UK Abandons Multi-Billion Digital ID Program.

The British government’s proposed Digital ID program, known as BritCard, has been officially canceled, with its $2.4 billion budget redirected to reduce VAT on electricity bills.

 WHAT HAPPENED: Former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s proposed national digital identity program, known as BritCard, has been scrapped by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, with ministers saying the move will help fund the removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) on domestic electricity bills beginning October 1. New Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary) John Healey said canceling the Digital ID program, previously estimated to cost the equivalent of $2.4 billion over three years, would finance the tax cut, which will also apply to qualifying small businesses, charities, and care homes.

 DETAIL: The BritCard scheme was supposedly introduced as part of an effort to combat illegal immigration and initially included a mandatory right-to-work requirement, but that provision was dropped earlier this year following widespread opposition and a petition signed by nearly 2.9 million people. Civil liberties groups, including Big Brother Watch, had criticized the proposal as costly and unnecessary, while opponents argued it risked expanding government surveillance. Questions remain over whether canceling the program will fully fund the VAT cut, with reports citing differing assessments from the government, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), and former ministers over whether the Digital ID budget had ever been fully allocated. The government has said updated costings will be provided at the next Budget as it prepares additional measures, including a 20 percent reduction in business rates for hospitality businesses and a £2 (~$2.70) bus fare cap. Financial markets initially reacted cautiously to the new administration’s spending plans, although government borrowing costs eased after Healey was appointed Chancellor. While the standalone BritCard program has been canceled, existing government digital identity services, including GOV.UK One Login, the GOV.UK Wallet, and age-verification systems under the Online Safety Act remain in place.

 KEY QUOTE: “This is funded this year from cancelling the Digital ID programme,” said new Chancellor John Healey, explaining the financial rationale behind the VAT cut.

 IMPACT: The cancellation halts the rollout of the controversial ID system, criticized for its high cost and potential to infringe on civil liberties, while potentially providing some financial relief to households and small businesses through the VAT cut.

 FLASHBACK: When the Digital ID program was announced, officials admitted its success depended on universal adoption. The program quickly expanded in scope, with proposals for “cradle-to-grave” tracking, sparking widespread public and political opposition.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/07/22/uk-abandons-multi-billion-digital-id-program/

Democrats Dismiss Our Constitutional Traditions as ‘Nostalgia’

 

Below is my column in The Hill on the latest spin from the left to convince Americans to abandon core constitutional institutions and values as part of a radical agenda in the upcoming elections. Those who defend our traditions, on the 250th anniversary of our Republic, are now being accused of being “nostalgic” rather than progressive. It is a nostalgia that will take on a truly tragic element if professors, pundits and politicians are successful in this effort.

Here is the column:

It appears that the Madisonian democracy has joined shackets and combat boots as embarrassingly outdated for many on the left. In calling for radical changes to our constitutional system, leading Democrats are now calling the lingering loyalty to our traditions as mere “nostalgia.” To be nostalgic in today’s parlance is to be a dupe of the oligarchs and an enemy to reform.

“Nostalgia” has become the new coded term for reactionaries among Democratic figures, who are trying to convince Americans to accept radical changes to our republic after 250 years.

Kamala Harris recently insisted that opposition to ideas like packing the Supreme Court is mere “nostalgia” for a system that is no longer working. “I would caution us against talking about rebuilding with any sense of nostalgia about how things work, because even before, they weren’t working so well for a lot of folks,” she said. That “nostalgia,” according to Harris, is preventing us from doing things like packing the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last week also declared that “nostalgia is not working” and, while refusing to embrace socialism, added that “capitalism as we know it doesn’t work.”

Morris Katz, a political strategist for Zohran Mamdani, spoke to CNN’s Dana Bash about looking beyond the label of democratic socialism and instead simply to accept that “our government does not work.” They are joining socialists who have long promised revolutionary changes without “introspection, nostalgia or regret.”

