Congratulations, Zaila Avant-garde!
I want to give a huge shoutout to Zaila Avant-garde, a Harvey native who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night to become the first ever champion from Louisiana!
At just 14 years old, Zaila has quite the list of accomplishments already stacked up — winning Thursday's Spelling Bee, holding three Guinness World Records, and showing off her impressive dribbling skills on the basketball court.
I'm incredibly proud of Zaila for her Spelling Bee victory and representing Louisiana so well on the national stage. Our entire state is celebrating you.
Bracing For Skyrocketing Gas Prices
As Americans continue to hit the road for summer vacation, they'll face the unrelenting consequences of President Biden's devastating energy policies when they go to fill up at the gas pump.
According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), gas prices have increased 40 percent since January and are expected to keep rising throughout the rest of the summer. AAA predicts that the national average will rise over $3.25 by the end of August — the highest gas prices have been since 2014.
President Biden hopes OPEC will bail him out of his failed energy proposals, but it's his all-out assault on American energy independence that's putting America last. From banning new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters and canceling the Keystone XL pipeline to rewarding Russia by waiving sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, President Biden has destroyed American energy dominance and made us more reliant on foreign oil, while also shipping American jobs overseas to countries with worse environmental standards.
President Biden has inflicted severe damage to the economic livelihoods of millions of American families since his first day in office, and I urge him to adopt common-sense energy policies that truly put Americans first.
Countering Efforts to Defund the Police
This week, I joined Fox News Channel's The Faulkner Focus to talk about the concerted effort by the radical left to defund the police and other law enforcement agencies that protect our communities. Click here or on the image below to watch my interview.
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