Ex-DHS Officials Back Aggressive Border Stance in Funding Fight

• Conservative former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are backing Speaker Mike Johnson’s aggressive stance on border security when it comes to ongoing negotiations over a supplemental spending agreement – calling on Republicans to have "clear resolve" about the crisis.
• H.R. 2 is the only effective and immediate solution to the madness that most of the conference has now witnessed firsthand. And Secretary Mayorkas is undoubtedly guilty of violating his oath and knowingly endangering the citizens he is supposed to serve.
• While Biden’s appointees and allies continue to ‘negotiate’ in the Senate, lawmakers on the Left have proven they have no real intention of ending the record tide of illegal immigration.
• If conservatives are united behind H.R. 2, the decision between the safety of a secure border and the chaos of unlimited illegal immigration lies solely with White House and their friends in the Senate. The American people are watching.

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Biden’s Executive Order on Voting May Violate Hatch Act, Critics Warn

• The Biden administration carved out paid administrative leave to encourage federal bureaucrats and other employees—seen as a loyal Democrat constituency—to volunteer as poll workers.
• The administration also requires federal agencies to grant four hours of leave for voting to employees, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project obtained the documents.
• Biden’s executive order prompted suspicion among some Republican lawmakers, who said they were concerned that federal agencies’ engagement in boosting turnout would violate laws such as the Hatch Act, which prohibits partisan political activity using federal resources and time.
• The federal bureaucracy is obviously overwhelmingly supportive of the Democratic Party and it’s no accident they are trying to enlist one of the largest voting blocs of government workers in their direction.

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Claudine Gay Is Gone, but Diversity Ideology Still Plagues Harvard

• Claudine Gay’s removal as the president of Harvard, following Liz Magill’s departure at Penn, suggests that the tide is turning in academia. But much still needs to be done to bring these institutions back to serving their original and laudable missions.
• Gay was manifestly unqualified for the position, with only a fraction of the scholarly accomplishments of her predecessors at Harvard and peers at other universities. She was obviously selected as a symbol for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology that Harvard wishes to promote, not because of her merit as a scholar.
• It should be noted that there have been no sanctions for the members of the Harvard board that hired Gay despite her obvious lack of qualifications, defended her plagiarism, threatened those investigating the matter, and embraced the DEI ideology and double standards that foment Jew-hatred on campus. They should be held accountable too.
• The same public campaign that ousted Claudine Gay now needs to turn its attention to the policies and practices that allowed her to become Harvard president and produce enough disastrous publicity to force her removal.
• We need to dismantle DEI bureaucracies and uproot the ideology they promote on campus. We need to re-establish high and consistent standards for academic research. This would almost certainly require the elimination of academic departments that characterized more by political advocacy than rigorous inquiry, such as ethnic and gender studies departments.
• We also need to get universities to adopt and consistently enforce strong protections of free academic speech while also fully prosecuting violations of their codes of conduct, including physical harassment, trespassing, and the use of the heckler’s veto to drown out disfavored speakers.

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