Unlike the bloody Bolshevik Revolution that hastily brought Marxism to Moscow and eventually Eastern Europe, American socialists have sought a different path.

In the United States, socialists have pursued revolution through stealthier, softer, and slower means, what many academics refer to as the “long march through the institutions.” 

Whether this strategy should be credited to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci or German student activist Rudi Dutschke is beside the point. 

Suffice it to say, in America, the socialist long march has triumphed.

As many polls show, socialism is more popular than ever in America, especially among young Americans.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), “the largest socialist organization in the United States,” wields more political power than ever.

The DSA has scores of members in political offices throughout the country, with hundreds more on the ballot in November. It has money. It has momentum. 

But most importantly, it has the hearts and minds of young people.

Long story short: the Left’s long march has already succeeded.

To understand why the long march has been so successful, one must recognize its cornerstone: education indoctrination.

Not that long ago, I was a public high school social studies teacher. 

I want to describe my experience briefly. 

Before entering the classroom, I had to earn a degree from an accredited teacher college. 

I am not exaggerating when I say that my two-year program at a prominent educator college in Chicago did little to prepare me to be an effective teacher. To my frustration, ample time was devoted to long discourses on far-left political and social ideology. 

Social and emotional learning methods were deemed far superior to content mastery. We were told to fixate on academic equity, not academic excellence.

Most of my professors were more concerned with preparing us to become social justice warriors far more than they were concerned that we would be good teachers. 

During my student teaching period at a high school in a Chicago suburb, my mentor teacher reinforced this narrative. The teacher groupthink was startling. Frankly, I was afraid to speak out on the grounds that I would be reprimanded somehow. 

Unsurprisingly, I encountered this same dynamic during my several years as a social studies teacher in Illinois and South Carolina.

Here is one anecdote. The day after President Trump won the 2016 election, nearly every teacher in the social studies department wore all-black clothing because they “were in mourning.” This happened in ruby red South Carolina.

Parents must understand that the level of Marxist indoctrination occurring in public schools has reached a crisis point.

A generation of American students has been intentionally misinformed about the evil nature of socialism. On the contrary, they have been miseducated into believing that socialism is righteous.

Millions of American students have no idea that socialism has been tried and failed time and time again. They are unaware of the mass poverty, misery, and murder that socialist governments have wrought upon their people. 

Even worse, they are being brainwashed into believing that individual liberty and free enterprise are the real enemies. 

As a libertarian, I am generally not for government intervention and mandates. However, in the realm of public education, I think the case is so dire that those heavy-handed solutions might be the only way to force change.

To his credit, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis saw this problem coming years ago.

In 2024, DeSantis signed SB 1264 into law, which “requires instruction in public schools about the history of communism.”

In 2025, the Florida Department of Education approved “new History of Communism standards” to equip “students with a truthful, in-depth understanding of how communist ideologies suppress individual freedoms, abuse power, and inflict widespread suffering.”

Anastasios Kamoutsas, Florida’s Education Commissioner at the time, emphasized that the “standards will ensure that students learn the truth about the brutal realities of life under communism and gain a deeper appreciation for the blessings of liberty that define our nation.”

“With the resurgence of communist ideologies across the United States,” he added, “it is more important than ever for students to understand the catastrophic failures and human suffering caused by communist regimes.”

I could not agree more. 

This fall, Florida public students are learning the truth about socialism. Could this be the beginning of the end of the long march? I sure hope so.

By Red State – https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/09/23/the-marxist-long-march-in-america-must-be-stopped-n2207217

On Sept. 14, 2026, at the G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial in Houston, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the final repeal of nearly all of the Biden-Harris administration’s 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for coal- and gas-fired power plants.

The EPA estimates this move will save $310 billion through 2047 by ending compliance rules that are legally flawed and technically unworkable.

Officials also frame the repeal as a way to avoid wasted spending on controls that have not proven commercially viable. The follow-on proposal’s goal is to make it much harder for the next administration to put federal power-plant climate rules back in place.

Both Republicans and people with hands-on experience in oil, gas, and coal have made the same case for years. Biden’s climate rules made it harder to keep old coal plants running, build new natural gas plants, and sell U.S. energy overseas, even as America produced record amounts of oil and gas. They call the 2024 rules the newest part of a 15-year “war on coal.” In their view, those rules shut down plants without putting something just as reliable in their place.

