Plus: House Democrats Pass Bill Blocking Trump-Era Order to Hold Federal Employees Accountable
September 16 2022
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats shield bureaucrats from Donald Trump’s accountability measure. Mary Margaret Olohan reports. In California, conservatives are targeted by the governor’s hate commission, our Tyler O’Neil writes. On the podcast, national security expert Sumantra Maitra explains why Queen Elizabeth II was so close to the hearts of her subjects. Plus: illegal immigrants outside her house put the lie to the VP’s “border is secure” nonsense; Senate Democrats seek GOP votes for their divisive marriage bill; and House conservatives reject the Left’s priorities. On this date in 1940, the House and Senate pass legislation, by wide margins, imposing the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
"This is about leftists in this body wanting to protect the entrenched leftists in the bureaucracy undermining the will of the American people every single day," says Rep. Chip Roy.
If senators are serious about religious freedom, they should reject the Baldwin-Collins-Romney amendment out of hand and look to Mike Lee’s proposed amendment instead.
Sumantra Maitra, a national security fellow at the Center for the National Interest and associate fellow at the Royal Historical Society, discusses Queen Elizabeth II and the war on history.
Hours after legislation went into effect in Indiana protecting nearly all unborn babies, a county judge temporarily blocked a heartbeat law in neighboring Ohio.
Thanks to Gbvs. Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, and Doug Ducey, rich liberals have a chance to show how truly welcoming they are instead of just uselessly virtue signaling.