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In our latest edition, we're grateful to have an interview with Sen. John Thune (R., S.D), who spoke with us about his Senate Republican Leader platform, the odds of a spectrum deal this year, and what Republicans should do on tax reform.
By: Matthew Foldi
Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.) is a potential successor for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who has chaired the Senate Republican Conference since 2007. Thune, the GOP’s current Whip, discussed with the Washington Reporter his vision for running Senate Republicans and which policy changes he hopes to see after November’s election.
Thune’s platform in his bid to lead Senate Republicans is simple: “solutions.” Problems such as the economy (“entitlement programs that are spiraling out of control”), national security (”we have underfunded our military”), and the northern and southern borders (“portal[s] not only for people from Central and South America now, but for people all across the world”), plague America, Thune said. His time spent on the Senate’s Finance and Commerce Committees gave Thune insight into how to “unleash the economy,” he told the Reporter, which will include bringing back Trump-era tax cuts, including on corporations.
On the governing side, Thune doesn’t want to sit around between now and next January, especially when it comes to a deal on spectrum, which he said “needs to happen, but it has to happen in a way that actually guarantees that there will be spectrum made available for commercial use, and what the Democrats have done is try to move a bill that doesn’t accomplish that objective.”
Read HERE for more on Sen. John Thune’s plans on helming the Senate GOP, a spectrum deal, tax policy, and more.
How is the campaign for Senate GOP Leader going? What would look different under Majority Leader John Thune?
Matthew Foldi
Editor-in-Chief
Eighteen years is a long time. Senator Mitch McConnell has a great record of accomplishment and a real legacy, particularly when it comes to the courts. But any time you have a transition like this, it’s an opportunity to pivot and it’s a chance for a reset and just by virtue of different styles, things will look different around here because of different styles of leadership and management and everything else. But having dealt with Chuck Schumer now for the past four years, I hope we have a chance to actually get the Senate opened again, in working on letting the committees under regular order produce legislation, which ultimately he gets to the floor and then have an amendment process. I think one of the things that frustrates people on both sides, us and the Dems, not just our guys, is that you don’t get a chance to do what you came here to do. If you run for this job, you want to come here because you want to be a legislator, you want to make policy, you want to offer amendments, you want to have your constituents’ voices heard, and that’s not happening. So I think that there will be some real differences and changes in how things operate. I want to do it because I think I’ve got something offered to contribute. I think that we need that. We need that kind of generational change in the Senate.
Sen. John Thune
Senate Minority Whip
Mitch McConnell’s legacy is the courts and the judiciary. Do you have a one-word pitch that you would want your legacy as Majority Leader to be?
Matthew Foldi
Editor-in-Chief
It’d be great, honestly, to just be solutions. My view is that if nothing else, just open this place up and let the talent shine.
Sen. John Thune
Senate Minority Whip
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By: Matthew Foldi
Joe Biden administration’s “all-out push” to force Medicare call center contractors to unionize is opposed by a majority of voters, with 51 percent disapproving compared to 32 percent supporting, and 16 percent having no opinion, according to a poll conducted by the Tyson Group on behalf of Public Labor Unions Accountability Committee (PLUAC).
A 36 percent plurality strongly opposed the requirements, as did a majority of participants over the age of 65, many of whom are on Medicare.
Click HERE to read about how a top House Republican is reacting to Biden’s push for forced unionization and for the full polling memo.
By: Rep. Mary Miller
Since the moment President Joe Biden took office, we have seen an erosion of American values, and his new Title IX rule is more of the same. He is trying to erase Title IX’s original intent of protecting and defending women and girls in sports, and that is why I am introducing legislation that will restore the rights of our girls.
The Biden Title IX rule redefines “sex” to include “gender-identity,” which creates a new imaginary category of “gender-identity” — erasing protections for young girls in school and young women in college. Joe Biden is destroying 52 years of work women have done to secure Title IX rights, and he is depriving women of scholarships and sports awards they have trained their whole lives to win.
Title IX is supposed to protect girls from people like Joe Biden who seek to take away their opportunity to compete in sports or have safe locker rooms. The Biden administration is forcing women to shower with men, and women are being physically hurt when competing with them. I am speaking out on behalf of American families who are concerned about the devastating impact Biden’s new Title IX policy will have on their daughters and granddaughters. As a mother of seven and a grandmother of 20, I am deeply concerned by Joe Biden’s assault on our girls.
Click HERE to read more about Rep. Mary Miller’s plans to protect Title IX.
By: Washington Reporter Editors
Tennessee-based Tractor Supply Co. does not immediately come to mind when we think of companies that embrace environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities. If anything, Tractor Supply would be considered a conservative-leaning business that serves rural Americans and advocates for programs honoring veterans while making donations to law-enforcement organizations.
But in 2020 and 2021, Tractor Supply joined so many other corporations by announcing “zero-emission” targets, enacting race-based hiring and promotion goals, and partnering with the far-left Human Rights Watch.
Similar to the successful campaigns against Target, BlackRock, and other companies, conservatives pushed back. Robby Starbuck raised attention on social media by publicizing Tractor Supply’s ESG statements and its push for race-based human resource decisions.
Then, something happened that we haven’t seen before. Unlike in the cases of Target or BlackRock, Tractor Supply surveyed the response of customers and team members — and acted.
Click HERE to read more about how Tractor Supply showed the rest of corporate America how to push back against the radical left.
