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April 4, 2025
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| Senate Overnighter Sets the Stage for GOP to Clear 'One, Big, Beautiful' Hurdle |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| When President Trump coined the phrase "one, big, beautiful bill" to describe his legislative strategy, there's one word he left out: "complicated." For House and Senate leaders, it's been a two-month dance just to get on the same page about the broad strokes of a plan to implement Trump's agenda. It's like writing the rules for a game you haven't even played yet. And this game, a "mega-MAGA" Twister of tax relief, debt limits, budget cuts, defense and border spending, offsets, baselines, and mind-numbing procedure, is winner-take-all. |
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| How Will Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Affect the Economy? |
| by Ben Johnson |
| President Donald Trump unveiled his "Liberation Day" tariffs this week, raising questions about how they will impact the U.S. economy, jobs, and Americans' budgets. Much analysis of the effect "reciprocal tariffs" will have ignores the greatest rule of economics: Consider unseen consequences. |
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| Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Planned Parenthood Medicaid Defunding |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which Family Research Council President Tony Perkins called "one of the biggest abortion cases since Dobbs" because it "has the potential to decide whether states can withhold Medicaid funds from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood." |
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| How Selfish Bureaucrats Undermine America, and How to Fix It |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer Emanuel Isac Celedon "has been sentenced to federal prison in two separate cases for allowing aliens and cocaine across the border," the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Friday. He provides a particularly egregious example of how career federal employees can undermine America. |
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| Report: Online Sexual Exploitation Survivors Plead for Big Tech Shield Law Reform |
| by Dan Hart |
| The nation's leading nonprofit organization fighting sexual exploitation in the U.S. has released a list of 12 survivors of online exploitation who it says "were silenced" because of a shield law granting immunity to Big Tech platforms. Known as the "Dirty Dozen List," the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has released an annual list since 2013 that has highlighted companies that have been "mainstream contributors of sexual exploitation," including Apple, Meta, Spotify, Reddit, and others. |
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| Marine Le Pen, J.D. Vance, and the European Deep State |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| As has been widely reported over the past several days, Marine Le Pen and officers of her party, the National Rally, were accused of "embezzlement," using funds intended for European Parliament aides to pay national political staffers. Le Pen was convicted by a Paris court on Monday of personally embezzling nearly a half a million euros (over a half a million U.S. dollars) in European Parliament funds to bankroll political activities in France. |
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| Georgia's GOP Scores Victories on Religious Freedom and Defunding Trans Procedures |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| On Wednesday, Georgia's State Capitol was the stage for a "heated debate" over legislation aimed at sparing taxpayers from funding gender transition procedures for inmates - including "sex change surgeries, hormone replacement therapies, and cosmetic procedures designed to alter sexual characteristics." While the measure garnered strong support from Republicans, Democrats voiced their displeasure with the bill and the financial protections it offers. |
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| Report: Leftists, Foreign Adversaries Fund Anti-Semitic and Anti-American Protests, Online Hate |
| by Kathy Athearn |
| Last week, Capital Research Center released a new study that explains how groups that call themselves "pro-Palestinian" promote violence and anti-Americanism. |
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| Restoring Sanity to American History |
| by Anne Love |
| President Trump has issued a slew of executive orders since taking office in January, but perhaps one of his more controversial orders will prove to be one that passed last Thursday. The order seeks to fix the "historical revision" of America's past. |
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