On today’s program:

• Casey Harper, Managing Editor for Broadcast at The Washington Stand and Host of the “Outstanding” podcast, gives an update on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding amid the partial government shutdown, the Minnesota church invasion that has led to more arrests, and a New York woman who sued for medical malpractice after a gender transition procedure as a young teenager and won. 
• Tim Moore, U.S. Representative from North Carolina’s 14th District, details the GOP’s efforts to resolve the shutdown over DHS funding.
• Ted Budd, Senator from North Carolina, applauds President Trump’s decisive actions on Iran and Venezuela, as well as the president’s championing of religious freedom around the globe.
• Dr. David Prentice, President and Founding Board Member of the Science Alliance for Life and Technology, discusses a Florida couple who sued an IVF clinic after discovering they were raising a girl who isn’t biologically theirs.
• Jeff Schafer, Director of the Hale Institute at New Saint Andrews College in Idaho, provides a legal perspective on issues related to the Greater Than Campaign, a NY malpractice case resulting in a $2 million award to a detransitioner, and additional arrests of protesters who violated the FACE Act when invading Cities Church in St. Paul, MN.

Episode Resources:

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• Tell Congress to stand fast for the Hyde Amendment, protecting taxpayers from funding abortion.
• Urge the Trump administration to shut down the Biden abortion drug pipeline.
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• Learn more about FRC’s God & Government course. 
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