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Chief Operating Officer of Federal Student Aid (FSA) Richard Cordray has a history of government overreach. While heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mr. Cordray relied on expansive executive power to put financial institutions under the thumb of the federal government. There is no question that he is using the same tactics at FSA, destabilizing a student loan program already on the ... Read more »

Unsurprisingly, the Democrats’ so-called “Build Back Better” scheme is threatening to derail our entire employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) system. Democrats are willing to rip high-quality coverage from 151 million Americans and remove 2.8 million Americans from their employer-based plan. Contrary to what some are saying on Capitol Hill (including anonymous Ways and Means staff according to a rece... Read more »

Christmas is cancelled – at least, in the way Americans have come to know it. Despite COVID-19’s waning risks on indoor gathering, Biden’s supply chain crisis is still threatening to derail the holiday. And labor unions share a large portion of that blame. In a recent Politico opinion piece, while lamenting the perilous state of U.S. shipping logistics even before the pandemic, Rich Lowry writes, ... Read more »

“If nothing changes, we will not be able to feed our students anything.” “The kitchens are stretched to the breaking point.” “Something has to give before we lose our minds.” “Does anyone hear us?” Educators and school leaders are in crisis mode. Food supplies are drying up. And children, who have already lost a year of in-person learning, are now faced with the prospect of supply chain-related sc... Read more »

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) just confirmed what Republicans knew to be true, but Democrats refused to admit: the taxpayer-funded bailout of failing and insolvent multiemployer pension plans will fail. Despite a massive influx in taxpayer dollars, PBGC is still on track for insolvency. What’s equally concerning, the price tag for the program continues to rise. When Democrats pas... Read more »

Democrats cannot come to a consensus over whether or not to socialize drug pricing. H.R. 3, the Higher Costs and Fewer Cures Act, is packaged into the radical fiscal year 2022 budget and would allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to mandate private companies’ drug prices or face a bankruptcy-inducing 95 percent tax rate. It’s government interference in the dealings of private companies... Read more »

China has American students in its crosshairs, but Democrats can't be bothered to lift a finger. Democrats on the Education and Labor Committee just voted against three amendments offered by Republicans to ensure students, institutions, and our country are protected from the communist threat posed by this regime. What happened to the imperatives of putting students first and protecting the integri... Read more »

Americans have been horrified over the last month as we have witnessed the dangerous and inept withdrawal of America from Afghanistan. American education institutions may have students or employees who were evacuated after the fall of Kabul. They may have students or employees who had friends or family members evacuated. They may have veterans of the Afghanistan war suffering from trauma in the af... Read more »

Quick Take: Federal Takeover of Higher Education Instead of expanding all educational opportunities for students, Democrats intend to dictate what choices millions of students make along the path of their postsecondary education with the promise of “free” tuition. Not all students are best served through these traditional baccalaureate degree programs. Indeed, the data suggests that students are i... Read more »

Democrats won’t be receiving any “Thank You” cards from small and private businesses any time soon. The Democrat’s partisan spending spree includes a provision to increase civil monetary penalties radically under the Fair Labor Standards Act by 900 percent. The National Federation of Independent Business sent a letter opposing this radical legislation. Their letter rightly pointed out: “FLSA viola... Read more »