April 10, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where Senate and House committees are set to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the consequences of the social media behemoth’s data mining. Here’s what Hans von Spakovsky and Klon Kitchen want to hear the tycoon address. Conservatives advance a plan to cut Congress’ fat budget, Rachel del Guidice reports. Local right-to-work laws lead to the Supreme Court, Kevin Mooney writes. Plus: Luke Coffey on leading a response to Syria, Fred Lucas on the commerce secretary’s mission, and six Heritage Foundation experts on Mike Pompeo as secretary of state.
Question No. 5: Did the Mitt Romney presidential campaign receive access to the same information and company expertise provided to the Obama campaign? If not, why not? Who at Facebook made this decision?
Conservative lawmakers want President Trump to send a so-called rescission request to Congress to cancel spending that the legislators previously approved in the budget.
Like last year’s strike, the U.S. military response against the Assad regime must be punitive, decisive, and directly linked to the illegal use of chemical weapons against civilians.
President Trump has canceled the absurd “catch and release” policy that essentially forces law enforcement to ignore the breaking of federal immigration statutes.
The Illinois-based Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit public-interest law firm, is defending the right-to-work ordinance in the village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, against a legal challenge from labor unions.
The past 15 months have prepared Mike Pompeo well for assuming America’s top diplomatic post.
The U.S. is ranked 18th in The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. “Thanks to President Trump, we believe our downward slide in the index over the past decade not only has come to a halt, but should be reversing itself,” says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
If you account for education, occupation, experience, and hours, the gender pay gap is 3 to 5 cents.
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