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LeadingAge South Carolina President and CEO Kassie South says she has called on the House and Senate to stop the Biden administration’ new rule mandating a minimum staffing level in nursing homes. South says the Ensuring Seniors Access’ to Quality Care Act, passed by the House Ways and Means Committee, will help alleviate staffing shortages by allowing nursing homes to offer on-site training.

LeadingAge South Carolina President and CEO Kassie South says the Biden administration’s new rule requiring minimum staffing numbers in nursing homes will create backlogs in hospital systems and shut down nursing homes. “In the first year of implementation, we would need 27,000 additional full-time RNs to meet this mandate and 78,000 additional full-time nurse aids. They are just not there already with staffing shortages,” she says.

Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice says it’s “shocking” to see the Biden administration continue to support gender ideology while countries across Europe start to backtrack on the issue. “People are waking up every day,” she says. “It’s a perfect storm happening, and our kids are caught right in the middle.”

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Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice says children’s free speech rights will be chilled and girls’ spaces will be erased if President Joe Biden’s trans-inclusive Title IX changes are allowed to take effect. “If you’re not willing to change your child’s gender and affirm that want of change of gender, now they can report you for child abuse because the federal government has now given them a mandate to socially transition your child,” she says.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) says U.S. taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for illegal immigrants to access free healthcare. The Biden administration’s new rule will allow illegal immigrants protected by the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to access health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) says the No Flights for Terrorists Act would deport and revoke pro-Hamas protestors’ student visas, bar American students from federal loans, and place anti-American protestors on the terrorist watchlist and the TSA no-fly list. “I believe if somebody tells you they’re a terrorist, we should believe them,” she says.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano says college protestors are being used by professional agitators to promote communist slogans and anti-American ideology. “The problem is that the education system has failed so much that students aren’t really educated so they’re susceptible to this message,” he says.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano explains how the nationwide anti-Israel protests are the direct result of colleges' DEI push. “If you listen to these student protestors, it really is amazing how little they know about the actual issues," he says.

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Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates explains how U.S. funding to Gaza would legally change if the United Nations General Assembly votes to admit Palestine as a full member. She says regardless of whether the resolution is passed this Friday, the United States needs to cut off funding to the United Nations.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates explains how President Joe Biden has both internal and external forces pushing back against U.S. aid to Israel. “They are in a terrible pickle here because even if they want to fully and robustly fund Israel, they’re being held back by their own people... It’s a total double standard to what President Trump was held to four years ago,” she says.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates condemns President Joe Biden for holding up military assistance to Israel. She says that if the Biden administration decides to use aid designated for refugee issues to relocate Palestinians, they “certainly better pony up” the money that was appropriated for Israel.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates says Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent the last ten years cornering the global market on green energy products, like electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines. Coates says China has put U.S. and European renewable energy companies out of business while taking advantage of the Biden administration’s huge green energy subsidies and incentives.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley attributes the committee’s surge in fundraising to voter support of former President Donald Trump. “Every single day that President Trump is in court right now, we’re making a million dollars in donations,” he says.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley says the committee has expanded their communication methods as a way to better inform and register new voters in big states. Whatley says the RNC is also focused on promoting early voting options to new Republicans.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley says the committee is working alongside state officials to ensure election integrity measures are in place for the 2024 election. “We’re going to work very aggressively with state legislators, with regulators, with Boards of Elections, with secretary of states to make sure that the states are implementing the right rules of the road,” he says. “And when they don’t, we’re going to be very aggressive about going to court to make sure that we’re going to get them put in place.”

New Jersey Congressional Candidate Michael F. Faccone weighs in on former President Donald Trump’s odds in blue-leaning New Jersey. Faccone says he sees New Jerseyans “rising to the occasion” and voting for Trump in November.

New Jersey Congressional Candidate Michael F. Faccone says the recent crime wave, tax increases, and education are serious concerns in New Jersey. Faccone vows to fight for New Jerseyans on these key issues if elected in November.

Ann McElhinney, co-producer of the play “October 7”, shares the most impactful story she came across while interviewing survivors of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. She describes the account of a man who drove his work van from his house to the Nova Music Festival and saved almost 100 people.

Phelim McAleer, co-producer of the play “October 7”, says the left's domination of the arts scene motivated him to make a play about the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. McAleer says it's critically important to inform and remind people of the Oct. 7 massacre.

U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart criticizes the Biden administration's “political” use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. “I do think we’re vulnerable. If it’s a bad hurricane season, while the infrastructures about as resilient as we’ll ever be, the fact of the matter is it was designed to prevent disruptions and we just don’t have the cushion that we did two or three years ago,” he says.

U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart announces the launch of the “Energy Contract with America,” a project that will bring awareness to energy poverty, protect consumer choice, and strengthen national energy security. Stewart expects the initiative to garner bipartisan support from the local to federal level.

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U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart says the Department of Energy’s rules for appliances have woken Congress up to the vast regulatory overreach of the Biden administration. Stewart says the purpose of these household appliance regulations is to end the use of fossil fuels in the home.