Apr 18, 2022

On the Agenda: Inflation keeps climbing, despite promises from the Biden administration that it was just “transitory.” We look at what it’s costing families. We also show how the latest pork-laden spending bill adds gasoline to the inflation fire. Meanwhile, we reveal who’s paying the price for BLM’s “defund the police” efforts, and debunk media myths about parents’ bills of rights. Don’t miss the training program for new school board members, our Big Tech petition, podcasts, and more in the Agenda.

How Much Is ‘Bidenflation’ Costing You?

In the news: Inflation rates continue to reach historic milestones, with March showing an 8.5% jump. But what does this actually mean for you?

Why it matters: That pay raise you just got? With this rate of inflation, it’s probably more like a pay cut. The math shows that these increases in inflation are costing the average American family thousands of dollars in annual income.

Our take: “If President Biden and others are serious about helping working Americans, they need to take responsibility for the mess they created, cut government spending, and end the regulatory war on American energy production,” says Heritage research fellow E.J. Antoni.

Learn more: Find out what inflation is costing Americans here.

8 Varieties of Rancid Pork in Latest Spending Bill

Fuel to the fire: Amid skyrocketing inflation rates, the government continues to make matters worse with insanely reckless spending. The latest example is the March “omnibus” bill to fund the government, which is chock-full of pork-barrel spending.

Our take: “Congress is doing this despite inflation raging out of control and a $30.4 trillion national debt because it thinks it will be to its political benefit. The only way to stop the madness is for the American public to prove it wrong,” writes Heritage policy analyst David Ditch.

Learn more: Find eight examples of useless “earmarks” funded by the omnibus bill here.

Needed: A Parents’ Bill of Rights

Children are being targeted: Leftists have turned classrooms into spaces of condemnation, indoctrination, and inappropriate sexual exposure while trying to keep parents in the dark.

Fighting back: Lawmakers are proposing bills that would give parents more control over their children’s education and require schools to be transparent about curricula.

Fake news: “Despite rampant media mischaracterizations, parental bills of rights protect children from radical ideologies that conflict with their parents’ values,” write Lindsey Burke, the Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education and director of Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, and Jonathan Butcher, the Will Skillman fellow in education.

Learn more: Find out what the four essential components of a parental bill of rights are here.

BLM Buys $6 Million Mansions While Blacks Suffer ‘Defund the Police’ Crime Wave

Crime crisis: Radical groups like Black Lives Matter have raised (and misspent) millions of dollars advocating defund-the-police policies and soft-on-crime prosecutors. But guess who is harmed most by the resulting surge in crime?

The hard truth: “America witnessed much larger spikes in violent crime in 2020, especially homicide, than any of the previous 10 years,” writes legal fellow GianCarlo Canaparo and Heritage intern Abby Kassal. The data show that “African Americans bear an increasingly large share of the harm from crime.”

Learn more: Read more about how BLM squandered donations here, and about the victims of the recent surge in violent crime here.

Tax Day Is Bad Enough. Don’t Let Uncle Sam Steal Your Retirement Savings, Too.

Your hard-earned savings could be faced with double- and in some cases triple-taxation, leaving your heirs—including children—only pennies on the dollar. Instead, consider naming The Heritage Foundation a beneficiary of your IRA upon death and ensuring 100% of your savings will be used to build a stronger, freer America for future generations. Learn more.

DID YOU KNOW?

Heritage has created an interactive map that lets you find out where your state stands when it comes to critical race theory indoctrination in our schools. The map shows where CRT laws have passed, are pending, have been rejected, etc. Check out the tool here.

Preparing for the next presidential administration. Heritage’s newest initiative, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, will exclusively focus on preparing the next administration with conservative policy recommendations and the properly vetted and trained personnel needed to take back America. Read more about the project here.

Big Tech petition. Have you signed Heritage’s Big Tech petition yet? If you haven’t, add your name to the list of thousands who’ve signed the pledge to take on these anti-free speech behemoths. Click here to sign the pledge.

"The Kevin Roberts Show”: Our latest episode explores why America needs better men. Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, talks about a crisis striking at the heart of our country, our society, and ultimately, our families, and the left's push to dismantle the concept of family as we know it. Listen to the episode.

“Heritage Explains”: Sarah Parshall Perry, a legal fellow in Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, breaks down the Biden administration’s proposed changes to Title IX and the hard-fought protections for girls and women it ensures. Listen to the episode.

Heritage President Kevin Roberts was on "Fox & Friends First" talking about the Biden administration’s decision to lift a COVID-related policy regarding illegal immigration, known as Title 42. Roberts called it “total hypocrisy.” Watch the clip here.

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