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Locking it Down

What to Know: Two University of Texas at Austin professors confirm that quarantining everyone—rather than those most at risk in this pandemic—could lead to more deaths, rather than fewer.

The TPPF Take: We can’t underestimate the damage to lives and livelihoods being done by shutting down our economy.

“Leaders across this country are wrestling with when and how to reopen the economy,” says TPPF’s Andrew Afifian. “They must balance physical health with economic health. It would behoove them to remember that for many of us, returning to work yesterday was already a matter of survival.”

The Constitution Matters

What to Know: A U.S. Attorney, writing in the Odessa American, notes that even during a pandemic, constitutional rights and principles must be protected.

The TPPF Take: TPPF’s Workplace Recovery Act is a constitutionally conservative approach to dealing with the coronavirus and its economic effects.

“The Workplace Recovery Act achieves the objectives of constitutional and fiscal conservatism,” says TPPF’s Rod Bordelon. “The Act is constructed on a constitutional foundation, with a clear objective that will accomplish our national purpose. Once that purpose is achieved, the program and its government funding will end.”

Ripe for Fraud

What to Know: One congressional candidate in Central Texas is being accused of misleading voters in a campaign mailer that tells them to “stay safe and vote from home” and adding (erroneously) “you have the green light to vote by mail.”

The TPPF Take: The Texas Attorney General’s Office has stepped forward to defend election integrity in Texas.

“Texas law prudently limits mail-in balloting to Texans serving away from home in the military or studying out of town in college, or temporarily away on business or vacation, Texans aged 65 and older, and Texans’ with a disability that makes it difficult for them to get to the polls,” says TPPF’s Quico Canseco.  “While necessary for voters who truly can’t get to the polls, ballot-by-mail is rife with risk because there is a broken chain of custody.”