Plus: Amid Controversy Over Virginia Public Schools, Religious Private Schools See Surge in Enrollment
October 29 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where Democrats hope to gain traction by slenderizing their $3.5 trillion social spending bill to a mere $1.75 trillion. The package is still stuffed with bad programs, Christian Mysliwiec shows in a roundup from Heritage Foundation analysts. Dissatisfaction with public schools in Virginia benefits parochial schools, Mary Margaret Olohan reports. On the podcast, a challenge for lawyers who don’t happen to be white. Plus: foreign dignitaries celebrate a pro-life Trump initiative that Biden killed, and Mike Pence backs public school parents. Fifty years ago today, Duane Allman, a celebrated slide guitarist and leader of the Allman Brothers Band, dies at 24 when his motorcycle crashes into a flatbed truck in Macon, Georgia.
The White House just released a framework for the Build Back Better agenda, a massive, $1.75 trillion spending bill that would radically transform the American way of life.
“Parents are taking their kids out of Loudoun County Public Schools because of … their failure to keep kids safe, [and] divisive materials in the classroom and library,” says Fight for Schools’ Ian Prior.
Lawmakers, ambassadors, and embassy officials commemorate a pro-life, pro-family international declaration signed by the United States during the Trump administration.
Pence calls the series of events in Loudoun County the “tragic consequences that happen when schools prioritize radical left ideology above all else, including the safety of our kids.”
Democrats propose partly funding some of their massive spending plan with a tax on the “unrealized capital gains” of anyone making more than $100 million a year or worth at least $1 billion.
