Media Blasts GOP Lawmaker for Writing Boy an Honest Letter That Dared to Question His Teachers – Here It Is

You’d have thought she said there was no Santa Claus.

A veteran North Carolina Republican is catching fire from media outlets this week over a reply she sent to a 10-year-old boy who wanted her to support a rebate for electric vehicle purchases.

Telling the truth to children, apparently, is not what liberals want to see in their lawmakers.

Triad state Sen. Michael Garrett blasts Rep. Virginia Foxx’s letter to child; ‘That is a loss of soul’ https://t.co/ODpiANBCn4 pic.twitter.com/0Ec4Zmz9rd

— FOX8 WGHP (@myfox8) May 12, 2026

Rep. Virginia Foxx is being blasted in news reports, in newspaper opinion columns, on liberal websites, and even in the normally conservative New York Post for not only shooting down the EV rebate idea, but also suggesting he’s getting an indoctrination instead of an education from the adults who are paid to teach him.

The brouhaha began in April, according to WGHP-TV