A pro-union bill making its way through Congress with Republican support faces opposition from Christian business leaders who argue it could be used to advance a pro-abortion and transgender agenda without the consent of workers or employers. The Faster Labor Contracts Act, which passed the House last week with support from 210 Democrats and 20 Republicans, stipulates that either side in a labor dispute may request federal mediation after a 90 day period. If an agreement is not reached within 30 days of federal mediation, the conflict goes to a 3-person arbitration panel that is then empowered to impose labor contracts that can be binding on the parties for up to two years. The Senate version of the bill is sponsored by outspoken social conservative Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) who says that the bill will help workers assert their rights against woke corporations. But according to the Christian Employers Alliance, the bill could have significant ramifications for religious workers and employees. The organization, which successfully defeated a Biden-era mandate for employers to pay for transgender procedures, sent a letter to House lawmakers last week urging them to oppose the measure. They say that the bill would allow arbiters to embed woke provisions into binding contracts without final consent from workers or employers. “Christian employers are increasingly concerned that collective bargaining agreements are being used to advance provisions involving abortion coverage, gender-transition procedures, DEI mandates, pronoun policies, and other ideological requirements that directly implicate matters of conscience and religious belief,” Christian Employers Alliance President Margaret Iuculano told lawmakers in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. Iuculano told The Daily Wire that her organization is not opposed to the measure because it directly mandates any of the policies in question, but because of the binding arbitration provision that kicks in after 120 days if the two sides can’t make an agreement. “Because the legislation relies on binding arbitration to impose first contracts when negotiations fail, provisions of this nature could become part of an arbitrator-imposed agreement without the consent of either the employer or the employees,” she told The Daily Wire. “For Christian employers, that raises serious concerns about religious liberty, conscience protections, healthcare freedom, and the ability of faith-based organizations to govern their workplaces consistent with their sincerely held beliefs.” A Hawley spokesman told The Daily Wire that these objections were “absurd” and a way for big business to target the proposal. “These absurd allegations about a strong bill to protect working people just show that giant corporations are desperate to kill legislation that would help American workers while they invest billions in DEI insanity,” a Hawley spokesman said. “Senator Hawley’s bill aims to put a shot clock on labor negotiations to stop corporations like Amazon from dragging their feet after workers win a vote to unionize fair and square.” Hawley’s spokesman said that existing federal law protected religious employers. “Federal law already shields religious employers, and under this bill any third-party arbitrators are mutually chosen by the bargaining parties, not by the government,” the spokesman said. The terms imposed by the bill would allow the union and the employer to select one representative for arbitration. They would then have an opportunity to select a third arbitrator agreed to by both sides. If they can not agree on a third party within 14 days, the federal government would put in place the third person. The Senate version is cosponsored by Republican Senators Roger Marshall (KS) and Bernie Moreno (Ohio) alongside 14 Democratic lawmakers. Opponents of the bill argue that unions have historically promoted left-wing social policies, policies that could be imposed during the arbitration process. For example, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the unions supporting the legislation, once promoted a “Pride at Work” guidance document steeped in transgender ideology that features the so-called “gender-bread person.” The document features a section called “Five Reasons LGBTQ Working People Need a Union,” including that “people in unions help ensure LGBTQ working people have their healthcare needs met,” including “gender confirmation surgery.”   Teamster handout Some affiliate groups, such as the Teamsters Local 117 in Washington, proudly declare that “abortion rights are worker rights.” “In America today, I cannot think of a single healthcare procedure that elected officials have used the legislative process to take choice away from men. Abortion rights are worker’s rights. The labor movement must take a critical stand and continue the fight for equal access to healthcare for all its members,” the union said after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Kara Deniz, the assistant director of communications for the Teamsters, argued that complaints about abortion and transgender funding were attempts by companies to “misdirect” about the legislation. “This is a complete misdirection to basically facilitate their goal to try to stampede and block a bill that is having tremendous bipartisan support. Republicans and Democrats are supporting this bill,” she told The Daily Wire. “I don’t think they even have those concerns. To be quite honest, I think that these ‘concerns’ are being brought up on behalf of the corporations.” Deniz said the goal of the Teamsters was to cut down on the lengthy negotiating process and would not impact the issues of abortion or transgenderism. “I think it’s very unchristian to stand in the way of such legislation when it’s going to help people afford to live, and afford