Golden age: The Heritage Foundation celebrated the successful first 100 days of President Trump’s second term by highlighting 100 of the administration’s biggest wins. 

• Trump “has taken a sledgehammer to the bloated and out-of-touch bureaucracy, restored the rule of law, and put Americans—not Washington elites—first,” said Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts. 
• Heritage unveiled a banner celebrating the wins on the side of its D.C. headquarters for all Capitol Hill to see. Check it out here.  

See our top 100 wins from the past 100 days here. 

Upgrade: Border czar Tom Homan joined Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, at Heritage’s Annual Leadership Conference to share the monumental progress the Trump administration has made at the southern border. The numbers he shared were eye-opening:

• “From January 20 to April 1 last year, Border Patrol released over 184,000 illegal aliens into the country. Same timeframe this year under Trump? Nine.”
• Homan went on to explain that those nine were necessary releases—the number of discretionary releases since January 20th is zero.

Watch the clip here.

Safe and secure: Mary Vought, vice president of Strategic Communications at Heritage, shares why, as a mother of two daughters, she is thankful for President Trump’s leadership.

• “Only 100 days in, Trump has already succeeded in once again making America a place where I can feel confident raising my daughters without fear,” writes Vought in an op-ed in USA Today.

Read her USA Today op-ed here.

Winning: Heritage filed a shareholder resolution with IBM—one of the world’s largest IT companies—to end its quota-driven DEI agenda. And won. 

• “We’re grateful that the company listened to the voice of shareholders like us,” said Heritage Chief Advancement Officer Andrew Olivastro, adding that IBM has the chance to "take the lead in setting the tone for the rest of corporate America.” 

Read The Daily Wire’s coverage here. 

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Real lies: Last August, visiting fellow Robby Starbuck learned that Meta’s AI claimed that he’d joined the Jan. 6 riot, denied the Holocaust, had been sued for defamation, and “posed a significant threat to his children.”

• None of it is true, and Starbuck filed a defamation suit against Meta last week.
• What about the rest of us? As Starbuck told The Daily Signal: “AI must have guardrails to stop it from committing character assassination. Period.”

Read more here.

Tick tock: China currently outpaces America when it comes to automated vehicles. America must not cede this key technological race to China, argues Senior Fellow Mario Loyola. 

• “America must move quickly to develop and implement a regulatory framework that allows great innovations to be developed the American way—through a decentralized economy that protects the privacy and safety of all citizens,” Loyola writes in a new Special Report. 

Read the report here. 

Giddy up: This week, Texas finally passed a universal school choice bill to expand education freedom to every child in the Lone Star State. The bill is the tipping point for school choice across the country.

• “More than 1 in 10 U.S. students live in Texas. Now that they are all eligible for an education savings account, half of America’s children now live in states where they are eligible for education choice,” writes Jason Bedrick, research fellow in the Center for Education Policy.

Read more here.

Revitalizing the Defense Industrial Base for the 21st Century 

 

Join a panel discussion with Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and the authors of a new Heritage report about the policy reforms needed to restore the defense industrial base—including workforce shortages, supply chain vulnerabilities, punitive tax policies, and regulatory overreach.  

 

May 7, 11 a.m. Register here. 

• Heritage Experts: President Trump Right to End Taxpayer Funding of ’Biased’ NPR and PBS—Mike Gonzalez and Lindsey Burke
• Marco Rubio’s State Department “Coup” Humiliated a Gullible Media—Simon Hankinson
• California’s Homeless Crisis Shows the Need for Government Accountability—Richard Stern and Katherine Miller
• The High Cost of Big Government—a Heist on Taxpayers—Richard Stern and Katherine Miller
• Revisionist History at American Museums Needs To Be Addressed. Here’s Why.—Brenda Hafera
• To Protect America, Fix Our Defense Industrial Base—Jim Fein
• Liberal Judge Tries To Block Trump Over Bogus Biden-Era Parole for Countless Illegals—Simon Hankinson
• Why El Salvador’s “Mega” Prisons Are Making the World Safer—Andres Martinez-Fernandez
• America’s NATO Allies Have Underfunded the Alliance by $827 Billion—Miles Pollard and Kyle Mendelson
• India’s Fifth-Generation Fighter Ambitions: Time to Choose, Time to Build—Kriti Upadhaya
• It’s Time To Hold International Organizations Accountable for Supporting Terrorism—Eugene Kontorovich

Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts appeared on Newsmax to talk about President Trump’s first 100 days and the urgent need for Congress to lock in the wins so that future administrations can’t undo them. Watch the clip here.