Michael Ryan

1 week ago | heartlandernews.com | Adam Pack |Michael Ryan

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Senate Republicans continued their campaign Thursday to roll back stringent energy regulations that were issued during the final months of President Joe Biden’s term. The Senate voted 52-42 to repeal a Biden Department of Energy regulation banning some natural gas water heaters by 2029. The resolution now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature. No Republican Senators voted against the repeal. House Republicans, led by Republican Alabama Rep.

4 weeks ago | heartlandernews.com | Brett Rowland |Michael Ryan |John Ransom

(The Center Square) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a significant restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday in a move to streamline the huge federal agency and cut costs. Kennedy plans to trim about 10,000 employees from the agency’s workforce in addition to employees who left as part of a Deferred Resignation Program, similar to a buy out, earlier this year. The move is expected to save about $1.8 billion.

4 weeks ago | heartlandernews.com | Casey Harper |Michael Ryan |John Ransom

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump Thursday called for defunding National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two partially federally funded groups under scrutiny in the DOGE era. Trump’s comments come after heads of both NPR and PBS defended their work at a Wednesday Congressional hearing. “NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms (Networks!), should be DEFUNDED by Congress, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said on Truth Social.

4 weeks ago | heartlandernews.com | Michael Ryan |John Ransom

Unelected left-leaning trial court judges have become a constitutional crisis by trying to set policy for the entire nation, thanks to a conscious, coordinated campaign by the left, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. His “Nationwide Injunction Abuse Prevent Act of 2025” would prevent federal district judges from crippling the country with injunctions that apply nationwide and block a president’s every move.

4 weeks ago | heartlandernews.com | John Ransom |Michael Ryan

(The Lion) — Staff and union leaders at a large Kansas school district have been caught on a video call strategizing how to secretly advance LGBT agendas in classrooms under a rebranded DEI department. The March 12 call, a recording of which was obtained by The Lion, was attended by at least three representatives of the National Education Association (NEA), including Kansas City, Kansas, NEA President Dominick DeRosa.