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Japan’s New Female Leader Faces Tired Feminist Critiques | National Review
The left hasn’t yet overcome its bias against conservative women. Source link
Read MoreNational Guard arrives in Illinois as Trump pursues crime crackdown
The first contingent of President Trump’s call-up of National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday as the administration pushes to crack down on crime in some of the country’s major cities. Local news captured video of members of the Texas National Guard as they arrived at a facility about 50 miles outside of Chicago.…
Read MoreSenate confirms 107 more Trump nominees, clearing bulk of backlog
Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed 107 of President Trump’s nominees to executive roles, taking advantage of their recent rules change to clear most of the backlog that built up amid Democrats’ universal filibuster of the president’s personnel. The 107 nominees confirmed in the 50-47, party-line vote reduces the number of Trump picks who’ve been reported…
Read MoreSenate Democrats want to see more evidence that the FBI illegally spied on GOP lawmakers
Senate Democrats on Tuesday said they wanted to see more evidence that President Biden’s FBI spied on Republican lawmakers before they would believe there was wrongdoing. An FBI document released Monday by Senate Republicans revealed the FBI spied on phone calls by eight Republican senators and one GOP House member as part of operation “Arctic…
Read MoreMichigan creates additional marijuana tax to fund Whitmer’s plan to ‘fix the damn roads’
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law a new 24% tax on marijuana sales between producers and dispensaries, creating revenue to partially fund her long-promised effort to improve the state’s roads. Whitmer made road repairs her priority this year. The Legislature’s fiscal agencies estimate the wholesale tax will generate $420…
Read MoreWhite House says it will redirect tariff revenue to keep WIC afloat during shutdown
The Trump administration is diverting tariff revenue to keep food assistance for low-income women and children afloat during the government shutdown, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday. Ms. Leavitt also blamed Democrats for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, to nearly run out of funding and hurt…
Read MoreDemocrats in governors races see political opportunity amid government shutdown
GLEN RIDGE, N.J. — Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics during the shutdown of the federal government could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year. In Virginia, 175,000 people work for the federal government, according to the Congressional Research Service. In New Jersey,…
Read MoreWhy Colorado’s Counseling Censorship Should Lose at the Supreme Court | National Review
At least three aspects of the case should lead to free speech prevailing. Source link
Read MoreNational Guard Standoff Is a Recipe for More Political Conflict | National Review
The incentive structure here is all wrong. Source link
Read MoreTrump threatens ‘substantial’ firings if shutdown continues: ‘Jobs will never come back’
President Trump on Tuesday vowed to cut billions in federal programs and fire a ‘substantial’ number of workers if the government shutdown continues. Speaking alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office, the president said his administration is identifying jobs to eliminate in the federal workforce, and an announcement could come in “four…
Read MoreTrump promises to straighten out Chicago’s crime problem if Democratic leaders won’t
President Trump on Tuesday promised that if Chicago leaders cannot get a handle on the city’s crime problem, the federal government will take charge. He doubled down on his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act to send in federal troops. “It’s been invoked before, as you know. If you look at Chicago, Chicago is a…
Read MoreTrump team argues that workers furloughed during shutdown aren’t entitled to back pay
A draft memo from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget argues that furloughed federal workers should not be paid for the time they didn’t work during the government shutdown. The memo states that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which is supposed to guarantee furloughed workers back pay at the conclusion of any…
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