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==Early life and education==
Britt was born Katie Elizabeth Boyd<ref name="SESun" /> on February 2, 1982, to Julian and Debra Boyd<ref>{{Cite web |author=[[Quin Hillyer]] |date=June 30, 2021 |title=Katie Britt is a bright new face in Alabama Senate race |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/katie-britt-is-a-bright-new-face-in-alabama-senate-race |access-date=May 10, 2022 |work=Washington Examiner}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet|number= 1488910873120882694|user=KatieBrittforAL|title=It's @KatieBoydBritt's birthday today! 🎉🎊🎂 Wish her a happy 40th below ⬇️ #alsen #alpolitics|date=February 2, 2022|access-date=May 10, 2022}}</ref> in [[Enterprise, Alabama]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brand |first=Carole |title=Enterprise Claims Proud Daughter: Katie Boyd wins first runner-up in America's Junior Miss |url=https://www.southeastsun.com/home/article_fcf3a903-1886-5123-ae4a-7d5e9224d1b5.html |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=The Southeast Sun |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> During her youth she worked at her family's business. Her family lived near [[Fort Novosel]] (formerly Fort Rucker) in [[Dale County, Alabama]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Lauren |title='We need new blood': U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Katie Britt speaks in Opelika |url=https://oanow.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/we-need-new-blood-u-s-senate-candidate-rep-katie-britt-speaks-in-opelika/article_76f9c96c-99a9-11ec-8452-e77de3aa7949.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=OANow.com |date=March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Her father owned a hardware store and later a boat dealership; her mother owned a dance studio.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lyman |first=Brian |title=Katie Boyd Britt wants to solve the state's problems, but is that what Alabama wants? |url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/07/26/katie-boyd-britt-us-senate-race-wants-solve-alabamas-problems-what-alabama-wants-richard-shelby/5310697001/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Montgomery Advertiser |language=en-US}}</ref> A graduate of [[Enterprise High School (Alabama)|Enterprise High School]], Britt was a cheerleader and
== Law and public affairs career ==
After she graduated from the University of Alabama,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://about.bgov.com/news/former-alabama-senate-staffer-gives-mo-brooks-run-for-his-money/|title=Former Alabama Senate Staffer Gives Mo Brooks Run for His Money|last=Oganovich|first=Nancy|work= Bloomberg Government|date=July 21, 2021|access-date=June 11, 2022}}</ref> Britt joined the staff of U.S. Senator [[Richard Shelby]] in May 2004 as deputy [[press secretary]]. She was promoted to press secretary there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://altoday.com/archives/27759-personnel-note-katie-britt-leaves-richard-shelbys-office-to-lead-business-council-of-alabama|title=Personnel note: Katie Britt leaves Richard Shelby's office to lead Business Council of Alabama|last= Patton|first=Elizabeth|work=Alabama Today|date=December 7, 2018|access-date=June 11, 2022}}</ref> In 2007, she left Shelby's staff and worked as a special assistant to University of Alabama president [[Robert Witt (academic administrator)|Robert Witt]]. At the University of Alabama School of Law, she participated in Tax [[Moot court|Moot Court]].<ref name="APR18">{{Cite web|url=https://www.alreporter.com/2018/12/07/shelbys-chief-of-staff-katie-britt-chosen-to-lead-business-council-of-alabama/|title=Shelby's Chief of Staff Katie Britt chosen to lead Business Council of Alabama|last=Moseley|first=Brandon|work=Alabama Political Reporter|date= December 7, 2018|access-date= June 11, 2022}}</ref>
After law school, Britt first worked at Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]].<ref name="APR18" /> When the firm shut down in March 2014, Britt and 17 former employees joined the Birmingham office of Butler Snow LLP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.al.com/spotnews/2014/03/turn_out_the_lights_birmingham.html|title=Turn out the lights: Birmingham's Johnston Barton Proctor and Rose law firm shutting down|last=Faulk|first=Kent|work= AL.com|date=March 5, 2014|access-date= June 11, 2022}}</ref> She started the firm's government affairs branch. In November 2015, Britt took a leave of absence from Butler Snow to return to Shelby's staff, working on his [[2016 United States Senate election in Alabama|reelection campaign]] as the deputy campaign manager and communications director.<ref name="Impact19">{{Cite web|url=https://yellowhammernews.com/katie-boyd-britt-is-a-2019-woman-of-impact/|title=Katie Boyd Britt is a 2019 Woman of Impact|last=Brown Hollis|first=Erin|work= Yellowhammer News|date=April 18, 2019|access-date=June 11, 2022}}</ref><ref name="LymanSolve">{{Cite web|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/07/26/katie-boyd-britt-us-senate-race-wants-solve-alabamas-problems-what-alabama-wants-richard-shelby/5310697001/|title=Katie Boyd Britt wants to solve the state's problems, but is that what Alabama wants?|last=Lyman|first=Brian|work=The Montgomery Advertiser|date=July 25, 2021|access-date=June 11, 2022}}</ref>
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==== Response to 2024 State of the Union address ====
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?534120-1/republican-response-state-union-address Republican Response to the State of the Union Address, March 7, 2024], [[C-SPAN]]}}