It is an all-too-familiar pitch. Sixty years ago, a call to break free of “old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits” revolutionized a nation. That call was heard in a Chinese paper that would help lay the foundation for Mao Zedong’s bloody Cultural Revolution. Marxists had long rejected calls to preserve institutions and citizens’ rights as “nostalgia” and “sentimentality,” standing in the way of needed progress.

For the Democratic Socialist of America organization, nostalgia stands in the way of getting rid of the Senate, presidency, and the Supreme Court to fundamentally change the republic.

The effort is to condition Americans to adopt radical changes to our core institutions that professors and pundits say will guarantee Democrats never lose power again.

That is not an easy task for a people who have benefited from the oldest and most prosperous democracy for 250 years. They have to be very angry or very afraid to take such a radical course.

The Soviets understood that about the U.S. After Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB agent working in the media, defected in 1970, he revealed the four stages by which the Soviets hoped to bring about revolutionary change in the U.S. It began with undermining our institutions and values, with the help of journalists and academics.

With establishment figures lining up behind radical changes, including packing the Supreme Court, the public is hearing a constant drumbeat of how our system is broken.

Even Democratic judges are joining the chorus. Indeed, some appear to be auditioning for the slots promised by Democratic leaders to take over the court with a reliable liberal majority.

This week, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued an unhinged diatribe against the U.S. Supreme Court that abandoned any semblance of judicial restraint or decorum. It declared the majority as effectively racists, saying that “The Roberts Court sees only white.” It portrayed the court as a rogue institution that “overrides what Congress passed. It overrides what the people chose. All to serve its own ends.”

It is an opinion that would make an MS NOW host blush. But it follows a pattern on the left to get people to turn against our institutions and even against the Constitution itself.

Others are telling the public that they are being repressed by the Constitution, which must be scrapped. In a New York Times op-ed — “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed” — law professors Ryan Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the nation to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”

In yet another New York Times editorial, Jennifer Szalai denounced  “Constitution worship” and claimed that “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us. A growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”

Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky insists that it is time to trash the Constitution in favor of “radical changes.”

These voices are seeking to remove all of the moderating elements of our system —the safety features that have produced the world’s most successful and stable republic. They are the very constitutional elements protecting us from the tyranny of the majority, protecting us from ourselves.

Without those protections, we will unleash the self-destructive forces that have been tearing apart other democratic systems since Athens. It is our constitution that spared us from that fate. As James Madison observed, “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

Of course, history has shown that such radical proposals ultimately produce not democracy, but what the Framers called mobocracy. If we let that happen, many Americans will indeed look back at the last 250 years with a tragic sense of nostalgia.

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/07/20/democrats-dismiss-our-constitutional-traditions-as-nostalgia/

Dem. Sen. Andy Kim Says Noncitizens Voting Isn't As Big of a Problem As Trump Makes It Sound

Yesterday we had the story about nearly 7,000 noncitizens in New Jersey who were nevertheless on the state's voter rolls. Of those several thousand, a few hundred had actually voted since 2023. The governor of New Jersey blamed a software glitch. 

Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill said that a "serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office." 

"These individuals answered 'no' when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers' licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway," according to Sherrill.

This is where we find ourselves in familiar territory. 

First we're always told that things like illegal aliens registered to vote doesn't happen, and when that's disproved we arrive at the "yes it does happen but it's very rare and isn't widespread" stage of the spin game from Democrats. 

That's what Sen. Andy Kim from New Jersey has taken it. 

Kim should use exaggerated finger quotes whenever he claims this kind of thing is a "mistake." 

What was exposed in New Jersey provides just the latest example of why the SAVE America Act is a necessity. 

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/07/22/dem-senator-says-noncitizens-registered-to-vote-isnt-nearly-as-bad-as-trump-makes-it-sound-n2430493

One Year After OBBB: The American Manufacturing Resurgence

It’s been about a year since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, and over that 12-month period, we’ve seen the positive outcomes from the act. One of those is an American manufacturing renaissance.

