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More bad news today on the inflation front. Consumer prices jumped 0.4% last month, according to the Labor Department. Over the last year, prices have risen 5.4%. Let’s put that in perspective… Food prices alone have jumped 4.6% in the last 12 months. Certainly you’ve seen that reflected in restaurant prices or at the grocery store. (If not in higher prices, then definitely in… Read more »

The average price for gas hit $3.02/gallon here in South Carolina yesterday, according to AAA. That’s up a whopping 55% from this time one year ago. For now at least, President Biden’s energy policies are not (yet) the primary culprit. Several factors have contributed. For example, the oil cartel controlling most of the world’s oil & gas production, OPEC, has refused to increase… Read more »

I flew up to Washington earlier today in order to vote NO this evening on raising the debt limit. I'm done with spending RECKLESS amounts of money. I'm done with raising the ceiling each time the federal government reaches its borrowing limit. I'm done with the complacency on government waste, and this SICK mentality that it's somehow okay to kneecap our future generations with debt… Read more »

"But when the Taliban arrived, these heroic women were beaten with whips and batons." This article is a powerful summary of the the despair women & girls in Afghanistan now face because of President Biden's botched withdraw of U.S. forces from that nation. I want to thank Callista Gingrich for highlighting my resolution in the House on this important matter. (H.R. 694) Every… Read more »

As loudly as I can say this, NO!! The Internal Revenue Service should NOT be allowed to snoop on your bank account activity! This week, we’re learning more about yet another awful Democrat proposal. This one would force your bank to send information about your financial transactions to the IRS. Democrats want the government to look through your bank account, searching for… Read more »

No question there would still be non-stop media coverage of Afghanistan had this disaster occurred under Trump's watch. ⛔️ Broadcasting an arbitrary withdrawal date to our enemies. ⛔️ A rapid draw-down of American operations while leaving seemingly HUNDREDS of critical, life-threatening details unattended. ⛔️ Staying the course despite every indication showing things spiraling out of… Read more »

BREAKING: I just learned that U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is scheduled to be released from the brig today, pending his trial. For those of you who called and wrote recently concerning this issue, thank you for reaching out. I quickly joined an effort in Congress last week asking that Lt. Col. Scheller be remanded to the least restrictive form of housing while awaiting his… Read more »

I disagree with just about every word that comes out of Bernie Sanders' mouth. But on this comment he made just a few minutes ago, the socialist Senator from Vermont is spot on: "It is an absurd way to do business," he said, "to be negotiating a multitrillion dollar bill a few minutes before a major vote with virtually nobody knowing what's going on. That's unacceptable." In this late… Read more »

Earlier today, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC-5) introduced H.Res. 694, a resolution in the House of Representatives condemning the human rights violations targeted toward women and girls in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.   The Taliban has publicly claimed a more “progressive” view toward women's rights, but the UN High Commissioner for Human… Read more »

Despite what we were previously told by President Biden, yesterday we learned during Senate testimony that military commanders DID, in fact, advise Biden (and Trump) to keep at small contingency force in Afghanistan. They knew it would be necessary to keep the Taliban marginalized, help maintain peace in that region, and support our various intelligence operations. But wait…! Remember… Read more »