### 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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