Final countdown: The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bill that presents TikTok with an ultimatum: Either Chinese Communist Party-controlled ByteDance sells the app, or it will face restrictions in U.S. app stores. Heritage scholars have been sounding the alarm about the security threats that TikTok poses for years—one of the few conservative groups to do so.   

• In early 2023, Heritage published the groundbreaking report by Tech Policy Center Director Kara Frederick—“TikTok Generation: A CCP Official in Every Pocket”—that laid out TikTok’s abuses and called for a wholesale ban of TikTok operations in the U.S. 
• Heritage calls the bill a win-win: It would protect personal data while still allowing people to use the app. 

Read Frederick’s statement here. 

Reversing course: Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post calling for a return to internet standards that protect children from obscene content. 

• “It is well past time for Congress to revisit the CDA [Communications Decency Act], specifically the sections intended to protect children from indecency and obscenity online,” Roberts wrote. 

Read the article here. 

Zero: That’s how many states had universal school choice three years ago.  

• Just last week, Alabama became the 10th state to pass a universal school choice program.  
• Now more than half of the states, plus D.C., have a private school choice option.  
• We are witnessing the long-awaited demise of the union-dominated K-12 education system.   

Check out Heritage’s Education Freedom Report Card to see where each state stands.  

The Heritage Foundation’s High School Fellowship equips high school students to defend their values before the Left can get hold of them. Students will engage in the national conservative conversation, participate in real-life policy projects, and connect with influential leaders. 

• Location: The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. 
• Dates: June 24–29 
• Housing: Students will stay in nearby accommodations and attend training at Heritage’s headquarters. 
• Cost: Every accepted student will receive a full scholarship covering travel, housing, meals, course materials, and tour activities. 

If you’re a high school student ready to take your conservative leadership to the next level, apply for the Heritage High School Fellowship today.  

The future of Conservatism: Heritage founder Ed Feulner joined the Bradley Foundation’s “Voices of Freedom” podcast to discuss the conservative movement. 

• Feulner talks about his role in building the conservative movement, how he transformed ideas into policy, the books that influenced him, what it means to be a conservative today, and much more. 

Listen to the episode here.  

Time for Change: Congress is set on passing a supplemental spending bill—and Heritage has a plan to meet the moment without adding to the national debt. 

• “This should not be treated as a ‘menu of options,’ but rather a comprehensive plan that properly balances America’s priorities and national interests,” the report states.   
• The framework covers the border; sanctions on Russia; and military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.  

Read the full plan here.  

Accountability: Heritage’s Oversight Project filed a suit with the Justice Department for records used in Robert Hur’s investigation of President Biden’s egregious mishandling of classified documents. 

• “We are suing not only to find out why Hur gave President Biden the kid gloves treatment,” said Director Mike Howell, but how Hur decided that Biden is “too old and senile to face accountability.” 

Read the statement here. Follow the Oversight Project on X here.  

• Heritage Welcomes Respected Publisher Tom Spence as Senior Advisor—Derrick Morgan 
• Biden’s Border Crisis Comes to the Suburbs—Simon Hankinson 
• Biden’s Food Drop in Gaza Masks a Radical Pro-Palestinian Agenda—Victoria Coates 
• Big Tech’s A.I. Power Grab—Jake Denton 
• Biden’s SOTU Abortion Lies—Thomas Jipping 
• DEI, Sold as a Way to Promote Racial Harmony, Does Just the Opposite—Jonathan Butcher 
• My Mission to Unlock the Truth About Harry’s Visa Isn’t Personal…It’s America’s Right to Know—Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. 
• Government Gets Fatter While Americans Rack Up Record-High Credit-Card Debt—EJ Antoni 
• Joe Biden’s Botched Ecuador Policy—Andrés Martínez-Fernández 
• Biden’s DOJ Blocking JetBlue-Spirit Merger Will Mean Higher Fares, Fewer Choices—EJ Antoni 
• Coastal Inundation: Rising Sea Levels Explained—David Legates 
• The Army’s Role in the Indo-Pacific—Wilson Beaver 
• Modernizing America’s Nukes: The Stakes of the Sentinel ICBM Project—Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., and Robert Peters 
• The U.S. Air Force’s New Mission: Beat China in a War at All Costs—John Venable 
• Time for a New Missile Defense Review and a Space-Based Missile Defense Overlayer—Henry Obering III and Robert Peters 

While in the U.K., Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts joined Nigel Farage to talk about the World Economic Forum, Prince Harry’s visa dispute, and TikTok. Watch the clip here.