Freedomcast

Sally Pipes, President and CEO at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses how President Biden's drug price controls undermine his Cancer Moonshot initiative, and the ultimate impact price controls will have on patient lives, innovation, and research and development.

Lora Ries, Director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, discusses why only U.S. citizens should be counted in the census data as the numbers impact Congressional districting and the Electoral College, how cities and states with sanctuary policies encourage more illegal migrants to reside there, the status of border security bills in Congress, and how open border policies and the pro crime approach of many prosecutors put lives as risk.

Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow in Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation, discusses the recently released annual report on U.S. military strength and how the underfunding of U.S. defense and overworking of the U.S. military personnel have dire national and international implications.

William J. Conti, Attorney and Former Partner at Baker & Hostetler, discusses the recently released report from Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding President Biden, the politics of various legal trials involving former President Trump, the Super Bowl ad starring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the potential political ramifications of all of the above.

Ryan Young, Senior Economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the recent report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis regarding final GDP numbers for 2023, what they mean for 2024, the latest unemployment numbers, and why Congress should pass the pro-transparency ALERT Act with the aim to reduce the number of ridiculous regulations.

Quin Hillyer, Columnist and Political Commentator, discusses the requirement forcing Social Security recipients to take Medicare or forfeit their Social Security benefits, and how the Retirement Freedom Act, if passed, would override that requirement and extend the life of the Medicare program.

Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses the enormous amount of deference afforded to federal regulatory agencies by the 40-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, and how the Supreme Court appears poised to eliminate that long-standing Chevron doctrine and reinstitute proper constitutional balance among the three branches of government.

The Honorable Francis Rooney, former Ambassador to the Holy See and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, discusses the global implications and unintended adverse consequences of Hamas' attack on Israel, whether diplomatic efforts and/or the Vatican's involvement could bring peace to the Middle East, and the likelihood of success with ongoing negotiations to secure the release of hostages.

Rachel Greszler, Senior Research Fellow in the Roe Institute at The Heritage Foundation, discusses how President Biden's proposed overtime regulations will result in job losses, lower benefits and less flexibility for employees, and how struggling Americans would bear the impact of a $17 federal minimum wage.

Wayne Crews, Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the cost of federal regulations to the U.S. economy, and the need for regulatory transparency and reform.