Here are 7 things you may not have noticed, but these short items are important:
- Outrage: Migrants on Medicaid and Voter Rolls
DOGE uncovered 1.3 million migrants currently on Medicaid.
How did it happen?
After requesting asylum, these migrants were released into the U.S. interior under a “quasi-legal status” whereby they could file for work authorization and be given a Social Security card.
This has resulted in 1.3 million gaining Medicaid benefits, with thousands being put on voter rolls.
- Great News: Health Freedom Wins!
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to become the director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Martin Makary was also confirmed to head the Food and Drug Administration.
- Why Trump And The Fed Agree On One Thing: Lower Interest Rates
$9.2 trillion of America’s $36 trillion debt matures in 2025.
We can’t pay it off.
We must refinance it.
Trump needs to lower the rates and the Fed needs to refinance the debt.
- Hospital Child Sex Changes
A Biden-appointed federal judge in Baltimore demanded the Trump administration continue providing federal funding to hospitals that provide child sex changes while the case proceeds. Here is a list of hospitals out of 37, offering “gender-affirming care” for minors to have their bodies mutilated and injected with dangerous drugs.
- Cedars Sinai
- Children’s Hospital Colorado
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Children’s Hospital of Minnesota
- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois
- University of Kansas
- University of Utah
- John Hopkins
- Mount Sinai
- Stanford University
- Southern Baptist Retirement Fund Takes The Right Action
The Southern Baptist Convention has GuideStone Resources as an investment fund.
The entity manages over $20 billion in assets and serves over 250,000 individuals and 60,000 organizations. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and GuideStone sent shareholder letters to Costco, Albertsons, Kroger, McKesson, and Walmart, urging them not to carry abortion drugs in their pharmacies.
Guidestone holds over $100 billion in assets, with a combined stake of $172 million in the five companies that received these letters. These actions represent the right kind of shareholder activism to influence a company’s policies, practices, or strategic direction.
Officers and directors of publicly traded companies are required to take shareholder activism, such as the letter that GuideStone signed, seriously due to a combination of legal, fiduciary and reputational factors. It’s awesome they did the right thing. Now let’s see what these companies do.
- Average Planned Parenthood CEO Earns $350K
In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in federal funding, about 34% of its annual revenue.
- Religious Freedom: Now 30 States Have Protection
Georgia became the 30th state to enact into law its own version of a Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to protect individual religious freedoms from undue government interference. The federal RFRA protects individual religious freedoms from federal government overreach.
However, a 1997 Supreme Court decision ruled that states must adopt their own law to apply similar protections against state and local government actions.
Some 29 other states have RFRA laws. These include:
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
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