Trump’s 2020 Vision
August 27, 2020 President Trump Releases His Second Term Agenda The Republican National Convention went off without a hitch this week. The day that the
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Make the Post Office Great Again
This past June Louis DeJoy started as the new Postmaster General. He quickly instituted cost-saving reforms and changes to the Nation’s postal system. These included streamlining transportation policies, removing some mail-processing equipment, and reducing overtime. As DeJoy said in a memo outlining the changes, the transportation changes alone could help save the USPS about $200 million.
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More Money, More Debt
It’s mid-August and in Washington, D.C. it’s a month break from the hustle and bustle of Capitol Hill while both Chambers are in August recess. But this year has been different. While the Senate continues to work in passing judicial nominations, the House left under the promise they’d, unfortunately, be back to pass a phase 4 Coronavirus stimulus package.
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Trump Takes Action to Help Human Trafficking Victims
August 6, 2020 President Trump Takes Action to Aid Human Trafficking Survivors This week, the Trump administration announced that over $35 million in the Department
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Biden’s Anti-Woman Plan
Former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has unveiled his feminist plans for women if he were to take office. Although he has given the American people plenty of reasons to vote against him in November, this may be the final nail in the coffin.
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Eagle Forum Agrees with Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced Tuesday that they will remove Margaret Sanger’s name from their clinic.
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Communist China Strangles Hong Kong
This past fall, protestors in Hong Kong took to the streets against the communist Chinese regime based in Beijing. The people of Hong Kong were fighting a piece of legislation that would allow China to extradite fugitives to mainland China.
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A win for Religious Liberty
July 9, 2020 SCOTUS Rules to Protect the First Amendment It’s easy to get infuriated and disappointed by the state of affairs in Washington. But this
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House Dems Defy Constitution
The Democratic-led House Majority has certainly wasted no time legislating bad policy in the month of June while the nation is distracted by civil unrest and the Coronavirus. While attempting to punish police through so-called reform, socializing healthcare, and cramming the Green New Deal into an infrastructure bill, the Democrats found time to introduce and pass an unconstitutional D.C. statehood bill, H.R. 51.
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President Trump Brings Jobs Back to U.S.
This week, President Trump took further steps to keep his promise to protect American jobs by issuing a proclamation to halt foreign worker visas until the end of the year. This action is an extension of the President’s executive order from May that suspended chain migration and the Diversity Visa Lottery for sixty days. However, President Trump decided to take even further steps to expand upon his original executive order.
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House Debates Police Reform
In response to the death of George Floyd and the riots rippling through the country, this past Monday many Democratic members of the House and Senate knelt in the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall for 8 minutes and 48 seconds; the amount of time Floyd was held before he was killed. They were seen wearing Kente cloths, which drew some criticism.
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Congress Makes Tweaks to COVID-19 Small Business Loans
This past week, the House of Representatives came back to D.C. to vote via proxy voting. As you may recall, proxy voting is a change in the House’s rules that allows a member to vote for up to 10 other colleagues on any Coronavirus related legislation to ensure members are able to work from home.
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Republicans Sue Pelosi Over Proxy Voting
Twenty-three House Republicans and four constituents filed a lawsuit on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY) to block her proxy voting efforts.
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Planned Parenthood STOLE Your Money
While the country is shut down, the abortion industry and its supporters haven’t been shy about their desire to maintain a culture of abortion-on-demand. In March, Eagle Forum tracked the Capitol Hill fight to prevent Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from creating a $1 billion funding stream for reimbursing laboratory costs that were exempt from the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer money from being used to pay for abortions.
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Swamp Shows Reluctance to Hand Over Power
This Tuesday, May 12th, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing entitled, “COVID-19: Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School.” Like the rest of the country conducting business over the web, the Senate held the hearing in a manner to comply with social distancing. Some participants used video conference, while others were actually in the hearing room.
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A Trump Win: Executive Order Enhancing American Safety
President Trump issued an executive order to help protect the national power grid from cyber-threats by decreasing the country’s dependence on foreign-manufactured equipment. In the executive order, President Trump states:
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Protecting the American Worker
As the Coronavirus quarantine is underway, the Trump administration has taken extra precautions to protect Americans, one being the suspension of some immigration programs.
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Open the Economy!
In March, state bureaucrats and elected officials set long-term shelter in place mandates. Little was known then, and even now, about the virus’s long-term effects and how we can best combat it. In the past, traditional quarantine entailed isolating those that are sick, not whole populations, and in doing so, the economy wasn’t shut down overnight.
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A Win: WHO Loses
President Trump rescinded funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) while a Congressional review is established.
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Good News from D.C.!
As efforts are underway to combat the Coronavirus pandemic, state and federal governments have waived nearly 200 regulations to provide relief to businesses and personnel. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is keeping a running list of the various easements.
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