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Critical race theory, Team Biden and our schools – 2 big lessons conservatives must learn <[link removed]> – When the Biden administration retreated twice this month from its attempts to shoehorn critical race theory into K-12 classrooms, it showed two things: The first is that a strategy of exposure and pressure works, the second is that the American people can never let up. The
second is particularly vital. President Joe Biden has surrounded himself with committed ideologues who themselves have appointed mid-level managers devoted to far-leftist causes, and they are determined to impose these ideas on the rest of us. If anything, this is a "teachable moment." Conservatives often remind themselves that personnel is policy, but when it comes to filling out
administrations, they sometimes buckle under to the wishes of the left-of-center entrenched federal bureaucracy. Heritage expert: Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>

Biden releases 21-point immigration plan amid bipartisan criticism <[link removed]> – The border crisis
has been anything but ‘fair, orderly, or humane.’ The Biden Administration can keep repeating these words, but it just makes it more obvious to the American people that the administration doesn’t want you to believe what you see playing out every day at the border. Everything this administration does regarding immigration has the purpose of providing more pathways for more immigrants to enter the U.S. and remain here. The Biden Admin stating in the fact sheet that it continues to deter illegal (‘irregular’) migration at our Southern border and that the Trump Administration failed to securely manage our border does not even pass the laugh test. Heritage expert: Lora Ries <[link removed]>

Biden Administration’s Approach to “Buy American” Will Harm Taxpayers <[link removed]> – President Biden previously signed an executive order laying out the new
Administration’s vision for “Buy American” policies, which include increasing regulations for government procurement to create jobs and expand the economy. These laws have proven to be costly regulatory burdens for businesses, reducing competition for government contracts and increasing costs to taxpayers. At the same time, the industries that Buy American laws attempt to benefit are not experiencing job growth. The Biden Administration’s Buy American plans are unlikely to yield different results than those of its predecessors. The Administration should halt its efforts to increase these regulations and focus instead on working with Congress to expand competition in federal procurement by eliminating Buy American rules. Heritage expert: Joel Griffith <[link removed]>

Dems’ Confirmation Strategy Ignores Their Previous Complaints about Republicans <[link removed]> – In 2018, with Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans running the Senate, Democrats regularly complained
about the judicial confirmation process. In fact, Judiciary Committee Democrats issued a report titled “Republican Efforts to Stack Federal Courts.” You’d think that since nine of today’s eleven committee Democrats, including Chairman Richard Durbin (D., Ill.), signed that report, they would take the chance to make the process run as they so loudly said it should. If you’d think that,
you’d be wrong. Democrats, for example, complained that including two appeals court nominees in the same hearing “ma[de] it more difficult to vet and question them.” Democrats have already done this in twice as many hearings as Republicans did at this point in 2017. Democrats complained that an average of 131 days from nomination to confirmation was
“rushing” appeals court nominees through the Senate. This year, the Senate has been confirming Biden’s appeals court nominees in an average of 68 days. Heritage expert: Tom Jipping <[link removed]>

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