3 Threats to Conservative Principles Right Now
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In his first 100 days President Joe Biden has signed 11 bills into law, one being a 1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief bill, and 42 executive orders. Conservatives feared what the radical left would do with this kind of power. So what’s happened so far? This week we explain what’s happened so far in Congress so and what’s coming up.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:13.0 | It's been a little over 100 days since the Biden administration stepped in. |
| 0:20.0 | In our first 100 days, my first days since the Biden administration stepped in. |
| 0:27.6 | In our first hundred days, my first hundred days, by the end of our first 100 days. In his first 100 days, President Joe Biden has signed 11 bills into law, one being a $1.9 trillion |
| 0:35.6 | COVID relief bill, and 42 executive orders. |
| 0:40.3 | Conservatives feared what the radical left would do with this kind of power. |
| 0:45.0 | So what's happened so far? |
| 0:46.9 | How much cheating will there be in our next election? |
| 0:50.0 | Whose student loans have been forgiven? |
| 0:52.9 | How much critical race theory has made it into our kids' curriculum? |
| 0:57.0 | Maybe the more important question is what hasn't happened yet that conservatives should stay on top of. |
| 1:02.8 | Today we're going to explain what's happened in Congress so far and what's coming up. |
| 1:07.6 | To help us get through it, we have Tommy Binion, Heritage's Vice President of Government Relations, |
| 1:12.9 | who knows the heartbeat of Capitol Hill better than anyone in Washington. My conversation with Tommy |
| 1:18.5 | right after this break. Hi, I'm Virginia Allen. I want to tell you all about an awesome Heritage Foundation resource called the Index of Economic Freedom. |
| 1:39.6 | The Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom ranks nearly every nation in the world according to its |
| 1:46.0 | level of economic freedom. Whether for personal, professional use, serve for school research, |
| 1:51.4 | the index is a wealth of information. You can learn why it's easier to start a business in Switzerland |
| 1:56.8 | than it is in France and where America falls on the ranking. So go ahead and visit heritage.org slash index to explore the newly released 2021 Index of Economic Freedom, |
| 2:07.6 | which features interactive maps, country rankings, graphs of data, and much, much more. |
| 2:16.6 | All right, so the last time you and I spoke, Joe Biden had just been sworn into office. And here we are, almost six months into his presidency. We just heard a state of the union address. What do you think is the most pivotal thing that's happened since the last time we spoke? |
| 2:33.3 | I think the most remarkable thing is something |
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