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Biden’s Explicit Promise To Defend Taiwan Is Bad Policy <[link removed]> - During his visit to Japan, when asked whether the U.S. would defend Taiwan militarily, President Joe Biden
responded <[link removed]>, “Yes, that’s the commitment we made.” He said a very similar thing involving this “commitment” during a CNN town hall last October <[link removed]>. The president is mistaken in two ways. One, the U.S. has no such “commitment.” And two, making such a promise is unnecessary and unwise. Heritage Experts: Walter Lohman <[link removed]> and Dean Cheng <[link removed]>
 
Job Openings Remain at Record High, Hurting Millions of Americans <[link removed]> - While
employers are responding to worker shortages by raising wages and offering new benefits, most Americans workers are actually poorer. In real terms, the average worker has lost $1,800 in earnings over the past year. Unfilled job openings are particularly troubling heading into the summer season when many businesses count on increased employment, especially among young Americans. The outlook for this age group is particularly troubling, as employment among workers ages 20 to 24 has declined by more than any other age group, with these young workers accounting for 75% of the net decline in employment since February 2020. Heritage Experts: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]> and Joel Griffith <[link removed]>
 
DOJ asks federal appeals court to reverse order lifting travel mask mandate <[link removed]> -The
courts have repeatedly struck down the Biden administration’s unlawful COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. The federal courts have enjoined the CDC eviction moratorium, the OSHA vaccine mandate, and the public transportation mask mandate. The Justice Department’s decision to appeal the mask mandate ruling is odd since the Transportation Safety Administration did not seek to renew it when it expired on May 3. TSA apparently realizes what CDC and the Justice Department do not: the executive branch has no legal authority to require passengers on trains, planes and buses to wear masks. Heritage Expert: Doug Badger <[link removed]>
The Xinjiang Police Files Should Prompt Action Against Uyghur
Genocide <[link removed]> - It is surreal to have photographic evidence of the victims of
Beijing’s genocidal campaign—long known to those of us who work in this field. We have listened to the testimony of survivors <[link removed]> and analyzed the satellite
imagery <[link removed]> of camps uncovered by journalists and experts. We didn’t need convincing. We had no doubt the atrocities were happening. But these photos offer something new. Gazing at those photos, it is impossible to deny the humanity of each and every Uyghur. And it is impossible to deny what the CCP is doing to them today. Heritage Expert: Olivia Enos <[link removed]>
The Numbers Are In: Trump’s Tax Cuts Paid Off <[link removed]>- The Congressional Budget Office’s May 2022 forecast <[link removed]> shows that the government now expects to bring in more tax revenue in the decade following the 2017 “Trump tax cuts” than it had projected prior to the December 2017
passage of tax reform. It doesn’t look like the tax cuts—which government scorekeepers said <[link removed]> at the time would cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years—have been anything like the fiscal nightmare that some on the left would lead us to believe. Heritage Expert: Preston Brashers <[link removed]>
 
 U.S. Navy’s edge on China dwindling and lawmakers don’t care <[link removed]>- The Navy <[link removed]>’s advantage over our biggest military adversary, China <[link removed]>, is dwindling rapidly. Yet some House leaders overseeing national defense don’t seem too worried about it. Earlier this month, the chairs of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee and the House Armed Services Committee followed up with a misleading, albeit reassuring, qualitative comparison of the two navies with a comforting assurance that our allies will help fight our wars to safeguard our interests. Spoiler alert: They never have, nor will they ever. Heritage Expert: Brent
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There’s Nothing Equitable in Union Pension Bailouts Unmentioned in Biden’s
‘Equity’ Report <[link removed]> - It goes without saying that bailing out bad actors is not equitable. So, it’s no wonder the Biden administration left any mention of a nearly $100 billion selective bailout of private union pension plans out of its “Advancing Equity Through the American Rescue Plan <[link removed]>” report. To date, 37 multiemployer pension plans have requested between $4 million and $35 billion each <[link removed]>, with 25 of those plans already approved to receive $6.5 billion of an estimated $97 billion <[link removed]> in taxpayer money. These never-before in U.S. history, no-strings-attached taxpayer bailouts <[link removed]> of private multiemployer or union pension plans are part of the American Rescue Plan—despite the fact that this decadeslong problem has nothing to do with COVID-19. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>
 
OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school
year <[link removed]>—No parent wants their child stereotyped and judged based on the color of their skin instead of their choices and behaviors. The surveys we reviewed in our volume The Critical Classroom <[link removed]> demonstrate that parents reject racial bias.  This school proposal rejects the core American ideals of equality under the law and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which
says individuals cannot be discriminated against based on their race or ethnicity. My book, Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth <[link removed]>, explains the importance of this law and how the provision stands in stark contrast to critical race theory's victimhood
culture. School officials must judge children based on their hard work and merit and not adopt lower academic standards, which will leave students unprepared for school and life. Heritage Experts: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]> and Mike
Gonzalez <[link removed]> 
 
Health Care: Time to Go on Offense <[link removed]>—The Biden Administration’s health care policies are failing Americans. Sixteen months into the Administration, the three major government health programs—Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare—are all worse off today than before. The Administration’s policy solutions do little to address the root causes and in many ways make matters worse. The only effective way to resolve persistent problems in health care is to leverage the power of personal choice and market competition. Congress should lay the groundwork for a more patient-centered, market-based health care system. This system would give individuals and families greater control of their health care dollars and decisions while also reducing costs and improving quality through increased competition and transparency in the health care sector. Heritage Expert: Nina Owcharenko Schaefer <[link removed]>


 


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