Plus: 9 Key Things About Budget Resolution and $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan
August 11 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Senate Democrats want Americans to swallow $3.5 trillion in new spending on top of a $1.1 trillion “infrastructure” bill. We’ve got necessary insight from four Heritage Foundation researchers. President Biden risks alienating typical Americans by cosying up to labor unions, Elizabeth Hanke writes. On the podcast, parents have a friend in “Tuttle Twins,” a new children’s TV show. Plus: welcoming COVID-positive border crossers; standing by the Cuban people; and encouraging young conservatives. On this date in 1973, director-writer George Lucas’ coming-of-age movie “American Graffiti” opens, its popularity allowing Lucas to make “Star Wars.”
Biden’s red carpet for COVID-19 carriers on the U.S.-Mexico boundary—atop his mandatory vaccines for U.S. military personnel and vaccination papers for lawful foreign visitors—epitomizes hypocrisy.
In these times of extreme polarization, young conservatives are facing increasingly hostile campus climates that mock and shame the traditional principles we hold so dear.
The modern characterization for many politicians who refuse to take a stand, especially in the midst of the growing and rapid threat of American socialism, is the word “weenie.”
