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why do mayors protect migrant crime?

🚩 Democrats’ sanctuary city choice. From: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. Mayors say they won’t change despite worries about migrant crime.

Welfare consumption by illegal immigrants is inevitable — as long as they’re here. From: Jason Richwine/Center for Immigration Studies. The reason is that illegal immigrants can access welfare through eligible family members such as their U.S.-born children.

🎯 Yes, cutting government waste is important. From: Veronique de Rugy/Reason. Entitlements are a much bigger expense, but that doesn't mean the waste doesn't matter.

Musk fired-up about Paul's rescission idea for slashing spending up to $500 billion. From: Zero Hedge. The approach could guide DOGE cuts around federal judges who consider executive-branch-initiated spending cuts as exceeding constitutional authority.

🔎 Medicare deserves attention from DOGE and Congress. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. Reform could replace an unsustainable boondoggle with lower costs, more freedom, and better care.

Eighty percent of the public opposed Green’s conduct but only five percent of Democratic members voted to censure him. From: Jonathan Turley. The Democratic Party seemed to rush to embrace its utter obsolescence in disrupting the censure process of Rep. Al Green.

⭐️ The death rattle of ‘the Resistance.’ From: Brendan O’Neill/Spiked. The Democratic ‘revolt’ against Trump’s Congress speech was next-level cringe.

A new Washington Post? From: Sheldon Richman/Libertarian Institute. If Jeff Bezos is as good as his word, the advocates of full liberty will owe him a standing ovation.

👉 Truth or consequences: what happens when businesses end DEI. From: Steve Forbes/Fox News. Target joins Walmart and Meta dropping DEI and starting to do what businesses do best.

Federal dependency is a ticking time bomb for state budgets. From: Vance Ginn/The Daily Economy. Congress funds a big chunk of state spending. But the more states rely on Washington, the less control they have over their own policies.

🔑 Trump’s school choice. From: Kimberley A Strassel/Wall Street Journal. The Department of Education needs to be abolished to get kids learning again.

Trump preparing to sign executive order to begin closing Department of Education. From: Lauren Taylor/Straight Arrow News. Trump has criticized the U.S. education system and expressed a desire for states to manage schools.

🤥 UN pushes awful green deal policies while also spreading eco lies. From: Bjorn Lomborg/N Y Post. Research from climate economists shows that most current climate policies are vastly inefficient.

The times, they aren’t never a-changin.’ From: I & I Editorial Board. The entire global warming scare is built on, coulds and maybes and possiblies.

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