Plus: 'This Has Got to Stop': GOP Lawmakers Slam Democrat-Led Efforts to Pass Massive Spending Bill
December 21 2022
Greetings from Washington on the first day of winter, where Heritage Foundation policy experts find very cold comfort in rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans who intend to pass a monstrous spending bill days before a GOP-led House convenes. Richard Stern and other analysts identify some of the package’s worst aspects, while Samantha Aschieris reports on Republican resistance. On the podcast, former immigration official Mark Morgan tells our Virginia Allen what’s really behind Biden’s border crisis. Plus: Tyler O’Neil on a leftist group’s smear of a Jewish journalist, and Cully Stimson with a tribute to unknown soldiers. On this date in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew (including 189 Americans) as well as 11 residents on the ground, in what turns out to be a terrorist bombing.
Thhe foundation of this omnibus spending bill is a vast collection of special-interest handouts and fuel for the fires of inflation and the woke, leftist establishment.
"It's loaded up with earmarks," says Sen. Mike Braun, who is joining Sens. Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and other conservatives in fighting the massive spending bill.
Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. says the Biden administration must stop “rewarding illegal immigration” and move to “secure our borders.”
What struck me this year, as I worked in Section 13, was the number of graves with the inscription, “Unknown U.S. Soldier.” There were hundreds of them, many side by side.
The new "Twitter Files" are shining a glaring light on the FBI's influence on Twitter and other Big Tech companies, which put its attempt to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story in perspective.
