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Common Core Failure Even after Common Core, which came in at a total cost of about $80 billion nationwide, U.S. test scores on Program for International Student Assessment, international assessments among OECD countries (developed nations) remained flat with no improvement or decline. Reading scores were the same as 2000, Math scores were the same since 2003 and science scores were the same as 2006 (OECD). Medicaid Fraud: Costing You Money According to a report from the Wall Street Journal $75 billion worth of Medicaid payments are fraudulent. In other words, 20% of Medicaid spending is eaten up by fraud. This fraud has skyrocketed after the Medicaid expansion, which was part of Obamacare which funded states to flood their Medicaid rolls with millions of new members, many people who are not eligible are still enrolled on Medicaid. Before Obamacare, the fairs rate was 6%. On a further note, New York States faces a $6 billion Medicaid shortfall (WSJ). Criminals Granted DACA DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals which is a program created by President Obama by an executive order to give legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the US as children. A recent report from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows that 80,000 percent of DACA recipients have criminal records. 67,861 had criminal records before they were granted DACA while 15,903 were arrested after being approved for DACA. Some who committed violent crimes were part of DACA- 62 who committed a rape and 15 who committed murder. There were also 23,305 illegal immigrants arrested for DUIs as part of DACA (Fox News). Blood on DeBlasio’s Hands In New York City, illegal immigrant Reeaz Khan sexually assaulted and murdered a 92-year-old woman from Queens. There was an existing I.C.E. detainer (request for NYC to turn him over for deportation) on Khan, but due to Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s policy of having New York City be a sanctuary city, Khan was released into the public instead of being deported, allowing him to commit this atrocity. Furthermore, last year, I.C.E. placed detainers on 7,526 illegal immigrants in with 17,873 criminal convictions, including 200 murders that were released due to NYC’s sanctuary city policy. Democrats in Congress blocked Republican legislation to defund sanctuary cities. Several state legislatures have taken action against sanctuary cities by banning them within their states such as Florida. It is unlikely the Democrat-controlled N.Y. Legislature would take action against sanctuary cities (NY Post). Obama’s Ukraine Meeting Newly released emails show that on January 19, 2016, Obama administration officials met at the White House with Ukrainian officials to discuss the prosecution of Burisma, the company Hunter Biden was receiving $50,000 a month from. This information stemmed from emails where NY Times reporter Ken Vogel requesting information from the State Department about this meeting. Vogel’s story was quashed for unknown reasons by the New York Times. Vogel’s email exchange was with none other than the Ukraine whistleblower that lead to President Trump’s impeachment. The whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, was the National Security Council staffer that checked the Ukrainian officials into the White House. One of the Ukrainian officials checked into the meeting, later worked with the DNC and Clinton campaign to find damaging information on then-candidate Trump (Fox News, Washington Examiner). This raises questions about the true motives of the whistleblower, was filing a complaint against President Trump really just to cover-up for himself and the previous administration? Furthermore, Obama’s administration, in fact, actually committed acts that if not worse, but were the same as what President Trump is only accused of. This raises the question: looking back, should President Obama have been impeached then or is there a double-standard with Trump? Australia Wildfires & Trillion Tree Initiative In Australia, there are devastating a series of 125 wildfires that have burned that have killed 33 people, burned 12 million acres of land, lead to 24,000 people evacuating and could lead to the extinction of countless species. Some are blaming climate change, but there is more to the story. In Australia, pro-environmental policies backfired. Environmentalists prevented the prescribed burning of forest in Australia. These burnings would eliminate underbrush and dead trees that increase the risk of uncontrollable wildfires. This practice dates back to the Aborjinee, but environmentalists blocked these burnings (The Federalist). As for the climate change aspect, House Republicans and President Trump announced that they are supporting the Trillion Tree Initiative. This initiative plans to plant 1 trillion trees worldwide because experts predict that planting 1.2 trillion trees worldwide could undo the last ten years worth of CO₂ emissions (NPR). Sources: “Common Core Fails: US Test Scores Show No Improvement despite Billions of Dollars Thrown at Education Reform.” Conservative Review, 3 Dec. 2019, https://www.conservativereview.com/news/common-core-fails-us-test
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