17 Takeaways From America’s Biggest Conservative Conference

Plus: How America's Wealthy Often Become the Biggest Welfare Recipients

Mar 04, 2019   Good morning from Washington, where President Trump begins the week flush with a warm, post-summit reception at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists. Fred Lucas highlights the president's promise to deny federal money to colleges that suppress free speech. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler goes on the record with our Rob Bluey. Reporter Jon Ward joins the podcast to dissect a historic slugfest among Democrats. Plus: Thomas Spoehr on cancellation of U.S. military exercises with South Korea, Rachel Greszler on cutting taxpayer subsidies of congressional pensions, and John Stossel on how crony capitalism works.     News 17 Takeaways From America's Biggest Conservative Conference The Daily Signal was at all three days of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, and we've rounded up some of the highlights of our coverage. More News Trump Vows to Cut Funding to Colleges That Don't Protect Free Speech "We reject oppressive speech codes, censorship, political correctness, and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous and dangerous ideas," says Trump. More Commentary How America's Wealthy Often Become the Biggest Welfare Recipients America's biggest welfare recipients are often politically connected corporations—like America's sugar producers. More News New EPA Chief Implementing Trump's Energy-Dominant, Environmentally Friendly Agenda "When President Trump called me and asked me to take over at EPA, he said, 'Continue to clean up the air. Continue to clean up the water, and continue to deregulate in order to create more jobs for the American public,'" says Andrew Wheeler. More Commentary Why Ending US-South Korea Joint Exercises Was the Wrong Move The best military is of little value unless it is properly trained. And by canceling, not just suspending, these exercises, the U.S. is unilaterally lowering its readiness. More News Podcast: Exploring the Fight Between Jimmy Carter and Teddy Kennedy That Broke the Democrat Party Jon Ward, author of "Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party," explains how Sen. Ted Kennedy's primary campaign against Jimmy Carter paved the way for Ronald Reagan's election as president. More Commentary These 2 Senators Don't Want Taxpayers Paying for 'Plush' Pensions for Wealthy Lawmakers On average, former members of Congress receive about $41,000 per year in pension benefits after having served about 16 years. More Commentary We Hear You: 'Abortion Is Not the Answer, Adoption Is' "As an adoptive mother who could not have children of her own, I am ever so grateful to a woman who gave up a baby girl she did not want," writes Beverly Edwards. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames@comcast.net. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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