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At UN, It’s Politics as Usual for Biden – There used to be axion that politics ends at the water’s edge. The Biden administration has turned that principle of statecraft on it head. Throughout the Cold War, there was in fact a serious effort to fashion bipartisan foreign policy with a coalition of political leaders across the Left and the Right. In the 1990s, however, the character of American political leadership began to significantly change. Political diversity atrophied in both parties to the point that forging a foreign policy consensus with leaders across both sides of the aisle became increasingly difficult. Biden has taken this divide to the extreme. Instead of politics ending at the water’s edge, our president sees foreign policy primarily as an extension of his domestic political agenda. Just look at the White House top priorities. They are not China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. They are climate change and a woke cultural agenda that mimics leftist radical social policies pushed here at home. Heritage Expert: James Carafano
Uncool: Biden Pushes Senate to Ratify Treaty That Would Raise Cost of Air Conditioning – After a hot summer with utility bills rising, reasonable people would think that President Joe Biden would want to keep air conditioning costs low for Americans. But the Senate is poised to vote on a climate treaty that would raise those costs and put yet another notch in the belt of Biden’s whole-of-government, whole-of-the-economy climate agenda. In his first week as president, Biden issued Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” Among the many regulatory actions it initiated, Biden’s order also directed his administration to pursue the Senate’s ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the U.N. Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. What does a treaty on the ozone layer have to do with global warming? Very little, but it offers a convenient cover to slip in costly climate policy that would drive Americans’ air conditioning costs even higher. Heritage Expert: Katie Tubb
Congress should stop the Air Force from retiring F-22s – First, there’s a difference between the technology required to dominate a piece of airspace and the number of aircraft required to hold it. With the displaced fighter and tanker basing associated with the defense of Taiwan, it would take at least a squadron of 24 mission capable jets to maintain an eight-jet combat air patrol (CAP) over that island nation, and it would take more than three CAPS to defend it. Second, the service has held on to its assessment that China will be a threat “sometime in the 2030s” for more than a decade, despite the accelerated growth of China’s military, its technological advances and the assessments of other services and agencies. Last year, a former commander of US Pacific Command stated that China wants to have the capability to move against Taiwan by 2027 — an assessment shared by the current Indo-Pacific commander, the current director of the CIA and repeated by Defense Department policy chief Colin Kahl earlier this month. The Air Force’s NGAD fighter will not be operational until the early 2030s and, if China moves on Taiwan before then, it will need every stealth fighter it can get its hands on. Even with today’s dismal mission capable rates, 33 upgraded F-22s would increase the operational fleet by 17 jets. Heritage Expert: JV Venable
School Districts Are ‘Sabotaging Parent-Child Relationships.’ Sen. Tim Scott’s New Bill Fights Back – One Republican lawmaker has introduced a measure to protect parental rights, which he warned are under attack by public schools teaching gender ideology without parents’ knowledge or consent. This Tuesday, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., introduced the Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their (PROTECT) Kids Act. If passed, the bill would require that government-funded elementary and middle schools tell parents before changing “a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name” and before allowing a child to change “sex-based accommodations.” The government could withdraw funding from K-12 schools that fail to disclose this information to parents. As Scott writes, “Parents have a fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed right to raise and educate their children in the way they choose.” He roots this right in the 14th Amendment, which states: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Heritage Expert: Gillian Richards
The Battle Over Abortion Rages on in Pennsylvania as Pro-Lifers March for Life – The United States Supreme Court may have overturned Roe v. Wade this summer, but pro-life activists across the country know the battle over abortion is far from over. Marshaled by the March for Life, several thousand Pennsylvanians gathered in Harrisburg on a sunny Monday morning in what PennLive.com calls “one of the largest gatherings of people at the Pennsylvania Capitol in recent years”—the second annual Pennsylvania March for Life. Currently Pennsylania allows abortions up until 23 weeks, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, and the abortionist may only end the life of an unborn baby older than 24 weeks if the mother’s life or health is in danger. Heritage Expert: Mary Margaret Olohan
Biden nears 100 executive orders estimated to cost taxpayers almost $1.5 trillion – President Biden's executive actions have cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion so far and that's taking into account the recent student loan executive action, which could cost up to $1 trillion. But earlier this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office produced an analysis showing that less than ten of Biden's earlier executive actions cost taxpayers already more than $500 billion, so it could be up to $1.5 trillion in cost to taxpayers. This is just on executive actions, not legislation going through Congress and being signed into law and being debated, it's just pure executive actions taken by Biden costing taxpayers up to $1.5 trillion. The impact on inflation would be significant because all of this new spending that the executive branch is doing, that Biden is doing by fiat. That means more money getting pumped out into the economy that's being financed by the Federal Reserve, which means the printing presses are on, which means that it adds to the inflationary pressures. Heritage Expert: Matthew Dickerson
Sanctuary cities, border crisis costs, and a rude awakening – This is typical of many on the left. They push for a supposedly compassionate, globalist utopia. Then, when reality sets in and their pie-in-the-sky agenda comes crashing down, they cry for help and bailouts. It has never been clearer: The border crisis is not just a border town issue. We face an unprecedented, all-encompassing national security, fentanyl, crime and economic crisis that is seeping into every single state and community across the nation. The Biden administration and the left must reverse their agenda. Heritage Expert: Erin Dwinell
Youngkin administration overhauls Virginia transgender student policies – What Gov. Youngkin has put in place is a good first start. Despite the hysteria from leftist activists and the media, this modest policy requires parents to have the right to make decisions with respect to their children. We’ve seen far too many school systems around the country--such as in New Jersey and Kansas and California—order teachers to hide information about students from their families. Parents and families have a right to know what is happening with their children in school, especially concerning health information. Youngkin’s model policy contains provisions that would protect minor-aged children from radical gender ideology and offers ways in which schools can adopt policies that offer reasonable accommodations for young people who are confused about their sex, while keeping parents informed and involved. Heritage Experts: Jay Richards and Jonathan Butcher