Plus: Read Tucker Carlson’s Full Announcement About Move to Twitter
May 10 2023
Good morning from Washington, where congressional Republicans want to know why the government paid for a horrific study of transgender-identifying young people. Our Tyler O’Neil reports. Congress can make railroads safer after that toxic train derailment in Ohio, Sen. J.D. Vance writes. What’s Tucker Carlson’s new partnership with Twitter all about? We’ve got the star commentator’s full remarks. On the podcast, straight talk from Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on raising the debt ceiling. Plus: Florida ups its game on counting votes, and South Dakota goes back to basics in teaching history. On this date in 1869, travel by rail across America becomes reality as the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah.
“It is sickening that the federal government is preying on young people and using our taxpayer dollars to advance its radical gender ideology,” says Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla.
Two decades ago, Florida was a national laughingstock after 36 days of recounts and litigation springing from the 2000 presidential election, which hung on results in the Sunshine State.
Jonathan Butcher, a senior research fellow in education policy at The Heritage Foundation who has analyzed the new history standards, praises them for excluding “woke orthodoxy.”