A new report from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) demonstrates how the tax cuts from this bill have spurred growth in manufacturing:

Manufacturing is the economic engine of the United States. Led by the 13 million people who make things in America, manufacturing succeeds when backed by policies that make it easier to build, hire, and expand.

H.R. 1 embodies that commitment. By signing H.R. 1 into law, President Trump gave manufacturers the foundation, competitiveness, and certainty to invest—in new facilities and equipment, jobs and wage growth, cutting-edge research, and our global competitiveness.

This law is a once-in-a-generation investment in manufacturers, and it did not happen by chance. As pro-growth tax policies approached expiration, putting 6 million jobs at risk, manufacturers rallied to make our voices heard. Congress not only kept every one of the 10 major provisions for which the NAM advocated—they even added new provisions, all to strengthen manufacturing.

One year after H.R. 1 became law, manufacturers have much to celebrate. Manufacturers in all 50 states are using H.R. 1 to invest in America.

By NAM’s count, the Trump tax cuts have supported 6 million American jobs, saved $540 billion in wages for hardworking Americans, and contributed $1.1 trillion in GDP. “That's the manufacturing economy a permanent, pro-growth tax code helps sustain — and manufacturers are delivering on the promise,” NAM says.

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The Working Families Tax Cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill have seen concrete benefits in all 50 states. Investments in research and development, full deductions for facility expansion, and incentives to build in the U.S. have all spurred growth that’s hard to ignore or explain away.

From 11,000 jobs protected in Alaska to 708,000 jobs supported in California, every state is reaping the benefits of this unprecedented investment in the American workforce. NAM’s report gives case studies for all 50 states.

The One Big Beautiful Bill’s provisions aren’t just for large corporations. Even small businesses like Winton Machine Company in Suwanee, Ga., are seeing the benefits. The 38-employee company is able to reinvest in its operations and innovate in its industry.

“As manufacturers, our ability to reinvest drives job creation, advances new technologies and supports our communities,” says CEO Lisa Winton. “I am committed to continue to help drive innovation and invest in the future manufacturing workforce here in the USA.”

Louisiana’s Martin Sustainable Resources used the tax cuts, credits, and incentives to expand its facilities, upgrade its equipment, and make long-term investments. It’s planning for the future, thanks to these pro-growth policies.

“The Working Families Tax Cuts are helping to fuel modernization at our company,” says CEO E. Scott Poole. “Full expensing for facilities and equipment strengthens our ability to keep making long-term investments, and estate tax relief helps protect the continuity of a family-owned company rooted in Louisiana for generations.”

“These results demonstrate the undeniable power of President Trump’s America First economic agenda,” reads the White House press release. “By putting American families and businesses first, the Working Families Tax Cuts are rebuilding American industrial strength, creating opportunity in every community, and delivering real results for real Americans.”

This is what America needs to be strong, successful, and resilient. It’s what can help sustain our economy in good and bad times. And I definitely voted for this.

https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/07/22/one-year-after-obbb-the-american-manufacturing-resurgence-n4955323

What Is John Thune Doing?

There is no one worse at fumbling the ball than Senate Republicans, especially John Thune, whose leadership has been a series of failures. The man simply doesn’t know how to apply pressure to keep his people in line, and is far too deferential to Democrats, process, and institutional traditions. This isn’t your father’s Democratic Party, Thune boy. It’s almost entirely taken over by a Maoist insurgency, which has overwhelmed a Democratic establishment that is too timid, stupid, and inept to do much of anything. Thune isn’t up against Goliath—he’s facing a Democratic Party whose brand is completely radioactive. That’s how the socialists have managed to infiltrate the ranks with hammers and sickles.

Like sports, this is a win-lose business, and Thune has often been on the losing end. Thune hesitated on Department of Homeland Security funding, once again falling for Democratic traps that kept the agency shut for nearly 100 days. Thune, they reneged and delayed because they knew it would keep the agency closed: that was the point. That was the message they sent to their base, and you thought it was business as usual. You’re a Bush-era Republican who isn’t suited for these times.

