Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib cast her vote against a bill requiring an annual report to Congress for cartel smuggling tunnels under the border. Interestingly enough, she was the ONLY person to vote “no” on the bill.

The bill, known as H.R. 495, passed the House on Monday with a whopping 402-1 vote.

“I thought for sure everyone was gonna vote yes on my bill this evening,” bill sponsor Rep. Eli Crane wrote on X following the vote. “402-1 is still pretty solid though.”

I thought for sure everyone was gonna vote yes on my bill this evening.

402-1 is still pretty solid though. https://t.co/UWEbzHXUgO

— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) March 11, 2025

As reported by Breitbart:

On Monday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Subterranean Border Defense Act (H.R. 495). The bill simply requires an annual report to Congress from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the activities of cartels creating tunnels for drug and human smuggling and actions taken by the U.S. to stop them.

“Since 1990, officials have discovered more than 140 tunnels that have breached the border, with an 80% increase in tunnel activity since 2008,” Crane said on the House floor. “As transnational criminal organizations continue to grow in both size and sophistication, illicit cross-border tunnels along the southwest border of the United States represent a significant and growing threat to national security.”

Democrat co-sponsor Lou Correra (C-CA) also spoke on the bill, saying, “I believe this bill is an important step in the right direction.”

No one spoke against the bill. In a rare bipartisan moment, 194 Democrats joined 208 Republicans in voting for the bill. The undervote came as ten Republicans and 19 Democrats abstained from voting. Tlaib cast the only “Nay.”

In addition to Crane, the bill was co-sponsored by the following:

• Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-CA-46]
• Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
• Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9]
• Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
• Rep. Luttrell, Morgan [R-TX-8]
• Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
• Rep. Guest, Michael [R-MS-3]
• Rep. Gillen, Laura [D-NY-4]

Now the bill will go to Senate for a vote.

The Canadian liberal party has finally given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the boot, quickly replacing him with veteran central bank leader Mark Carney. The decision was swift after Trudeau attempted to play ball with the big boys, and challenged President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The former Goldman Sachs executive emerged victorious with almost 85 percent of the votes over opponent Chrystia Freeland, who was the former deputy prime minister who infamously seized bank accounts from COVID-19 protesters in 2022. 

Trending Politics News reports:

It is unclear exactly when Carney will take office as Canada’s prime minister. The process will be underway immediately as Carney will work in conjunction with Trudeau’s office on transition efforts.

Carney will take the reins of Canada’s Liberal Party amidst a significant polling slump that has persisted for several months. Opposition parties have become increasingly eager to call an election as the Conservative Party has polled neck-and-neck with the liberals in recent weeks.

Carney’s government could be toppled by Parliament to call for a new national election, which can be called any time between the Parliament going back into session on March 24 and October 20, by which time a vote must be held.

We knew a transition would be coming eventually. However, the timeline was questionable, as Trudeau announced in January that he would be stepping down, but then proceeded to act as if he was not going torsion.

A general election is expected to be called in late April or early May, and Carney told members of his party that they should be ready to fight  “the most important election of our lives” where the “stakes have never been higher.”

“Canada will not bow down to a bully. We won’t stand by as illegal U.S. tariffs hurt our workers and their families. As Canadians, we need to face this challenge as one united team,” Carney declared of Trump’s imposed tariffs on Canadian products.