Zeldin called it the “largest power-sector deregulatory action in U.S. history” and a step toward affordable, reliable electricity. Officials say the 2024 rules exceeded EPA authority under the Clean Air Act by treating carbon capture as the “best system of emission reduction.”

The Supreme Court struck down the Obama-era Clean Power Plan in West Virginia v. EPA (2022). The plan did more than require plants to cut pollution; it tried to shift the electricity system away from coal toward gas and renewables.

The Court said that kind of “generation shifting” was a major policy choice Congress had not clearly given EPA. Under Section 111, the agency can require plants to run cleaner. It cannot use the statute to redesign the national power mix.

EPA also proposed wiping out the rest of the power-sector greenhouse gas standards. That is the lock if it is finalized and survives court. If it holds, the next EPA cannot just flip the 2024 rule back on. It would have to convince a court that Section 111 still covers climate rules for this sector.

According to EPA, U.S. power plants are only a small, shrinking slice of the greenhouse gases in the air worldwide.

China’s power sector alone emits about four times as much CO2 as America’s. In 2024 it accounted for roughly 39% of global power-plant emissions; the United States was about 12%.

So officials argue the 2024 rules would have done little for the climate while costing Americans billions.

Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi said the Trump EPA has a simple rule. “If Congress hasn’t authorized it, then we’re not doing it. We’re not requiring it.” He has also said the Obama and Biden power plant rules “would have increased the cost of operating power plants by over $1 billion a year, which would have led directly to higher energy bills for consumers and a less stable grid.” The administration says the rollback will keep electricity affordable and reliable as demand grows from data centers, manufacturing, and electrification.

Officials project coal production for power-sector use could rise more than tenfold. They say winter demand is why reliability cannot wait.

Environmental groups have already sued. On Sept. 17, NRDC, EDF, the American Lung Association, and other health groups asked the D.C. Circuit to vacate the repeal. They say more power-plant pollution will mean more deaths and worse climate damage.

How long the rollback lasts will turn on whether Section 111 can be used for climate rules in this sector. The final repeal takes effect Nov. 16 unless a court blocks it. Comments on the leftover-standards proposal are due Nov. 2. The Trump EPA remains committed to common sense cost savings, unleashing American energy, and keeping electricity affordable and reliable.

One is working to end the war. The other is helping reunite the families caught in it.

President Donald Trump has spent his second term pursuing an end to the Russia-Ukraine war through the traditional machinery of presidential diplomacy: meetings with world leaders, direct conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, American envoys traveling between capitals and negotiations over territory, sanctions and security guarantees.

Those negotiations remain extraordinarily difficult, with the diplomatic process repeatedly advancing, stalling and restarting. As recently as September, preparations were underway for another possible round of U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks.

But alongside the President’s conventional diplomatic effort, First Lady Melania Trump has developed something different: a parallel humanitarian channel between countries at war, centered not on territory or military objectives, but on children and families separated by the conflict.

That distinction may be more significant than Washington realizes.

The effort began with a personal letter the First Lady wrote to Putin in August 2025 raising the plight of children affected by the war. From that outreach grew continuing communications involving her representative and officials from both Russia and Ukraine – and results followed.

The first reunifications came in October 2025. Seven more children were reunited with their families in December, with additional rounds in February, April and July. By August 17, 2026, the White House said the initiative had helped facilitate the reunification of 34 children and families separated during the war.

Thirty-four children represent only a small portion of a much larger crisis. Ukrainian officials have documented approximately 20,000 reported cases involving the deportation or forced transfer of Ukrainian children, while Russia disputes Ukraine’s characterization of those cases.

But the significance of the First Lady’s effort isn’t simply a number – it’s the mechanism she has helped create. Traditional peace negotiations tend to begin with the hardest questions: territory, borders, sanctions, armies and security guarantees. Those are precisely the issues on which neither side believes it can easily compromise.

Child reunification works differently.

A child returning to his or her family does not require either country to surrender territory, abandon a military position or settle the future of disputed land. Instead, it identifies something simpler: an area where two adversaries can still cooperate.

