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Stand Up and Hold China Accountable for Their Crimes Against Humanity and the Uyghurs <[link removed]> – After Chamath
Palihapitiya said no one cares about China’s treatment of the Uyghurs and with the Olympics coming up, Americans and the global community need to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party, and also ensure some corporate accountability for bowing to Chinese pressure. China should never have
been selected to host the upcoming Winter Olympics. These upcoming months provide opportunities to shed light on China's poor human rights track record. China should face consequences for its actions, including follow-on unilateral and multilateral sanctions for their exploitation of the Uyghurs, among other rights abuses. The US should step up where it can to provide safe haven to those fleeing the CCP's persecution by extending Priority-2 refugee status to Uyghurs and Hong Kongers. Heritage Experts: Olivia Enos <[link removed]> and Dean Cheng <[link removed]>
 
9 Reasons Not to Pass Yet Another Federal COVID-19 “Relief” Spending Package <[link removed]> –
COVID-19 relief spending is actually hurting our economy today by adding to problems like rising costs, supply chain problems, and an unprecedented labor shortage. We need policies that will encourage people to take jobs instead of adding more missing parts to already fractured supply chains. Policymakers should be looking for ways to ease current struggles with supply chains, labor shortages and rising prices by first removing government-imposed harms. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>
 
Indirect Costs: How Taxpayers Subsidize University Nonsense <[link removed]> – Currently, taxpayers are forced to subsidize the agenda of
the political left through funding its research agendas and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff on university campuses. The Left has used the indirect cost reimbursement system to capture universities for its purposes. Federal grant-awarding agencies should not pay an indirect rate that is higher than the lowest rate that is accepted from private organizations, such as foundations and businesses. This would eliminate cross-subsidies and dramatically reduce universities’ ability to install more DEI staff. Universities must be held accountable—and the exploitation of taxpayers must end. Heritage Expert: Jay Greene <[link removed]>



18 More Federal Agencies Eye Making Vaccine Religious-Objector Lists <[link removed]> – This week, <[link removed]> we revealed <[link removed]> that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of
the <[link removed]> “personal religious information” <[link removed]> employees who had religious objections to the federal employee vaccine mandate. As it turns out, the little-known <[link removed]> Pre-trial Services Agency <[link removed]> for the District of Columbia isn’t the only federal agency involved. As we feared, a whole-of-government effort looks to be underway. A little digging at the Federal Register revealed that there are at least 19 total federal agencies—including five cabinet level agencies—that have created or proposed to create these tracking lists for religious-exemption requests from their employees. The list includesDepartment of Justice <[link removed]>, the Department of Health and Human Services <[link removed]>, the Department of Transportation <[link removed]>, and the Department of the Treasury <[link removed]>, to name only a few. Heritage Experts: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]> and GianCarlo Canaparo <[link removed]>
 
The 10 Worst Provisions in Biden, Schumer’s Voting Rights Bills <[link removed]> –
The claim that the election reforms passed by states will prevent 55 million Americans from voting is particularly outrageous. These bills that Biden wants the Senate to pass would impose unwise and unconstitutional mandates that would severely damage the security of our elections. The only "attack on democracy" that is occurring is in these federal bills. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>


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