What Impact Would a Gas Tax ‘Holiday’ Have? Not Much

Plus: Biden Administration to Force Schools to Adopt Radical Gender Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know. June 23 2022 Good morning from Washington, where President Biden pitches a gas tax “holiday” amid soaring prices at the pump. This idea is running on empty, Doug Blair writes. The president aims to coerce gender orthodoxy in our children’s schools, Jon Butcher argues. On the podcast, understanding how Operation Warp Speed countered the pandemic. Plus: Ted Bromund on a lackluster Brexit; Tom Jipping on America’s pro-life stance; and Sarah Parshall Perry joins “Problematic Women” to call out Biden’s move to undermine equal rights for women. Fifty years ago today, Title IX becomes law, prohibiting federally funded educational institutions from discriminating based on sex. COMMENTARY [What Impact Would a Gas Tax ‘Holiday’ Have? Not Much]() [What Impact Would a Gas Tax ‘Holiday’ Have? Not Much]() By Douglas Blair In the year and a half since Biden took office, average gas prices have risen more than $3 per gallon. The administration bears the lion’s share of the blame for this explosion in fuel fees. [More]() COMMENTARY [Biden Administration to Force Schools to Adopt Radical Gender Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know.]() [Biden Administration to Force Schools to Adopt Radical Gender Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know.]() By Jonathan Butcher The Biden White House wants to force a radical gender agenda on young minds and limit parents’ power to stop it. [More]() COMMENTARY [On Sixth Anniversary of Brexit, Britain Yet to Seize All of Freedom’s Opportunities]() [On Sixth Anniversary of Brexit, Britain Yet to Seize All of Freedom’s Opportunities]() By Ted Bromund Unfortunately, the British government has used its newfound freedoms to impose a lot of new regulations, most of them nonsensical—like giving rights to octopuses. [More]() ANALYSIS [How Operation Warp Speed Got Vaccines Out in Less Than 1 Year]() [How Operation Warp Speed Got Vaccines Out in Less Than 1 Year]() By Douglas Blair Operation Warp Speed was an unprecedented effort to create a vaccine against COVID-19. What normally would take four or five years to do was done in less than one. [More]() COMMENTARY [On Eve of Roe v. Wade Reversal, Poll Shows Americans Want to Protect Unborn]() [On Eve of Roe v. Wade Reversal, Poll Shows Americans Want to Protect Unborn]() By Thomas Jipping A new poll, released this week by Americans United for Life, further demonstrates the widening gulf between abortion advocates and the American people. [More]() COMMENTARY [As Title IX Turns 50, Biden Seeks to Undo Protections for Women]() [As Title IX Turns 50, Biden Seeks to Undo Protections for Women]() By Virginia Allen, Lauren Evans If the far left succeeds in changing the definition of sex, Title IX would lose its power to protect women because more men who identify as women would compete in female sports. [More]() COMMENTARY [ICYMI: A Look at Who’s on Biden’s Parents Council]() [ICYMI: A Look at Who’s on Biden’s Parents Council]() By Ben Johnson Supporters of the National Parents and Families Engagement Council praise the board as “a channel for parents’ voices to be heard.” Yet it represents a small segment of elitist, left-wing views. [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.]()