Every successful reunification requires names to be exchanged, identities verified, families located, logistics arranged and commitments honored. Those may be small steps beside negotiations to end a war. But diplomacy is often built from small commitments that are made – and then kept.

The First Lady herself captured the idea in July when she said that the parties should be able to place children “above international disputes.”

That principle has now produced repeated cooperation, and it offers a lesson for Washington: American diplomacy traditionally approaches conflicts from the top down, settling the largest geopolitical disputes first and expecting humanitarian progress to follow.

Melania Trump’s initiative suggests a second path can run alongside it – one that begins where agreement is possible, builds trust through narrow and verifiable commitments, and produces a tangible result before attempting another.

The President and First Lady are, in effect, operating on two different tracks – one from the top down, the other from the bottom up.

They do not have to remain disconnected.

The First Lady’s humanitarian channel cannot by itself resolve territorial disputes or produce a ceasefire, and 34 reunifications should not be confused with a resolution of the enormous suffering the war has caused. But diplomacy depends on channels of communication, particularly ones that have already demonstrated that opposing sides can exchange information, make commitments and carry them out.

That is why what Melania Trump has built deserves attention beyond the humanitarian success of each individual reunion. She has shown that even nations fighting a brutal war can still find a narrow piece of common ground.

And sometimes that is how something much larger begins.

President Trump continues working toward an agreement capable of ending the war. Alongside him, the First Lady has developed a different kind of diplomacy – humanitarian, personal and deliberately focused on the one subject both sides should be able to place above politics and war: children.

After 34 reunifications, her effort is no longer merely symbolic. It is a functioning diplomatic channel – one built on communication, cooperation and commitments kept.

Together, they have created two paths toward the same destination. One is working to end the war. The other is helping reunite the families caught in it.

The President’s planned triumphal arch in Washington is not just going to be marble and a ribbon. He has described a military and security complex — drones, sniper positions, the post-9/11 reality built into the stone. Liberals can feel free to hate the aesthetics of the Arc. But we cannot pretend the capital is a sculpture garden.

The threats have repeatedly shown themselves to be real. Now the same town that put jersey barriers around every lawn now clutches pearls at a monument designed to watch the approaches. If the drawings put rifles in a frieze, make the brief public. If they put sensors in the crown, say so. Washington D.C. already lives behind bollards. Better a monument that works than another plaza that needs a truck barrier and a committee.

The President’s visionary leadership should not be obstructed. He is calling for the Arc and the Ballroom not just because they will be beautiful and additional reasons for Americans to be proud of their country. He wants these constructions to help Washington D.C. be safe.

These are not authoritarian measures. President Trump authorized national guard troops onto the Washington D.C. streets. What resulted was not jackbooted thugs intimidating people into submission. Instead, crime dropped precipitously. The administration policies have worked so we must continue to trust them. A fortified Arc will yield national benefits on multiple levels, and we must support its construction throughout the tedious lawfare process that the Left always must subject us to.

There has been a historic update in the investigation into Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man responsible for firing eight rounds from a semi-automatic AR-15-style rifle at President Donald Trump during his July 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump made a statement on the status of the investigation into Crook’s Butler assassination attempt last week that changes the entire outlook of the shooting.

The President wrote on his Truth Social feed that the Department of Justice, under former President Joe Biden and former FBI Director Christopher Wray, had largely deleted any information pertaining to Crooks or the assassination attempt before he took office in January of 2025.

The President wrote on his feed: “Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA. By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found! Why wasn’t it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said. GOD BLESS AMERICA, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

President Donald Trump’s statement reveals yet another one of the greatest political scandals of our time.

Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, working with elements of the Deep State and former FBI Director Christopher Wray moved to cover up an assassination attempt against their chief political rival. This revelation further raises questions as to the authenticity of Crooks, and who he may have been communicating with prior to the rally.

The President’s comments came just hours after documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that Thomas Matthew Crooks had his cremation paid for by an ‘anonymous donor’ after his parents refused to pay for his cremation for financial reasons.

That same report also revealed that Crooks had ordered his firearm through the mail, with pieces delivered to a ‘Bob Dole’ at his home address.

The Many Anomalies Of The Near-Assassination of President Donald Trump on July 13^th, 2024

I have been reporting on the anomalies surrounding the Crooks Assassination attempt since that fateful day in Butler, of which there are many.

