Promises not kept: Instead of fixing the health care system, the Biden-Harris administration and ruling elites gave handouts to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and funded the mutilation of children while premiums skyrocketed and doctor availability plummeted. 

• The current administration is also proposing to cut Medicare Advantage and implement a “one-size-fits-all” health care plan, which would end disastrously for seniors.  

We detail the Biden-Harris administration’s health care calamities at DangerouslyLiberal.com.  

 

Related: Despite the Biden-Harris administration’s constant bragging about lowering Medicare drug costs, the average premium for a Medicare drug plan has jumped 46% since 2021 as the number of private drug plans fell by 31%, according to an extensive report by Edmund Haislmaier, a senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy. 

• Meanwhile, Obamacare’s mandates and regulations more than doubled the average cost of individual-market health insurance coverage in 40 states, Haislmaier found.  

Read this important report here. 

Covering her tracks: Vice President Harris may say she’s tough on crime, but her record says otherwise.

• “Kamala Harris claims that she wants to help members of our nation’s poor and minority communities,” writes Zack Smith, senior legal fellow at the Meese Center for Legal Studies, “but the sad irony is that the policies she now champions will often end up harming those individuals the most.”

Read more here.

Lost in space: Missing an astronaut or two? NASA sure is—after launching an extensive DEI campaign, the organization seems to have forgotten the importance of building functional spacecraft.

• “NASA no longer hires the best and brightest—it is about hiring the most diverse, underrepresented, and ‘underserved’ community member,” notes Heritage’s Oversight Project.
• According to these new policies, even felons find employment with NASA.

Read more on X.

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47 mpg: That’s the 2032 fuel-economy standard for pick-ups and SUVs, according to new regulations from the Biden-Harris administration.

• These impossible standards will essentially outlaw internal combustion engines.
• “The price of all new vehicles will rise dramatically,” writes distinguished fellow Steve Bradbury. “Lower-income and rural Americans will be stuck driving older and older used vehicles, which are far less safe.”

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Dollar signs: Opponents of school choice claim that education savings accounts (ESAs) will “bankrupt” state budgets.

• But Arizona’s $4.3 million budget surplus handily busts this myth.
• “The ESA program typically costs taxpayers hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars less per child than the public school system,” write Center for Education Policy Research Fellow Jason Bedrick and the American Federation for Children’s Corey DeAngelis. 

Read the full analysis here.

Exposing China’s Complicity in America’s Fentanyl Crisis

 

The fentanyl crisis wreaks havoc in countless American homes each year and shows no signs of subsiding. Every day, the Chinese Communist Party pushes these deadly drugs into our country, killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. Join us for a conversation on how Americans can hold China accountable for its part in this deadly epidemic.

 

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• Report: Recommendations for Finalizing the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act—Wilson Beaver
• Bring Back Trump’s China Policy—Bryan Burak
• Federal Court to Biden on the Student Loan Bailout—It’s (Still) Illegal—EJ Antoni and Sarah Parshall Perry
• Power to the Principals: Bureaucrats Need to Stop Gatekeeping New Teachers—Erika Donalds
• Report: What Explains the Unprecedented Gap Between Reported Job Gains and New Workers?—Rachel Greszler
• Robin DiAngelo’s Alleged Plagiarism Is No Coincidence—Mike Gonzalez
• Are Your Mail-Order Meds Turning Toxic in the Heat?—David Gortler
• Food Profit Margins Shrink, But Harris Blames Them for Rising Grocery Bills—Joel Griffith
• The Stories Democrats Tell About Project 2025—Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D.

Robert Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security, appeared on Fox News, pointing out that “the execution of six hostages [abducted on Oct. 7] while ceasefire negotiations are underway tells you all you need to know about Hamas.” Watch the clip here.