Yes, the Social Security retirement age should be raised. If Congress does nothing, benefits will be cut by 21% across the board beginning in 2033. heritage.org/social-securit… Simply raising taxes to prevent these benefit cuts would require Social Security’s 12.4% tax rate to rise, immediately, to somewhere between 15.7% and 17.5% —the equivalent of an extra $2,500 to $3,800 per year in taxes for the median household.

Banana Republic Election Interference

The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot is a “nakedly partisan, anti-democratic decision that ignores the law and prior precedent.”

@HvonSpakovsky explains🧵 “Under the text and history of the 14th Amendment, as well as court precedent, Trump is not disqualified from running for office for numerous reasons.

First, Section 3 of the 14 Amendment applies only to individuals who were previously a ‘member of Congress,’ an ‘officer of the United States,’ or a state official. Individuals who are elected—such as the president and vice president—are not officers within the meaning of Section 3.

1/🚨EXPOSED: @theMRC has uncovered a DHS anti-terrorism program that's been weaponized against conservatives.

80 grants & 39.6 million taxpayer dollars later, here's a look at how @JoeBiden & @SecMayorkas are outsourcing their efforts to conflate conservatives with terrorists🧵 2/ @univofdayton is one of the most radical grant recipients for the program, receiving $352k to fight "domestic violent extremism and hate movements."

Biden's @DHSgov awarded the grant despite their application including this fallacious chart.

Here's how their seminars went...

🧵Biden and the Democrats have lied A LOT about the debt-limit fight.

Here are 7 false claims DEBUNKED by our very own @DavidADitch dailysignal.com/2023/05/23/reb… 1. GOP won’t negotiate & will make America hit the debt ceiling.

The House passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which would increase the debt limit while cutting spending.

Rather than start bipartisan negotiations, Democrats have not taken any meaningful action whatsoever.

🧵🧵: Joe Biden's making a speech today about the border crisis that he, @SecMayorkas, and the open-borders advocates in his administration have caused.

Expecting lots of blame-shifting and dishonesty. Buckle up... Well that didn't take long. Biden's already blaming Republicans for not passing his "comprehensive immigration reform," which is just code for amnesty.

👀🧵: NEW numbers obtained by Mark Morgan show some shocking facts about the disaster at the border in December.

To start, Border Patrol saw 226,050 apprehensions. That brings the FY23 total to 640,000+ in just three months--200,000 more than FY2020 total. #BidenBorderCrisis There's more. When you factor in the "inadmissibles," i.e., those encountered at ports of entry (many of whom are also released into the interior), you're looking at around 300,000 encounters in December.

The #Omnibus will further dismantle border security and dump gasoline on the dumpster fire that is #BidenBorderCrisis

Here’s how 🧵🔽: It throws money (to the tune of $234M) at state and local detention facilities to collect alien info and provide it to the feds, even though the administration already prohibits ICE from enforcing laws or cooperating with state and local law enforcement regarding criminal aliens.

🧵🔥 WOKE PRIORITIES IN THE OMNIBUS
 
Here are just a few earmarks (a.k.a. your taxpayer dollars set aside for special interests or projects) we found in the 1,455 page spending bill that are funding the left’s extreme agenda using YOUR money 👇 💸 $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers”
💸 $1.2 million for "services for DACA recipients” (aka helping illegal aliens with taxpayer funds) at San Diego Community College.
💸 $477k for the Equity Institute in RI to indoctrinate teachers with “antiracism virtual labs.”

🚨🧵: Republicans are about to surrender the leverage to hold Biden accountable without even putting up a fight.

This week, at least 10 Senate Republicans are expected to join democrats to pass a massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill in Congress. Doing so would undermine one of the GOP’s core campaign promises.

When rolling out the “Commitment to America” in September, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made government accountability a pillar of the plan.

The Senate Democrat's guide to passing a $1.7 TRILLION spending package (how-to guide 🧵)

Step 1⃣: Set government funding to expire on Dec. 23, so members have to choose between passing a bad bill or staying in D.C. over Christmas. Step 2⃣: Stuff the bill with as many of the Biden administrations failed policies as possible.

