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December 12, 2025
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| Divided Senate Rejects Dueling Obamacare Bills |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| A Senate effort to address expiring subsidies on Obamacare premiums fell short on Sunday after a Democratic proposal and a Republican proposal both failed to clear the 60-vote threshold to advance. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) had promised Democrats a vote on health care measures as part of the deal to end the government shutdown, but he never promised Republican support for subsidies "spending taxpayer dollars on abortion or gender transition procedures," as FRC President Tony Perkins described them in October. |
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| Stopping the Bloodshed: Testimony of Tony Perkins before U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa |
| by Tony Perkins |
| As the world's attention finally turns to the horrors in Sudan, Congress is doing its part to highlight the atrocities that have claimed tens of thousands of lives. Led by longtime human rights champion Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), the House held a special hearing Wednesday to discuss how the United States can address the crisis in the war-torn African country. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was invited to testify, calling attention to the spiraling conditions there and the need for the international community to engage. |
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| As Vaccine Debates Swirl, Informed Consent Must Remain Paramount, Experts Say |
| by Dan Hart |
| Following continued revelations of deaths linked to the COVID vaccine and health concerns over the hepatitis B vaccine, experts say that the decision to receive a vaccine must be left in the hands of individuals and parents and must not be mandated by federal or state governments. |
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| Interest Rates, Affordability, and America's Economic Checkup |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| America's economic ship continues to drift downstream in an ebbing tide, as the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee voted at its Wednesday meeting to lower interest rates by a quarter percentage point, signaling the central bank's ongoing unease about the health of the U.S. job market. Wednesday's decision was the Federal Reserve's third consecutive rate cut, and it brings the target federal funds rate down to between 3.5% and 3.75%. |
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| Is Somali Welfare Fraud Endemic? |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Just weeks after a bombshell report exposed billions of dollars of welfare fraud committed by Somali immigrants in deep-blue Minnesota, a new study is sounding the alarm on Somali overreliance on taxpayer-funded benefits. |
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| Loudoun County Chaos: DOJ Sides with Christian Students in Trans-Policy Controversy |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Loudoun County Public Schools have faced LGBT-related controversies before, but this time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is directly involved. This case finds its roots in an ongoing incident that began in March when three boys from Stone Bridge High School were in the boys' locker room when a biological female who identifies as male entered the space. |
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| Senate Fraud Hearing Displays How Trump Derangement Syndrome Blinds Dems to Deep Corruption in Federal Contracting |
| by Mark Tapscott |
| Open the Books (OTB) President John Hart oversees the largest public database ever assembled of government spending at all levels, and two decades ago, he played a central role in making this landmark transparency resource a reality while working for Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and with then-Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to gain passage of the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA). |
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