Red Creep: Through its Confucius Institutes—presented as harmless cultural programs—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated American universities and roughly 500 K-12 classrooms, indoctrinating the next generation in anti-American and pro-CCP propaganda. That’s what Heritage Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez told a House subcommittee last week.

• The K-12 Confucius Classrooms and the university programs lie about Chinese history and gloss over the Chinese government’s current abuses, Gonzalez said. “A foreign communist party cannot dictate what our children learn,” he told lawmakers.

Watch Gonzalez’s testimony here. And listen to “The Daily Signal Podcast” with Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., who talks about what he learned at that hearing here.

Fiscal Insanity: Federal spending exploded in the past years, thanks to irresponsibility in Congress and the Federal Reserve.

• Heritage budget experts David Ditch and Richard Stern detail how this out-of-control spending produced mountains of debt and record-high inflation—and how to avoid economic calamity—in the most comprehensive report of its kind.

BONUS: Take a look at these seven outrageous earmarks proposed in the Senate.

Unacceptable: The Biden administration is allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the country through the parole system, where aliens find “sponsors” (who can themselves be illegals) through a government website resembling a dating app.

• Twenty states have sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over this bogus visa program, writes Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in Heritage’s Border Security and Immigration Center. Read more here.

Decisions: Several cases this term offer the high court opportunities to rein in the administrative state.

• Should a government agency be able to fund itself directly from the Federal Reserve? Must fisheries pay the salaries of bureaucrats who ensure compliance with federal regulations?
• The Supreme Court will decide these questions and more during the upcoming term.

Get the highlights here.

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• Liberal Scholars’ Flawed Arguments Cannot Revive the Equal Rights Amendment—Thomas Jipping
• Education Around the Country Looks Different This School Year. Here’s What Parents Need to Know—Jonathan Butcher and Jason Bedrick
• The Dangerous DEI Bloat at Virginia’s Public Universities—Jay Greene and Mike Gonzalez
• America’s Current Nuclear Arsenal Was Built for a More Benign World—Robert Peters
• The Best Outcome for the U.S. Military and U.S. Security: Recommendations for the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act—Wilson Beaver
• Steaming Ahead: Top Items on the Acting Chief of Naval Operations ‘To Do’ List—Brent Sadler
• Keeping America Safe: Conservative National Defense Priorities—Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D.
• FEMA Money Is for Disaster-Stricken Americans, Not Those Here Illegally—Simon Hankinson
• If Economic Growth Seems Too Good To Be True, That’s Because It Is—EJ Antoni
• No to D.C. Statehood—Zack Smith
• Free Enterprise Is What Will Solve Arkansas’ Used Tire Problem—Jack Spencer
• Congress Must Take California Out of the Driver’s Seat on Electric Car Mandates—Steven Bradbury

Arthur Milikh, executive director of The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, and former associate director of Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, joined “The Kevin Roberts Show” to discuss the challenges that conservatives face in a rapidly changing cultural and political landscape—and how they can regain influence. Watch the podcast here.