Destination taxation: If Congress lets the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act sunset, taxes will rise across the board and the economy will worsen, as a new Heritage paper explains. 

• “Americans could face the largest tax increase in generations…. Individual tax rates would increase, and the standard deduction and child tax credit would be cut in half,” writes Research Fellow in Tax Policy Preston Brashers. 

Read more here about what the end of the Tax Cuts and Job Act would mean for your wallet. 

Time to end: Three years and $177 billion later, President Trump is taking steps to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Heritage experts Victoria Coates and Rob Greenway explain his approach in two helpful videos.

• “Simply put, President Donald Trump inherited an untenable situation caused by the Biden administration,” says Coates.
• Greenway says that “there has been little progress made on either side in the last two years.”

Watch more here and here.

Loud and clear: In the past week alone, lawmakers heard from three experts on education, national defense, and DOGE.

• Lindsey Burke, Ph.D., testified on the vast increase in non-teaching staff in the school system.
• Brent Sadler testified on U.S. allies’ lack of spending on national defense.
• Max Primorac testified before the DOGE subcommittee on the waste, fraud, and abuse, as did Tyler O’Neil, senior editor of our affiliated news site The Daily Signal.

President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, has reignited interest in reining in out-of-control government spending.  

• Many Americans don’t know about the insane projects that the federal government funds with their hard-earned taxes. 
• That’s why we created The Heritage Foundation DOGE Survey.

Help Heritage to advance policies that will cut the federal budget, remove burdensome regulations, and restore sanity to the country’s finances. Take the survey here.

Triple threat: On Thursday, The Daily Signal’s own Elizabeth Mitchell, newly named White House correspondent for the outlet, asked her first White House question—and received answers from President Trump, Vice President Vance, and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer!

• The Trump War Room later posted the clip on its X account.
• White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reposted the photo of Elizabeth in front of the White House.

Watch the video here.

Clear thinking: When President Trump directed regulators to force providers and insurers to publicly disclose their prices, he picked up on an idea that Heritage Senior Research Fellow Robert Moffit, Ph.D., has been promoting for years as a way to inject market competition into the health care industry.

• “We have been in the forefront of this effort for a long time,” Moffit says.

Read some of Moffit’s work on this topic here, here, here, and here.

Fighting for the future: America’s brightest high school students aren’t waiting on the sidelines—they’re stepping up to fight for the future of our country. The Lloyd and Bea Smith High School Fellowship equips young conservatives with the knowledge and skills they need to defend America’s founding principles and actively engage in building tomorrow’s conservative movement.  

• Real-world policy experience. Fellows don’t just study conservative ideas; they engage directly with policymakers, scholars, and experts at Heritage.  
• Leadership training. From public speaking to professional networking to projects developing policy ideas, students gain the skills to lead confidently and advocate conservative values.  
• Be part of the movement. Connect with like-minded conservative students who share your passion.    

Applications are open through April 11, 2025.  Apply today!  

Far from home: “Sanctuary” cities like New York and Chicago have seen homelessness skyrocket. Cracking down on illegal immigration will help, but reforms are still needed to help homelessness citizens.

• “The goal of assistance should be to help people improve their lives and overcome barriers to employment and healthy functioning,” writes Rachel Sheffield, research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy.

Read the full article here. 

Read the fine print: U.S. immigration law and recent court precedent show that anyone—including state and local officials—can be prosecuted for protecting illegal migrants.

• Despite what “sanctuary city” mayors or blue state governors may believe, circumventing federal law comes with consequences.
• Heritage’s Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky puts it bluntly: “They are not protected by sovereign immunity from federal prosecution.”

Read the full report here.

250 years young: Heritage has launched a special round of the Innovation Prizes ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to recognize and provide substantive financial awards that, in total, amount to $250,000 to non-profits for projects focused on themes relating to the Semiquincentennial in 2026. We welcome projects that focus on the following: 

• Celebrating America’s 250th anniversary 
• Building civic awareness and encouraging Americans to engage in civic life 
• Inspiring patriotism 
• Educating citizens about America’s founding principles 
• Teaching Americans about our government’s foundational tenets 

Applications for America’s 250th Anniversary Innovation Prizes are open through May 1. For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Facing the End of the FACE Act: Is It Time for the Law to Go?

 

Join us for a timely discussion with leading legal and policy experts on why the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act is duplicative, unconstitutional, and must be repealed, and hear stories of those who have been unjustly targeted and charged with violations of this illegitimate law.

 

March 6, noon. Register here.

• The Confirmation Games Have Begun—Thomas Jipping
• How Tulsi Gabbard Can Reform the Intelligence Community to Better Serve Americans—Wilson Beaver
• The Mellon Foundation’s Assault on American History—Brenda Hafera
• Confirm Elbridge Colby Right Now—Robert Peters
• Trump Administration Puts Subsidized Green-Energy Companies on a Diet—Preston Brashers and Andrew Weiss
• Donald Trump Has Just Saved New York from its Leaders’ Worst Instincts—Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Congress Should Stop Researching Data Center Threats and Start Protecting Them—Annie Chestnut Tutor and Wilson Beaver
• Hard Truths in Munich—Mike Gonzalez
• Fact-Check for Margaret Brennan: Free Speech Did Not Exist in Nazi Germany—Hans von Spakovsky
• Budget Reconciliation: A Tale of Two Chambers—Richard Stern
• Report: An Education Reconciliation Agenda for the 119th Congress: 12 Reforms—Lindsey Burke, Ph.D., and Madison Marino Doan
• Report: Dangerous Abortion Drugs Are a Threat to Health and Safety. What Now?—Melanie Israel
• Follow the Law—Sarah Parshall Perry

John Fabbricatore, visiting fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center, and retired ICE field office director, appeared on Newsmax to talk about sanctuary cities. Watch the clip here.