Plus: Sen. Paul Demands Fauci Resign for Refusing to Admit Agency Funded Gain-of-Function Research
November 5 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where President Biden and congressional Democrats offer their third take on new runaway spending. Christian Mysliwiec rounds up Heritage Foundation analysis of what’s in the bill. On the COVID-19 front, Sen. Rand Paul demands Anthony Fauci’s resignation and Sen. Ron Johnson lays out why Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers is wrongheaded. Mary Margaret Olohan and Fred Lucas report. Johnson also joins the podcast to talk about the consequences. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on education as a GOP opportunity, and Star Parker on progressives gone crazy. Eighty years ago today, War Minister Hideki Tojo secretly orders commanders of Japan’s Combined Fleet to prepare to bomb U.S. warships at Pearl Harbor, the naval base in Hawaii.
The latest version of the spending package benefits rich people in high-tax states, increasing the state and local tax deduction to $72,500. It also has tax subsidies that benefit the media and unions.
“Until you accept responsibility, we’re not going to get anywhere close to trying to prevent another lab leak of this dangerous sort of experiment,” Paul tells Fauci.
The issue of education pits the left-wing institutional machine against parents and democracy. No longer can radical social transformation stay on track behind closed doors.
The White House announces the mandate, which requires employers with 100 or more employees to require vaccinations or weekly COVID-19 tests, will go into effect Jan. 4.
“There’s a large group of nurses and doctors and other health care workers that will not knuckle under and get this COVID vaccine, and we will lose decades of experience,” says Sen. Johnson.
Rep. Cori Bush, a left-wing “squad” member, says Sen. Joe Manchin is “anti-black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant” because of his opposition to a mega-spending bill.
"How many muggings take place in a forest?” Chief Justice John Roberts asks New York's solicitor general, highlighting the paradox of the state's approach to concealed carry permits.
