H.R. 2 Is the Only Solution to Securing the Border

• President Biden’s border chaos is a national security nightmare, putting all Americans at risk.
• Since Biden took office, over 7.9 million inadmissible aliens have entered the U.S. through our borders, and an additional 1.7 million illegal aliens ‘got away’ or evaded the U.S. Border Patrol.
• Republicans in Congress united behind the Secure the Border Act, H.R. 2, to force an unwilling administration to accept and implement the minimum required to secure the border. In June, all present Senate Republicans except one voted for H.R. 2, but now, a group of senators is undermining Republican unity and effective policy solutions by negotiating with Democrats who support open border policy.
• The proposal coming out of these ‘negotiations’ will likely be used as leverage to advance President Biden’s request for $106 billion in fiscally irresponsible spending, including an additional $60 billion for Ukraine that fails to meet conservative standards and $13.6 billion for fake ‘border security’ that would accelerate Biden’s open border operations.
• Conservatives in both chambers of Congress should unite behind aggressive purse-string control by requiring inclusion of H.R. 2 in its entirety as part of any spending agreement.
• Congress cannot continue to fund the flood of illegal aliens—including potential terrorists—that the Biden administration is ushering into America every day. 

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Public Schools Don’t Have a Teacher Shortage Problem

• Public schools don’t have a teacher shortage problem. They have a problem with the misallocation of abundant resources.
• Public schools have been on a hiring spree for decades. It began with President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and has continued to the present day, aided partly by a temporary federal COVID bonus payment of $190 billion.
• Since 1950, public schools have added personnel at a rate nearly four times that of the rate of growth in student enrollment. That increase in school personnel has been disproportionately non-teaching staff and, today, teachers make up just half of all education jobs.
• This choice made by teacher unions — to prioritize hiring more staff (teaching and non-teaching staff) over higher salaries — equates to more dues-paying union members, which is, of course, good for the unions’ bottom line.
• Schools must end the habit of continuously increasing the number of non-teaching staff. Public education isn’t a jobs program, and teacher unions shouldn’t view classrooms as an extension of their political activities.
• Reorient the focus to hiring and rewarding excellent teachers who can be assured they — and their students — spend their days in safe and orderly schools. 

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Auto Dealers Call on Biden to Hit Brakes on Unrealistic, Unachievable Electric Vehicles Mandate

• A coalition of nearly 4,000 auto dealers on Tuesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden explaining why his plans to force Americans into electric vehicles are unworkable.
• The bottom line: Despite subsidies to car manufacturers to make the EVs, and tax credits for drivers to buy the cars, only 7% of new vehicle sales are electric vehicles, compared with Biden’s goal of 60% in 2030 and 66% in 2032.
• Auto dealers are getting stuck with the unwanted cars. Dealers have to pay in advance, and if the cars sit on the lots without being sold, their funds are tied up, and they don’t have room for better-selling vehicles.
• Because Congress will not pass laws mandating purchases of EVs, Biden has proposed regulations from the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency. These regulations would penalize automakers for selling gasoline-powered cars.
• Should Biden’s EV goal come to pass, America would become more dependent on China for electric batteries and associated components, rather than using abundant domestic oil and natural gas. That means sacrificing energy independence.
• Biden says that EVs will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that regulations on tailpipe and power plant emissions reduce global warming. But that’s a fantasy. Emissions will not be reduced until the biggest producers of so-called greenhouse gases—China, India, and Russia—reduce their emissions, which they show no signs of doing.

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