Bidenomics Is Making This the Most Expensive Thanksgiving in History

• The total increase in costs for a Thanksgiving dinner is about 26% since the beginning of Biden’s term, culminating in the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner in history.
• The average cost for a 10-person modern Thanksgiving meal is $84.75, a $24.64 increase since Joe Biden took office.
• As the White House likes to say, “this is Bidenomics in action.” Sadly, at a time when Americans gather to celebrate abundance and give thanks, many Americans will be forced to cut back or finance their meal with a credit card.
• Congress and the Fed also deserve blame here, and without a whole-of-government commitment to serious fiscal reforms, the pain will only get worse. The only way to remove the weight of inflation from working families is to finally make real, permanent spending reforms. 

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TikTok Should Be Immediately Banned at the Federal Level

• Last week, Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” started trending on TikTok, inspiring young users of the platform to sympathize with the now-deceased terrorist leader who was responsible for 9/11. The letter attempts to justify the targeting and killing of American citizens. In just a few days, the letter reached 14 million views on the platform.
• TikTok has the ability to manipulate and control the flow of information on its platform and recently, we’ve seen a flood of anti-American content on TikTok in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
• The fact that pro-terrorism messaging reportedly is trending on TikTok shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is in China’s pocket and therefore subject to the rules of the People’s Republic of China. 
• Congress needs to act now to ban TikTok at the federal level. 

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Biden Sets Record on U.S. Taxpayer Funding for an Unappreciative UN

• Since the founding of the United Nations nearly eight decades ago, the United States has been the largest financier of the organization.
• Last year alone, the United States provided $18.1 billion to the U.N. system. This represented more than a third of all government revenue received by the U.N. system in 2022.
• In its most recent report to Congress, the State Department noted that on average other countries voted with the U.S. in the U.N. General Assembly only 41 percent of the time. Some of the biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid, both bilaterally and through the U.N. system, are among the countries that vote against the U.S. most often.
• Having a seat at the table, as Secretary Antony Blinken likes to say, is a grossly insufficient and expensive strategy, and the results have been underwhelming.
• U.S. influence will continue to fade unless the U.S. is willing to use the tools at its disposal to reward positive outcomes and punish negative outcomes. That means reminding the U.N. and other governments how dependent they are on U.S. funding and demonstrating that U.S. support can and will be impacted by their actions.

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