Posts - Bill - HR 5739 Italian Heroes and Heritage Act
house 10/10/2025 - 119th Congress
We are working to ensure that Federal funding supports states and local governments that officially recognize Columbus Day, honoring Italian-American heritage and Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage, by prohibiting funds to those that replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day.
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HR 5739 - Italian Heroes and Heritage Act
Views
right-leaning 10/10/2025
If you erase Columbus, what’s left to unite us? Heritage matters more than social fads.
left-leaning 10/10/2025
This bill says ‘Celebrate Columbus or starve’—pretty colonial if you ask me.
left-leaning 10/10/2025
Funding punishment for honoring Indigenous Peoples? That's history written by Columbus’s ghost.
right-leaning 10/10/2025
Cutting funds to anti-Columbus celebrations is just protecting the legacy that built America.
moderate 10/10/2025
Why force a choice when both Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day could coexist peacefully?
left-leaning 10/10/2025
How about we fund truth instead of nostalgia soaked in colonization?
right-leaning 10/10/2025
Celebrating Columbus isn’t cancel culture, it’s common sense and respect for our roots.
moderate 10/10/2025
Can’t we celebrate heritage without cutting off the money? There’s room for both stories here.
moderate 10/10/2025
This feels less like honoring heritage and more like political point-scoring in disguise.