What Newt’s Reading: Trump, Pompeo Human Rights Agenda Strong in Face of Abuses Across the Globe; Biden’s Climate Change Policy Would Cause More Economic Harm Than Coronavirus; Fact Check: ‘Redirecting’ Police Funding Is the Same as ‘Defund the Police’; Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Tall Tales; and Washington Post Lends Communist China a Helping Hand.
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The Trump administration is considering withdrawing American soldiers from South Korea. This is a dangerous idea. Even a partial withdrawal — let alone the removal of all 28,500 troops stationed there — would be a grave mistake.
Nearly every organization of pediatricians and children-oriented specialists have said it is vital for children to be back in school. However, to the teachers’ unions, the children don’t matter. Power matters.
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How can you possibly have a public policy for dealing with COVID if your data is eight weeks old? However, that understates the problem last week when the CDC reported 1,099 deaths. The World Health Organization estimated American deaths at 4,869. The Washington Post had a range between 4,900 and 6,300, and The New York times reported 5,379 for the week. Now, how can you possibly shape policy when you have a variance of 600 percent among the different estimates?
Today, I signed this letter with other free market economic leaders and business leaders arguing that health care price transparency should be included in the next COVID relief package. It is being sent to the President Trump and other White House officials, Majority Leader McConnell and Leader McCarthy, as well as other leaders in the Republican Party.
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Joe Biden is certainly a gaffe machine. He has even said so himself. It seems miraculous that a candidate as unskilled at communication could make it this far, and yet here he is. It is clear that the Democrats have become accustomed to explaining away the various and sundry blunders and boo-boos as Biden bungles his way across the campaign trail. It must get tiring.
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This week, however, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK is banning Huawei’s equipment from its network. British telecom operators must stop buying 5G equipment from Huawei by the end of the year and need to remove all of Huawei’s existing gear from the network by 2027. What explains the sharp reversal? To start, President Trump and his administration deserve credit.
The opening statement I made to a House Committee hearing on the question of remote voting in Congress. This is an important issue, and I wanted to make sure as many Americans were aware of it as possible.
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5 Stories to Watch Next Week: Amid COVID-19 surge across US, states consider next steps; European leaders meeting to discuss COVID-19 rescue plan; US considers sweeping travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members; FBI investigates large-scale Twitter hack; and Biden to address nation’s largest Muslim American PAC.
On July 8, we asked, “Do you think President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech was unifying or divisive?” A total of 1,296 of our readers responded.
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What Newt’s Reading: Never Trumpers Are Democrats in Republican Clothing; AOC’s Dishonest, Callous Answer to NYC’s Surging Street Violence; Jessica Whitaker, Mother of One, Shot Dead After Saying ‘All Lives Matter’; White House Partners With Apple, IBM to Encourage Americans to Think Outside 4-Year Degrees; and Florida Department of Health Says Some Labs Have Not Reported Negative COVID-19 Results.
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China will likely defeat the US in a future war, if one erupts. That’s a difficult fact to accept for many Americans, but it’s the truth. America has a more powerful military now, to be sure. But mounting evidence points to a coming Chinese victory — unless Washington takes bold, aggressive steps today to maintain its dwindling edge. The foundation of these steps is to increase the Pentagon’s budget.
