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    Trump’s Health Revolution Is Moving Faster Than Washington Expected

    “Make America Healthy Again.” That simple slogan might sound difficult to disagree with, but President Donald Trump’s critics always find a way.   Yet Trump is delivering on its promise.   This month, his administration struck a deal with the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager to bring $7 billion in cost savings on prescription drugs to the American people over the next 10 years.   Then, that same week, the president launched Trump Rx, an online portal to ensure…
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    The Elephants in the Room at Trump’s SOTU

    During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump will celebrate his first year in office and lay out a vision for the next three in front of a Congress stuck in a partisan stalemate on multiple issues. In Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s invitation to Trump, he appeared to anticipate an optimistic…
    George Caldwell
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    Voter ID Is Perfectly Normal Worldwide

    Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York relentlessly smears the GOP-sponsored SAVE Act as “Jim Crow 2.0.” This bill requires that citizens show photo ID to vote in federal elections. Schumer mendaciously decries this as the Republicans’ freshest flavor of hate, aimed chiefly at blacks. The GOP, Schumer insinuates, stole this idea from Bull Connor,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Laken Riley’s Mother Gives Emotional Message to Trump

    The mother of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant in 2024, thanked President Donald Trump for honoring her daughter. “You have said, from the beginning, literally the day after this happened, that you would not forget about Laken,” Allyson Phillips said on Monday at the White House. “You weren’t…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Transparency in Coverage Can Help American Mothers Now, Not Later

    American families have long made the commonsense argument that we must know the price of health care before we receive it. Nowhere is the lack of price transparency more evident than in childbirth, and the months leading up to it, where millions of women and families make life-altering medical decisions without any clear understanding of what those…
    Alleigh Marré
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    Markets Offer Unusual Bets on State of the Union

    Ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, online prediction markets are offering bets on a host of questions. Prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket, have exploded in popularity in recent years, raising legal and regulatory questions. Here are some of the unusual wagers these services are offering when Trump takes the…
    George Caldwell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Johnson Reveals State of the Union Special Guest

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will bring pro-life advocate Pastor Damon Magee, of Shreveport, Louisiana’s Kings Temple UPC, as a special guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “I am honored to welcome Damon Magee to the U.S. Capitol as my guest for the president’s…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Noem Uses Unique Tool to Pressure Democrats on DHS Funding Deal 

    President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced that, effective Sunday, members of Congress will no longer receive courtesy escorts to their flights at U.S. airports during the partial government shutdown. “Shutdowns have real-world consequences,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees the Transportation Security Administration, which provides the escorts. “The American people…
    Virginia Allen
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    Judge Slams Jack Smith, Blocks His Report on Trump

    A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked the Justice Department from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.  Smith’s report was set to become public on Tuesday without the court order. Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida had dismissed the classified documents case…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Media Lie About Trans Shooters

    We just saw another tragic shooting in Rhode Island, this time at a high school hockey game. What people want to know in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies is who did it, where, and why—and how many people were injured or died. We instinctively want to know how close it was to us, if…
    Simon Hankinson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Celebrates Milestone in Serving Veterans

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—For the first time in nearly six years, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that the backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims is consistently below 100,000.  The VA has not reached this milestone since May 2020. It reported an average backlog of more than 200,000 claims from 2021 to 2024….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Judicial Tyranny Is a Threat to the Rule of Law

    Just because someone is wearing a black robe doesn’t mean they’re upholding the rule of law. Consider some recent judicial rulings. Last November, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem published a notice ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Leave aside the merits of that decision. The law is clear that this decision belongs to…
    Victor Joecks
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    As Lawsuits Multiply, Transgender Reversal Movement Gains Momentum

    Lawsuits filed by young people who were permanently disfigured by procedures attempting to reassign gender are multiplying, and more and more professional medical associations are backing away from endorsing the procedures for minors. Experts like Walt Heyer, who formerly spent eight years living a transgender lifestyle, say it’s just the beginning of a burgeoning movement….
    Dan Hart
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    Trans Lawmaker Wants You to Believe Porn Sites Are ‘Educational’ for ‘Queer Kids’

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke claimed during a Thursday hearing that pornography could be “educational” for “queer” children while arguing against a law requiring age verification to access adult web sites. The legislation HF 1434, would require age verification for sites deemed “harmful to minors,” with sites failing to do so…
    Harold Hutchison
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    ‘Tonight Was All for the Country’: USA Defeats Rival Canada for Olympic Hockey Gold

    MILAN, Feb 22 (Reuters) — The United States ended a nearly half-century wait for Olympic men’s ice hockey gold with a 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in a thrilling final on Sunday, with Jack Hughes delivering their third title and first since 1980 with the winning shot. Hughes left it all—including at least one of…
    Trevor Stynes
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    More States Moving to Close Election Funding Loophole Few Voters Knew Existed

    As many as two dozen states could enact legislation this year to ban foreign funding of ballot measures, a trend that gained bipartisan support last year.  This follows nine states that have already enacted bans in the last 18 months.  While it’s already illegal for foreign nationals or foreign entities to contribute to candidates, ballot…
    Fred Lucas
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    Scott Bessent Lays Out Future of Trump’s Tariffs, Trade Deals

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that revenue from tariffs would not drop, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling against the authority President Donald Trump’ invoked to levy his “Liberation Day” tariffs. The high court decided Trump exceeded his powers under the International Emergency Economic…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Obama Has No Business Lecturing Anybody About Decency

    In a recent interview with “No Lie” podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, former President Barack Obama claimed that conservatives do “the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That’s their home court. Our court is coming together.” This is a jaw-dropping contention coming from a man who began his presidential aspirations accusing Americans who refused to embrace…
    David Harsanyi
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    How Trump Should Respond to Political Violence in the State of the Union

    President Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term this week, and his speech will set the priorities of his administration and much of the Republican Party in this tumultuous midterm election year, already plagued by political violence. The speech comes amid rising tensions abroad, cultural divisions at…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Small Government vs. Big Crisis: The Conservative Dilemma 

    “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” said Founding Father James Madison, describing checks and balances in a nutshell. More than two centuries later, the scale is tipping. Executive power has grown dramatically and risks blurring the Founder’s vision of America.  The conservative movement faces a paradox: holding to the values of limited government while responding quickly to crises, which…
    Reagan Campbell
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