On March 7, 2024, Britt gave the Republican [[response to the State of the Union address|response]] to President [[Joe Biden]]'s [[2024 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]], which he delivered earlier that night. She criticized Biden's policies on immigration and the economy, called Biden "dithering and diminished", and said that Republicans "strongly support continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pecorin |first1=Allison |title='Nightmare': Sen. Katie Britt paints bleak picture of America in Republican response to Biden |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alabama-sen-katie-britt-responds-bidens-state-union/story?id=107912187|access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=
After blaming Biden for the increase of migrants at the border and saying that she had visited the border shortly after taking office, Britt mentioned a woman who had told her that she was "sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12". Britt said that "[w]e wouldn't be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden's border policies are a disgrace." She appeared to imply that the woman had been abused recently in the U.S. because of Biden's policies.<ref name=Kessler>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309185539/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/fact-check-katie-britt-sex-trafficking/|archive-date=March 9, 2024|url-status=live |last=Kessler|first=Glenn|title=Katie Britt's false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=March 9, 2024|access-date=March 9, 2024}}</ref><ref name="decades">{{cite news |last=Pettus |first=Emily |title=Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy |url=https://apnews.com/article/katie-britt-mexico-border-sex-trafficking-f74c95d1f7e3e5b9a660d9efc51ab214 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 10, 2024}}</ref><ref name="recycle">{{Cite news |last=Picciotto |first=Rebecca |work=[[NBC New York]] |date=March 9, 2024 |title=Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for recycling 20-year-old sex traffic story to attack border policy |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/biden-rebutter-sen-britt-blasted-for-recycling-20-year-old-sex-traffic-story-to-attack-border-policy/5209857/ |access-date=March 9, 2024}}</ref>
===== Fact-check of misleading sex trafficking story =====
In a TikTok post that went viral, journalist [[Jonathan M. Katz]] was the first person to identify Britt's unnamed woman as Karla Jacinto Romero.<ref name=Kessler/> Jacinto was 12 in 2004 when she was forced into prostitution in Mexican brothels; she escaped four years later. Jacinto was not trafficked into the U.S., whose president at the time was [[George W. Bush]], not Biden.<ref name=Kessler/><ref name="recycle"/><ref name="decades"/> Britt's communication director later confirmed to the ''[[Washington Post]]'' that Britt was referring to Jacinto.<ref name=Kessler/> Jacinto has said that [[drug cartels]] were not involved in her experience, though Britt on another occasion said that they were.<ref name=Kessler/> The ''[[New York Times]]'' phoned Jacinto in [[Mexico]] and was told that she found out on social media about Britt telling her story during the speech. Jacinto said that she "thought it was very strange" and that she preferred to keep politics out of her work to stop trafficking. The ''Times'' called Britt's account "highly misleading and improperly contextualized".<ref>{{cite news |last=Bensinger |first=Ken |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/us/politics/katie-britt-republican-response-sotu-border.html |title=Britt Tells Misleading Border Story in State of the Union Response |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 11, 2024}}</ref> Jacinto told [[CNN]] that Britt "should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude" and that she had not met with Britt individually, as Britt had implied, but at an event with other activists and government officials. Jacinto had told her story to a Congressional committee in Washington in 2015, one that had nothing to do with the U.S. border or "cartels".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/katie-britt-speech-victim-cnn-interview 'Not fair at all': Sex-trafficking victim says Katie Britt distorted her story for political purposes], ''[[The Guardian]]'', March 11, 2024. Retrieved May 15, 2024.</ref> A White House spokesman noted that Britt
Britt eventually acknowledged that Jacinto's experience preceded Biden's presidency but continued to criticize his immigration policies.<ref name="Romo">{{cite news |last1=Romo |first1=Rafael |last2=Alonso |first2=Melissa |title=Sex trafficking victim says Sen. Katie Britt telling her story during SOTU rebuttal is 'not fair' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/katie-britt-sex-trafficking-victim-interview |access-date=March 11, 2024 |work=[[CNN]] |date=March 10, 2024}}</ref>
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Britt identifies herself as [[pro-life]], a stance that was scrutinized during the 2022 U.S. Senate election. Her initial television advertisements emphasized her view on abortion, asserting that life begins at conception and equating late-term abortions to murder. In May 2022, just before the first round of the Republican primary, rival candidate Michael Durant criticized Britt's abortion stance. He pointed out a resolution passed by the Student Senate while she was president of the University of Alabama Student Government Association that demanded that morning-after pills be made available at the university health center's pharmacy, which was already prescribing the pills at the time. In response, Britt's campaign claimed she neither supported nor voted on the resolution and was unable to veto it due to the limitations of her position. The ''Alabama Political Reporter'' corroborated these statements based on ''[[The Crimson White]]'' articles from the time of Britt's presidency. Furthermore, Britt's campaign insisted she would "uphold the sanctity of life" if elected senator.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alreporter.com/2022/05/16/fact-check-katie-britts-campaign-calls-foul-on-ad-claiming-shes-pro-abortion/|title=Fact check: Katie Britt's campaign calls foul on ad claiming she's pro-abortion|last=Burkhalter|first=Eddie|work=Alabama Political Reporter|date=May 16, 2022|access-date=June 11, 2022}}</ref>
