The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Murder Rose in 2021, Biden Visits Florida, OPEC Cuts Oil Production | Oct. 5

Episode Date: October 5, 2022

Description:  On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Biden visits Florida, meets with Gov. DeSantis OPEC to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day FBI report shows rise in murder rates Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs a bill gender transition services for children Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm Samantha Sherris. I'm Virginia Allen. And this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, October 5th. Here are today's headlines. OPEC, or the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, announced today it would be cutting its production by 2 million barrels per day per press release. NBC reported it's the largest production cut since COVID-19 began, while CNN reported that the reduction is roughly 2% of the world's oil demand.

The White House released a statement from national security advice. vice vice director, Brian Dees, which said that President Biden is disappointed by the short-sighted decision by OPEC Plus. Katie Tubb, a research fellow here at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, told us, first, this once again shows President Biden's feckless diplomacy in the Middle East, where his administration has burnt many bridges over the last two years. She added one of the best ways to dilute the ability of OPEC and other nations to manipulate energy markets is to increase global supply. But this is exactly what the Biden administration,

states like California and New York, and too many countries in the EU, don't want as they continue to pursue policies that heighten barriers to oil production. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrived in Florida this afternoon to assess damage from Hurricane Ian, which hit the Sunshine State earlier this month. The White House announced the president authorized an increase in the level of federal thursday. funding for the debris removal and emergency protective measures undertaken in the state of Florida. The president and first lady met with Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady of Florida Casey DeSantis in Fort Myers to evaluate the damage. Let's take a listen to part of DeSantis's remarks about Biden's visit per now this.

I want to thank President Biden and Jill Biden as well as Administrator D.N. Criswell for coming down here, looking at really, really significant damage here in Lee County. And there's other places where you have really significant damage as well outside of this general area. We were very fortunate to have good coordination with White House and with FEMA from the very beginning of this. We declared a state of emergency last Friday, September 23rd. This wasn't even, this was a disturbance out there by Columbia. and then the next day we got a major disaster declaration approved by the president, and we really appreciated that.

And that basically set off the massive mobilization that we had ready to be able to respond to this storm. Biden was in Puerto Rico earlier this week for a similar trip, assessing damage from Hurricane Fiona, which hit the island on September 18th. Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency request last night to the Supreme Court asking them to intervene over classified documents taken from his Mar-a-Lago home on August 8th, NBC reported. Reuters reported that Trump requested the justices block part of a lower court's ruling that prevented an independent arbiter requested by Trump from vetting more than 100 documents marked as classified. Roughly 11,000 documents were seized in total from the former president's home, per Reuters.

CNBC reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told the DOJ, to respond to Trump's request by Tuesday, October 11th. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill yesterday prohibiting gender transition services for children at a state pediatric hospital per the Daily Wire. The bill, which went into effect immediately, blocks funding to prevent gender transition services for minors at Oklahoma Children's Hospital at OU Health,

according to a press release from the governor. The governor said in the release, by signing this bill today, we are taking the first step to protect children from permanent gender transition surgeries and therapies. It is widely inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used for condoning, promoting, or performing these types of controversial procedures on healthy children. He also called on the legislature to ban all irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies on minors when they convene next session in February of 2023. according to the release.

The U.S. murder rate rose in 2021 from 22,000 in 2020 to 22,900, or about 4.3%, according to an FBI report released today. On the contrary, the report also highlighted that overall violent crime decreased from 2020 to 2021 by 1%. Fox News reported that crimes against American seniors surged roughly 10% in 2021, based on the report's data. Senator Tom Cotton reacted to the news in a tweet saying, the FBI confirmed what we already know. Crime rates under President Biden have skyrocketed at record rates. Americans are less safe because of Democrats soft on crime policies that prioritize criminals

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