Plus: Florida House Passes Heartbeat Bill, Sends It to DeSantis’ Desk
April 14 2023
Good morning from Washington, where his past defense of a black nationalist leader and insulting attack on a Supreme Court justice return to haunt the House’s top Democrat. Samantha Aschieris reports. Aides to the Senate’s top Republican deflect retirement rumors, Virginia Allen writes. On the podcast, Missouri’s new attorney general says he won’t roll over for Biden and the Left. Plus: Florida embraces a “heartbeat” ban on abortion; an influential employers group skewers Biden’s economic numbers; and the State Department funds LGBT projects. On this date in 1910, President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw a ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball game, as the Washington Senators meet the Philadelphia Athletics at National Park.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is taking heat for defending his controversial uncle, Leonard Jeffries, and antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in the 1990s.
Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for signing. It bans most abortions after six weeks’ gestation and provides $25 million in support for new moms.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is using the law to combat Biden-Big Tech censorship, oust a Soros-backed prosecutor, and protect kids from experimental transgender “treatments.”
Job Creators Network President Alfredo Ortiz says President Joe Biden’s “reckless spending” has diluted Americans’ buying power, in a response to a government report on two key price indexes.
House Republicans subpoena more documents and discuss internal FBI documents showing a plan to establish sources in Catholic parishes to combat alleged violent extremism.
