Category: National

Commentary: H1B Blues

American Greatness
Workers

Just in time for Christmas, some infighting has broken out among Trump supporters. Muckraking online personality Laura Loomer began the fracas with criticism of Sriram Krishnan, who Trump has chosen to be an AI policy advisor. Loomer pointed out that Krishnan has said previously that he wants the quota of green cards available to his Indian coethnics to be expanded.

Elon Musk entered the fray and argued that in order for the country to remain competitive, it must import talent from overseas.

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Report: 118th Congress Passed Fewest Laws in 36 Years

American Greatness
Congress

When measured by the number of bills passed and signed into law, the current 118th session of Congress was the least productive in modern history, passing fewer laws than any other session since the 1980s.

As Axios reports, the data on the number of bills passed was compiled by the public affairs firm Quorum, which determined that less than 150 bills were passed in the two years spanning from 2023 to 2025. By comparison, the previous Congress – the 117th Congress, from 2021 to 2023 – passed 350 bills. Every Congress since 1989 has passed an average of 380 bills into law.

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Biden Greenlights Billions More for Ukraine in Waning Days of Presidency

Daily Caller News Foundation
Biden and Ukraine

President Joe Biden announced Monday that the federal government is sending $2.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine in the final days of his presidency.

The funding will help the Ukrainians secure equipment for artillery and air defense systems, among other things, according to the White House. In his official statement, Biden said that he is “surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible” in the final weeks of his presidency, even as President-elect Donald Trump has clearly stated he wants to end the bloody Russia-Ukraine war after years of fighting.

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COVID Catechists Come for Incoming NIH Chief Bhattacharya as SCOTUS Reconsiders Doctor Censorship

Just the News
Jay Bhattacharya, M.D.

Proponents of once-dominant COVID-19 views and policy, from the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 to mandatory lockdowns, remote learning, masking and vaccines, often chose between two strategies to marginalize dissenters.

They flooded medical licensing boards with complaints against doctors such as Minnesota’s Scott Jensen, who faced new investigations from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s administration after announcing his candidacy for governor, or sought to destroy their reputations in general, scientific and social media, calling them racist, cold-hearted and “fringe.”

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Erasing History: American Leaders, Artifacts Removed from Campuses in 2024

The College Fix
Woodrow Wilson

What do Woodrow Wilson, Myles Standish, and Christopher Columbus all have in common?

All three were the targets of campus cancel culture this year. They represent a trend over the past decade in higher education of removing or slapping “trigger warnings” on historical figures and items, supposedly because young adults cannot handle the complex, controversial, and sometimes ugly parts of humanity’s past.

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Trump Faces Federal Employee Unions in Government Efficiency Battle

The Center Square
AFGE members

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched power in Washington, D.C. that may throw a wrench in his plans: federal government public employee unions.

“For president-elect Trump to succeed at making the federal bureaucracy more efficient and accountable to the American people, he’ll have to once again do battle with federal unions,” Max Nelsen, a labor policy expert at the Freedom Foundation, told The Center Square.

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Commentary: 2024’s Winners and Losers

The Daily Signal
Donald Trump

For those of us in the news business, 2024 provided a steady stream of stories to cover—and rarely a dull moment. From the Republican primaries early in the year to the assassination attempts and political conventions this summer, our Daily Signal team stayed busy through Election Day and in the days that followed.

During his first term as president, Donald Trump provided a plethora of political and policy news for us to report. We expect the same will be true in 2025. But before we turn the page on this year, our team reflected on the winners and losers—compiling the following list (listed alphabetically).

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Commentary: PBS Hosts Far-Left Smear Factory to Demonize Trump—Using Your Tax Dollars

The Daily Signal
Donald Trump point

PBS, backed by your tax dollars, hosted the leader of a group that compares conservatives to the KKK, and she used the opportunity to demonize President-elect Donald Trump. Then PBS hosted one of her close allies who suggested that America failing to elect Vice President Kamala Harris emboldens misogyny.

The two segments make a rather eloquent case against continued public funding for PBS.

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Commentary: America Gaining Control of Greenland and Panama Canal Will Deter China’s Influence in Western Hemisphere

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump

President-elect Donald J. Trump promised that if elected he would govern in bold colors, not pale pastels. Our next president believes deeply in American Exceptionalism and is making it perfectly clear that the days of America taking a back seat to anyone are over.

Trump’s optimistic vision is for our great nation to lead once again as a beacon of freedom for centuries to come, and that we must be victorious in the great battle of ideals that is currently underway. There is simply no escaping it; the United States will continue to lead the world for good or Communist China will gladly take up the mantle and lead it for evil.

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Key Senator Says U.S. Vaccine Safety System Failing, Urges Reforms to Testing and Liability

Just the News
Sen. Ron Johnson

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who next month will begin overseeing the Senate’s most powerful investigative body, says the government’s vaccine safety system is no longer protecting Americans adequately because of conflicts of interest and lack of transparency, and he is vowing to work with the incoming Trump administration to press for sweeping reforms.

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