Texas has seen firsthand the consequences of a federal government that fails to secure the border and defend its citizens.
For four years, the Biden administration’s open-border policies placed extraordinary strain on our state. Millions of illegal immigrants poured across our border, drug and human trafficking surged, and communities across Texas were ravaged – straining law… Read more »
Proponents of allowing E15 to be sold year-round argue that it’s the free-market thing to do. They’re partially right — in a true market-based system, government regulations preventing E15, or even E100, from being sold year-round should not exist.
But the Texas-sized problem is that, since the Renewable Fuel Standard was established in 2005, federal regulation governing the fuel… Read more »
We hear from Texans every day who have rightfully grown weary of our health care system. Wait times are too long, bills are too high, and Congress often seems too little too late on plans to fix it. But last year, President Trump and Congressional Republicans secured meaningful health care reforms through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act that will improve health care access and… Read more »
Right now, the U.S. is drifting toward a dangerous dependency. America relies on China for a significant share of the raw ingredients used to manufacture medicines — sometimes as much as 80 to 90 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Meanwhile, 477 FDA-registered drug manufacturing facilities operate in China, yet the FDA inspected only 204 foreign drug and device… Read more »
Automated AI research and development will be a defining feature of global competition in the years ahead. The United States must ensure that we, not our adversaries, set the ethical and strategic boundaries of this technology. That work starts here, in the halls of Congress. Read more »
When I was a kid, my mom used to make beef vegetable soup when the weather got cold. It was one of my favorite meals, and it provided sustenance and warmth during those infrequent cold winter days in East Texas.
Her soup was packed full of things I loved — tomatoes, corn, peas, carrots and potatoes. Oftentimes, though, it had the one thing I avoided most as a child — lima… Read more »
A panel of judges is openly defying Trump administration policy — and effectively allowing a Chinese firm to keep stealing an American semiconductor technology used in everything from self-driving cars to satellites.
These judges are not members of the judicial branch. They are executive branch employees, and the Trump administration has the authority to overrule their… Read more »
This column ran in the Texarkana Magazine on February 3, 2025.
This year, there will be two Super Bowls for Americans to watch. One will be played on a physical field made of artificial turf, highlighting two high-caliber professional football teams, while the other—something I like to call the “Super Bowl of Tax Policy”—will be played on the political field of Washington, D.C.,… Read more »
This column ran in the Texarkana Magazine on October 3, 2024.
As fall arrives in East Texas, the temperatures drop, the crackling of bonfires fills the air, and football can be found on televisions everywhere. However, this fall, we will also observe another critically important tradition—Election Day
As we approach November, let’s remember that voting is not just a right, it is a… Read more »
This column ran in Fox News on June 4, 2024.
On his first day in office, President Biden made it clear that he wanted amnesty for nearly 12 million undocumented migrants and that he would no longer pursue policies that prevented others from coming to America. It was a message heard around the world: under his administration, it was now OK to enter the United States illegally, ignore… Read more »
