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TOP NEWS | EPA Proposal, March Inflation Report, Abortion Statistics, NPR Leaves Twitter | April 12

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • The Biden administration is taking another step toward making “all vehicles, including gas-powered cars and heavy-duty trucks, cleaner and more efficient,” according to a White House Fact Sheet. 
  • An economist says that “inflation is far from dead” after the consumer price index report showed inflation rose 0.1% in March, up 5% from March 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. 
  • A Society of Family Planning report released yesterday found that an estimated 32,000 lives were spared from abortion between July 2022, a month after Roe v. Wade was overturned, and December 2022. 
  • South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has announced an exploratory committee for the 2024 presidential election, indicating he plans to run for President. 
  • NPR is leaving Twitter 


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0:00.0

I'm Samantha Sharris, I'm Brittany Allen, and this is the daily signal top news for one

0:06.7

day April 12th.

0:07.7

Here are today's headlines.

0:20.8

The Biden administration is taking another step toward making all vehicles including gas-powered

0:26.9

cars and heavy-duty trucks.

0:29.1

Cleaner and more efficient.

0:31.4

That's according to a White House fact sheet.

0:34.3

Specifically, the fact sheet states, the proposed standards would protect public health

0:39.3

by cutting nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions twice the annual U.S. emissions today.

0:46.9

The fact sheet also said cars and truck manufacturers have made clear that the future of transportation

0:53.0

is electric.

0:54.3

The market is moving.

0:56.0

Once President Biden took office, the private sector, including the American auto industry,

1:01.7

has invested more than $120 billion into the American-made electric vehicle and battery

1:08.1

supply chain.

1:09.1

OH Skinner, the executive director of Alliance for Consumers, said in a press release that

1:15.4

taking away consumer choices to further a progressive worldview is unacceptable.

1:20.9

Without Alliance for Consumers, we fight for everyday consumers and call out activists

1:25.7

and public officials when they try and compel companies and consumers to comply with a

1:30.9

progressive worldview that they otherwise don't support.

1:34.8

Will Hild executive director of consumers research, similarly weighed in on the proposal,

1:40.7

saying in a press release that the Biden administration's anti-energy policies ignore the

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