The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS |Democrat’s Huge Spending Bill, Gov. Gavin Newsom Speaks Out on Border Crisis, American Veteran Released from Russian Custody | Dec. 14

Starting point is 00:00:01 I'm Samantha Chiris. I'm Virginia Allen. And this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, December 14th. Here are today's headlines. Republican leadership is barreling ahead with their efforts to prevent Democrats from passing a lame duck omnibus spending bill this year. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke at a press conference today and said Congress cannot afford to continue to spend the way the Democrats have. The spending package, Democrats, are trying to push through Congress is called an omnibus.

Starting point is 00:00:45 McCarthy says the spending bill would cost billions. We've got an omni bill that takes 12 appropriation bills and puts them all together and adds the baseline somewhere about $100 billion. Heritage Foundation's Matthew Dickerson told the Daily Signal, the Omnibus spending bill would allow Speaker Pelosi one last spending bidge after the voters rejected her liberal policy agenda. The bill is expected to be voted on before Christmas. Illegal immigration may be about to get much worse. A Trump air policy that allows border patrol to quickly expel illegal migrants from America may be expiring as soon as next week. The policy is known as Title 42, and it remains

Starting point is 00:01:34 unclear when exactly it will end. But record numbers of migrants continue to cross the southern border illegally. California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom visited the southern border earlier this week, and he told ABC 10 that the current situation isn't working. The fact is what we've got right now is not working and it's about to break in a post-42 world unless we take some responsibility and ownership. And I'm saying that as a Democrat. I'm not saying that to point fingers. I'm saying that as a father. I'm saying that as someone that feels responsible for being part of the solution and I'm trying to do my best here. When it comes to taking care of illegal immigrants, Newsom says the more we do, the burden is placed disproportionately on us. Today marks 10 years

Starting point is 00:02:24 since the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators. President Biden issued a statement Wednesday morning writing, we should have societal guilt for taking too long to deal with this problem. We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again. We owe it to the courageous young survivors and to the families who lost part of their soul 10 years ago to turn their pain into purpose. Biden went on to add that he is determined to ban assault weapons in high-capacity magazines like those used at Sandy Hook and countless other mass shootings in America. America may be sending the Patriot Missile Defense System to Ukraine.

Starting point is 00:03:14 A missile defense system is used to shield a country against incoming missiles. The system can detect incoming missiles, track, and then intercept them. Pentagon spokesman, Brigadier General Pat Ryder told reporters yesterday that there are not specific plans to send the system, but said America is also not ruling it out. If the system is sent to Ukraine, U.S. officials told the Washington Post on Tuesday that it would be the most advanced air defense weapon in Kiev. Meanwhile, in Kiev, the fighting is continuing. They're reported to be more than a dozen drone attacks in Kiev early this morning.

Starting point is 00:03:52 But in a bit of good news, a U.S. Air Force veteran was freed from Russian custody this week and a prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia. Swaydi Markezi is from Minnesota but has lived in Ukraine since 2018. Russian authorities arrested him in June in a formerly Russian-occupied city in Ukraine. They accused him of participating in pro-Ukrainian protests. The American veteran was reportedly freed with 64 soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces. The veteran told ABC News that when he was originally captured, he was held in a basement where he was beaten and underwent electric shocks.

Starting point is 00:04:31 When ABC asked him what he was looking forward to most, when he gets home to Minnesota, he said, a peanut butter sandwich. Big questions remain over Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, and things just got a little more confusing. In the early fall, many student loan borrowers submitted applications for Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Biden's plan will forgive up to $10,000. in debt for all borrowers and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. Many applicants received an email from the Department of Education in November saying their application was approved.

Starting point is 00:05:08 But on Tuesday morning, some borrowers received emails saying approvals were sent in error. The loan forgiveness program is tied up in court right now, and it is unclear if any student loan debt will be forgiven by the Biden administration given the legal challenges. to be continued. Twitter co-founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, is speaking out on the Twitter files and taking responsibility for the issues that are being uncovered

Starting point is 00:05:37 through those files. Dorsey issued a statement on Tuesday in which he said he believes three key principles about social media. Number one, social media must be resilient to corporate and government control. Number two, only the original author may remove content they produce, and number three, moderation is best implemented by algorithmic

Starting point is 00:06:00 choice. But Dorsey added that the Twitter when I let it and the Twitter of today did not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. Dorsey does not say who this activist was, but goes on to say that after the activist arrived at Twitter, he no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms. I planned my exit, Dorsey says, at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company. His greatest mistake, he says, was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it

Starting point is 00:06:51 for themselves. Dorsey's statement comes after Twitter's new CEO, Elon Musk, continues to dump internal emails and communications onto the internet that show how the company censored content and targeted certain users. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thank you for listening to the Daily Signal's top news. If you haven't had the chance already, be sure to check out our morning show right here in your podcast feed where we interview lawmakers, experts, and leading conservative voices. Join us tomorrow morning for the Daily Signal interview edition. I'll be sitting down with Heritage's Jake Denton to discuss if America should ban the popular app, TikTok, given the platform's connection to the Chinese Communist Party. Also, make sure to take a moment to subscribe to the Daily

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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS |Democrat’s Huge Spending Bill, Gov. Gavin Newsom Speaks Out on Border Crisis, American Veteran Released from Russian Custody | Dec. 14

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