April 26, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Sen. Mike Lee has a stern warning for President Trump: Taxpayer money subsidizes left-wing causes abroad. Fred Lucas reports on Lee's address. What's Trump's record so far on national security and foreign affairs? Josh Siegel recaps. Protesters who don't like Trump's spending priorities pour into The Heritage Foundation. Melissa Quinn is there. Plus: Adam Michel on how the taxman persuades Americans to abandon citizenship, and Walter Williams on the poor record of prognostications on the environment. Three days till the government runs out of money.
For eight years, U.S. foreign assistance was tied to a leftist political agenda rather than American interests, and it's now up to President Donald Trump to correct that, Sen. Mike Lee says.
In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."
Last year, 5,411 people renounced their U.S. citizenship, the largest number of published expatriates in one year, continuing a four-year streak of record-breaking numbers.
"What the president has managed to do is begin to restore the credibility and deterrence of the United States, which is very important because both were largely eroded over the last eight years," says Clifford May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Americans are facing an increasing shortage of primary care physicians, and the problem is only expected to get worse over the next 10 years.
Approximately 200 protesters entered the lobby of The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday to rail against the think tank’s budget document, called "Blueprint for Balance" and released in March.
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