Friday Executive News Summary

Government & Politics

House ousts Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees in unprecedented vote (Fox News)
Unity! Senate Dems pass budget resolution for partisan vote on COVID bill; Kamala Harris breaks tie (NPR)
Democrats to introduce a regressive and immoral resolution to “cancel” (read: burden taxpayers with) $50,000 in student loan debt (Disrn)
Trump will not testify in sham impeachment trial (Fox News)
Judge in Michael Flynn case takes senior status, giving Biden 11th judicial pick since inauguration (Examiner)

Media

Fox News faces $2.7 billion lawsuit from Smartmatic over voting machine fraud claims (Bloomberg)
Well … bye: CNN President Jeff Zucker stepping down at year’s end (Post Millennial)

National Security

U.S. cuts off involvement in Yemen’s Houthi-instigated and Iran-backed civil war (Forbes)
Biden signs order to ramp up refugee admissions to 125,000 (CBS News)
Eleven Iranians arrested in Arizona after jumping U.S.-Mexico border (Washington Times)
Perfect storm forcing Border Patrol to release apprehended migrant families directly into the U.S. (Examiner)
Keeping National Guard in DC has cost an estimated $438 million (Fox News)

Business & Economy

With 49,000 increase, payrolls barely grow to start 2021 even as the unemployment rate fell to 6.3% (CNBC)
Gun sales continue to soar as Democrats take control (Disrn)
Bank of America allegedly collected data off consumers who might have been at DC riot (Examiner)
Another “climate-friendly” high-speed rail project from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur bites the dust (Watts Up With That?)

Odds & Ends

Johnson & Johnson requests emergency authorization for COVID vaccine (CNBC)
Mike Pence to join Heritage Foundation, write column for Daily Signal (Daily Signal)
Canadian Olympic Committee warns athletes not to criticize China ahead of 2022 winter games in Beijing (Free Beacon)

The committee should have boycotted instead.

On a Lighter Note…

Hilarious snaps reveal the very awkward places people have taken a nap (Daily Mail)

Closing Arguments

Policy: The Romney child allowance proposal is a move in the wrong direction (AEI)
Policy: Biden’s empty environmentalism: Shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline shows the new president’s preference for symbolism over substance (City Journal)
Humor: Snopes rates AOC’s account of capitol attack as “factually inaccurate but morally true” (Babylon Bee)

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