Plus: Louisiana Bill Would Ban K-12 Classroom Discussion of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
April 27 2023
Good morning from Washington, where the head of the American Federation of Teachers tells lawmakers that, despite having a direct line to the CDC director, her union didn’t have much input on school closures during the pandemic. Fred Lucas reports. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy convinces enough Republicans to raise the debt ceiling. Samantha Aschieris has details. Plus: Louisiana may bar gender ideology from the classroom; Florida’s governor takes on the administrative state; rooting out noncitizen voters in Arizona; and “Problematic Women” considers Democrats’ resuscitation of the ERA. On this date in 2009, struggling American carmaker General Motors announces that, after 80 years, it will stop producing the Pontiac.
New Louisiana legislation would ban public school teachers and personnel from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with students from kindergarten through high school.
“We were able to make our state a reservoir of freedom, a place where people went for sanity, and the numbers speak for themselves,” says the Florida governor.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project appeals a court ruling siding with the EPA in its refusal to disclose information about the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Maricopa County, Arizona, removed 222 foreign nationals from its voter registration rolls over seven years, according to a new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, fields lawmakers’ questions about her powerful union’s role in school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If things go the way Elon Musk is planning, Carlson’s show would be trending every day on Twitter, because he has the potential to be the first megastar of Twitter’s new platform.