to be able to have a contract, and to not get hurt and injured on the job and be unsafe for 460 plus days because the employer refuses to give a contract,” she said. “I think that’s incredibly unchristian.” The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, has created model collective bargaining language demanding healthcare coverage for abortion and transgender procedures, including from out-of-state providers. “All health plans offered to bargaining unit members shall cover comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services, including contraceptives, abortion services (procedural and pharmaceutical), and gender-affirming care,” the model language says. Similarly, the Service Employees International Union has called for local unions to bargain for so-called trans-inclusive healthcare. Thomas Beck, a labor lawyer who previously served on the Federal Labor Relations Authority, said that the worries of organizations like the Christian Employers Alliance are legitimate. “I think it’s absolutely a concern,” he told The Daily Wire, noting the track record of unions pushing for abortion and transgender coverage. “They’re all proudly staking out these very progressive positions on some of the highest profile social issues of our time. And essentially they’re making it clear that they want to argue for these protections in collective bargaining agreements.” Beck believes that arbitrators would see abortion coverage or transgender procedure coverage as an easy win to hand unions and that the end result of the legislation would lead to a binding government regulation imposed via arbitration. Vinnie Vernuccio, the president of the Institute for the American Worker, said one problem with the legislation is that union members did not get a final vote on the labor contract with it went to arbitration. “It’s going a bridge way too far to say the remedy for contract negotiations taking too long is to invite government bureaucrats and take away the ability of workers to vote on a contract,” he told The Daily Wire. Hawley’s spokesman said the broader objections to the bill were a cloak for woke corporations to oppose worker-friendly legislation. The spokesman noted that employers get to be part of the process in selecting the representatives to oversee arbitration. “It’s ironic that some of the biggest opponents of this legislation also promote the trans flag on their websites. Senator Hawley is fighting for the American worker, rather than the same Big Business who stands with the radical left to push woke, transgender ideology,” the spokesman said. When asked about concerns with the bill, Reagan McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Moreno, told The Daily Wire that the senator was “proud to be a part of the legislative effort to protect working families. Working class Americans helped elect President Trump, and Republicans must be the party of workers, not Wall Street.” Some corporations have moved to push for abortion coverage without union pressure. Corporate giants like Amazon, Apple, and JPMorgan all came forward after the Roe decision and announced that they would pay for women to travel to end the life of their unborn child. Before passing, the proposal likely would have to go before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, which could be an uphill battle with Republican control of the committee. It would also need to pick up around ten more Republican supporters to get past the filibuster and would need President Donald Trump’s signature.

Alan Greenspan, America’s most powerful central banker and an apostle of freedom and free enterprise, passed away at age 100 on Monday — may he rest in peace. He served as Federal Reserve chairman for nearly 20 years from 1987 to 2006. He was a great man and a friend and mentor to me and many other conservative economists. And during his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman, he successfully piloted our economy through 3.2% annualized real GDP growth and an average inflation rate of 2.5%, even as he successfully navigated us through a number of crises. Meanwhile, job creation boomed during his tenure, stock markets soared, and real incomes rose. Greenspan was at heart an old-fashioned conservative business economist with a strong belief in limited government, lower taxes, and minimal regulation. At bottom, Greenspan’s intellectual compass was rooted in free-market laissez-faire libertarianism. As a young man, he was part of Ayn Rand’s Salon, as were other Reagan advisors, Martin and Annelise Anderson. When he accepted Richard Nixon’s offer to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (Nixon was forced to resign almost immediately after), Greenspan insisted that wage and price controls be abolished. They were, although they crept back in during the Jimmy Carter years. As a Reagan campaign adviser, Greenspan agreed with supply-side tax cuts. Perhaps he’s best known as a forceful critic of fiat paper money and an advocate for a hard dollar backed by gold. For him, gold was the preferred guarantor of monetary and fiscal discipline. And in his many Congressional appearances as Fed Chairman, he frequently referred to gold as a measure of dollar value and an indicator of future inflation. During his chairmanship, the philosopher Greenspan turned into the government realist Greenspan. He put out a number of fires and saved markets during the 1987 stock market crash. He later eased money during currency crises and the dotcom bubble. Now, some people blame him for the mortgage meltdown that occurred after he retired, but that’s too simplistic, and in many respects, completely untrue. His attempts to rationalize the financial meltdown got him into hot water after he retired from the Fed. But I still believe the biggest culprits were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the