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The clock is ticking on America’s debt, and Republicans lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to agree to their plan to raise the debt ceiling and rein in government spending.

Under the leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Republicans issued a plan to raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, or until the end of March 2024, whichever comes first, provided that Congress and the president agree to significant cuts in government spending.

Biden, however, has continued to argue that Congress should raise the debt ceiling without conditions.

“If we default on our debt, it will be 100% Joe Biden’s responsibility,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., says, adding that it is the president’s job to “figure out how to raise the debt ceiling.”

Biden’s other option, Scott says, is to “figure out how to not have to raise the debt ceiling by living within our means.”

The U.S. already has hit the debt limit of $31.4 trillion, but the Treasury Department is using “extraordinary measures” to prevent defaulting on loans to the government. The Treasury Department says lawmakers have to act to raise the debt ceiling by the beginning of June to prevent risk of default.

Scott joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why Republicans and Democrats are so divided in the debt ceiling debate and what will happen if Congress can’t reach an agreement with the president.

Also on today’s show, Scott talks about his recent trip to the southern border and what’s going to happen when Title 42 expires as scheduled Thursday.

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Fifteen Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, demanding answers about a study on experimental medical interventions for youth who claim to identify as transgender, our colleague Tyler O’Neil reports. 
• https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/09/exclusive-republicans-demand-answers-nih-transgender-youth-experiments-study-left-2-dead-others-sterilized/
• Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have requested wealthy real estate developer and Republican donor Harlan Crow to give a list of both trips and gifts he gave to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed three bills into law on Monday aimed at combating “the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party” in the Sunshine State. 
• Former President Donald Trump has been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll's civil lawsuit against him.

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Marking 50 years as a journalist and commentator, popular syndicated columnist Cal Thomas says America’s future is closely tied to the education of our children. 

“My hope, again, goes back to educating our children and grandchildren in ways that our parents and grandparents educated us,” Thomas says. "And if you don't rescue the next generation, you're not going to have much of a country anymore.” 

Born in the District of Columbia, Thomas began his career at age 16 working as a disc jockey at a radio station in suburban Maryland. He later landed a job as a copy boy at NBC News' Washington bureau and became a reporter. He began to write a column in 1984.

Today, Thomas is one of America’s best-known and most popular syndicated columnists, despite being a conservative. A longtime fixture on Fox News Channel, he is the author of 14 books, including “A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America,” which is just out. 

Thomas joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the changes he has witnessed in America over 50 years and what he foresees the future may hold for the nation. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• It was a sober weekend in Texas. Two violent incidents leave 16 people dead. 
• Charges could be coming soon against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
• CIA did not follow protocol with Hunter Biden laptop story.  
• The family of deceased Jordan Neely speaks out. 
• Anheuser-Busch CEO Michel Doukeris calls the work with Dylan Mulvaney just “one post” and “not an advertisement.” 

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A 10-year-old girl from Honduras arrived at the southern border unaccompanied by adults. She told Sheena Rodriguez that she hoped to stay in America, and wanted to “color and get to know my father.” 

The Honduras girl is like so many other unaccompanied alien children, says Rodriguez, founder and president of Alliance for a Safe Texas.

These kids arrive at the border with “pieces of paper with handwritten numbers on it," she says, "and these children are going to people that they have never even spoken to."

About 85,000 migrant children have entered the U.S. and been placed with a sponsor, but the federal U.S. government now doesn't know the children's location or status. Through her work at Alliance for a Safe Texas, Rodriguez seeks to raise awareness about how the border crisis has led to the exploitation of children, and to offer solutions to lawmakers who are trying to fix policies that led to the current situation. 

Rodriguez’s desire to find out what was really going on at the southern border began about three years ago. She says she needed to see the situation for herself, so she planned a trip. Rodriguez left her home in North Texas and arrived around midnight in Laredo, about 160 miles south of San Antonio on the Mexican border. 

“We encountered about 60 different men, all young men, to the one Border Patrol agent,” Rodriguez says, adding: “And he looked at me, didn't know me from anywhere, and said, ‘I need help. We're being invaded.’"

At that moment, Rodriguez says she committed to doing something to address the border crisis. 

Since that first trip, Rodriguez says, she has taken nearly three dozen trips to the border and spoken with many illegal aliens, including unaccompanied migrant children. 

