Plus: There Is ‘Little Evidence’ Biden Admin Is Enforcing Law on Higher Ed Gifts From Foreign Countries Like China
February 6 2023
Good morning from Washington, where House Republicans’ leadership brawl already is having good results for Americans, Jarrett Stepman writes. President Biden could use the law to curb China’s dangerous influence on U.S. higher education, Samantha Aschieris reports. On the podcast, a psychiatrist and bioethicist tells our Virginia Allen why citizens should be on guard as governments manage public health emergencies. Plus: a large Georgia county accepts private money to run elections despite a state ban; reforms to food stamps that will help those who need them; and The Associated Press takes sides in the abortion debate. On this date in 1952, Great Britain’s King George VI dies in his sleep and his elder daughter Princess Elizabeth, then making a royal visit to Kenya, becomes queen at age 27.
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says “there’s little evidence to suggest” that the Biden administration and its Education Department are enforcing the law on foreign funding for colleges.
A Georgia county accepts a $2 million grant for election operations from a Big Tech-aligned organization, despite a state law prohibiting local election offices from taking private money.
During the pandemic, the food stamp program became (and has remained) bloated, in part because of the Biden administration’s potentially illegal double-digit increase in benefits.
“It’s disgraceful that so-called journalistic professionals succumb to pro-abortion political activists to do their bidding,” says Thomas Glessner, president of the National Institute of Family and Life...
In his new book “The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State,” Dr. Aaron Kheriaty details the ways in which governments have used public health crises to gain power.
