The Blackburn Report: Republicans Are Enforcing the Law at the Border and Across America

Tennesseans and Americans across the country want to feel safe in their own communities, and there is no better way to ensure that happens than enforcing the rule of law—especially at the southern border. Since returning to office last year, that is exactly what President Trump has accomplished, ending Biden’s border crisis and securing incredible wins for the American people. As of May, the administration deported close to 900,000 illegal aliens, while 2.2 million chose to leave our country rather than be deported. Despite this success, Democrats are continuing to put illegal aliens ahead of American citizens, pushing to abolish ICE and end immigration enforcement altogether. If given the opportunity, they would roll back all of President Trump’s progress and take our country back to the Biden years that saw millions of illegal aliens pouring across our border. The good news: Republicans are in charge—and there is nothing that will stop us from keeping our border secure, deporting criminals, and enforcing the rule of law. Read more here.  Weekly Rundown    This week, Meta reached a landmark settlement with 47 states, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties over claims it harmed children with social media addiction. This massive settlement shows how terrified Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are of accountability in open court. While the product design changes imposed under this settlement are a first step toward giving kids and parents the tools they need to take back control of their online lives, we can’t stop here. Under the settlement, Meta is only required to implement safety measures for 10 years, and other social media companies are not currently covered. My Kids Online Safety Act, which passed the Commerce Committee earlier this month, would establish a uniform national standard requiring all platforms to ensure safety by design. Read more here.  Insurance regulation has long been, and should remain, a responsibility of the states. Several of my colleagues and I recently reintroduced the Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act to abolish the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) within the U.S. Department of the Treasury, returning regulatory authority over the insurance industry to the states.The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) was created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which granted the FIO specific financial stability, monitoring, and international responsibilities. These responsibilities duplicate functions within an industry that has long been regulated at the state level and traditionally overseen by state insurance regulators. The Federal Insurance Office Abolishment Act would eliminate unnecessary federal overreach, cut red tape, and return power to the states. Read more here.   Communist China is constantly devising ways to evade detection and act maliciously toward our allies through cyberattacks, economic coercion, information warfare, and other ‘gray-zone’ tactics that undermine the United States and our allies without using open military conflict. Recently, I introduced bipartisan legislation to improve our nation’s capabilities to counter these intimidation and coercion tactics by the People’s Republic of China in the Indo-Pacific. This legislation would strengthen our ability to counter the CCP’s malign geopolitical interests and its increasingly aggressive tactics. Read more here.   Constituent Services Highlight One Winchester resident had been trying for more than one year to get his federal student loans forgiven through the U.S. Department of Education’s Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) Discharge program, which forgives federal student loans for borrowers who have a total and permanent disability. He had resubmitted his medical professional’s certification to the Department of Education’s online servicer three times, only later to be told to wait when he called for a status update. He contacted my office, who reached out to the Department of Education on his behalf. The department confirmed the updated medical certificate was successfully uploaded. Just a few weeks later, his approval was finalized and his $124,000 in student loans were discharged. Marsha's Roundup Watch My Interviews Below   Senator Blackburn Reacts to the Passing of Dolly Parton on Fox News  Senator Blackburn Discusses Democrats’ Embrace of Socialism on Fox News Senator Blackburn Discusses the New U.S. Sanctions Campaign Against Iran on Newsmax  Senator Blackburn Discusses Dolly Parton’s Legacy on The Story with Martha MacCallum   Meeting With Marsha Senator Blackburn Speaks at Feed America First Senator Blackburn Speaks at Tennesseans for Quality Early Education ICYMI Last week, Senator Blumenthal and I sent a letter to TikTok regarding a recent report that the social media company endangered children by knowingly withholding an algorithmic safety measure from millions of American users to determine whether the safeguard would reduce engagement on its platform. Click here to read the full letter. I recently joined several Republican colleagues in introducing the Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act, which would prohibit the use of federal funds for any research or publication promoting gender transitions for minors. Read more here.  Learn More Unsubscribe