idea of subprime lending that permeated mortgage markets and somehow allowed home loans to be issued without sufficient income, job, or credit histories from borrowers. Greenspan opposed all of that while in office. He believed in a sound dollar, even one linked to a gold-and-commodity price rule, along with limited government and reduced federal spending. And Greenspan served successfully under Democrat and Republican presidents, but Democrats at that time were Bill Clinton Democrats, not today’s socialist Democrats. Today’s Democrats, like Senator Bernie Sanders, or Washington, D.C.’s mayoral nominee Janeese Lewis George, or socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s preferred Congressional candidates, are about as far from Alan Greenspan’s prosperous freedom and free enterprise creed as you can get. They support open borders, abolishing ICE, a universal basic income, free government care for everything — childcare, schools, colleges, healthcare, and abortion — federal rent controls, federal freezes on electricity, national wealth taxes, packing the Supreme Court, no voter photo ID, and on and on. All his life, Alan Greenspan fought big government socialism and totalitarianism of any kind. His philosophy made America an enormous success. But if given a chance to govern, today’s crop of Democratic socialists will once again show why totalitarianism is always a failure. *** Larry Kudlow served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council under President Trump. Previously, he served as chief economist and senior managing director of Bear Stearns and was an associate director for economics and planning at the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan administration. He currently serves as the host of Kudlow on FOX Business Network.

The woman who appeared in a now-viral video dumping trash in the street — so that she could steal the orange-and-blue can it was in — has been fired from her job a JPMorgan Chase. Angela Báez was fully decked out in blue and orange from head to toe – in honor of the New York Knicks and their first NBA Finals win in 53 years — and she apparently could not resist the temptation to take home the trash receptacle that matched the theme. But since the trash bin was filled to overflowing at the time, she opted to empty it directly onto the sidewalk in order to claim her prize. Just like … Knicks Trash

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday broke his silence over a Brooklyn coffee shop’s social media post declaring that it would no longer serve a Jewish congressman because of his views on Israel. The Department of Justice is investigating the coffee chain that claims to promote “radical hospitality.” Poetica Coffee, which operates seven locations across the Big Apple, mocked Rep. Dan Goldman in a Facebook post over the weekend, declaring that it does not serve “genocide enablers.” “Hey, Congressman Dan Goldman, we see that you stopped by our shop today for a coffee. Do you see how it doesn’t taste like genocide juice? Or are you still having a hard time telling the difference?” the coffee shop said, posting a picture of Goldman at a Brooklyn location.  “See, here at Poetica, we don’t serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers, or anyone in between.” Mamdani initially declined to comment but was later pressed by a reporter, who asked the Democratic Socialist whether the coffee shop’s response had crossed a line. “I have many political disagreements with Congressman Goldman when it comes to his votes and his views on Israel,” Mamdani said. “I think what we saw online goes beyond that.”  Mayor Mamdani addresses Dan Goldman cafe incident while backing DSA-linked candidates pic.twitter.com/Ym0FOWIhtM — New York Post (@nypost) June 23, 2026 On the company’s website, Poetica says the chain is “rooted in the Uzbek tradition where the guest is sacred, the books are unbanned, and the door is open to everyone.”  But the company took a decidedly different tone with Goldman.  “Too bad we didn’t recognize you right away, or we would have turned you away. We issued you a refund — we don’t need your money (it’s probably coming from AIPAC anyways). Enjoy your loss on Tuesday. Don’t ever come to Poetica,” Poetica said on social media.  The leftist owner of the Brooklyn coffee shop, Parviz Mukhamadkulov, on Monday defended his company’s decision to target the pro-Israel Democrat.  “Pretty simple process, if you support genocide, we reserve the right to not serve you,” Mukhamadkulov replied to a LinkedIn post praising his establishment.  In other comments and posts, he has accused Israel of committing genocide, compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany, and defended the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack that killed and abducted civilians. “Israel is the Nazi Germany of current time,” he wrote in response to a video posted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.  “Explain to me why Israel is killing babies?” Mukhamadkulov replied in another post, The Daily Wire previously reported. “After October 7th, the Palestinian state will extend from the river to the sea.” Mukhamadkulov also minimized the account of a Holocaust victim killed at the Auschwitz extermination camp, saying, “This is a horrible story. That is why it’s important we talk against the genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians.” Goldman — who prediction markets say is likely to lose his seat in Congress — responded to the coffee shop’s social media post.  “It’s a reflection, I think, of a sad state of affairs that, without knowing me, we could have had such a nice interaction,” Goldman said. “Two people, obviously from different backgrounds, different faiths, but that’s what America is, and that’s what New York City is, that is what I believe in.”