Local officers (Beaver County Emergency Services Unit countersnipers) saw Crooks using a rangefinder and looking toward the stage before the rally in Butler began that day.

They photographed him and radioed/texted the concern. One contemporaneous message around 5:38 p.m. said he was “looking towards stage” with the device.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that Crooks flew a DJI drone over the area around 3:50–4:00 p.m. (roughly two hours before the shooting) for about 11 minutes, approximately 200 yards from the stage. He watched a live feed on the controller. The drone and controller were later recovered from his car.

Crowds pointed and shouted about a man on the roof for roughly two minutes before shots.

The AGR complex (the building Crooks used) was left outside the Secret Service secure perimeter despite known line-of-sight to the stage. No one from any agency was assigned to the roof. Local snipers inside the building thought the outer area and roofs were someone else’s job.

Video posted after shooting shows what appears to be Crooks shuffling on the roof prior to the shots being fired at President Donald Trump.

Approximately 22 seconds before Crooks fired, A Senate report found, a local officer sent a radio alert that there was an armed individual on the building.

But that information was not relayed to key Secret Service personnel who were interviewed by Senate investigators.

The Senate panel also interviewed a Secret Service counter-sniper who said that they saw officers with their guns drawn running toward the building where the shooter was perched, but the person said they did not think to notify anyone to get Trump off the stage.

Another troubling finding from the bipartisan Senate investigation was how technical issues downed Secret Service drones during the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The agent responsible for overseeing the Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) called a toll free 888 tech support hotline ‘to start troubleshooting with the company.’ There were no backups.

It took several hours to get the drones back up and running – and the agent responsible for the drone operations only had three months of experience with the equipment.

USSS denied specific on-the-ground requests for additional C-UAS drone capabilities and a Counter Assault Team liaison in Butler that day.

Investigators found that there was no clear chain of command among the Secret Service and other security agencies and no plan for coverage of the building where the shooter climbed up to fire the shots.

Officials were operating on multiple, separate radio channels, leading to missed communications, and an inexperienced drone operator was stuck on a help line after his equipment wasn’t working correctly.

Communications among security officials were a ‘multi-step game of telephone,’ Peters said.

Who Was Thomas Matthew Crooks? Investigation Reveals More Facts About The Shooter

Thomas Mattew Crooks was born to his parents, Matthew and Mary Crooks, on September 20^th, 2003 in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb.

He grew up in a modest family home in Bethel Park with his parents, Matthew and Mary Crooks, both licensed professional counselors. He had an older sister, Katherine.

He was often characterized as quiet, intelligent, and socially withdrawn. Reports mention limited disciplinary issues growing up.

Crooks attended local public schools, including Bethel Park High School. He graduated high school in 2022 with high honors.

He received a $500 “star award” from the National Math and Science Initiative and belonged to the National Technical Honor Society. He scored 1530 on the SAT, which is considered to be an incredibly high score.

Crooks earned an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County, graduating with high honors in May 2024.

He had planned to continue at Robert Morris University for mechanical engineering. The college reported no disciplinary issues in his records.

He worked as a dietary aide (kitchen/food-prep role) at Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a job he held for several years. Employers said he passed a background check and raised no concerns.

The trove of files includes FBI interviews with Thomas’ father, Matthew, who revealed he “never really had a father/son bond” with the gunman, and that his stoic son rarely expressed strong emotions, hardly laughed and was very difficult to read.

Thomas started getting into shooting and guns as a teenager, though he had little interest in the outdoorsman life, Matthew said he briefly took interest in hunting but said he couldn’t envision him actually killing an animal. He also “hated” fishing.

Matthew said his conversations with Thomas during this period were usually brief and gun-related, such as the then-teen wondering if “he would have to do a background check” to buy his dad’s Glock, a question he told investigators he considered “odd.”

He also asked if he could have his grandfather’s guns. Video has since surfaced of Crooks dry-firing a handgun in his bedroom.

CHILLING VIDEO OF THOMAS CROOKS SHOWS TRUMP SHOOTER PRACTICING WITH HANDGUN IN BEDROOM! pic.twitter.com/EOZpQUypWM

— Scott Adams (@scottadamsshow) November 14, 2025

Thomas started going to the gun club around the time of the pandemic and was a “terrible” shot — “he could not hit the paper [target],” Matthew told investigators, estimating it took 4-5 years of practice before he could even do that.

