Similar to HB1338 from last session, I filed the repeal of New Hampshire’s Selective Service Compliance Act. The current law forbids individuals from enrolling in college, or receiving financial assistance for that education, or ever being permitted to be employed by the state in any capacity unless they have registered in compliance with the Federal Selective Service Act.

As an Iraq war combat veteran, I’ve become incredibly skeptical of United States’ foreign policy of the last several decades – between destabilization of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, and the disregard for the lives of the Ukrainian and Russian conscripts dying for a proxy war at the behest of the military industrial complex puppet masters behind the Biden administration, and of course the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan that ultimately resulted in thousands of lives lost to transfer the country from the Taliban to the Taliban.

I no longer trust that bringing forth the draft would be in the best interests of the United States, especially at the expense of the lives of the next generation, and I will not allow New Hampshire to be a facilitator through coercion with the existing compliance act.

And from a federalism standpoint, it is simply not the role of New Hampshire to be enforcing Federal law. As such, I have filed a repeal of the existing statute.