Plus: Vermont School Agrees to Pay $125K to Father, Daughter Punished for Speaking Out Against Trans Student
June 2 2023
Happy Friday from Washington, where most Senate Republicans voted against the debt ceiling bill, even as it passed. Sen. Rand Paul offered a strong amendment, even though it failed, Samantha Aschieris reports. In Vermont, a school settles a case involving free speech about transgenderism, Mary Margaret Olohan reports. On the podcast, the reality of the nuclear threat posed by Iran. Plus: China’s questionable interest in missile research at a U.S. university; the tax consequences of runaway spending; and Biden’s strategy to fight antisemitism involves strange bedfellows. On this date in 1924, Congress passes legislation conferring citizenship on all Native Americans born within the nation’s territorial limits.
The settlement requires that a Vermont school board insurer pay $125,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees and costs to the parents of Blake Allen and their lawyers with Alliance Defending Freedom.
“Bold actions must be taken to defeat our mounting national debt,” the Kentucky Republican says in announcing a “conservative alternative to the Biden-McCarthy deal.”
Critics of left-wing billionaire George Soros, who notoriously has funded soft-on-crime prosecutors, often get branded antisemitic. A new Jewish group aims to end this “gaslighting.”
The Chinese Communist Party infiltrates a small, upstate New York college that receives funding to develop “ultra-high temperature ceramic material” for the Army’s hypersonic missiles.
“The biggest detail for me is the fact that Joe Biden, who we cannot trust on spending, has an unlimited credit card until the end of his term,” Scott says of the House’s debt ceiling bill.
"This Biden proposal undermines these programs and forces hardworking taxpayers who already paid off their loans or did not go to college to shoulder the cost," Sen. Joe Manchin says.
China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran “feel they can pretty much do whatever they want” because the West has “zero willingness” to use its power, a retired Israeli general warns.
President Biden’s strategy to fight antisemitism uses a definition of Jew-hatred that fails to account for the demonization of Israel, critics claim. It also touts pro-Palestinian groups as allies.