The Biden administration’s radical Department of Education Title IX guidance tied up in federal court, but that's not stopping congressional Democrats from pushing a bill that would codify the administration’s gender ideology agenda. 🧵⤵️ The so-called Students’ Access to Freedom and Educational Rights (SAFER) Act locks the administration’s harmful gender ideology rules into law, while also lowering the standard of proof for sexual assault cases and rewriting decades-old civil rights laws.

🧵: The Congress’ Christmas Spending Spree 🎁

We all have Christmas traditions: Food we eat, songs we sing, and gifts we give.

However, Congress' special tradition is to pass massive spending bills, think 1,000's of pages, in just a matter of days (called an Omnibus). This year, Congressional leadership is giving members just FIVE DAYS to pass more than $1 trillion to fund the federal government in 2023.

Who can possibly read through such a bill and make an informed decision in just 5 days? Not even Santa and his elves! 🎅

🚨🧵: This week, our Oversight Project released shocking new details about who's helping the Biden administration transport record numbers of illegal aliens across the country...#BidenBorderCrisis The Project obtained commercially available cell phone data from more than 30,000 devices which pinged at the physical locations of nearly 3 dozen NGO facilities in border states in January 2022.

We then tracked where those phones ended up. The results were shocking.

Social media companies were created to give every user a voice in the public square, but because of special privileges granted to them under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act many are being censored while Big Tech companies remain immune from the consequences. This has encouraged companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to use their concentrated power to effectively police the legitimate speech of ordinary Americans to amplify their allies & censor their adversaries, a major violation of the First Amendment.
heritage.org/testimony/hold…

🚨 The EAGLE Act: A Gift to Chinese Communist Party, But Devastating for Our Legal Immigration System

Here's why 🧵🔽 The House of Representatives is considering the “EAGLE Act,” a bill that would eliminate long-standing caps on the number of individuals who can receive visas every year to legally enter the United States.

There’s a LOT to unpack within the final FY 2023 NDAA — America’s annual spending bill for national defense.

Here’s a quick rundown highlighting some of the good and the bad within it 🧵🔽 THE GOOD:
✅ Increased top-line for defense spending
✅ Removal of some Woke language and initiatives
✅ Better cooperation with Taiwan against China
✅ Vaccine mandate lifted for military
✅ Protects women from draft registration
✅ Increased accountability for Ukraine aid

Spending bills should reflect the priorities of the American people as demonstrated by their vote in the recent election.
🧵🔽 The current Congress should pass a short-term CR and leave the newly elected Congress to craft spending.

❓SENATE AMNESTY PACKAGE❓

Senators Thom Tillis and Kyrsten Sinema have reportedly circulated a draft proposal on Capitol Hill that would provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the lame-duck session of Congress. 🧵🔽 The proposal tries to soften opposition to this amnesty by throwing money at the Border Patrol to ‘speed up processing of asylum seekers’ and hire more Border Patrol agents.

🚨 Investigation Uncovers Shocking Facts on Biden Border Crisis

Heritage unveiled new data today showing massive numbers of illegal aliens have made their way to NGO facilities physically located along the border & subsequently traveled throughout the U.S.
🧵🔽 Our Oversight Project & Border Security and Immigration Center obtained a sampling of approximately 30,000 unique and anonymized mobile devices that were geofenced to a number of these NGOs along the border.

🧵🔽 — Today, @elonmusk released documents showing Twitter willingly complied with the Biden campaign’s requests to both single out and silence individual Americans. 1/6 The “Twitter Files” indicate the company “freelanced” its decision to censor the New York Post’s coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy. 2/6

🧵: Myths and facts about the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (set for a Senate vote today) ❌ MYTH 1: The bill "respects" marriage.
✅ FACT: The bill establishes a national policy on same-sex marriage that will target religious schools and adoption agencies for denying them tax exempt status, government contracts, scholarships, and grants.