Eventually, with practice, Thomas became a better marksman, coming home with range targets showing off to his dad how well he did with a target placed over 100 yards away.

After he questioned his son about why he was “going out so far,” Thomas explained, “he wanted to see how far he could shoot with rudimentary sights.”

He found he was able to shoot even further distances after he bought a prism sight, eventually becoming “very knowledgeable” about how to measure and zero-in on a target, and knew exactly how many clicks it would take to change the specific angle on the sight.

As Thomas’ interest in guns grew, he started buying large numbers of Amazon packages, including “parts, tools and items to increase the capacity of his rifle.”

He took to using the pseudonym “Bob Dole” for his delivery address, a bit of misguided paranoia he picked up after his father’s Citizens Bank checking account was hacked and several fraudulent BetMGM charges were made on his account.

Matthew said Thomas believed if one were to purchase items under a pseudonym, such as the ex-GOP presidential candidate’s moniker, the buyer could never be hacked. The father explained that wasn’t how it worked, and that even under an assumed name for deliveries, the charge is still being made to a bank account under his name.

He also coached Matthew how to use identity-obscuring software like CyberGhost VPN and the Bravenet Browser — which Thomas would argue made them “less likely to be compromised by outside actors.”

Matthew further recalled Thomas using multiple different, privacy-focused encrypted email providers, including GMX and Mailfence.

It was around this time Thomas obtained a 3D printer, and once brought home a large container of an unknown substance he claimed was needed to clean it.

Matthew said he once tried to fashion his own handgun, which nearly ended in disaster.

“Using carbon fiber plastic, a dryer and a toaster oven, Thomas did once create a Glock 19,” Matthew told investigators.

But he said after he discharged a single round from it, he feared the frame would explode, and would not allow Thomas to use it.

From all angles, Crooks appears to be a lonely individual who was coaxed into committing political violence by somebody, yet no accomplice has yet to be revealed. Despite the fact that authorities flagged Crooks as a ‘suspicious person’ who was communicating on his phone and ‘not paying attention to the rally’ on the day of the shooting.

Reports claim that Crooks purchased the ammunition he would use during the attack that very morning, just before coming to the site of the rally to do his drone surveillance.

The documents revealed through the Senate Judiciary Committee reveal the similarities between Crooks and Lee Harvey Oswald, along with other political assassins throughout modern history. A lone gunman, acting without collaboroation.

As you can see through my New York Times Best-Selling book The Man Who Killed Kennedy, the evidence shows that Oswald collaborated with many different groups prior to the assassination of JFK, and that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the most to gain from Kennedy’s assassination. I lay out the facts in that work, which you can find at Barnes and Noble, online, or really any bookstore.

That leads us to the obvious question about Butler, given the time it happened, the effect Donald Trump’s potential assassination would have had on the 2024 election, and the impact it would have had on the psyche of the American people, who had the most to gain from a potential assassination that day?

Given the failures of our own government agencies, who at the time were under the direction of President Joe Biden, who also covered up the evidence surrounding Crooks prior to his leaving office, we are left wondering If the Democrat Party was complicit in this assassination attempt, or perhaps the very “Deep State” President Donald Trump has spent his entire political career fighting against.

There needs to be a full investigation into the DOJ officials who handled this case prior to President Donald Trump taking office.

We must get to the bottom of who exactly worked to cover-up facts surrounding this assassination attempt, and bring them to justice. The time to act is now.

The Eerie Similarities Between Lee Harvey Oswald and Thomas Matthew Crooks

When examining the scenarios which led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks in 2024, the similarities are impossible to ignore.

Crooks ordered over 25 gun accessories and parts to his home address using an alias, fearing that his identity would be exposed. Lee Harvey Oswald ordered his rife through the mail, using the alias “A. Hidell” / “Alek Hidell.”

Both Oswald and Crooks were young men in their early 20s from relatively ordinary backgrounds who were described by many who knew them as quiet, socially isolated, or hard to read.

