Promises: For the past two years, Republicans talked tough about the border. They said they’d hold President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable and pass needed meaningful reforms. Well, they claimed the House, then three Republicans announced their opposition to H.R. 29—introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas—that would deny illegal border crossers access to the U.S. until their asylum claims are adjudicated.  

• Rep. Anthony Gonzales, Don Bacon, and Maria Salazar even called it “not Christian” and “anti-American,” and blocked it from receiving a vote in the House. 
• Heritage visiting fellows Mark Morgan and Tom Homan say that the House needs to act now to secure the border and reduce illegal immigration, or “finally and irrevocably destroy any remaining credibility the GOP has on securing the border.” You can read their scathing op-ed here. 

Meanwhile, Heritage is calling for lawmakers to impeach Mayorkas. Read the case for his impeachment here.  

Pro-Choice: More than a dozen states are poised to enact education choice legislation this year. 

• Most of the proposed reforms embrace education savings accounts, an idea developed by Heritage analysts. 
• See the list of states that are looking to liberate children from public school monopolies here.   

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Priorities: Does anyone care how much CO2 was emitted when an F-22 fighter jet shot down the Chinese spy balloon threatening our national security? 

• Apparently, the answer is “yes” for the Biden administration.  

Find out how defense contractors could be forced to put “climate change” above American lives here.  And subscribe to the Center for National Defense’s newsletter to stay in the loop.  

Gonzalez v. Google: Will the Supreme Court hold Big Social Media accountable for harming consumers?  

• These companies say the 1996 Communications Decency Act protects algorithms like the one that promoted the deadly Blackout Challenge on TikTok.  
• “Congress never intended Section 230 to immunize Big Social Media’s pernicious modern algorithms,” visiting fellow Theodore Wold writes. 

• Welcome to Modern Book Burning—Jarrett Stepman  
• Ohio Train Derailment Highlights Democrats’ Environmental Hypocrisy, Reveals This About the Disaster—Jack Spencer  
• WATCH: The Heritage Foundation at 50 | An Idea Whose Time Has Come   
• Heritage Foundation Receives $25 Million Gift  
• So-Called Inflation Reduction Act’s Bait-and-Switch: IRS to Crack Down on Waitresses’ Underreported Tips—Preston Brashers  
• America’s Missing Tourists: COVID-19, Crime, and Long Waits Abroad—Simon Hankinson  
• Ohio’s New Voting Laws Balance Secure Elections With Ballot Access—Jack Fitzhenry  
• Respecting Constitution Requires Acknowledging Death of 1972 ERA—Thomas Jipping  
• Crisis of Credibility: The Need to Strengthen U.S. Extended Deterrence in Asia—Bruce Klingner  
• Preparing Medicare Advantage for Comprehensive Medicare Reform—Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.  
• Can States Stop Do-it-Yourself Abortion Pills?—Sarah Parshall Perry 

Mike Gonzalez joined Mark Levin on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” to explain CRT and DEI and how Americans are fighting back against these toxic ideologies. Gonzalez is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum senior fellow at Heritage. Watch his two segments here and here. 

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