Plus: 6 Big Takeaways as House Panel Retraces Trump’s Steps During Capitol Riot
July 22 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where last night the House panel investigating the Capitol riot sought to portray Donald Trump as making matters much worse by both action and inaction. Fred Lucas reports. What’s President Biden up to with this talk of a climate emergency? Katie Tubb has thoughts. On the podcast, Sen. Rand Paul says Democrats are crazy enough to propose to hike taxes as inflation rages. Plus: understanding the flap in Congress over semiconductors, and the right way to use Medicare savings. On this date in 1933, American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, becoming—after seven days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes—the first person to fly solo around the world.
The hearing’s focus Thursday night was on what Donald Trump did and didn’t do at the White House for about three hours as rioters breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The administration aims to achieve the costly and unrealistic objectives of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reaching economy-wide net-zero emissions by 2050.
Taiwan’s ambassador to the U.S., during a roundtable discussion with House Republican leaders, said she is confident America would assist the island if it were attacked by China.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has begun the process of advancing a bill that would dish out subsidies to incentivize semiconductor manufacturing within the United States
Shoveling Medicare “savings” to cover up holes in Obamacare spending not only ignores Medicare’s fiscal crisis but also ignores the failed Obamacare subsidy scheme.
When a Democrat occupies the White House, you can be reasonably sure that administrative agencies will start bending rules to get results that they can’t get through normal procedures.
