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 President Biden’s “Equity Action Plans” Reveal Radical, Divisive Agenda <[link removed]> - Race-based policies are anathema to the ideals of the United States, and the nation made them illegal in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act finally put into operation the 14th Amendment’s promise of “equal protection of the laws,” which was adopted in 1868. The Biden Administration’s Equity Action Plans trample on these ideals and laws, and Congress must stop them from being implemented. Heritage Experts: David Ditch <[link removed]>, Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>, Hans von Spakovsly <[link removed]>, and Erin Dwinell <[link removed]> 

Two Years In, Black Lives Matter Has Prompted More Americans To Reject White Guilt <[link removed]> - Today marks two years since the killing of George Floyd, and one thing can be said with certainty: the committed Marxists who created Black Lives Matter and orchestrated the violent disorders that upended our cities in 2020 have been incredibly successful at
deeply altering life in this country. And not for the better. That should not surprise in the least those who have followed closely what the BLM founders have said and done. “Changing how we’ve organized this country … dismantling the organizing principle of this society,” as BLM architect Alicia Garza put it <[link removed]> in 2019, has always been the goal. Heritage Expert: Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>


The Biden administration placates Latin American foes while pummeling American friends <[link removed]> - The Biden administration last week rewarded the two dictatorial regimes in Latin America most rabidly opposed to American values, Cuba and Venezuela, and punished one of the last regional governments
that espouses support for the United States, Guatemala. Heritage Experts: Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>and Mateo Haydar  <[link removed]>


How Policymakers Can Address Baby Formula Shortage <[link removed]> – The Biden administration and Congress must immediately end harmful policies that prevent the market from meeting the needs of American families. This shortage is an utter failure by the Biden administration to heed warnings last year about the coming shortage, or work with Congress on reforms to prevent it. It is also a real-world, tangible consequence of Biden’s reckless economic policies. The administration failed to take meaningful action to mitigate the coming shortage from last September through February, by which point out-of-stock rates had hit 26%. The Food and Drug Administration also pressured Abbott Nutrition to close its Michigan plant, without first ensuring that an adequate supply of formula would be available. Instead of solving their own crisis, House Democrats passed a messaging bill that would only send more money to the same regulators in D.C. that shut down production. Heritage Experts: Mike Howell <[link removed]> and Rachel Greszler  <[link removed]>


Homeland Security’s Rebooted Disinformation Plan Is No Better Than the First <[link removed]> – Constitutionalists, free-speech lovers, and sane people alike cheered upon hearing the announcements <[link removed]> that the Department of Homeland Security was disbanding its nascent Disinformation
Governance Board <[link removed]> and the board’s designated head, Nina Jankowicz, was
resigning. The reasons why are obvious: The federal government has no business determining what is truth, it is nowhere near the mission of Homeland Security, and Jankowicz had a consistently wrong record of identifying “disinformation.” But Americans should take no comfort in the fact that the Biden administration’s efforts to censor information from within DHS and elsewhere will end. In fact, the administration has announced that former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick will take the baton from Jankowicz and continue down the disinformation track. This plan is no better than the first one.Heritage Experts: Lora Ries <[link removed]> and James Carafano  <[link removed]>


Biden must urge South Korea and Japan to assume larger regional security roles <[link removed]> - In a new report <[link removed]> Heritage’s senior research fellow Bruce Klingner <[link removed]> and Jeff Smith <[link removed]> layout how President Biden should use his trip to South Korea and Japan, “to affirm, augment, and accelerate recent positive trends in both alliances and the
increasingly relevant Quad grouping. Biden’s Asia trip should really be about: an America First foreign policy that confronts the greatest existential threat to the West – the Chinese Communist Party. Strong alliances in the Indo–Pacific better position the U.S. to confront and overcome China. Heritage Experts: Bruce Klingner <[link removed]>, Dean Cheng <[link removed]>, and Walter Lohman  <[link removed]>


Proposed Amendment to ‘China Bill’ Would Wrongly Reward Unprofitable Investments <[link removed]> – If someone can’t manage his or her own financial affairs, it’s a good bet they’d manage other people’s finances badly, too. Given that the federal government has racked up an enormous $30 <[link removed]> trillion of debt—$6 trillion in just the past two years—nobody should trust that federal legislators know the first thing about sound investing. Case in point: As congressional committees continue to debate differences between the House and Senate versions of the America COMPETES Act, the so-called China bill <[link removed]>, some lawmakers are pushing to include tax laws that would blatantly subsidize unprofitable private investments. On top of the $50 billion <[link removed]> of direct subsidies for semiconductor companies already packed into the 3,000-page, $350 billion <[link removed]> omnibus package, the Senate Finance Committee’s chairman and ranking member—Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, respectively—want <[link removed]> to add another massive subsidy disguised as a tax credit to build semiconductor manufacturing facilities. Heritage Expert: Preston Brashers <[link removed]>
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