Then, during that DHS spending duel, when the House passed a funding measure, you voted on a separate bill in the dead of night, before leaving town. The House was left holding the bag, adding to this drama the institutional rivalry. Luckily, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) provided a legislative roadmap to finding DHS through the Trump presidency. 

Now, with government spending back on the agenda and us set to run out of money on September 30, you once again disregard House Republicans, adding that you’ll pass your own continuing resolution with Democrats.

John, THEY WANT A SHUTDOWN. Are you blind, deaf, and dumb? You’re going to trust THE DEMOCRATS to keep the government open and not create a political scenario where they can cause divisions within the GOP and make hay in the final weeks of the 2026 midterms: the GOP cannot govern. It’s chaos. The script writes itself, and you’re helping them write it.

Yes, I know you have an issue with the SAVE America Act, which is supported by 80 percent of voters, being rolled into these spending measures. Hey, here’s a hint: maybe pass the damn law, Thune. When something is brought up multiple times because it’s super popular, what’s the problem? What’s your malfunction? Why can’t you get things done?

The House gets things done with slimmer majorities. There are even more rabble-rousers that Speaker Johnson has to deal with, and he still gets multiple appropriations bills through the process. You see a tweet from Thom Tillis or Lisa Murkowski and say, ‘all is lost.’ 

Look up worthless, and there will be a picture of John Thune next to it. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/07/22/look-up-worthless-and-youll-find-a-picture-of-john-thune-next-to-it-n2679930

Left-wing groups hit with subpoenas after money trail leads to tech tycoon's fortune

 Net tightens!

House panel subpoenas 3 left-wing groups in probe of $39M tied to Marxist tycoon Neville Singham

The People's Forum, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental failed to produce a single document in response to earlier requests

The powerful House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed three left-wing nonprofits in an investigation into more than $39 million that flowed from Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham to the groups, Fox News Digital has learned.

In three letters dated July 21 and obtained by Fox News Digital, the committee accused the three nonprofits of failing to turn over a "single responsive document" to earlier requests for information.

The committee, led by Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., issued the subpoenas to the People’s Forum Inc., a New York-based activist hub; BreakThrough News, a left-wing nonprofit media outlet; and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which says its work is anchored in "national liberation Marxism."

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David Chung, organizing director at The People’s Forum, prepares for an anti-war demonstration in Union Square in New York City, left. Tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham attends The Red Party in New York City on Feb. 14, 2018, right. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital; Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)

The legislative action emerges as far-left nonprofits face growing scrutiny from law enforcement agencies, policymakers and federal agencies for their alleged roles in promoting communist propaganda, engaging in money laundering schemes and fomenting discord and even political violence. Last week, Secretary of State Rubio convened a summit of 65 nations to counter "far-left terrorism.

On Monday, the State Department released a 100-page report on a network of U.S. organizations that allegedly promote propaganda for the communist regime in Cuba.

The panel said it is investigating whether existing laws governing tax-exempt organizations adequately protect against foreign influence — and whether Congress needs to change those laws. The letters cite a five-part Fox News Digital investigation published in March that exposed the flow of $285 million from Singham into a sprawling international network of nonprofits, activist groups and media operations.

"Your responses have failed to include a single responsive document and misrepresented both the scope and purpose of the Committee’s oversight," the nearly identical letters state. "Accordingly, the Committee is invoking compulsory process to obtain the requested materials."

Singham network

The panel alleges that Singham channeled money through shell companies and donor-advised funds before reaching the three tax-exempt groups. Such arrangements, the committee said, can allow foreign-linked funding to pass through intermediaries that "by design, obscure the original source of the contribution."

Singham is an American-born technology tycoon and longtime Marxist activist who sold his software company, ThoughtWorks, for an estimated $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai. He has since poured hundreds of millions of dollars into organizations advancing socialist and communist causes in the United States and around the world, according to Fox News Digital’s investigation.

