House Speaker Sexton Proposes Panel To Consider Rejection Of Federal Education Funding

House Speaker Cameron Sexton Is Looking Into The Creation Of A Task Force To Determine Whether It Would Be Feasible For Tennessee To Reject Federal Education Funding In An Attempt To Eliminate Federal Regulation Of State Public Schools.

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TennCare Costs Will Increase As Emergency COVID Waiver Ends

Throughout The Federal Covid-19 Emergency, Tennessee’s Medicaid Service TennCare Has Been Barred From Removing Those Who Initially Qualified For Services. Starting On April 1, However, The Emergency Will End And So Will The Federal Matching Dollars That Went Into The Program.

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Investigation Finds Tennessee Domestic Violence Nonprofit Retaliated Against Employee

A Federal Watchdog Has Found That The Tennessee Coalition To End Domestic And Sexual Violence Unlawfully Retaliated Against And Then Forced Out An Employee Who Blew The Whistle About Potential Misuse Of Federal Funding.

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Republican Leadership Pledges To ‘Repeal’ IRS Auditor Expansion If GOP Wins Majority

President Joe Biden Sparked Controversy For Pushing Through Congress Increased Federal Funding For 87,000 New IRS Employees To Audit Americans, But Republican Leadership Has Pledged To Overturn That Expansion If They Win The Majority.

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Are Masks Coming Back To Tennessee Schools?

Brandon Lewis, Founder Of The Tennessee Conservative, Joins The Alex Abernathy Show To Discuss How A Return To Mask Mandates May Be On The Way For Tennessee Schools Due To Their Reliance On Federal ESSER Funds (And The Strings Attached To That Funding).

They Also Discuss The Hillsdale Controversy And Representative Mark White’s Claims That He Will Do Everything In His Power To Block Them Bringing Charter Schools Into Tennessee.

To Close, They Discuss How A Judicial Panel Is Now Allowing The State To Move Forward With Allowing Parents To Utilize The Tennessee Education Savings Account In Nashville And Memphis.

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Tennessee Congresswoman Introduces Act To Halt USDA’s Woke Agenda In Public Schools

U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger Has Introduced The Stop Wrongs To Our Kids’ Educational (W.O.K.E.) Meals Act To Block Biden’s USDA From Stripping Federal Funding From Recipients Of The National School Lunch Program For Refusing To Comply With Radical Transgender Ideology Expansions.

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26 Republican AGs Challenge New Sex-Based Discrimination Federal Guidance

In A Letter Originating From Tennessee AG Herbert Slatery III And Sent To President Biden, 26 Republican AGs Claim That The U.S. Department Of Agriculture’s Guidance Means States, Local Agencies And Programs That Receive Federal Food Dollars Through The Food And Nutrition Act And The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Could Lose Funding If They Don’t Comply, Including In Their Hiring Practices.

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New Biden Administration Rule Will Tie Federal Education Funding To LGBTQ+ Mandates

An Upcoming Biden Administration Rule Change Will Tie Billions Of Dollars In Federal Education Funding To An Array Of LGBT Policies, Forcing School Districts And Universities To Implement Controversial Rules On Issues Like Transgender Athletes In Order To Receive Federal Funding.

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