*In today’s newsletter, we examine claims that cuts to USAID funding have weakened socialist political movements abroad. New economic figures are showing American workers’ wages continuing to outpace inflation despite higher gasoline prices. Congress is considering ways to reduce the cost of producing nickels. We examine the increasingly contentious Texas Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico, and much more. *
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Daily Bible Verse
The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and He helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise Him. Psalm 28:7
Across America
We alluded to this on Tuesday, but it bears repeating, since most of the US media refuses to touch it: Ever since Trump and DOGE cut taxpayer funding of USAID, which was supposed to be helping poor unfortunates around the world but was really funding leftist activists and governments, one socialist dictatorship after another has fallen, especially in South America.
Mike Benz has been digging into the DC-to-liberal NGOs-to leftist governments and activists money pipeline, and he has more on how cutting off the forced US taxpayer support of socialist radicals is bringing freedom and free enterprise to millions of people.
It’s ironic but it turns out that the best way to help unfortunate poor people in other nations was to shut off USAID.
When you hear that there’s a war on cents in Washington, this isn’t what springs to mind. Congress recently unanimously passed a bill eliminating the penny, which cost three cents to produce, and the nickel could be next on the chopping block.
The production and materials (25% nickel, 75% copper) of a nickel mean that it costs 13 cents to make a five-cent coin. Now, some Congress members are urging the Administration to act on another part of the bill and create a way to produce a cheaper nickel.
They could do what candy makers do and make it much smaller. Or they could make wooden nickels, but nobody would want to take those.
Congress should be careful what it wishes for. If we embark on a mission to eliminate everything in Washington that costs us more than it’s worth, there wont’ be very much of the federal government left.
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