Congressman Cline: Do you mean an increase in the poverty-level minimum wage? A law making it easier for workers to unionize without fear and endless delays so they can bargain for higher wages? Helping working parents obtain affordable childcare? Reinstating the child tax credit that lifted millions of children out of poverty?

You and your fellow Republicans oppose all these policies.

Can we get some of our Roanoke readers to attend this event?

According to Congressman Cline: “I look forward to seeing you there and answering your questions!” There’s no shortage of questions. Make sure to record his answers.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1087217971219?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sorry, Congressman Cline. Look like your sleazy friend and campaign donor whose nomination for Attorney General you praised on Tuesday is out on Thursday.

Ben Cline and his pal Matt Gaetz at a CPAC conference in 2021

Despite being credibly accused of having sex with at least one underaged girl and being an all-around scumbag, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, has received the support of his pal Congressman Cline.

“He is a warrior against the weaponization of the Justice Department and the lawfare that’s been waged by the Biden administration,” Cline argued. “So, he knows exactly what has to happen to the Justice Department to fix it.”

Although Cline has expressed support for some of Trump’s appointments on his X account, he hasn’t said a word on his social media about the nomination of the utterly unqualified Gaetz. So I am pleased to help him get this information to his Sixth District constituents, whether he likes it or not.

As previously reported here, Cline received a generous $2,000 donation for his 2020 election campaign from his buddy.

Can we get some of our Harrisonburg readers to attend this event?

According to Congressman Cline: “I look forward to seeing you there and answering your questions!” There’s no shortage of questions. Make sure to record his answers.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1087223878889?aff=oddtdtcreator

Axios reports:

Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) was elected to serve as the next chairman of the Republican Study Committee on Friday, edging out Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) in an 80-57 vote.

Why it matters: The position has served as a springboard to bigger roles for numerous House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), former Vice President Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Sen.-elect Jim Banks (R-Ind.).

May this be a precedent for the 2026 election in the Sixth District of Virginia.

I’m pleased Congressman Cline got some attention for this:

Incoming Department of Government Efficiency head and world’s richest man Elon Musk has proposed cutting $2 trillion in government spending—more than Congress’s entire discretionary budget. But some of Donald Trump’s key allies don’t see anything wrong with that picture.

In an interview with Fox Business on Friday, Virginia Representative Ben Cline claimed that it “absolutely is” possible to slash that much cash from the budget.

“We can do it, and make sure that we focus funding toward the American people and not toward bureaucracy in Washington,” Cline said.

Just a reminder: Congress’s discretionary budget funds practically the entire executive branch, doling out funding for the military, national security, and federal agencies.

The key to this impossible feat, Cline suggests, is to cut “bureaucracy.”

“Give me one idea in terms of what’s significant that you think, ‘That’s got to go right away?’” asked Fox’s Maria Bartiromo. [Yes, her again.]

“Well let’s just look at the Department of Education and how billions of dollars stay in Washington, funding bureaucrats whose simple goal is to interfere in the decisions about educational choice at local and state levels,” Cline responded.

But that’s not an accurate picture of the DOE. The federal government provides 13.6 percent of funding for public K-12 education across the nation. In Virginia specifically, it spends $2,020 per pupil per year, providing approximately 12 percent of the state’s education funding, according to the Education Data Initiative.

How much of this is Cline prepared to cut from schools in the Sixth District? Or does he really believe that the bulk of federal spending on education goes to out-of-touch Washington bureaucrats?

This is one of many topics about which Cline needs to be asked, but somehow never is asked.