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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.

Just the News Now: May 6, 2024 Israel launches targeted strikes in Rafah while continuing hostage deal negotiations https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/israel-pushes-forward-rafah-operation-while-continuing-hostage-deal-negotiations Hamas says it has accepted Egypt, Qatar brokered cease-fire proposal https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/hamas-says-it-accepted-cease-fire-proposal-reports Chairman Jordan presses Wray for data on FBI's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hiring practices https://justthenews.com/government/congress/chairman-jordan-presses-wray-fbis-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-hiring Judge again fines Trump for violating gag order in hush money trial, warns next time could be jail https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-merchan-hits-trump-another-fine-violating-gag-order Bernie Sanders announces bid for fourth Senate term https://justthenews.com/government/congress/bernie-sanders-announces-bid-fourth-senate-term

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.

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) says audio recordings of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden will likely reveal “our Commander-in-Chief is in worse shape than we ever imagined.” “I think it would cost him his election. I suspect they’ll lay down in the street to keep that from coming out. But he is in terrible, terrible shape mentally,” he says. House Judiciary Republicans are expected to hold a vote on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he does not produce the audio tapes.

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) says he’s sent letters to House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan requesting an investigation into corruption within the CIA. Investigative journalist James O’Keefe released an undercover video last week of his conversation with a CIA operative, who said federal agencies withheld intelligence information from then-President Donald Trump.

Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes says the pro-Palestine campus riots have escalated the most in Democrat-led cities. He says the nationwide protests are clearly operating in unison and have a funder backing them.

Michael Seifert, founder and CEO of PublicSquare, says President Joe Biden’s proposed capital gains tax is twice as high as China’s. “As a reminder, capital gains are taxes on invested assets that you actually then sell for a profit,” he explains. “So you are, for all intents and purposes, you are disincentivizing any investors from placing capital into a business in order to help it grow because they know that 44.6% of whatever they gain they’re going to have to give back to the government.”

Just the News Reporter Madeleine Hubbard says many students she spoke with at Fordham University’s anti-Israel protest did not understand what they were supporting. She says the university’s encampment started just hours after NYPD broke up Columbia’s encampment.

Michael Seifert, founder and CEO of PublicSquare, says wealthy businessmen support Democrats because they have become so far removed from the average American life that they do not experience the negative effect of progressive policies. Seifert says Biden’s proposed tax hikes will hurt small businesses the most.

Tim Murtaugh, author of Amazon best seller “Swing Hard In Case You Hit It”, says President Joe Biden’s silence toward anti-Israel college protests shows his “astounding disconnect” with voters. “The reason why Biden won’t come forward and actually condemn what’s going on on these college campuses is because he needs the votes of a few thousand pro-Hamas voters near Dearborn, Michigan. It’s all about the fact that he can’t afford to lose Michigan in the presidential race,” he says.

Trump 2020 Communications Director Tim Murtaugh says recent polling shows voters looking more favorably at former President Donald Trump’s presidency than President Joe Biden’s. "I think that this whole race sets up really nicely for Donald Trump because everyone who is going to be of voting age, even those who are voting in their very first election at age 18 perhaps, everyone has lived through both presidencies,” says Murtaugh.

Trump 2020 Communications Director Tim Murtaugh explains why former President Donald Trump’s process for picking his running mate is much different this election than in 2016. “I’m not sure that a guy who has been president already one time very recently—and I think you could make a pretty good case that he is the most famous human on the planet—I'm not sure that he needs a vice presidential pick to come in and give him something that he doesn’t already have,” he says. “Because everyone is, I think, basically 100% familiar with Donald Trump.”