House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, are sticking to their pledge to slash spending before raising the federal debt ceiling.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen cautioned Congress not to prevent lifting the federal debt ceiling in a letter to McCarthy on Friday, arguing that raising the debt limit “doesn’t authorize new spending or cost taxpayers money.”

The Chair of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer of Kentucky, declared on CNN’s State of the Union, “We are hoping that the Senate, Dems and Republicans will agree on budget cutbacks. This has to come to an end.”

“We can’t continue to operate with such deficits,” he added. “Our country’s debt is one of the most serious dangers to our national security. China retains leverage over us due to the fundamental financial strength of their total economy against ours in terms of national debt.”

“In the midterm elections, Republicans were elected by the American people with a mandate,” Comer proclaimed. “We ran on the promise of being serious about budget reduction. As a result, the Senate will have to acknowledge that we will not budge until we see significant budget reform.”

“The debt ceiling will without a doubt going be a knife war,” Texas GOP Representative Tony Gonzales said on “Fox News Sunday.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy stated last week, “We do not want to put any budgetary difficulties through our economy. But fiscal difficulties would be continuing to operate business as normal. When Nancy Pelosi was House Speaker and Trump was President, there was a debt limit deal, and it was a two-year cap agreement to control expenditure and make those choices.”

“This is something that individuals have done,” he explained. “But I ask everyone of you and every American if you have a kid and you give them access to a credit card and they max the card out, then you extend the limit time after time, where does it end? We need to reform the way we squander money in this nation, and we’re going to ensure that happens.”

“To secure a debt ceiling, they also got a spending cap for the next couple of years,” McCarthy said. “Here, spending has gotten out of control. There has been no oversight at all, and we can’t continue in this manner.”

Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and other House Republicans are supporting legislation that would prohibit the United States from paying the World Health Organization.

The language of the proposal, according to a copy released by the Washington Examiner, declares that “the United States may not contribute any voluntary or assessed contributions to the World Health Organization.”

According to a news release, Roy was quoted as saying that “funneling millions of American taxpayer dollars to the fraudulent World Health Organization that supports the Chinese Communist Party is a huge slap in the face to the hardworking American people struggling under record high inflation and gas prices, and to all those whose lives and businesses were destroyed and damaged by the COVID pandemic.”

Despite the fact that there are some people in the United States who would be overjoyed by the possibility of reducing the amount of money given to the WHO by the United States government, it is highly unlikely that this idea would ever become law because Democrats control both the Senate and the White House. Roy has already proposed the legislation.

“The WHO not only advocates for abortion and gender ideology that is extremely radical on a daily basis, but it also commended China for their “leadership” at the start of COVID-19. The WHO has not taken any action to hold China accountable for the spread of COVID-19. It is long past time for Congress, like the Trump Administration, to exercise its veto authority to shut off US funding to this corrupt international agency,” Roy Stated, according to the press release.

Reps. Tom McClintock of California, Mary Miller of Illinois, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Paul Gosar of Arizona, John Moolenaar of Michigan, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Pat Fallon of Texas, Greg Steube of Florida and Wesley Hunt of Texas joined Roy in introducing the bill. The press release also includes the name “Huggins” of Louisiana, which appears to be a misspelling for Rep. Clay Higgins.

George Soros’ nonprofit organization, the Soros Network, has reportedly contributed roughly $21 billion to left-leaning parties since 2000, according to new disclosures, the Capital Research Center revealed.

The Soros Network, often known as the Open Society Network, is made up of numerous private foundations and nonprofit organizations that have been among the biggest financial benefactors of left-wing activists and politicians worldwide.

Soros’ organizations funneled $2.7 billion into different left-leaning charities in 2021 alone, a large portion of which went to “dark money” organizations where the money can no longer be traced.

The Open Society Policy Center, the main lobbying branch of the Soros Network, distributed over $577 million in awards in 2021.

According to updated 2021 filings, the Soros Network donated $36 million to Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm that distributes “black money” to numerous charities and people that “promote policy advocacy on structural change,” according to the CRC.

The New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund are just a few of the five NGOs that Arabella Advisors oversees. These organizations all act as incubators for leftist nonprofits.

Tides Advocacy received a $22 million grant from the Soros Network, another anonymous donor organization.

The Voter Registration Project got $4.5 million from the Soros Network in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections to register prospective Democratic voters.

The Way to Win Action Fund received an additional $20 million, of which $400,000 was used to support Democratic candidates in the January 2021 special election for the Georgia Senate.

Democrat Stacey Abrams received $2 million from the Soros Network for her advocacy of “voting rights and election administration” despite losing two straight contests for governor of Georgia.

The network contributed $21 million to NEO Philanthropy’s advocacy group, some of which was used to support “advocacy on Latinx rights and empowerment” and the registration of “historically underprivileged voters.”

The Soros Network contributed $30 million to the left-leaning lobbying organization America Votes, which dubbed itself “the largest grassroots voter mobilization operation in the country today.”

Given $2.5 million was Courier Newsroom, a media site that charges “right-wing media and political elites” with “purposefully propagating falsehoods.”

The network gave Color of Change, a project of the Obama administration, $17.5 million. Color of Change has launched various campaigns against conservative organizations while supporting government-run healthcare and the Green New Deal.

The Soros Network donated $21 million to Borealis Philanthropy, a group that engages in identity-interest campaigning and organizing.

The Wall Street Journal reported in November that Soros contributed $128 million to Democratic committees, making him the biggest donor in the midterm elections.

In an effort to influence global policy, George Soros and his nonprofits have given roughly $21 billion to left-leaning politicians and groups globally since 2000, according to the latest reporting from CRC.