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A Plan for Decisive Action Against the Threat of CCP Land Use in the U.S. <[link removed]> – The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has absolute control over the Chinese nation, would like to see a world without America. China openly admits it is America’s adversary. Therefore, every aspect of Chinese activity in the United States is suspect. Concerns about Chinese acquisition of agricultural land, industrial and commercial property, and other U.S. infrastructure are valid. The CCP threat should be met decisively with a strong deterrent message to the CCP and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. The U.S. must eliminate the potential for malicious activity by China in the U.S. and punish entities and individuals in the Chinese military, government, state-owned enterprises, and the CCP for efforts to undermine and exploit American security or economic might. Heritage Experts: James Carafano <[link removed]> and Dustin Carmack <[link removed]>
Census Bureau Errors Distort Congressional Representation for the States <[link removed]> - The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) revealed significant errors in the 2020 Census count. As a result, certain states will be shorted in their congressional representation until after the 2030 Census, while other states will get more representation than they are entitled to. Congress should investigate the 2020 Census to find out the cause of these errors and mandate changes to minimize, if not eliminate, problems in future counts. An effective investigation should determine why there were no such statistically significant errors in the 2010 Census in contrast to the 2020 Census. Congress should determine if federal funds should be distributed based on the corrected PES numbers, which requires an examination of the accuracy of the PES methods. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
Biden needs to face facts and deal with the return of stagflation <[link removed]> - Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has said that you can
bend reality only so far before it snaps back at you. In short, bad actions, ultimately, always have negative consequences. America is living through the economic equivalent of this principle right now. For a year and a half, the federal government has spent, borrowed and printed trillions of dollars while simultaneously pursuing an anti-energy agenda. The result is stagflation. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
DOJ sues to block new Idaho abortion law, first challenge to a state after Dobbs ruling by Supreme Court <[link removed]>
– The DOJ lawsuit alleges that Idaho’s pro-life law conflicts with a federal law guaranteeing access to emergency medical care. The fact that the Idaho law allows abortion to prevent the mother’s death makes DOJ’s claim—that by banning abortion, it “will likely result in death for the pregnant patient”—confusing. This latest suit from DOJ will likely fail on yet another challenge to the Biden admin’s statutory free for all. Heritage Experts: Thomas Jipping <[link removed]> and Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Whoops! Department of Education Makes $300 Billion Accounting Mistake on Student Loans <[link removed]> - What’s $300 billion between friends? A new report from the Government Accountability Office details a breathtaking discrepancy between what the federal government claimed the student loan program would generate, and what it actually costs taxpayers. As GAO explains: “Although the Department of Education originally estimated federal Direct Loans made in the last 25 years would generate billions in income for the federal government, its current estimates show these loans will cost the government billions.” Heritage Expert: Lindsey Burke <[link removed]>
Senate Hearing on Diversity in Diplomacy Fails to Get to Real Questions <[link removed]> - A
Senate hearing on “diversity and equity” in American diplomacy proved to be a wasted opportunity to tackle a core question in our politics: Do we want equality or “equity”? Instead, the hearing kicked off with mostly old white men bemoaning that the senior ranks of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development are dominated by old white men. In essence, they complained that the agencies don’t do enough to discriminate against their own grandchildren in hiring. Heritage Expert: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]>
CHIPS Is a Missed Opportunity for Real Security <[link removed]> - “ … We have to be on guard against China
at all times … For all technology, we have to do everything we can to make sure our leading edge technology, whether it’s in CHIPS, or artificial intelligence, or other areas, can’t get into the hands of the Chinese.” That was Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo last Sunday on “Face the Nation.” One can be in complete agreement with that statement and look at
the underlying legislation—the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, or CHIPS—that passed both chambers of Congress last week and find it lacking. Heritage Expert: Dustin Carmack <[link removed]>
Is Kansas a Pro-Life or Pro-Choice State? Voters Will Decide <[link removed]> - Kansans are headed to
the polls Tuesday to decide how their state will address the issue of abortion. Voters are asked to vote yes or no on an amendment to the Kansas Constitution, known as Value Them Both, that says no “right to abortion” exists in the state. “The Value Them Both amendment has really been a movement of the people of Kansas to try to take back control of our policies regarding abortion,” Danielle Underwood, director of communications for Kansans for Life, told The Daily Signal over the phone Monday. Heritage Expert: Virginia Allen <[link removed]>
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