TOP NEWS | Liz Truss to Resign, CDC Adds COVID-Vaccine to Kids’ Schedule, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Funding Unconstitutional, Stacey Abrams Says Abortion Alleviates Inflation, AOC Shouted Down | Oct. 20

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announces resignation CDC votes to add COVID-19 vaccine to recommended childhood schedule A federal appeals court rules the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding methods are unconstitutional Stacey Abrams says abortion could help alleviate concerns over high inflation Protestors shout down AOC at town hall event Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jillian Richards.
0:03.1	I'm Samantha Sharis.
0:04.5	And this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, October 20th.
0:08.3	Here are today's headlines.
0:12.9	British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced today that she's resigning.
0:26.4	Truss has been in office for just six weeks.
0:29.8	In a statement outside her office earlier today, she said,
0:33.3	I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.
0:37.8	Truss said she will remain in office until a new Prime Minister is chosen.
0:42.2	The Associated Press reports that bitterly divided Conservative Party lawmakers have just
0:47.3	a few days to agree on a successor or face another leadership contest the third in three
0:53.2	years.
0:54.2	Heritage Foundation scholar Nile Gardner said on Fox News that we're witnessing a political
0:59.0	coup within Britain's Conservative Party.
1:02.2	Listen to his remarks.
1:04.0	It had been expected that Liz Truss would resign, although the speed of her resignation,
1:09.8	I think, has taken most people by surprise.
1:13.2	And so she has gone, I think, earlier than expected.
1:18.0	And this then sets off a leadership contest, which will take place in the course of the
1:21.4	next few days.
1:23.2	But what we are witnessing here really has been, frankly, a political coup within the Conservative
1:28.9	Party with a large number of Conservative MPs on the left of the party trying to force
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