Plus: Taxes in Manchin-Schumer-Biden Plan Would Hit Both Rich and Poor Americans
August 4 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Sen. Rand Paul defies Democrats by looking into U.S. support for research in China that may have made COVID-19 deadlier. Fred Lucas reports on this and President Biden’s questionable abortion travel order. Democrats push new taxes on vulnerable Americans, Preston Brashers writes. On the podcast, Asia expert Walter Lohman dissects China’s fierce reaction to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit. Plus: James Carafano on Biden’s botching of a golden opportunity; Doug Blair on mayors who suddenly worry about illegal aliens; and Jay Greene on U.K. lessons about “gender affirming” medical treatment. On this date in 1944, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and others hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse, then sends them to death camps.
“I’m sure each member of this committee … can agree that we need stronger government oversight of how our tax dollars are being used to experiment with possible fatal diseases,” Sen. Rand Paul says.
Despite President Biden’s promise, this bill would increase taxes collected from Americans by more than half a trillion dollars, affecting rich and poor alike.
It’s worth asking why, if the U.S. were going to bother Communist China anyway, the Biden administration didn’t do something more impactful as the House speaker visited Taiwan.
The president directs the Department of Health and Human Services to consider using Medicaid dollars to pay expenses for pregnant women in pro-life states when they travel to get an abortion.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for help comes after she and other Democrats downplayed the massive wave of illegal immigrants flooding across the nation’s southern border.
Sen. Joe Manchin sponsored Democrats' new spending bill shortly before party leaders promised to expedite permits for crucial energy infrastructure. That’s far from certain.