South Carolina Republicans on Tuesday selected state Attorney General Alan Wilson as their GOP nominee to lead the nation’s fastest-growing state. With votes rolling in, Wilson leads Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette with about 65% of the vote. Decision Desk HQ called the race at 7:22 p.m. ET.  Decision Desk HQ projects Alan Wilson wins the SC Governor Republican Runoff#DecisionMade: 7:22 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/i9CUeJWTTk — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) June 23, 2026 On June 9, Evette and Wilson advanced to a runoff after neither candidate surpassed the 50% threshold. President Trump initially endorsed Evette ahead of the primary, but after she secured just 29% of the vote, he backed both candidates four days before the runoff. “There are two Highly Respected Candidates running to be your next Governor in the June 23rd Republican Runoff Election,” Trump said Friday on Truth Social. “ Both have had amazing careers, and have been with me from the beginning. They are MAGA and America First all the way!”  “These were the two that I was hoping would get into a Runoff, and they did. I can’t hurt one of them by only Endorsing the other, so, therefore, I am going to Endorse, for Governor of South Carolina, both Pam Evette and Alan Wilson! It’s a Wealth of Riches – With either one you can’t go wrong,” he added.  The 11th-hour endorsement provided a boost to Wilson’s campaign, who touted his MAGA credentials ahead of the vote.  “As South Carolina’s Attorney General, I have been proud to stand with him,” Wilson wrote on X. “And I never backed down. When President Trump needed fighters, I was in the fight.” The dual endorsement handicapped Evette’s key argument that she was the only MAGA-backed candidate in the race. Her campaign attack ads accused Wilson of not being sufficiently loyal to Trump, according to a local outlet.  Seven Republicans competed to replace Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, including Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette, U.S. Representatives Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, State Senator Josh Kimbrell, and businessman Rom Reddy.  Trump’s endorsement of Evette effectively sidelined Congresswoman Mace from the race, who chalked up the decision as political retaliation.  “I knew it was on the line when I voted to release the Epstein files, and I’m a survivor, but if the price to pay for an endorsement was to not release those files, I would never, I would never pay it,” Mace told Fox News. “So I knew it was on the line, and I disagree with this endorsement, and I’m going to vote for myself.”  If elected, Wilson will face myriad challenges, including outdated infrastructure, a strained healthcare system, and lagging educational outcomes.  Still, people across the country continue to pack up their lives and move to the Palmetto State in record numbers. Between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, South Carolina’s population grew by 1.5 percent — faster than any other state—according to the U.S. Census Bureau. “Overall, South Carolina’s population continues to grow rapidly, largely as a result of migration from other states—though growth has slowed since its pandemic-era peak, when the expansion of remote work along with elevated labor market turnover led to unusually high rates of relocation across the country,” South Carolina’s Department of Employment said in a report. Going into November, the Cook Political Report ranks both the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races as solid Republican.