Rodriguez joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to share stories of these unaccompanied children and explain what we know about how minors are arriving alone at the border. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• The COVID-19 emergency is over, according to the World Health Organization. 
• The U.S. economy added 253,000 jobs in April while the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. 
• A 7th grade student is not backing down after receiving pushback for wearing a t-shirt that said “There are only two genders.” 
• More than a year after the leaked opinion of the Dobbs decision showed Roe v. Wade would be overturned, illegal protests outside the Supreme Court Justices’ homes continue. 
• Mary Margaret Olohan’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/05/illegal-protesting-continues-homes-supreme-court-justices/ 
• The Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded its effective demand that a Catholic hospital snuff out a candle it keeps burning in the chapel, a candle that HHS called a threat to hospital safety.
• Tyler O’Neil’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/05/breaking-biden-administration-drops-bid-snuff-religious-freedom-catholic-hospital/

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The American College of Pediatricians scored a major victory last month when a federal judge ruled in its favor and halted the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in chemical abortions.

Just weeks later, the organization endured a cyberattack carried out by hackers intending to cause major damage. As if that wasn’t enough, news of the hack was then leaked to a hostile journalist in a fleeting attempt to damage the organization’s reputation.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, pro-life institutions and individuals have faced sustained attacks. The militant group Jane’s Revenge vandalized pregnancy resource centers, the FBI arrested a pro-life father in Pennsylvania, and a deranged pro-abortion man plotted an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

These unrelenting attacks show no sign of abating. Look no further than the latest assault on the American College of Pediatricians, also known as ACPeds.

Dr. Jill Simons, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain what happened and why she’s not backing down from her mission to defend life and protect the most vulnerable in our society.

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody Analytics, says the U.S. “will run out of cash to pay all the government’s bills on time” by June 8th. 
• Russia accuses America for being responsible for the attack on the Kremlin. 
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. calls out New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the death of 30 year old Jordan Neely. 
• The Labor Department finds more than 300 kids working in various McDonald’s restaurants.
• Religious liberty group threatens lawsuit to protect Catholic hospital’s sacred candle.
• Four members of the Proud Boys convicted of multiple felonies in relation to the riot at the Capitol on January 6th. 

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The test results are in, and America’s children are failing history and civics.

According to the “Nation's Report Card,” just 13% of eighth graders are proficient in U.S. history, and only 22% are proficient in civics.

Every four years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress captures how well America's students are performing in major subjects. The latest scores, released this week, are “the lowest numbers ever recorded for the NAEP scores in civics and in history over the past 25 years,” says Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow in higher education reform at The Heritage Foundation.

Kissel says there is no doubt that school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic played a role in the learning loss. As for the drop in proficiency in history and civics, he says, "I would guess that after the Black Lives Matter movement got popular in 2020, a lot of teachers changed their curriculum around and taught less of the basics and more activism-type topics, and that might have been a factor as well.”

In response to the troublingly low test scores, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona issued a written statement.

“We need to provide every student with rich opportunities to learn about America’s history and understand the U.S. Constitution and how our system of government works,” Cardona said.

He added: “Banning history books and censoring educators from teaching these important subjects does our students a disservice and will move America in the wrong direction.”

“He's wrong on both of those points,” Kissel says of President Joe Biden's education secretary. “His solution is really the opposite of what schools need to do.”

Kissel joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why America’s kids are floundering in history and civics classes, and to offer practical solutions to repair America’s failing education system.

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• New York has officially banned gas stoves in some new buildings, making it the first ban of its kind in the U.S. 
• A Heritage Foundation economist called out Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island for his membership in a white-only club in response to the senator’s attack on the conservative think tank, our colleague Fred Lucas is reporting. 
• Fred Lucas’ article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/03/heritage-scholar-gives-masterclass-responding-sheldon-whitehouses-attacks/
• Senate Republicans denounced Democratic senators’ attempt to leverage the Supreme Court budget in exchange for an enforceable ethics code, our colleague Mary Margaret Olohan reports. 
• The U.S. Navy hired an active-duty drag queen as a “Digital Ambassador.”
• Russia is accusing Ukraine of trying to assassinate President Vladimir Putin during a drone attack overnight. 
• The illegal alien accused of killing five people has been arrested. So has a woman who claims to be his wife.

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