** A NEWSLETTER FROM HOUSTON YOUNG REPUBLICANS
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** SEPT 02
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the HYR newsletter, !

Welcome to this week’s (belated) newsletter! We hope you had a relaxing and refreshing Labor Day, and carried out your patriotic duty by watching several hours of college football over the long weekend.

REMINDER: The Texas Young Republican Convention is September 19-21, and you can purchase your tickets here! ([link removed]) Ticket sales end in 9 days as of writing! We hope to see each and every one of you at convention this year, and don’t hesitate to reply to this email (or email us at [email protected]), or DM us on IG or X if you have any questions!

We break it down below.


** Matt Murphy
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** Political Director
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** Federal Shutdown Imminent?
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Funding for federal agencies expires on Oct. 1st, and Congress has less than two weeks in Session to avert a shutdown. It’s impossible they’ll pass the 12 necessary pending spending bills by then; at this point it appears more likely than not that some sort of government shutdown is on the way. A CR (continuing resolution, i.e. continuance of the current operational budget) will be the only way to avoid that, which begs a few questions.

How long will the CR Congress whips up extend through? A couple months? A year? The White House would be fine with a lengthy CR given they got most of their initial priorities enshrined into the budget during reconciliation, but Congressional Appropriators (who set the formal budget) would be livid. We could even see a hybrid CR, where various (already queued up) budgetary packages are newly implemented while other funding buckets continue at their current baseline.

Another question: how do the House and Senate square their priorities and top line numbers? Proposed spending levels in the House are much more aggressive on cuts to entitlement programs than the Senate’s rendition.

The biggest question: how do party leaders in both chambers of Congress approach negotiations. As things go with Thune, Schumer, Jeffries, and Johnson, so goes federal funding. In summation, buckle up for a few interesting weeks on the horizon.


** The Best of the Rest
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* If you’re shocked and appalled to learn illegal aliens have been living in taxpayer funded Section 8 housing ([link removed]) , that makes at least two of us.
* Elon Musk, a staunch proponent of H-1B visas for tech workers, learned the hard way the perils of his political stance. A Chinese foreign national under his employ stole the source code to Twitter/X’s AI, before fleeing the country–but not before enriching himself to the tune of $7M dollars by selling his employing company’s stock. Yet another harsh and recent reminder that the H-1B visa program (effective foreign indentured servitude), is rife with corruption. ([link removed])
* Famous Democrat strategist/pollster Nate Silver published a memo decrying the fact that the liberal strategy of “going high when Republicans go low” has not yielded better electoral results. A reminder that prominent Democrats haven’t taken the moral high road since President Eisenhower ([link removed]) .
* A reminder to Democrat protestors heckling law enforcement, not all of them are ICE ([link removed]) , some of them arrest child sex offenders too.
* Longtime New York Democrat Congressman (and high waistband aficionado ([link removed]) ) Jerry Nadler is retiring. Early reporting indicates Chelsea Clinton is mulling a run for his seat. God help us.



** This Week in Texas: Campaigns, County Commissioners, and Communists
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We’ve covered in recent editions the already heated primary between incumbent Senator Cornyn and TX AG Paxton has been tightening in polling data. Cornyn has now cut Paxton’s once commanding double digit polling lead into a dead heat. That was before reporting was unveiled that Paxton might have committed mortgage fraud ([link removed]) .

Alex Mealer, former Republican candidate for Harris County Judge, announced her intent to run for Congress ([link removed]) , in the newly redrawn (shoutout the state legislature and Gov. Abbott) 9th District of Texas. Mealer is a West Point graduate, combat veteran, and Harvard educated lawyer. She’ll make for a formidable electoral opponent, but given the newly redrawn Congressional maps, will certainly field primary opponents.

This is sadly not satire, but the Harris County Commissioners Court–which oversees our county budget, and is currently running a budget deficit–decided it’d be an appropriate use of our taxpayer dollars to spend ~$470k to host the 2025 Gay Softball World Series ([link removed]) .

Speaking of County Commissioners, Democrat Rodney Ellis attended a fundraiser in Houston ([link removed]) for the communist candidate, and presumptive future mayor of NYC, Zohran Mandami. Mandami has promised to be a transformative, strong leader for America’s largest city–not literally of course, the man went viral for failing to bench press a paltry 135 lbs. the other day. ([link removed]) Context for our non-meat-head readers: if a relatively young grown man can’t even bench his own body weight, he’s unfit to carry the weight of significant public office.

Lastly, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett recently tapped into yet a higher tier of her fake accent schtick ([link removed]) . Reminder: she’s from Saint Louis and well educated (education is clearly not indicative of intelligence in her instance).


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Author: Matt Murphy, Political Director, Houston Young Republicans

Editor: Courtney Trevino, President, Houston Young Republicans

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