Country musician Brian Kelley in July released a single on streaming platforms titled “Make America Great Again” after his performance at the 2024 Republican National Convention, which came less than a week after the assassination attempt on GOP presidential nominee former President Trump.

Since the launch of the song, Kelley says he has been keeping a watchful eye on Big Tech censorship and trusts that the lack of viewership doesn’t add up.

“I thought it was kind of strange,” Kelley told Fox News Digital of the missing “share” button on Apple Music streaming services.

The Florida native said he tagged Apple Music on his social media posts, and within a day or two, the issue was reconciled.

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“Maybe it was a bug. Maybe it was something else, but it shouldn’t be that hard to just utilize the same tools that I’ve been utilizing with other songs,” Kelley said.

When Amazon Alexa was asked to “play Brian Kelley” by his band members’ wives, Kelley said the cloud-based voice service instead played Brian McKnight.

“I love Brian McKnight,” Kelley said. “He’s great, but it’s just those things that are really, really interesting where it makes you think, it makes you wonder.”

Regarding Instagram, Kelley said the positive comments supporting the song are hidden.

“I’ve never really had that problem,” Kelley said.

The “See You Next Summer” singer said he received a number of comments from fans relaying their inability to share “Make America Great Again” on their platforms.

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Instagram did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital when asked for comment.

“At the end of the day, this is nothing new,” Kelley said. “This is somewhat expected at this point when it comes to Big Tech censorship.”

Kelley called out Google regarding the missing results from the search engine giant’s auto-complete feature surrounding the assassination attempt on Trump in late July. Google denied manually tampering with the results to FOX Business at the time.

“We just have to be louder, and we just can’t back down,” Kelley said. “We have to continue to get our message out there. We have to continue to fight. We have to not be afraid to speak our minds and stand for what we believe in and stand on our truth.”

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Kelley performed at the 2024 Republican National Convention. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

With regard to Spotify, Kelley said his song did not appear on playlists dedicated to new releases of the week.

“They’re not going to advertise it,” Kelley said of Spotify. “They’re not going to put it out front.”

However, Kelley granted that Spotify has been “good” to him and promoted new music, including “Acres,” “Kiss My Boots” and “Dirt Road Date Night,” which were all playlisted.

A source close to Spotify told Fox News Digital that the song “isn’t censored” and, in order to be, it would have broken rules and been removed entirely from the platform.

“Even though it’s not on a playlist and a playlist that the artist would have liked, that doesn’t mean that it’s censored,” the source said. “Anybody can find the song at any point.”

Kelley told Fox News Digital he is writing and recording new songs quickly in anticipation of new music this fall. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Spotify declined to comment when Fox News Digital reached out.

While Kelley feels quieted, he expressed his gratitude to Trump for posting the music to both Truth Social and Instagram.

“Right before he posted on Truth Social, he sent through my production manager a text message,” Kelley said. “It was a really, really sweet message. It was amazing. It felt great. It felt unreal.”

Kelley added that he’s heard through Trump’s circle of friends and staff members that the GOP presidential nominee has been “blasting it” on repeat.

“See You Next Summer” singer Kelley is an outspoken Republican and thanks other country musicians like John Rich and Jason Aldean for paving the way for political music.

The country music veteran bid a thank-you to other musicians like Jason Aldean, Kid Rock and John Rich for forging an evolutionary path for other artists to be unapologetic of music that is “a little bit political.”

“To see Jason, who’s really outspoken, loves this country, loves our military,” Kelley said, “it’s those guys who have helped open the door for some of us to walk in a little easier.”

A small town in Mississippi is mourning after a police officer was killed, and two others were wounded in a shooting. 

According to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, the shooting happened when officers with the Summit Police Department were performing their duties at a traffic checkpoint. 

During the interaction, a car approached, and a passenger fired a gun at the officers, hitting and killing one of them and injuring two others.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves identified the fallen officer as Summit Police Department Patrolman Troy Floyd.

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Reeves said that Floyd “was killed today by a criminal, while heroically performing his duties as a law enforcement officer.”

