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The question of national party leadership remains in the balance as Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon battle to lead the Republican National Committee (RNC) heading into the 2024 election cycle.

President Joe Biden “was excited … to go after parents” with the FBI after receiving the National School Boards Association letter asking his administration to treat concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” and use the Patriot Act, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News.

Tuesday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) reacted to the Biden Department of Homeland Security using aspects of the Patriot Act to monitor individuals it deemed to be so-called domestic extremists and possibly subject those individuals to “no-fly lists.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with New Yorker Radio that DHS should be abolished and Americans want to take in refugees.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called the border wall proposal hammered out by congressional negotiators a “big victory” for President Trump.

A California group is launching a controversial “No Sanctuary Campuses” campaign, calling for President Trump to defund any state university that declares itself a “sanctuary” and to prosecute state and university officials promoting “sanctuary” for criminal aliens as “secessionists.”

GOP presidential candidate former Hewett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina tells Breitbart News exclusively about the need for the government to engage the private sector in order to help protect American citizens from detected cyber and terrorist attacks.

He detailed the intended functions for each branch of government: executive, legislative and judicial. “Even if we have a President who happens to have a pen and a cell phone the executive branch doesn’t make the law,” Lee emphasized. As for the judicial branch, “it’s not their job to make the law either.”

The Senate voted 67-32 Tuesday afternoon to pass the House’s USA Freedom Act without any of the amendments offered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Sunday night, leading up to the expiration of the Patriot Act, U.S. Representative Thomas Massie joined Host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News’ Sunday radio program to discuss implications of the deadline passing and what to expect in the days ahead.

The Senate will move forward on to a vote today on the USA Freedom Act.

Many leading Republican presidential contenders are gathering at Walt Disney World today for an “Economic Growth Summit” organized by Gov. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) political committee, Let’s Get to Work.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) stance on the Patriot Act and the NSA’s bulk surveillance isn’t playing well with colleagues in his own party, but it has definitely made him more recognized on social media.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a 2016 GOP presidential candidate who just single-handedly took down the National Security Agency (NSA) bulk data collection program by blocking reauthorization of the Patriot Act, is out with a new campaign ad on Monday evening detailing what he did and how.

Over the weekend, three provisions of the Patriot Act expired thanks to the machinations of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). That expiration drew the ire of major political figures from both sides of the aisle.

Rand Paul has planted his flag on some difficult ground, and quite frankly, successful presidential candidates don’t throw themselves into heavy intra-party fire and sustain major political wounds to prove ideological points. Perhaps he would do well to reconstruct his argument to emphasize the libertarian points where more of the Republican Party agrees with him, and more of the ever-shifting middle of the American electorate would be willing to listen.

Rubio echoed what McConnell said by calling Paul’s actions against the PATRIOT Act the “reckless spreading of misinformation and political posturing,” according to TampaBay.com.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) pushed his alternative to the Patriotic Act, which just expired and its reauthorization has been hindered by the actions of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016

“On a matter as critical as our national security, individual Senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement last night. “The American people deserve nothing less.”

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) – a vocal opponent of the USA Patriot Act – said Sunday evening during Senate debates that the House’s USA Freedom Act, which slightly alters the original Patriot Act, will “ultimately pass” but that he hopes tonight ends the bulk collection process.

President Obama said that some US Senators opposing the USA Freedom Act “are trying to use this debate to score political points” during Saturday’s Weekly Address.  Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. As President and Commander in Chief, my greatest responsibility

Sen. Rand Paul’s America’s Liberty Super PAC is out with a new ad attacking Sen. Ted Cruz as a “Canadian” who supports President Obama on domestic surveillance extensions in the Patriot Act.

New Jersey Governor  and prospective Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie defended the Patriot Act and criticized Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul’s ISIS remarks as not “backed up by any type of fact” in an interview set to air

Wisconsin Governor and prospective GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker expressed his disagreement with Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul on ISIS and the NSA on Thursday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Walker began

“I strongly urge the Senate to work through this recess and identify a way to get this done,” Obama told reporters after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, encouraging them to pass the House version of the USA Freedom Act.

Representative Peter King (R-NY) criticized Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul for being “consumed by the NSA” and making it “the villain” “when it’s Al Qaeda, it’s ISIS, it’s this whole array of Islamist terrorists we’re against” on

Republican Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) hinted the Senate would vote for a short-term extension on three of the U.S. spy programs within the Patriot Act Friday, Bloomberg Politics reports.

Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that “part of the solution” to fighting ISIS “would be Assad going into exile” on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead.” “There’s a couple things I would do. One, I would

Chris Christie argues that while some critics criticize law enforcement for using the Patriot Act, he is the only potential candidate who actually has the experience of what the law actually does.

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the reason he is fighting against the mass data collection of phone records of American citizens  is because it is not being used to combat terrorism like promised.

Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that the NSA’s broad surveillance “is what our Founding Fathers fought the Revolution over” on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Rand said, “This is what our Founding Fathers fought

At the end of his filibuster that lasted nearly 12 hours, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got some last-minute support from one of his fellow GOP U.S. Senators running for president: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

The PATRIOT Act filibuster that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) led on Wednesday evening has proven one big thing: That his colleague from Kentucky, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, agrees with his predecessor that there shouldn’t be open process or debate when the Senate considers major pieces of legislation.

Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz praised fellow presidential candidate and Senator Rand Paul’s (KY) speech against the renewal of the Patriot Act on Wednesday. Cruz began, “I would note he [Rand Paul] and I agree on a great

Sen. Paul’s team has provided Breitbart News with the entire second hour transcript from Sen. Paul’s remarks, and video of them. He’s now been speaking for more than four hours.

Sen. Rand Paul’s team has provided Breitbart News with a transcript of his first full hour of the filibuster, which is now close to entering its third hour and has bipartisan support. Here’s a video and transcript, courtesy of Sen. Paul’s office.