the white house announcing today that the biden administration is working hand in hand with tech giants like facebook to eliminate covid content that they believe strays from the facts. we re flagging problematic posts for facebook that spreads disinformation. we are working with doctors and medical professionals to connected medical experts who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content so we re helping get trusted content out there. we also created the covid community court to get factual information into the lands of local messengers. pete: they are boosting trusted content. in case you missed it because it was said no nonchalantly and quickly we are flagging problematic posts for facebook that spread disinformation. the white house, the federal government is telling facebook what is problematic and promoting their side? ^ what could go wrong? as for trusted local messengers we have more and new information on that a bit later
claims that these restrictions make it harder for minorities to vote. let s bring in our panel. deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger. bill mcgurn had editorial board number, kyle peterson. bill, i thought this was a big decision and it being maligned as a guiding of the voting rights act, is that how you read what they did? not at all. i think you put your finger on it, paul. all the reporting i further weakening voting rights act. if you read the opinion, it doesn t stand out. a better description would be it came out for its reasonable state laws designed to ensure the integrity of these elections this is part of scare tactics. i think it was a huge decision and also what i did was provide a hedge against what i believe progressives want which is federal court to take over election. this is the judicial parallel to hr one, they want the federal court rather than state legislatures to set rules for elections so i think this was a big victory. one of many big victori
inflation feels, the need for accountability from the left-wing media and texas congressman kevin brady will tell us where he stands on the push to oust liz cheney. first, earmarks are back in washington opening the floodgates for pork barrel spending. lawmakers tallying up billions of requests on top of the trillions in spending, they re already pushing. hello and welcome to the thursday edition of america report. the controversial spending project will ban after a high profile string of scandals, they inefficiently reinstated them in february, now under new transparency rules. they are requiring two repose the request. so far they ve asked for $6 billion in additional funding for local projects, and some are of the requests, their little out there. congressman kevin brady joins us with how the spending spree could actually derail president biden s legislative agenda. we begin the hour with hillary vaughn joining us from capitol hill. earmarks making a come back
want us to dive deeper tonight because it is very, very serious. first thing i want to do is remind you thomas paine december 23, 1773 wrote a pamphlet called crisis it was so powerful that george washington read it to the troops. because the morale was very low, and we were losing the revolutionary war. it opens with these are the times that try men souls summer soldier and sunshine patriot will shrink from service of their country. but he that stands by it now deserves thanks of man and woman. tyranny like hell is not easily concurred yet we have this consolation with us that the heart of the conflict the more glorious the triumph, what we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly everything its value. heaven knows how to put a proper price upon pits goods and will be strange indeed so celestial article freedom should be highly rated we don t talk much about freedom and property rights and anymore we don t really hear much reference by these politicians in the white house and
phil mattingly will join us now. so, phil, president biden continues to give pushback, for the price tag of these plans. he continues to press ahead anyway. what is he going to say today? reporter: obviously the debate is ongoing, and nascent stages when it comes to the $4 thrill onin infrastructure and economic proposals he s put on the table for his agenda. today is about looking into. there s a reason it applies. as victor was noting, this is about a new program that rolled out on monday. it was part of the $is.9 trillion relief package signed into law a few months ago, about $28.6 billion for the industry that was cratered. more than $22 billion revenue lost due to the pandemic. this was specifically tailored for the restaurant. the response has been more than 186,000 applications in its first two days since opening. obviously the president wants to highlight that and the implementation of what is up to now its cornerstone achievement, but there s a broader purpose as