The Fox News Digital investigation found Singham pumped $22.44 million to People’s Forum, $16.76 million to Tricontinental and $1.098 million to Breakthrough BT Media Inc., a parent of its media arm. The committee cited Fox News Digital reporting.

In a hearing earlier this year on malign foreign influence on U.S. nonprofits, Smith said Singham maintains business ties with people and companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party and works alongside a Chinese propaganda company.

The committee first sought records from the People’s Forum in September 2025 and from BreakThrough News and Tricontinental in February.

After attorneys for the organizations refused to comply, the panel issued narrower requests on May 4.

The committee asked for records about foreign-linked funding and projects whose finances the groups managed. It also sought contracts tied to foreign people or organizations, communications with Singham about the groups’ finances or operations, contacts with other foreign interests, foreign donors who gave more than $5,000 and grants sent overseas.

Attorneys for the organizations argued that the committee lacked a sufficiently clear legislative purpose, improperly invoked the Foreign Agents Registration Act and infringed on First Amendment rights, according to the committee’s account of their objections. BreakThrough News also invoked freedom-of-the-press protections.

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The attorneys later argued that the committee had "changed materially" the purpose of its investigation without adjusting its demands, leaving the organizations unable to determine whether the requested records were relevant.

Attorneys for the People’s Forum also compared the investigation to a "witch hunt" by the House Un-American Activities Committee of the 1950s and questioned whether the Ways and Means Committee had jurisdiction to investigate potential issues involving the Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to the panel’s letter.

The committee rejected those arguments, maintaining that it is investigating the organizations’ finances and structures — not their political views or reporting — and whether tax-exempt laws allow foreign-linked money to move through intermediaries without public disclosure.

"The Committee’s inquiry here is directed at financial arrangements and organizational structure, specifically whether existing tax-exempt law adequately guards against foreign-influenced funding networks of the kind documented in public reporting about Mr. Singham’s activities," the letter to the People’s Forum states.

The panel said the organizations’ failure to produce "a single responsive document" left it with no choice but to compel their compliance. The subpoenas require the groups to turn over the requested materials by Aug. 7.

Smith told Fox News Digital that the subpoenas would help expose whether America’s tax laws and charitable sector "have been exploited to advance the CCP’s influence operations inside the United States."

"The American people deserve to know whether the CCP has exploited America’s tax-exempt sector to advance its agenda," Smith said. "The Ways and Means Committee is acting on two fronts: exposing the networks that exploit our tax laws and advancing legislation to close those loopholes for good."

Protesters gather in Foley Square and march through the streets of Lower Manhattan in protest of the detention of Palestinian student activist and Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil (not seen) by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York, United States on March 10, 2025. The People's Forum was actively involved in organizing and promoting national student walkouts and protests for Khalil that day.

Singham network faces broader federal scrutiny

The subpoenas represent the latest government scrutiny of Singham’s financial network.

On June 29, Fox News Digital reported that a federal grand jury in Manhattan was investigating alleged financial crimes involving Singham and organizations he funded. The investigation, launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, is examining possible wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes, according to sources familiar with the matter.

No charges have been announced.

Fox News Digital’s five-part investigation documented $278 million flowing from Singham through a Goldman Sachs donor-advised fund and two now-defunct shell companies to six core U.S. nonprofits, including the three organizations now facing congressional subpoenas.

The investigation mapped 223 transactions totaling $591 million as money moved through successive layers of a network spanning 67 core organizations across five continents. Those organizations partnered with hundreds of additional groups, producing a wider network estimated to encompass roughly 2,000 nonprofits, activist groups, think tanks and media organizations worldwide.

Organizations within the wider network have appeared across a range of activist campaigns, including anti-Israel demonstrations, pro-Cuba actions, opposition to immigration enforcement and protests targeting artificial intelligence and data center development.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-panel-subpoenas-3-left-wing-groups-probe-39m-tied-marxist-tycoon-neville-singham