Articles by Fred Lucas

LawNews

What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech

Fred Lucas | March 14, 2025

President Donald Trump said the Justice Department is “turning the page on four long years of corruption and weaponization.”  Trump spoke Friday when delivering remarks… Read More

PoliticsNews

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

Fred Lucas | March 12, 2025

Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on… Read More

InternationalNews

Concrete Climate Action? Rainforest Paved for Global Elite Global Warming Gathering

Fred Lucas | March 12, 2025

In preparation for an international climate summit this fall, Brazilian state officials are clearing tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest to complete… Read More

PoliticsNews

Inspector General Could Probe $6B in Tax Dollars Fueling Immigration Crisis

Fred Lucas | March 12, 2025

The government should investigate how $6 billion in tax dollars funded the nongovernmental organizations to move illegal immigrants across the country, Mike Howell, executive director… Read More

PoliticsNews

EXCLUSIVE: As DOGE Targets Spending, 2 State Attorneys General Groups Seek to Protect Foreign Grants

Fred Lucas | March 10, 2025

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Department of Government Efficiency continues to flag unusual federal government expenditures, state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration… Read More

PoliticsNews

Countdown to Shutdown? Trump Backs Spending Deal, Dems Opposed

Fred Lucas | March 09, 2025

Despite President Donald Trump urging Republicans to unite behind a continuing resolution spending proposal to keep the government open, some GOP lawmakers expressed skepticism Sunday,… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Trump Justice Department Could Enforce Expiration Date for Mail-In Ballots

Fred Lucas | March 07, 2025

A new Trump administration Justice Department could enforce a federal court’s ruling requiring only ballots arriving on or before Election Day to be counted, voter… Read More

PoliticsNews

‘Off the Hook’: SEC Sides With Major Bank on Government Weaponization Inquiry

Fred Lucas | March 06, 2025

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Bank of America will not conduct a review regarding customer data policies highlighted by a congressional investigation on weaponization of government,… Read More

PoliticsNews

‘Surveillance State’: Bill Would Tackle Government Collection of Investor Data

Fred Lucas | March 06, 2025

Republicans in Congress are pushing back on what some consider another front on the surveillance state—in this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s collection of… Read More

PoliticsNews

‘Very Effective’: GOP Senators Talk About DOGE

Fred Lucas | March 05, 2025

Canceling federal contracts and grants are real savings that can be done at the executive level through the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency, some… Read More

PoliticsNews

Tuberville: Democrats’ Transgender Sports Move Proves They Learned Nothing From 2024

Fred Lucas | March 05, 2025

Democrats proved they learned nothing from the 2024 election by unanimously blocking a bill to keep biological men from playing women’s sports—countering the views of… Read More

 PoliticsCommentary

13 Winners and Losers From Trump’s Address to Congress

Fred Lucas | March 04, 2025

President Donald Trump turned his joint address to Congress into a rally Tuesday night, declaring “America is back,” and connecting the vigorous actions taken in… Read More

PoliticsNews

10 Takeaways From Trump’s Congressional Address

Fred Lucas | March 04, 2025

Heckling Democrat lawmakers brandishing canes and signs couldn’t stop President Donald Trump from showing off his efforts to “renew the American dream” for every citizen. … Read More

 PoliticsNews

Biden-Pardoned Jan. 6 Committee Members Can’t Likely Invoke Fifth Amendment

Fred Lucas | March 03, 2025

After a congressional report alleged that Jan. 6 Committee members deleted documents and tampered with a witness, outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned every member. But… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Lawmakers Look to Work With Musk to Codify Into Law DOGE’s Efforts to Rein in Bureaucracy

Fred Lucas | February 28, 2025

Legislation in the U.S. House and Senate to rein in the federal bureaucracy and allow poor performers to be fired or disciplined would “codify” the… Read More

InternationalNews

Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake Also Named Adviser to Global Media Agency

Fred Lucas | February 28, 2025

Kari Lake, who is President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Voice of America, will become a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global… Read More

LawNews

Money Trails and Backgrounds of 10 Democrat-Appointed Judges Blocking Trump Policies

Fred Lucas | February 27, 2025

Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. Some were previously activists, others… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Germany—Like Most Democracies—Counted Votes on Election Night. Why Can’t the US Do the Same?

Fred Lucas | February 26, 2025

Germany’s election this week marked another reminder that most industrialized democratic countries tend to call the results of their elections on election night, unlike the… Read More

EconomyNews

5 Big Controversies Facing the Fed’s ‘Consumer Watchdog’ Agency as DOGE Eyes Its End

Fred Lucas | February 25, 2025

Democrats and the media—along with federal employee unions—have rallied around the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that has been in the sights of the… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Government Watchdog’s Waste List Buttresses Trump Complaints About FEMA, Telework

Fred Lucas | February 25, 2025

Improper payments, empty federal buildings, and fragmented disaster response are among the key drivers of waste and inefficiency in the federal government, according to the… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Comer: DOGE Follows GAO in ‘Identifying Trillions of Dollars Lost’

Fred Lucas | February 24, 2025

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Trump administration is homing in on how trillions of tax dollars are being misspent, the Government Accountability Office is… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Deep State Accountability? GOP Lawmakers Push Measure Amid DOGE Audits

Fred Lucas | February 21, 2025

As the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency duel with bureaucrats over waste, House and Senate Republicans are pushing reforms to hold entrenched… Read More

PoliticsNews

Kari Lake: Voice of America Winning ‘Information War’ Can Stop Trillion-Dollar Wars

Fred Lucas | February 21, 2025

Kari Lake blasted the legacy media Friday but vowed a “golden age in journalism” as President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Voice of America. … Read More

 PoliticsNews

After Censorship Scandal, Are CISA Staffers Off the Hook After 130 Were Fired?

Fred Lucas | February 21, 2025

The firing of federal bureaucrats from an agency a congressional panel accused of engaging in a broad censorship effort may be too light a punishment,… Read More

PoliticsNews

Nigel Farage Draws Inspiration From Trump to ‘Make Britain Great Again’ in UK Elections

Fred Lucas | February 20, 2025

Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit effort and a member of the United Kingdom Parliament, predicted his country would follow the trend of the U.S…. Read More

SecurityNews

Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

Fred Lucas | February 20, 2025

The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to become FBI director today on a narrow vote of 51-49. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski… Read More

PoliticsNews

‘Utter Fabrication’: What One Former FAA Chief Says About Media’s Claim About Elon Musk and Air Safety

Fred Lucas | February 19, 2025

A former Federal Aviation Administration chief said Wednesday that it’s a “complete and utter fabrication” that entrepreneur Elon Musk forced out the head of the… Read More

 SecurityNews

‘Trump Effect’: Illegal Border Crossings Could Be on Track to Hit Near 50-Year Low

Fred Lucas | February 18, 2025

The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the… Read More

PoliticsNews

EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Governors Arranged Meeting With Biden White House to Thwart Trump Agenda, Emails Show

Fred Lucas | February 17, 2025

White House officials under outgoing President Joe Biden may have colluded with staffers representing a coalition of Democrat governors planning to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s… Read More

 PoliticsNews

Fact-Checking the Left’s New Attack: SAVE Act Stops Married Women From Voting

Fred Lucas | February 14, 2025

Legacy media outlets and liberal interest groups have recently claimed that a proposal requiring proof of citizenship to vote could actually prevent married women citizens… Read More