Choices: Last year, Arizona adopted universal education choice. Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for the same in Texas. 

• “Parents deserve the freedom to choose the education that’s best for their child,” Abbott said in his inaugural address. Read our reaction his speech here. Also check out our report on why rural Texans will benefit. 

Support for reforms like education savings accounts (an idea developed by Heritage scholars) is growing. 

• “All across the country, states are freeing up education dollars to follow children to learning options that meet their individual needs and reflect their families’ values,” write Jonathan Butcher, the Will Skillman fellow in education, and Lindsey Burke, Ph.D., the Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education and director of the Center for Education Policy. 
• Burke and Butcher lay out a comprehensive agenda for states that want to empower parents and break the public-school monopoly. Find out more here. 

Accountability: The Heritage Oversight Project unearthed more emails about the Border Patrol “whipping” scandal.  

• The emails offer more proof that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lied about the agents.  
• They also reveal that Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz complained that “our agents are being assaulted and we aren’t saying a word.” Read more here. 

Fox News broke this story.   

Despite repeated attempts by the legacy media to claim that election fraud doesn’t happen, Heritage’s exclusive election fraud database keeps growing. 

• “States should get to work implementing election reforms,” write Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative, and Katie Samalis-Aldrich, program coordinator in the Meese Center for Judicial and Legal Studies. 

Find fresh examples of election fraud here. 

In depth: Heritage legal scholars provide expert analysis on the evolving scandal. 

• The biggest question in terms of a potential criminal prosecution is whether President Biden knew that the documents were there, write John Malcolm, vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government, and Cully Stimson, senior legal fellow and deputy director of the Meese Center. 

Read their take here.  

• Biden Plays Politics With Trillions in Retirement Savings — Steve Moore 
• The Left’s Crusade to Reengineer American Principles — Dr. Kevin Roberts 
• Do Chinese Donations Explain Biden’s Energy Policies? — Diana Furchtgott-Roth 
• A Road Map for COVID-19 Congressional Oversight — Robert Moffit and Doug Badger 
• The Biden Administration Owes the 118th Congress More Answers on Ukraine — Victoria Coates 
• A Legal Immigrant’s Lament: Biden’s ‘Parole’ Scheme Makes ‘Patsies’ of Those Who Abide by Law — Simon Hankinson 
• Wokeness Is Slowly Hollowing Out the Fed — EJ Antoni 
• Cori Bush Exposes the Hollowness of the Left’s DEI Agenda — Mike Gonzalez 
• Amid Aviation Crisis, Buttigieg’s Transportation Department Expands Vacation — Roman Jankowski 
• Supreme Court Should End Federal Government’s Water Overreach — Daren Bakst 

As the national debt tops $31 trillion and the debt-limit debate begins, Joel Griffith, research fellow for financial regulations in Heritage’s Roe Institute, appeared on Newsmax’s Spicer & Co. to explain why, rather than simply lifting the debt limit, Congress should enact real reforms to rein in spending. Watch the clip here. 

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