Keynote: Little did we know that Tucker Carlson’s keynote speech at our 50^th anniversary gala on Friday, April 21, would be his last public address as a Fox News employee. Some reporters even speculated that comments Carlson made in that speech contributed to Fox’s decision to give him the ax the following Monday.  

• His full 36-minute keynote speech and Q&A has more than 4.2 million views on our YouTube channel.  
• The Daily Signal has the complete transcript.  

Meanwhile, Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts issued a statement and video lamenting his cancellation, saying that Carlson’s “popularity was a testament to the hunger in America for people willing to stand up and tell the truth.”  

• Roberts added that “millions of Americans deserve a clear explanation” for why Carlson was let go.  

Read his statement or watch the video here.  

Red Line: House Republicans laid down a marker for any increase in the debt ceiling, with a bill that would cut back President Biden’s spending splurge. 

• The bill, which Heritage experts helped to craft, would result in “more growth, less government control.” Read more here.  

7 Horrors: If you want to know how out-of-control spending has created a crisis, check out the nightmares ahead, if we stay the course. 

Accountability: The Biden administration doesn’t seem to have much of a plan for ending the war in Ukraine—or for protecting American interests abroad.  

• “No dollar is worth spending if it doesn’t get to the right place to do the right thing,” write Heritage Vice President Jim Carafano and Senior Research Fellow Victoria Coates. 

Find out which four things Biden must do.  

On Defense: A proposed Title IX regulation would directly attack women’s sports by requiring schools to let “transgender” men compete against women, unless a female student could prove that she would be physically harmed. 

On Offense: You can help stop this travesty by flooding the Education Department with comments. Heritage Action for America created a page to help you submit a public comment.   

• Interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis—Kevin Roberts, Ph.D. 
• Democrats Refuse to Deal as House Republicans Deliver a Pro-Growth Bill to Reduce Spending —David Ditch and Preston Brashers 
• Why Are We Raising Home-Buying Costs for Responsible Borrowers?—EJ Antoni 
• South American Partners Turning Away From U.S. and Toward China, Iran—Mateo Haydar 
• 11 Instances of Defensive Gun Use Dramatize Wisdom of Second Amendment—Amy Swearer and Lauren Grace Niesent 
• What Is Happening in This Unprecedented U.S. Labor Market? April 2023 Update—Rachel Greszler 
• Heritage Research on Rogue Prosecutors Cited by GOP House Members at NYC Crime Hearing—Zack Smith and Charles Stimson 
• ‘Waters of the United States’ and the Void-for-Vagueness Doctrine—Paul J. Larkin, Jr. 
• Originalism and Fixing the Fourteenth Amendment—Kurt Lash 
• Ethnic Studies Curricula Seek to Undermine and Erase American Culture— Mike Gonzalez 
• Conservatives Wrongly Demonized As ‘Hate Groups’ May Get Justice at Last—Tyler O’Neil 
• North Korean Solid-Fuel ICBM Increases U.S. Vulnerability—Bruce Klingner 

Joel Griffith, a research fellow at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, speaks to Newsmax on the harm Biden's economic policies are causing American families. Watch the clip here. 

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