What did John McGuire do this week? 3/29/25

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Based on McGuire’s social media posts from the past week, he:

Discussed the importance of funding

• aircraft carriers

Did not discuss the importance of funding

• Medicaid for our 160,000+ neighbors in VA-5 who depend on it for their health care

• Local food for schools and food banks in the face of a $21 million cut in funding from USDA

• The 109 schools in VA-5 that will lose federal money that pays for teachers and after-school programs over the next decade

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Celebrated

• the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Iwo Jima

• Marines who rescued a motorcyclist in California

• the arrest of an unnamed alleged leader of MS-13 in Virginia

• Medal of Honor Day

• the return of a Georgia man held hostage by the Taliban for two years

• the life of helicopter pilot Paul Jackson

• the opening of a new nuclear energy research facility in Lynchburg

• President Trump’s endorsement of him

• the arrest of 370 allegedly undocumented people in Massachusetts

• the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech

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Co-sponsored

• a bill to repeal the estate tax, currently on track to affect 1 percent of family farms in the United States in 2026

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Criticized

• Democrats for forgetting “We the People” and putting “America last”

• “radical left judges who could very well lead to the destruction of our Country!”

• the federal government for spending $18 million a month to maintain an empty facility in Texas, though the nonprofit involved was contractually obligated to keep it open

Did not criticize

• President Trump for costing taxpayers at least $18 million for his golf trips in the first two months of his term, though he is not contractually obligated to play golf

• The Vice President, Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and other administration officials for exposing American troops to risk by using Signal to make battle plans without knowing who was on the text chain

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Met

• future aviators at the Liberty University School of Aeronautics

• “good friend” Riley Gaines at Liberty University, celebrating her efforts to keep out the .0005 percent of athletes who are trans women

• President Trump in the White House along with other freshman Republicans

• members of the Danville Police Department

• the National Apartment Association to discuss housing challenges in Virginia

Did not meet

• constituents at a town hall. It’s been 31 days.

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Quoted

• “One day, they will limit your freedoms, rewrite your history, compromise your safety—all to appease those who see themselves as victims but fail to understand the consquences of their ignorance.” — Ronald Reagan

Did not quote

• Reuters finding no evidence that Ronald Reagan ever said this

Or recognize

• the irony of a Trump supporter complaining about other people limiting freedoms, rewriting history, and compromising safety

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Voted to lift regulations on

• refrigerants in commercial freezers

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Posed for a photo-op on

• a Danville police motorcycle

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Backed

• President Trump’s threat to imprison people for 20 years in El Salvador for vandalizing Teslas

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Advocated for

• Confederate soldier John Mosby to be reinstated in the National Ranger Memorial at Fort Benning

Did not advocate for

• Social Security recipients in his district who nearly lost the ability to get help with their benefits over the phone

• constituents who are paying more for cars and other items because of President Trump’s tariffs

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Promoted

• his appearance on One America News to discuss his visit to the southern border

Did not promote

• his membership in the unpopular DOGE caucus

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Tweeted

• “America!”