9 Things to Know About Senate’s $1.1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Plus: Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson August 4 2021 Good morning from Washington, where the Senate finally lets Americans see what’s in its 2,700-page “infrastructure” bill. We’ve got analysis from six Heritage Foundation researchers. Don’t hold your breath waiting for journalism groups to criticize the government for shabby treatment of a Fox News host. Fred Lucas has details. On the podcast, Virginia Allen interviews a chaplain who lost his job for a sermon resisting the LGBT agenda. Plus: President Biden takes on three governors; Sen. Elizabeth Warren touts abortion to Teen Vogue; and China beefs up its missile inventory. Eighty-five years ago today, black American Jesse Owens earns gold in the long jump on the way to four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin. COMMENTARY [9 Things to Know About Senate’s $1.1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill]() [9 Things to Know About Senate’s $1.1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill]() By David Ditch This package would be the largest tax-and-spend bill in the history of the world. It would also seek to give amnesty, expand welfare benefits, and deliver the radical Green New Deal agenda. [More]() NEWS [Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson]() [Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson]() By Fred Lucas Most journalism advocacy groups, while boasting of defending a free press, declined to express concern about a government spy agency’s “unmasking” of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. [More]() ANALYSIS [Chaplain Reported to Counterterrorism Agency After Questioning British College’s ‘LGBT Stuff’]() [Chaplain Reported to Counterterrorism Agency After Questioning British College’s ‘LGBT Stuff’]() By Virginia Allen Holding to the biblical definition of male and female cost the Rev. Bernard Randall his job. [More]() NEWS [Biden Calls on Cuomo to ‘Resign,’ Scolds DeSantis and Abbott on COVID-19]() [Biden Calls on Cuomo to ‘Resign,’ Scolds DeSantis and Abbott on COVID-19]() By Fred Lucas “I’m sure there were some embraces that were totally innocent, but apparently the attorney general decided there were things that weren’t,” President Biden says of Gov. Cuomo. [More]() NEWS [Elizabeth Warren to Teen Vogue: Abortion Is About ‘Functioning of Our Democracy’]() [Elizabeth Warren to Teen Vogue: Abortion Is About ‘Functioning of Our Democracy’]() By Mary Margaret Olohan Warren says pro-life Americans are a “small but intensely focused group of people who want to impose their will on the majority of this nation.” [More]() COMMENTARY [Beijing’s Bomb Buildup]() [Beijing’s Bomb Buildup]() By Peter Brookes China has been engaged in an unprecedented military buildup of its conventional forces for some time, and it has recently begun to pay significant attention to building out its strategic nuclear forces. [More]() [LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg] [Donate to The Daily Signal]() [Find us on Facebook]() [Find us on Facebook]() [Follow us on Twitter]() [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 [letters@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 {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.]()