Money talks: President Joe Biden likes to say: “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget—and I’ll tell you what you value.”  

• In that spirit, Heritage scholars examined how the Biden administration is spending money on the border. 
• The analysis shows that Biden “values neither securing America’s borders nor enforcing the nation’s immigration laws,” write Border Security and Immigration Center senior research associate Erin Dwinell and research assistant Hannah Davis.  
• Read their in-depth analysis here.  

BS walks: Heritage visiting fellows Tom Homan and Mark Morgan react to Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz’s testifying that the Department of Homeland Security does not have “operational control” of the border, contradicting the Biden administration. Read their take here. 

 

Meanwhile, the Left refuses to connect the dots between the deadly fentanyl crisis and the open border crisis. Read more about that here. 

2008 Repeat: That’s the track the federal government is putting hardworking taxpayers on by bailing out rich investors of Silicon Valley Bank.   

• “Taxpayers should not be forced to bail out millionaires, venture capitalists, and the reckless banks that cater to them,” write EJ Antoni, regional economics fellow, and Peter St. Onge, the Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in economic freedom. 

Poison: That’s what the founder of Alaskans for Honest Elections calls the spread of ranked-choice voting on this episode of The Daily Signal Podcast. Tune in to find out how ranked-choice voting disenfranchises voters. 

• The Left claims that the country doesn’t need election reform. But Florida’s Voter Fraud office just arrested two more people who voted illegally. Get the full story here.  

Fat of the land: The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new study on childhood obesity calls for a “whole child” approach.  

• But the “whole child” push is “nothing short of a collectivist ideology,” notes research associate Emma Waters. 
• “The goal is to make government-run schools, not the family or the home, the central tenet of a child’s life.” Read more here. 

• Economic Growth Is No Longer the Chinese Government’s End Game—Michael Cunningham 
• Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens—Lora Ries and Hans von Spakovsky 
• Did Silicon Valley Bank Prioritize Social Justice Over Risk Management?—Diana Furchtgott-Roth 
• Ridiculous Spending on Museums May Be Here To Stay—David Ditch 
• Forget Open Borders. This Crazy Law Opens Voting Booths to Aliens—Zach Smith and Hans A. von Spakovsky 
• Why State Legislatures Matter—Kevin Roberts 
• Biden’s $7-Trillion Budget Game Takes More of Your Money. Guess Where It Goes—EJ Antoni 
• South Korea’s Bold Move To Mend Relations With Tokyo—Bruce Klinger 
• Florida’s Education Choice Opportunity—Jason Bedrick 
• America Needs an Education in Leisure—Rachel Alexander Cambre 
• Texas Abortion Ban Viewed as Virtually Untouchable. A Lawsuit Aiming to Change That Has Problems—Sarah Parshall Perry

Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at Heritage, appeared on CNN to discuss a case before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk involving the FDA’s approval of an abortion drug. Watch the clip here. 

 

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