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McComb Police Department Officers Tyler Harvey and Joey Roberts were shot and sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the shooting, Reeves said.

The suspected gunman has been killed, authorities said. 

The two other officers received non-life-threatening injuries and the suspect was killed. (Summit Police Department)

Reeves offered his condolences to Officer Floyd’s family and friends, saying that law enforcement “represent the very best of Mississippi.”

“Please join Elee and me in praying for Patrolman Floyd, for his family, his brothers and sisters in blue, and for the Summit Police Department,” he wrote in a X post. “Please also pray for a quick recovery for Officers Harvey and Roberts.  Our men and women of law enforcement represent the very best of Mississippi.”

“All of Mississippi stands with them as we honor and mourn this hero who has been taken from us too soon,” he said.

The shooting is under investigation by agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI).

Summit has a population of approximately 1,460 people and is about 75 miles south of the state’s capital, Jackson.

American families have faced painful financial difficulties the last few years, and a continuous concern of many families is a struggle to access high-quality, affordable child care.

We represent Virginia and Alabama in the U.S. Senate, and parents across both our states have repeatedly expressed frustration with the impediments to finding the care they need for their kids. 

More than half of all American families live in child care deserts. Many parents are forced to place their names on long wait lists. If they are lucky enough to get off a list, they face the daunting challenge of figuring out how they’ll actually pay for care.

The national average price of child care was $11,582 in 2023. In Virginia, families pay some of the highest costs of child care in the country, with the average annual price of center-based infant care exceeding $15,000 in 2022. In both of our states – Virginia and Alabama – child care costs for two young children are more than what the average family spends on housing. This is, unfortunately, the norm across the country.

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Exacerbating accessibility and affordability hurdles for families is the fact that 100,000 child care workers left the profession during the pandemic, with the child care sector shrinking 9.7% between February 2020 and September 2022. Even with the high cost of child care, the median wage for a child care worker is just under $15 per hour.

In a hot job market, many child care staff understandably leave jobs they love for higher pay outside the child care sector because they cannot otherwise pay their bills. The struggle to maintain staff in the child care sector has led to fewer options for parents.

The impact of the child care crisis does not end with families. It affects our country’s economic growth. A 2023 report found that the U.S. child care crisis has an economic toll of $122 billion in lost earnings, productivity and revenue every year. Tens of thousands of people miss work every month due to child care issues. 

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A 2023 study estimated the annual economic impact of the infant-toddler child care crisis on Virginia was over $3.1 billion in lost earnings, productivity and revenue. A 2021 study found that 64% of Alabama parents with a young child worked fewer hours due to a lack of adequate child care, and approximately one in five parents missed work that year due to child care challenges – the highest rate in the nation.

While Congress has passed legislation to help alleviate the child care crisis coming out of the pandemic, we still have work to do in order to create a long-term solution to help American families. That’s why we are joining together to introduce a bold bipartisan proposal to help working families access and afford high-quality child care and boost supply.

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Our proposal is twofold. The Child Care Workforce Act works to build supply. Our bill incentivizes child care workers and providers to stay in the industry by creating a competitive grant program for states, localities and tribes interested in adopting or expanding pay programs for child care workers. This additional pay will provide a boost for workers who want to stay in the industry but are currently priced out. 

For parents and families, we are creating several pathways to reduce cost. Through the Child Care Availability and Affordability Act we are increasing the size of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, expanding access to more low- and middle-income families, allowing families to deduct 50% more in expenses via the Dependent Care Assistance Program, and increasing the maximum Employer-Provided Child Care Tax Credit to incentivize businesses to provide child care to employees – while retooling the credit to allow Main Street small businesses to participate. 

Together, these measures would lower the cost of child care for families, expand the choices parents have, encourage businesses to support child care supply, and get more resources to child care providers and to the child care workforce. 

While we continue to debate the future of federal child care policy, it is critical we find a path forward on actionable common ground solutions to make sure kids have safe, enriching places to learn and grow, child care workers are supported, and parents can participate in the workforce. 

Doing nothing is not an option. It’s time for bold, bipartisan action now.

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Republican Katie Britt represents Alabama in the U.S. Senate.