Each killed at least one bystander in addition to wounding the intended target. Neither left a clear manifesto. Investigators in both cases struggled to pin down a single, coherent motive.

Both showed mixed or contradictory political signals.

Both men took action to kill the most important political figure of their time, one successfully, and another unsuccessfully.

The government has also worked to obscure evidence surrounding both alleged shooters, classifying documents to ensure secrecy.

Over two years after the near-assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and we know no more about Thomas Crooks today than we did they day that he fired the shot.

Who was Crooks communicating with in Butler that day? Why was he able to fly a drone around the site of the rally with Secret Service present, unable to fly their own drones for surveillance?

Why was the AGR building, from which Crooks took his shots, left unattended by Secret Service despite the fact that it was well-within the range which requires rooftop surveillance?

Why did law enforcement act so slowly, even as people screamed and warned of a shooter minutes before Crooks ever fired a single bullet?

We don’t have an honest set of facts when it comes to Butler shooting. That much is clear.

What did Joe Biden, Christopher Wray, and others in government fear being revealed in the Crooks investigation?

Why did they move to delete this crucial, relevant, and historical evidence before President Donald Trump took office?

There must be a complete investigation into the deletion of this information. The American people deserve the truth.

Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from Vermont, and Rep. Mark Takano are back with the same idea they have shopped for years. Their proposed legislation, the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, would rewrite federal overtime law so 32 hours counts as a full week, with no cut in pay. Takano introduced the House bill, H.R. 10323, on Sept. 8. It does not ban a 40-hour week. It makes hours 33 through 40 overtime, then keeps going.

This is not their first time at the rodeo with this topic. Takano first dropped a 32-hour bill in 2021 and again in 2023. Sanders ran a Senate version in 2024 and used a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to sell it. The New York Post covered that last run on March 14, 2024, as a push for a 32-hour week with no loss in pay, the same overtime rewrite now being refiled.

The press release leaves out the phase-in. Signing the bill would not cut the workweek that day. The first change could not begin until at least 180 days later. Overtime would then apply after 38 hours in the first year of that window, 36 in the second, and 34 in the third. Only after that third year would the threshold fall to 32 hours. A covered employee still working 40 hours a week would then be owed eight hours of time-and-a-half.

The bill also writes daily overtime into the Fair Labor Standards Act: time and a half after eight hours in a day, double time after 12. California and a few other states already do that. Most of the country does not. Employers can still ask for the extra hours. They just pay more for them. They also cannot cut weekly pay or benefits because the legal week got shorter. Newsweek laid out the mechanics.

If a shop still needs 40 hours of coverage, the worker keeps the old weekly check and collects overtime on hours 33 through 40. Same hours. Higher payroll. Or the employer hires more people, or it shortens the schedule and lives with less coverage.

The bill only reaches workers the FLSA already treats as nonexempt: mostly people who punch a clock, plus some salaried staff who fail the exemption tests. Executive, administrative, and professional employees who meet those tests stay outside the rule. So do independent contractors. A restaurant, a plant, a hospital, or a warehouse that runs on hourly labor takes the cost. A salaried office does not, unless those workers are already owed overtime.

Sanders calls a 32-hour week “not a radical idea.” He says AI and robots will throw off huge gains and those gains should not stop with “a handful of billionaires.” He also repeats the line about nearly $80 trillion moving from the bottom 90% to the top 1 percent, a talking point he has used for years, not a score of this statute. The bill text itself does not mention AI.

Takano says work has changed and the labor statute has not. Unions backing it include the AFL-CIO, SEIU, UAW, National Nurses United, the flight attendants, and UFCW. House cosponsors at introduction were Pramila Jayapal, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Lou Correa, and Delia Ramirez.

The last time Congress shortened the federal week, it phased the overtime line down from 44 hours to 40 by 1940. USA Today noted what everyone in the building already knows. Republicans control the House and Senate, so the bill is going to the Education and Workforce Committee to sit.

Sen. Bill Cassidy made that case at the 2024 hearing. “It would kill jobs and increase inflation,” he said, as reported by the New York Post.

A four-day week a company chooses is one thing. Federal law already allows that. A four-day overtime trigger forced on every covered employer is another. Until a Republican Congress decides American shops should pay time and a half starting Thursday afternoon, 40 hours is still the week.