Congress needs to think beyond Affordable Care Act subsidies

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November 28, 2025

Congress needs to think beyond Affordable Care Act subsidies

I’m going to tell you something that very few of my Republican colleagues would openly admit. If someone says that health insurance will become more expensive if Congress doesn’t extend Obamacare tax credits, they’re right, but only for those who purchase individual plans on the exchange. What tax credit proponents won’t tell you is that we […]

Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness

There was widespread outrage at President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn’t enforce the law against farms employing illegal aliens. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did damage control by saying that the administration’s goal remains that farms should have “a 100% American workforce” and that “ultimately, the answer on this is automation.” So why […]

The anti-Communist documentary worth your time

Next year will mark America’s 250th birthday. There are piles of anniversary books in the pipeline, and Ken Burns has already released a documentary. In 2026, I’m also producing an Anti-Communist Film festival, which I announced in the Washington Examiner. In celebrating America at 250, it’s also necessary to remind ourselves of the greatest threats to […]

America’s great shale revolution rumbles on

Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers. About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and natural gas revolution. After many years of trying to figure out how to extract the oil and natural gas trapped in shale rock formations, America’s petroleum engineers developed horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking. Water laced […]

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