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Vance Ginn, former OMB Chief Economist under President Donald Trump, says governors should rein in spending and lower regulations in order to promote economic growth and prosperity. He also urges governors to become less dependent on federal funding. “At some point, Congress is going to reach a spending crisis. I think we’re already there,” Ginn says. “They’re going to have to start cutting their spending and one of the top places they’re going to want to cut is funding to states. So you got to have that as one of the top things that they want to do.”

Vance Ginn, former OMB Chief Economist under President Donald Trump, says the most recent jobs report showed a loss of full-time jobs and increase of part-time and government employment. Ginn says current federal spending levels are unsustainable and directly contribute to higher interest rates, mortgage rates, and inflation.

Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) says the Unaccompanied Minor Placement Notification Act would require the Health and Human Services Office of Refuge Resettlement to notify school districts or child welfare agencies when an unaccompanied minor is in their county. "I don't agree with how these kids got here. But once they're here and they're under the age of 18, we have a responsibility to make sure they're safe. And we're not even doing that," says Rep. Griffith. 'The Biden administration is just sending them out without ever checking on them and its disgraceful."

Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) describes bombshell revelations from four D.C. National Guard officials’ testimony to the House Administration Committee Wednesday on Wednesday. Rep. Griffiths says the whistleblowers claim Army officials were concerned with the “optics” of deploying the D.C. National Guard to the Capitol and that the Democrat-led January 6 Select Committee spoke with them but never called them in to publicly testify during the 2022 hearings.

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Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, says former President Donald Trump’s second term will likely be a two-phase approach that involves his former border strategies “but on steroids.” Morgan says some of the policies that will be enacted include the Remain in Mexico program and rebuilding the wall.

Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, says the Senate’s decision to kill both articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is an insult to the American public. “It’s the first time in our history that the Senate has not gone forward with a trial once the House has handed them articles of impeachment of a public official,” Morgan says. “The irony here is that part of the reason why Secretary Mayorkas was impeached was because he just trashed and threw away the Constitution. And that’s exactly what the Senate did by not going forth with the trial.”

Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) says that unless House Speaker Mike Johnson attaches H.R. 2 to the Ukraine foreign aid bill, House Republicans will never get funding for border security. “That’s the only leverage that we have left,” says Rep. Clyde. “We have abdicated the leverage when it came to funding our government, and so this is it.”

Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) says the new foreign aid package released by House GOP leaders Thursday needs to be defeated. Rep. Clyde says Congress needs to focus on securing our southern border before they send foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific.

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Center for Union Facts Executive Director Mike Saltsman says Volkswagen autoworkers have a lot of personal factors to consider before joining the United Auto Workers union. “I think they’re going to make these decisions on what does it mean for their pocketbooks and do they agree with the values of an organization that they’re now going to be sending a significant amount of their paychecks to each month,” he says. Saltsman also notes Volkswagen’s neutral position on UAW representation at their Chattanooga plant.

Center for Union Facts Executive Director Mike Saltsman explains why Volkswagen autoworkers expected vote to join the United Auto Workers union this week comes at a pivotal time. Saltsman says the UAW has tried and failed two previous times to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Florida Atlantic University Associate Professor of Economics William Luther says unfortunately for the Biden administration, there are no quick fixes for our tanking economy. “If the Biden administration were to come out and say ‘Hey, we’re going to cut these deficits, we’re going to redirect resources to the private sector’, I think that would be great. I don’t know that it would have a big effect prior to the election, but all of that of course is irrelevant because its contrary to what the Biden administration actually wants to do,” says Luther.

Florida Atlantic University Associate Professor of Economics William Luther reports on the latest inflation rate data. “If you go back to the second half of last year, we see that inflation had come down to around two percent. And in the first three months of this year, we’re averaging around four and a half percent. So very far off of the Fed’s target,” says Luther.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano says New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump is doing “extraordinary damage” to our legal system. “It shows how the Judiciary is being weaponized and it shows why the American people have lost so much and faith in their institutions,” says Giordano.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano commends National Public Radio veteran editor Uri Berliner for having the integrity to resign after the news outlet suspended him for his critical op-ed. “We do have a big problem in the United States and they do it under the guise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which is nothing more than a political agenda. It’s not academic, it has nothing to do with intellectual curiosity. It has everything to do with the groupthink mentality,” says Giordano.

American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp explains why former President Donald Trump should consider hosting rallies in left-leaning communities. Schlapp says President Joe Biden’s wide-open border, the rising crime wave, and high inflation rates are changing voting preferences in minority communities.

American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp lauds Michael Whatley and Lara Trump's work as the new chairs of the Republican National Committee. Schlapp says Whatley’s experience with election law and Trump’s fundraising initiatives are crucial assets for the RNC.

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) says every Democrat and member of the Biden administration should be held accountable for allowing the invasion of our southern border. “All they had to do is go by the same laws and rules that President Trump had implemented when he was in office,” says Sen. Tuberville.

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) says the VA Abortion Transparency Act, his new legislation that would impose abortion reporting requirements on the Department of Veteran Affairs, seeks to gain a “little bit of cooperation” from the Biden administration. Sen. Tuberville says the VA has stonewalled his requests for documents and financials related to its facilitation of abortions for veterans and their dependents.

Just the New, No Noise highlights important news of the day, with a focus on investigative journalism. Watch weeknights at 6 p.m. ET. Watch Past Episodes: https://justthenews.com/tv-shows/just-news Visit our Just the News website: https://justthenews.com

Just the New, No Noise highlights important news of the day, with a focus on investigative journalism. Watch weeknights at 6 p.m. ET. Watch Past Episodes: https://justthenews.com/tv-shows/just-news Visit our Just the News website: https://justthenews.com

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced a floor debate on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday. "For the sake of the Senate's integrity and to protect impeachment for those rare cases, we truly need it, senators should dismiss today's charges," Sen. Schumer said during his speech on the Senate floor. House impeachment managers delivered two articles of impeachment against Sec. Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday.