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February 13, 2025
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| 10 Bills That Would Codify Trump's Executive Orders into Law |
| by Ben Johnson |
| President Donald Trump wasted no time enacting the agenda that won him the White House in the 2024 election, signing a series of executive orders and regulatory actions nearly every day of his second administration. Yet executive orders last only as long as a friendly president holds office. There is now a movement afoot to codify President Trump's executive orders into statutory law. Here are 10 bills members of Congress have introduced to make the 47th president's executive actions permanent. |
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| Trump Moves to Strip Men of Women's Titles |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| While nothing can replace the euphoria of standing on a podium to the crowd's enthusiastic cheers - or undo the humiliation of watching a man take your place - Donald Trump is doing the next best thing. In a much-needed encore to the president's order to end transgender sports, the administration is taking its action to the next level: restoring the titles, honors, and records to the girls who rightly earned them. |
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| Judge Halts Trump Order Removing Gender Ideology Webpages from Health Agencies |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| In what is becoming a nationwide trend, a federal judge is restraining one of President Donald Trump's executive orders, in this case by ordering that deleted gender ideology webpages at federal health agencies be restored. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates of the District of Columbia issued a temporary restraining order demanding that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restore webpages that had been deleted after an executive order from the president. |
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| DOGE Forges Ahead with Spending Cuts as Musk Vows to Slash Budget Deficit |
| by Dan Hart |
| Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk promised to cut $1 trillion from the annual budget deficit by identifying waste and fraud in federal spending on Tuesday, with DOGE officials reportedly identifying almost $900 million to cut from the Department of Education (DOE) programs as part of their latest push for taxpayer spending reform. |
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| Better Data and Better Results on Maternal Health |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| Maternal health in the United States has been much in the news lately with developments that challenge media stereotypes. The first story of note came at the beginning of February with the release of new data on maternal mortality from the National Center for Health Statistics. Presenting national data from 2023, author Donna L. Hoyert reported that the overall rate of maternal mortality fell 17% in the first full year after the Supreme Court decision that overturned the 1973 abortion rulings. The new numbers are the best the nation has seen since 2018 and are an encouraging development. |
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| Disney Appears to Be Pulling Away from DEI. But Can We Actually Believe it? |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| As Disney starts to pull back on some of their radically left-wing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, many wonder: Could the Magical Kingdom finally be making a return to sanity? |
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| Dems Plan State-Level 'Resistance' to Federal GOP Trifecta |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Democrats started planning their opposition to President Donald Trump's agenda just days after he was reelected last year, according to a new report, and are also preparing to combat his policies at the state level. The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project reported this week that a coalition of 23 Democrat attorneys general signed a "secret agreement," starting November 8, pledging to oppose Trump's anticipated immigration policies. The concordat stipulates that the attorneys general "have agreed that they have a common interest in developing potential litigation to challenge executive action related to ending or curtailing birthright citizenship..." |
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| Yoaxis Marcheco: 'Fear Has Always Been a Weapon in the Hands of Castroism' |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| In the boom of platforms like blogs, used by independent creators, began to expose with very personal, self-taught visions, without the trappings of state censorship, a complex and raw Cuba. Yoaxis Marcheco Suarez did so from the Christian faith and the natural yearning for freedom associated with it. The cost of this was exile with her husband, Mario Felix Lleonart, and the couple's two daughters. |
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