Tag: Policies & Impacts

Group Sues to Block DC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections

A good-government group is suing the District of Columbia to block its new law allowing noncitizens—legal or otherwise—from voting in local elections. The law, which took effect on March 14 after Congress failed to overturn it, authorizes an estimated 50,000 noncitizen residents, including illegal aliens, to participate in local district elections. Critics say allowing noncitizens…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: Congress Unites on Punishing the CCP for Organ Harvesting; COVID Origin Info to Be Declassified

Republicans and Democrats have joined together to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for organ harvesting. The CCP has been exposed for using prisoners of conscience and religious believers as living sources for its trade in human organs. Meanwhile, U.S. agencies are past due to release details on the origins of COVID-19, after a…


LIVE NOW: Congress Unites on Punishing the CCP for Organ Harvesting; COVID Origin Info to Be Declassified

Republicans and Democrats have joined together to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for organ harvesting. The CCP has been exposed for using prisoners of conscience and religious believers as living sources for its trade in human organs. Meanwhile, U.S. agencies are past due to release details on the origins of COVID-19, after a…


Congress Unites on Punishing the CCP for Organ Harvesting; COVID Origin Info to Be Declassified

Republicans and Democrats have joined together to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for organ harvesting. The CCP has been exposed for using prisoners of conscience and religious believers as living sources for its trade in human organs. Meanwhile, U.S. agencies are past due to release details on the origins of COVID-19, after a…


Biden Admin Pulls Trump-Era Deal Allowing Road Through Alaska Wildlife Refuge

The Biden administration is withdrawing from a land exchange deal that would have given the green light for construction to begin on a road through the protected lands of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the administration’s withdrawal from the deal, initially made between the Interior Department and…


Governors, Senators Push Pharmacies to Sell Abortion Pill

Governors and senators including California Gov. Gavin Newsom are pushing pharmacy retailers to continue providing customers with access to the abortion drug, mifepristone. In a March 14 letter to CVS, Rite-Aid, Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Costco, and Health Mart, 14 Democrat governors questioned how the pharmacy giants plan to distribute the abortion medication and “safeguard access to reproductive health care.”…


Bill Defining Sex as Biological Gender Passes Tennessee Senate, Moves to House

Tennessee lawmakers are deliberating a bill that would define male and female in state law based on a person’s biological sex at birth. The proposed law would require government-issued IDs to “accurately reflect” the sex marker of a person’s original birth certificate. Tennessee Senate Bill 1440 would create a new subsection in the state’s legal…


Biden Admin Anticipates Lower Vaccine Costs for Seniors

Biden administration officials are projecting that seniors on Medicare Part D will save hundreds of millions of dollars on vaccines because of the 2022 reconciliation bill, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Notably, the estimates don’t include COVID-19 vaccines, which fall under Medicare Part B. “The law makes many recommended vaccines free for…


Trump’s Competitors Seek to Set Themselves Apart Without Scorning MAGA

News Analysis As more Republicans challenge Donald Trump in the race for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, the former president’s dramatic impact on the GOP is becoming clearer. Everyone from Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy has sought to link themselves to “America First,” as they court Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. Those Republicans hopefuls…


‘An All-Out Assault on the Second Amendment’: Gun Rights Groups Respond to Biden’s New Executive Order

Second Amendment advocates responded quickly to President Joe Biden’s newest executive order designed to advance his gun control agenda and his repeated call for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines. “Crimes are committed by criminals. Until President Biden and his allies decide to go after violent criminals, violence will continue to spiral…