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Americans Lose Out in Debt Limit Deal, Republicans Must Go Back to Negotiating Table
- President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy reached an agreement to raise the debt ceiling through 2024.
- Overall, this agreement would continue America’s trajectory toward economic destruction and expanded federal control.
- This agreement could lead to increased overall spending levels next year, potentially giving up on the $132 billion in real upfront cuts promised by Limit, Save, Grow.
- House Republicans must go back to the negotiating table and demand more concessions from the Biden administration.
Schedule an Interview: Richard Stern, EJ Antoni, and Joel Griffith
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“Gender-Affirming” is Really “Sex-Denying”
- The White House plans to make trouble for states that protect kids from ghoulish interventions based on the myth that they are “born in the wrong body.”
- Most kids who suffer gender dysphoria will grow out of it. Some 61% to 98% of these kids will naturally reconcile with their sex after going through puberty. In many cases, puberty itself may be the cure for gender dysphoria.
- Lawmakers should support laws that precisely define sex, protect the religious beliefs of all Americans, and prohibit children from being experimented on with irreversible drugs and procedures that do not address the issues with gender dysphoria.
Schedule an Interview: Jay Richards
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Biden’s Executive Overreach Kills American Energy Independence
- Creeping executive overreach, not envisaged by Congress in the original missions or purposes of cabinet agencies, is driving up the price of energy and energy-related products. This is raising costs for all Americans, and poor and middle-class people are disproportionately paying the price.
- All these rules are reducing Americans’ job prospects in the oil and gas fields while Chinese corporations (sometimes utilizing forced labor) are prospering.
- Owing to hypocritical, bureaucratic, executive-branch mission creep, America will effectively depend on energy from China, rather than using its own resources.
Schedule an Interview: Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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