A Crisis on Purpose

A Crisis on Purpose

What to know: The Biden administration, already facing a crisis at the border with both human and drug trafficking, now plans to cut funding for the U.S. Border Patrol.

The TPPF take: President Biden’s border policies are making the border crisis worse.

“When large groups of people illegally cross the border at once, Border Patrol agents are forced to send all of their resources to one area, freeing up other areas for cartels to send through drugs, weapons, and criminal illegal immigrants,” says TPPF’s Selene Rodriguez. “Neither the fentanyl crisis nor the border crisis are new. But both are worsened under the disastrous policies of the Biden administration.”

For more on Fentanyl, click here.

Regulatory Consistency

What to know: The effort to ban gas stoves at the municipal level in the name of climate change is running out of gas, after a court overturned a ban in Berkeley, California.

The TPPF take: An important principle here is regulatory consistency. The Texas Legislature has a bill that will ensure that regulations are consistent throughout the state.

“The bill recommits local policymaking to a limited government framework and ensures that only where necessary, the state—not local governments—regulates commercial activity in Texas,” says TPPF’s Rod Bordelon. “The people can now push back in court against municipalities that have been acting without foresight and have been negligent of people’s rights.”

For more on regulations, click here.