American Interests Outweigh D.C’s Demand for Blank Checks to Ukraine

• The Heritage Foundation is adamantly opposed to the $24 billion Ukraine aid package. This support is fiscally irresponsible, lacks transparency and accountability, isn't focused on military aid, and has no plan or end-game attached to it. No more.
• The Ukraine aid also should not be tied to emergency aid for hurricanes and fires. That’s the typical D.C. swamp game of playing hostage with the people’s money.
• We have to take care of our interests at home before spending any more money on Ukraine.
• During tonight's official debate pre-show, The Heritage Foundation will debut a new ad opposing any more funding until Biden presents a direct and immediate path to end the conflict in Ukraine, and Congress comes up with a way to ensure that our aid is responsibly distributed.

Schedule an Interview: Victoria Coates and Alex Velez-Green

It's Time to Dismantle the Administrative State

• Tonight, Republican presidential candidates are poised to take the stage in Milwaukee, WI to participate in the first Republican presidential debate.
• Several presidential candidates have pledged to dismantle the deep state, and the conservative movement’s Project 2025 — a plan to gut the bureaucracy by making it easier to fire federal employees — could make their dreams a reality.
• Under the law, the presidential appointees at the top are supposed to control the levers while the civil servants act as neutral cogs in the machinery.
• In practice, however, an expert class of bureaucrats at the top control the true levers of power while the president’s men have been relegated to a ceremonial role.
• It’s not radical to want to cut nonessential bureaucracy, nor is it radical to restore the president’s control over the executive branch and eliminate agencies that have brought us closer to a dystopian socialism.
• To have a chance at successfully managing this system, the president needs an army of extremely knowledgeable, iron-willed, and highly competent political appointees.

Schedule an Interview: James Bacon 

Texas House Members Gear Up for Expected Education-Focused Special Session

• Arizona and Texas are border states with large and growing cities, as well as vast rural areas. But the outcomes of their K-12 education systems have been opposites.
• While the Texas economy is racing full speed ahead, the state’s K-12 education has stalled and is in decline, with some of the worst cases in rural areas.
• Texas lawmakers should use Arizona—which has the country’s most robust education choice policies—as a model, very much including its rural areas.

Schedule an Interview: Matthew Ladner and Jason Bedrick