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Democrats spend-and-tax monstrosity explicitly discriminates against faith-based child care providers. It is no wonder that a large coalition of faith-based organizations have sent a letter to the Senate HELP Committee expressing concern about the bill. The Faith Coalition rightly points out: “[T]he current child care and universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) provisions in the Build Back Better Act wil... Read more »

Democrats’ claims that religious providers can participate in H.R. 5376’s child care programs are FALSE. Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. Child care provisions in Democrats’ so-called Build Back Better bill will push faith-based providers out of the market and severely limit parental choice. Myth: Build Back Better funds are available to faith-based child care providers with no strings attach... Read more »

Tucked into the Democrats’ socialist spending bill is a nasty scheme intended to bleed American job creators dry. The Education and Labor Committee provisions in this bill alone would add a whopping $454.1 billion to the deficit. How do Democrats propose to pay for their outrageous expansion of the federal bureaucracy? Through massive fines leveled on job creators. These unprecedented increases in... Read more »

The Biden administration is proposing to end a popular program that connects workers with employers in the midst of a workforce crisis. Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs) were created to expand apprenticeship opportunities by encouraging employer-led innovation. IRAPs give apprenticeship programs flexibility to address our nation’s growing skills gap better. Unfortunately, the Bid... Read more »

President Biden knew that concerned parents would not let their voices be silenced at school boards across the country so he decided that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would do his dirty work for him. After the National School Boards Association (NSBA) collaborated with Biden Administration officials in sending an inflammatory letter to Attorney General ... Read more »

President Biden knew that he didn’t have the authority to issue a national vaccine mandate, yet he instructed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to move forward with this diktat as a “work around.” This case and others are now consolidated in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and we hope that the judges and the American people will take the great arguments from the Fift... Read more »

Every aspect of workers’, students’, and job creators’ lives are threatened by the Democrats’ hyper-partisan, reckless spending spree. Parading as an investment, this bill will bankrupt future generations to pay for unnecessary, duplicative, and ineffective proposals that prop up liberal special interests on the backs of hard-working taxpayers. Here is what you need to know about the egregious edu... Read more »

Our country is currently facing a massive trucker shortage. Yet President Biden’s new authoritarian federal vaccine mandate provides no exemption for the trucking industry. Forcing a truck driver, who spends most of his time alone to get the COVID-19 vaccine or face losing his job is insane. President Biden’s willingness to exacerbate a trucking shortage, in the middle of a supply chain crisis sho... Read more »

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 »