wrote.

“The ‘counterintelligence’ investigation subverted two years of the Trump presidency by constant leaks that Trump soon would be indicted, jailed, disgraced, or impeached. As a result, Trump’s stellar economic and foreign policy record would never earn fifty percent of public support.

“Second, Mueller’s pre-emptive attacks offered an effective offensive defense for the likely felonious behavior of John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, Peter Strzok, and a host of others. While the Mueller lawyers threatened to destroy the lives of bit players like Jerome Corsi, George Papadopoulos, and Roger Stone, they de facto provided exemption to a host of the Washington hierarchy who had lied under oath, obstructed justice, illegally leaked to the press, unmasked and leaked names of surveilled Americans, and misled federal courts under the guise of a ‘higher loyalty’ to the cause of destroying Donald J. Trump.”

Hanson concluded: “Shame on all these failed conspirators and their abettors, and may these immoral people finally earn a long deserved legal and moral reckoning.”

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💥Mr. Reagan Devastates Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez with Facts 💥

No notes, no teleprompter…prepared, lucid, organized.  He defends Capitalism
an debunks the mythology of fascism, who created it, and instigated this into
American Society.  A good investment of your time.

Pastor Umar Mulinde was viciously attack by Islamist on Christmas Eve 2011,
the attacks resulted in Pastor Mulinde being doused with acid poured
over his head. The the attack was  in retaliation for Pastor Mulinde  
converting from Islam to Christianity, and eventually converting a
flock of people that followed him.

THIS IS HIS STORY.

On Christmas Eve 2011, two Muslim terrorists threw acid in the face of Ugandan Pastor Umar Mulinde. This video shares his amazing story of coming to faith, reaching other Muslims and how he ended up in Israel to receive medical treatment. Maoz Israel and our partners are paying for his hotel and meals, while he receives outpatient medical treatment in Tel Aviv. If you would like to help this dear man of God, you can go to www.MaozIsrael.org/Mulinde to make a contribution. Please pray for Pastor Umar, that he will know the next step for him and his family in their journey with Yeshua.

PENTAGON MOVES FORWARD ON TRANSGENDER BAN:

If you missed it last night while you were watching The Bachelor finale, the Pentagon is implementing its policy to ban most transgender people from serving in the military.

A memo signed Tuesday night by acting Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist says the policy will go into effect on April 12.

Under the policy, transgender people who join after it takes effect will have to serve in the gender they were assigned at birth. Service secretaries will be allowed to grant waivers on a case-by-case basis.

The specifics: The policy will grandfather in currently serving transgender troops or anyone who has already signed an enlistment contract, allowing them to continue serving openly.

But after April 12, people diagnosed with gender dysphoria will not be able to serve unless a doctor certifies they have been stable in their biological sex for 36 months, have not transitioned to the gender they identify with and are willing to serve in their biological sex.

If they are diagnosed after they join the military, they have to continue serving in their biological sex.

Troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria can be discharged if they are “unable or unwilling to adhere to all applicable standards, including the standards associated with their biological sex,” the memo says.

Pentagon says it’s not a ban: In a background call with reporters Wednesday, defense officials repeatedly insisted the policy is not a ban.

They point to the fact that currently serving transgender troops can continue doing so and that only transgender people diagnosed with gender dysphoria will be barred from enlisting.

“Merely identifying as transgender has no practical military consequence,” an official said.

“I really don’t get any logic to how this gets you to this is a ban on transgender service,” the official added later.

But transgender people and their advocates say it effectively is a ban akin to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” By saying transgender people can serve if they haven’t been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and serve in their biological sex, the argument goes, the Pentagon is effectively saying transgender people can serve if they hide who they are.

Congress reacts: Democratic lawmakers slammed the Pentagon starting Tuesday night and into Wednesday for moving forward on the policy.

“These tough, brave service members have never used bone spurs as an excuse to dodge their duty and service to our country,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said in a statement Tuesday night. “We owe them our gratitude, not government-sanctioned discrimination. This policy is malicious, demeaning, and destructive and it does not serve our country’s interests. I will fight it with every fiber of my being.”

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said “it would be prudent” for Shanahan to delay implementing the policy until courts have made final rulings on it.

“Any other course of action not only undermines military readiness, but is also an insult to transgender individuals who have served and are still serving with distinction,” he said in his statement. “Anyone who is qualified and willing should be allowed to serve their country openly. Make no mistake, this is a discriminatory ban on transgender people, not a ban on a medical condition and we will continue to fight against this bigoted policy.”

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) similarly said “the Pentagon should not move forward with this discriminatory and potentially unlawful plan to ban highly-qualified and skilled individuals from serving their country. ”

“There are thousands of transgender Americans serving in our Armed Forces today with courage, honor, and distinction,” Reed said in his statement. “Our troops defend the rights and freedoms of all Americans. We must not allow bigotry to impede our military’s critical mission.”

“The president’s revival of his bigoted, disgusting ban on transgender service members is a stunning attack on the patriots who keep us safe and on the most fundamental ideals of our nation,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in her own statement. “No one with the strength and bravery to serve in the U.S. military should be turned away because of who they are. The House will continue to fight this discriminatory action, which has no place in our country. We will never allow hate and prejudice to dictate our national security.”