Britt responded to the [[Alabama Supreme Court]]'s 2024 ruling that [[Embryo cryopreservation|frozen embryos]] should be considered living beings by saying that "defending life and ensuring continued access to [[In vitro fertilisation|IVF]] services for loving parents are not mutually exclusive".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-02-28 |title=Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments |url=https://apnews.com/article/congress-ivf-access-abortion-alabama-bill-ruling-7f68248f36900d4583d9b181f3b4e380 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> She subsequently advocated for state and national bills to protect families' rights to seek IVF services.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Medina |first1=Eduardo |last2=Cochrane |first2=Emily |date=2024-02-23 |title=Alabama Lawmakers Move to Protect I.V.F. Treatments |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/politics/alabama-ivf-treatment-law.html |access-date=2024-03-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Britt has stood by [[Donald Trump]]'s plan to leave abortion as a state issue.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lotz |first1=Avery |last2=Daher |first2=Natalie |title=Exclusive: Sen. Britt says Trump has "set the agenda" on abortion |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/07/15/katie-britt-trump-abortion-rnc-2024 |website=Axios |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>
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===Foreign policy===
Britt is a critic of the [[Chinese Communist Party]]. In August 2022, she charged the [[Biden administration]] with inaction and "total weakness" in regard to China, highlighting [[Human rights in China|humanitarian crises]] in China, as well as its dominance in manufacturing, saying that China was "taking jobs".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yellowhammernews.com/katie-britt-accuses-biden-of-showing-total-weakness-with-china/|title=Katie Britt accuses Biden of showing 'total weakness' with China|author=Yaffee|work=Yellowhammer News|date=August 1, 2022|accessdate=December 9, 2022}}</ref> In September 2022, she joined other Republicans in accusing the social media platform [[TikTok]] of being a "[[Trojan horse]]" for the Chinese Communist Party.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.al.com/news/2022/09/katie-britt-tiktok-a-trojan-horse-that-steals-data-to-give-to-the-chinese.html|title=Katie Britt: TikTok 'a Trojan horse that steals data to give to the Chinese'|last=Griesbach|first=Rebecca|work=AL.com|date=September 26, 2022|accessdate=December 9, 2022}}</ref> In October 2022, Britt pledged to co-sponsor a bill introduced by Senators [[Tommy Tuberville]] and [[Tom Cotton]] to keep Chinese-owned companies from purchasing American farmland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://1819news.com/news/item/katie-britt-vows-to-support-ban-on-chinas-buying-u-s-farmland-food-security-is-national-security|title=Katie Britt vows to support ban on China's buying U.S. farmland – 'Food security is national security'|last=Poor|first=Jeff|work=1819 News|date=October 13, 2022|accessdate=December 9, 2022}}</ref>
In 2022, as a Senate candidate, Britt wrote an op-ed pledging that she would support [[Israel]] if elected, writing, "Supporting Israel is in America's interest, it's in Alabama's interest, and as a Christian conservative, I believe God commands us to support Israel."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.al.com/opinion/2022/02/katie-britt-now-more-than-ever-we-must-stand-with-israel.html|title=Katie Britt: Now, more than ever, we must stand with Israel|date=February 28, 2022|first=Katie|last=Britt|website=al.com}}</ref> In November 2023, she compared the October 7, [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel]] to the [[September 11 attacks]] and said she opposed a ceasefire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.al.com/news/2023/11/katie-britt-on-tuberville-military-holds-i-cant-control-anybody-but-me.html|title=Katie Britt on Tommy Tuberville: 'I can't control anybody but me'|date=November 6, 2023|first=William|last=Thornton|publisher=al.com}}</ref> Britt supported a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel passed in the Republican-controlled House.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://alabamareflector.com/2023/11/03/u-s-sen-katie-britt-supports-house-gops-israel-aid-only-package/|date=November 3, 2023|title=U.S. Sen. Katie Britt supports House GOP's Israel aid-only package|first=Alander|last=Rocha|publisher=Alabama Reflector}}</ref> In July 2024, Britt and [[Jim Risch]] introduced the Countering Hate Against Israel by Federal Contractors Act, a bill that would bar the federal government "from contracting with entities who boycott the State of Israel".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alreporter.com/2024/07/29/sen-britt-seeks-to-bar-federal-contractors-from-boycotting-israel/|title=CongressSen. Britt seeks to bar federal contractors from boycotting Israel|first=Chance|last=Phillips|date=July 29, 2024|publisher=Alabama Political Reporter}}</ref>
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