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Heritage Experts Laud Arkansas for Becoming Eleventh State with Education Savings Accounts <[link removed]>- Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders today is expected to sign into law the Arkansas LEARNS Act, which among other things would create education saving accounts for low-income families that would expand to all K-12 students in the next three years. Heritage Experts: Lindsey Burke <[link removed]> and Jason Bedrick <[link removed]>
FDA Lacks Authority to Approve Abortion Pills, Claims First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit. The Left Is Apoplectic. <[link removed]> - The FDA’s stated mission <[link removed]> is to protect the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of drugs, biological products, and medical devices. But the plaintiffs in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration <[link removed]> argue that the agency ignored that mission in pushing mifepristone through its accelerated approval process and ignoring the relevant law and science governing chemical abortions <[link removed]>. Because FDA regulations <[link removed]> on accelerated approval of drugs require that “new drugs [be] studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illness and … provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing
treatments,” the FDA would have had to classify pregnancy as an “illness.” And not just an “illness,” but a “serious or life-threatening” one at that. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
The Heritage Foundation's Budget Blueprint: Going on Offense on America’s Most Important Challenges <[link removed]> - The
budget of the federal government is more than a list of line items and charts: It is a statement of the values of its drafters. The Heritage Foundation’s Budget Blueprint for Fiscal Year 2023 is a representation of Heritage’s proud commitment to those values and the fight to save America. Unfortunately, many who have wielded the power of the federal government have sought to reap the benefits of free enterprise while rejecting the principles that created it. They have bloated the government, consumed more and more of the resources and wealth generated by the American people, and sought to regulate and micromanage the American public. These leaders chose to take on a staggering amount of debt, squandering trillions of dollars on projects and programs designed to yield political benefits rather than benefitting the public within the core constitutional responsibilities of the federal government. The cost and regulatory burdens of the federal government harm our nation, injecting politics into the most important aspects
of American civil life and eroding communities and liberty. Further, the unsustainable financing of major benefit programs and current debt level will, left unaltered, force a crippling tax burden that would rob the U.S. of cherished economic vitality. Heritage Experts: Richard Stern <[link removed]> and David Ditch <[link removed]>
Promoting U.S. Security Cooperation from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Caucuses <[link removed]> - Congress has considered notable legislation to improve the U.S. contribution to Black Sea security and stability. This effort is laudable and should be supplemented with a broader array of security cooperation initiatives to ensure U.S. actions match the level of U.S. interests. Focusing diplomatic and security engagement activities to build maritime security capacities in the wider eastern Mediterranean region can best position the United States to navigate the myriad and often conflicting national interests of regional partners. In this strategic environment, a maritime approach can bring lightly aligned nations together for common cause. Heritage Expert: Brent Sadler <[link removed]>
When energy markets and geopolitics collide <[link removed]> - The usually discrete spheres of energy markets and geopolitics collided when Chevron Corporation announced it was
buying Noble Energy for five billion dollars <[link removed]>—a deal that meant every bit as much to establishing a sustainable peace in the Middle East as the Abraham Accords signed some six weeks later. Heritage Expert: Victoria Coates <[link removed]>
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