Big risk: America’s Global Positioning System (GPS) is exposed to possible attacks from hostile nations like China every day. The U.S. must update out-of-date technology to prevent disruptions to the GPS that would cripple our economy. 

• “Both China and Russia have shown that they can take down Western satellites,” writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. 
• “The global cost of GPS interference is too high for world governments to wait for it to fail,” she writes. 
• “This is an area where like-minded governments can and should work together to develop reliable back-ups, both for economic and military security.” 

Read more here about how America can defend its vital GPS. 

• Related: Read why experts are skeptical of China’s seemingly low defense budget here. 

Be gone: If you want to know just how big and intrusive the administrative state has become, consider this: Simply freezing existing regulations in place would have huge economic and budgetary benefits, according to Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis. It would boost GDP growth, reduce inflation, and cut federal deficits.

• Parker Sheppard, research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, and William Beach, senior fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, have forecasted what the numbers would look like with such a freeze.
• “A regulatory freeze would reduce the federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the 2025–2034 budget window and $1.4 trillion over the 2026–2035 budget window,” they write.

Read more here.

Choices: “Congress has a decision to make,” writes Preston Brashers, research fellow for tax policy in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget: Hang small business owners out to dry, or lock in a tax system that allows them to thrive?

• If Congress doesn’t renew President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts as part of the budget reconciliation process, “nobody will be hit harder than small businesses,” Brashers says.

Read his commentary here.

Baby boom? Heritage’s work features prominently in a New York Times piece about marriage and birth rates, which quotes both Jay Richards, director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, and Emma Waters, policy analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person.

• Heritage, the Times notes, “is preparing to release a report in the coming weeks on how it believes the administration and Congress should counter declining birth and marriage rates.”

Read the Times story here.

Washington has been spending YOUR money like there’s no tomorrow.

• Trillions wasted. Taxes rising. National debt soaring. It’s time to restore fiscal sanity before it’s too late.
• Will you sign the Declaration for Restoring Fiscal Sanity and demand a government that spends wisely, cuts waste, and lowers taxes for hardworking Americans?

Add your name now! Click here to sign the declaration.

Unlimited power: The power to issue nationwide injunctions effectively makes individual district judges (of whom there are hundreds) as powerful as the entire Supreme Court. This should not be allowed. 

• “Only two things can stop them: legislation (like the bill introduced recently by Senator Chuck Grassley), or a decree from the Supreme Court,” writes GianCarlo Canaparo, senior legal fellow. 

Read more here. 

250 years young: Heritage has launched a special round of the Innovation Prizes ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to recognize and provide substantive financial awards that, in total, amount to $250,000 to non-profits for projects focused on themes relating to the Semiquincentennial in 2026. We welcome projects that focus on the following: 

• Celebrating America’s 250th anniversary 
• Building civic awareness and encouraging Americans to engage in civic life 
• Inspiring patriotism 
• Educating citizens about America’s founding principles 
• Teaching Americans about our government’s foundational tenets 

Applications for America’s 250th Anniversary Innovation Prizes are open through May 1. For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Harnessing Medical Innovation to Make America Healthy Again 

 

How can the Department of Health and Human Services encourage the use of alternative treatments in its mission to treat the human body as an integrated whole and solve problems, not symptoms? Heritage experts and leading medical scientists discuss ways to make Americans healthier.

 

May 1, 11 a.m. Register here. 

• The Heritage Foundation Mourns the Death of Pope Francis—Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
• Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories—J. Joel Alicea
• Report: States Must Refuse to Define ‘Abuse’ as Raising a Child According to His or Her Sex—Laura Hanford and Jay Richards, Ph.D.
• Harvard and DEI: An Expensive Lesson—Jonathan Butcher
• The Associated Press’ Narrow ‘Victory’ Over the White House—Hans von Spakovsky
• Denver’s Sanctuary Policies Leave Colorado Vulnerable and Cost Taxpayers Millions—John Fabbricatore
• Report: Consequences of Failure: How Biden’s Policies Fueled the Border Crisis—Lora Ries
• What Washington Won’t Admit About Nuclear Dominance—Wilson Beaver
• Government by Injunction—Paul Larkin
• Where Is Soldiers’ Pay Going, and Why Are Dining Halls Empty?—Wilson Beaver and Ka’von Johnson
• How America Can Quickly Fix Its Dangerous Munitions Shortfall—Mary Mobley

EJ Antoni, research fellow in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, appeared on Fox Business to discuss the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy, saying that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s refusal to cut interest rates smacks of politics. Watch the clip here.