Daily Signal

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

Relevant Links

Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/

Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription

Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts

Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iowa is one of six states suing the Biden administration over the president's plan to forgive billions in student loan debt.

“Canceling student loan debt is not legal,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. “In order for that to happen, something would have to pass the House, the Senate, [and] be signed by the president. It's basic constitutional law.”

Last year, President Joe Biden announced plans to forgive $10,000 of debt for individual student loan borrowers who make less than $125,000 per year ($250,000 for households) and $20,000 for borrowers who received a Pell Grant. 

Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina sued the Biden administration over the loan forgiveness plan and on Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legal challenge. 

Bird, Iowa's first Republican attorney general since 1979, was at the Supreme Court during the arguments and joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain her key takeaways and how she thinks the justices will rule on the case.

Enjoy the show!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

Relevant Links

Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/

Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription

Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts

Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An energy expert is sounding the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party's dominance of African minerals. 

"It's such an important topic because President [Joe] Biden and the governor of California, Gov. [Gavin] Newsom have the goal of having all new-vehicle sales in the United States battery-powered electric by 2035, so if we're going to have all electric vehicles with batteries, we need the minerals for those batteries, and the United States used to produce those minerals," says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) 

Lithium brine and cobalt and nickel ores are among the minerals needed for electric vehicles with batteries, Furchtgott-Roth says. 

"As recently as 1990, the U.S. was the world's No.1 producer of those minerals. Today, we are in seventh place. Even though we have vast mineral reserves worth trillions of dollars, we are now 100% dependent on imports for some 17 key minerals, and China is a significant source for many of those minerals," she says. 

Furchtgott-Roth explains how China "can go to Africa and purchase vast tracts of land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, where it can get out the cobalt," and that Beijing "doesn't have problems with using children to mine for these minerals or using slave labor in Xinjiang to mine for these minerals."

"So, China has all kinds of business advantages that we in the United States do not have," she says.

Furchtgott-Roth joins today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss what the U.S. can do to have more influence in Africa, why the U.S. should be more active in reducing China's role in regard to African minerals, and the connection between "environmental, social, and governance" policies and China.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

Relevant Links

Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/

Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription

Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts

Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drug cartel activity and human smuggling have become tragically commonplace for many Texas communities. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says Texans are deeply frustrated with the situation at their southern border, a situation she describes as "frightening." 

There is a “tremendous loss of life with the increase in crime” at the southern border, Buckingham says, adding, “We’re going to do everything we possibly can, but unfortunately it is sort of trying to trap water in a sieve. When the federal government [is] ... tying the hands of our Border Patrol agents … it's an uphill battle, but we're going to continue to fight every day.”

Buckingham joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how locals in Texas view the illegal-immigration crisis and what the Texas General Land Office is doing to secure the southern border.

Enjoy the show!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

Relevant Links

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/27/taiwans-economic-freedom-rises-all-time-high-us-drops/

Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/

Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription

Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts

Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The remedy for racism never is more racism.” That’s the guiding principle behind a new initiative called the Equal Protection Project. 

Through education, investigation, and litigation, the Equal Protection Project is working to expose instances of racism in America, such as a school district in Rhode Island that announced it was holding an event for non-white educators only.

"I mean, racism's been around in various forms for a long time, but now it's done in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion," says Bill Jacobson, founder and publisher of LegalInsurrection.com.

That's a reference to the likes of Ibram X. Kendi, who in his book “How to Be an Antiracist” insists, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

Jacobson announced the launch of the Equal Protection Project on the Fox News Channel "Tucker Carlson Tonight" program on Thursday night. 

Jacobson joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain how the Equal Protection Project is working to promote the “fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity.”

Find out more about the Equal Protection Project here: https://equalprotect.org/

Enjoy the show!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

Relevant Links

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/23/clarence-thomas-gets-prominent-placement-from-his-local-library-after-initial-snub/ 

Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/

Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription

Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts

Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roman Jankowski, an investigative columnist for The Daily Signal and a senior investigative counsel for the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation, joins a bonus episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast.”

Jankowski provides some insight into his trip to East Palestine, Ohio, weeks after a cargo train carrying hazardous substances derailed, former President Donald Trump’s visit on Wednesday as well as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s visit on Thursday, and what the residents of East Palestine need. The residents in East Palestine continue to complain about rashes and other issues that they believe are being caused by the chemicals that were released from the train. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices