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Denton’s members of Congress just helped ram through the Rescissions Act of 2025, a $9 billion claw‑back that squeaked by 216‑213 in the House and 51‑48 in the Senate. Zero Democrats and only 2 Republicans dissented, making this the most nakedly partisan budget rollback in a generation. This bill is a gut-punch to North Texas. The package zeroes‑out $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - the money that keeps KERA, KNTU, KXT, and hundreds of small‑town stations on the air. CPB is more than “Sesame Street”; it’s tornado warnings, boil‑water notices and wildfire evacuations for people who don’t have fiber or even decent cell service. These cuts are “devastating… especially to smaller stations and those serving large rural areas. - PBS President Paula Kerger". You didn’t trim fat - you slashed the last warning some North Texans hear when the sky goes green. This was also a blow to honest journalism. Pulling the plug on PBS and NPR isn’t “fiscal discipline”; it’s a muzzle on the only newsroom left in dozens of Texas counties. When you defund the journalists who still show up at school‑board meetings, city councils, and flooding creek beds, you hand the microphone to rumor mills and social media click‑farms. You can’t wave the 1st Amendment with one hand while strangling it with the other. This bill also abandoned allies and continued feeding the federal chaos. It strips nearly $8 billion from humanitarian and democracy programs - money for refugee shelters, disaster relief and efforts that keep fragile states from collapsing into China’s waiting arms. Cutting that lifeline doesn’t make America safer; it makes the world louder, hungrier, and angrier at us. When America leaves a vacuum, Beijing doesn’t politely wait its turn while we figure things out. This bill torches decades of bipartisanship and the budget books. This rescission overrides spending Congress ALREADY PASSED on a bipartisan basis, surrendering the power of the purse to White House whim. And for what? To “save” 0.15 % of the debt - barely a rounding error next to the $3.3 trillion debt‑ballooning tax bill Congress approved weeks ago. Fiscal responsibility isn’t a virtue when you practice it only on programs you dislike. Denton deserves leaders who fight for community safety, fact‑based journalism, rural connectivity and a stable, principled foreign policy - not headline‑grabbing cuts that hurt neighbors and help no one. I ask each of you to look past the applause lines and consider the families, farmers, students and small‑town broadcasters you’ve left twisting in the wind. Because if the only budget you’re willing to cut is the one that educates kids and warns parents when the levee breaks, then this vote wasn’t about stewardship - it was about self‑preservation and political careerism. We see it. We won’t forget it. And we’ll make sure North Texas doesn’t either.