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“Gas stove ban ‘on the table’ for a federal agency <[link removed]> - The Biden Administration is considering a nationwide ban on natural gas stoves, citing new research <[link removed]> that links pollutants released from natural gas stoves with asthma. In reality, this is a ruse to push yet another part of the Biden administration’s misguided “all of government” climate agenda. Natural gas is a clean, domestic, reliable, and abundant source of energy. President Biden is proposing to ban Americans’ access to this energy on the dubious premise of fighting global warming and increases in asthma. Banning natural gas drives up costs for the economy at a time Americans are suffering with inflation and puts yet more decision-making in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats
– this time at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Biden administration should be focused on unleashing American energy production, achieving energy freedom, and providing relief to Americans. Heritage Experts: Rachael Wilfong <[link removed]> and Katie Tubb <[link removed]>
Poison pills: States should look to ban abortion drugs - <[link removed]> Under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, states may exercise powers that are not delegated to the federal government or otherwise
prohibited to the states. These reserved powers include what is often called a general “police power” to provide for “[p]ublic safety, public health, morality, peace and quiet, [and] law and order.” They include the regulation of the medical profession. And after the Supreme Court’s ruling last term in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overruling Roe, states may now prohibit abortion as well. Taken together, this would suggest that states can close off chemical abortions altogether. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Brazil's left-wing former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva won by a margin of just under 2% <[link removed]> - On Sunday, January 8th, a fragment of supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets in Brasilia to protest concerns over past October elections and the incoming Lula administration, leading to a security breach of the Planalto Presidential Palace, the Supreme Court and Congress and subsequent
looting by a group of protesters. Heritage Expert: Mateo Haydar <[link removed]>
Rustic Renaissance: Education Choice in Rural America <[link removed]> - No one school can meet the needs of all children who just happen to live nearby. Families in rural areas deserve more education options. By embracing education choice policies, state lawmakers can deliver on the promise of America’s education system and ensure that all children have access to the learning environment that best meets their individual needs. Policymakers who want to increase education options for rural families should enact education choice policies, such as K–12 education savings accounts, and
broaden charter school laws to make it easier to open them in rural areas. Heritage Expert: Jason Bedrick <[link removed]>
Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act Crucial to Reverse Damaging Funding of IRS Slush Fund <[link removed]> - The Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act acknowledges that it’s wrong to force American taxpayers to pay tens of billions of additional dollars to an agency that will turn around and use those funds for hundreds of thousands of additional audits and taxpayer shakedowns against the American people. The stepped-up enforcement funding in the Inflation Reduction Act would be used to impose painful audits to crack down on small businesses, gig economy workers, and hard-working American families. Heritage Expert: Preston Brashers <[link removed]>
Liberal agenda at the Fed could easily create another banking crisis  <[link removed]> - That’s because the Fed, which has a tremendous amount of
regulatory power over the nation’s financial institutions, has begun using its authority to put politics before fiscal stability. If the Fed’s New Year’s resolution was to destabilize America’s financial system, it’s off to a great start. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
Biden’s abuse of power at the border <[link removed]> - Shortly before his trip to El Paso, President Joe Biden <[link removed]> announced his plan to address the border crisis. Anyone still hoping — two years into Biden's term — that the president would outline an effective solution to the current flood of illegal aliens and drugs had to be disappointed. Heritage Expert: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]>

Make No Mistake About It, America’s Border Crisis Is Biden-Made <[link removed]> - Texas is one of the few states that provides reports on crimes committed by aliens, and the numbers are appalling. The latest report <[link removed]> from the Texas Department of Public Safety notes that, from June 1, 2011, through Dec. 31, 2022, more than 389,000 criminal aliens were booked into local Texas jails. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed that 70% of those arrested were here illegally. Keep in mind that Homeland Security can only confirm the illegal status of aliens who were previously
detained by DHS and had their fingerprints entered into the department’s alien database.  Given the huge number of “got aways” whose fingerprints never make it into the system, it is highly likely that many more of those arrested are also here illegally. Heritage Expert: Cully Stimson <[link removed]>

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