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    White House Gives Message to Democrats as TSA Officers Work Without Pay
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had a message for Democrats who voted against reopening the Department of Homeland Security during a 40-day shutdown. “For the Democrats in Congress, the cruelty of this shutdown is the point,” Leavitt said. At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, she told the story of a father of three who…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Budget Chairs Push Reconciliation 2.0. Can It Get Off the Ground?
    Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says a party-line budget bill could enact major conservative legislative goals, from funding the Department of Homeland Security to requiring photo identification in elections. But does his ambitious plan have buy-in from the House conservatives whose support it needs to pass? “The Senate [Budget] Committee will expeditiously move toward creating a…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Administration Makes Faith Central in Strategy to Combat Illicit Drugs  
    Faith is a central part of the Trump administration’s national drug control strategy set to be unveiled in May, according to U.S. drug czar Sara Carter. “We’re working with churches, with faith-based communities, with faith-based networks that operate and have already worked with so many of their parishioners in recovery programs,” Carter told The Daily…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Social Security Penalty Could Be Eliminated Under Rick Scott’s New Bill
    A Senate Republican aims to “keep” the “aging community out of poverty” by introducing legislation on Wednesday that would allow Social Security recipients to be able to seek additional income and employment. The Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act, authored by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., would repeal “outdated” provisions, such as the Retirement Earnings Test,…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    EXCLUSIVE: Poll Finds Virginia Voters Reject Democrats’ Redistricting Push
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Democrats are attempting to redraw the Virginia congressional map to put four of the commonwealth’s five Republican-held seats in their hands. However, new polling finds that Virginia voters, across party lines, largely oppose their efforts.   The Daily Signal obtained a Heritage Action poll that found that 70% of Virginia Democrat voters think that electoral maps favoring one political party should not be allowed. However, Democrats in the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Democrats Are Back to ‘Defund the Police,’ GOP Leadership Claims
    House Republican leadership says Democrat politics bears some of the blame for the murder of an 18-year-old university student in Chicago. Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University, was murdered by Jose Medina, an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the country in 2023 and was released by law enforcement shortly after. Medina was then…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    WATCH: Colombia’s Sweet Strategy to Defeat the Cocaine Trade  
    MIAMI—Colombian officials are working to eliminate the nation’s illicit cocaine trade and replace it with chocolate. “We say to the world, ‘Please buy cocoa, not coca,’” Defense Minister Pedro Arnulfo Sanchez told The Daily Signal at the Miami Security Forum. Thousands of acres of farmland in Colombia have been converted from growing coca crops, the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Vance Anti-Fraud Effort Adds Major Enforcer
    The Senate confirmed an experienced federal prosecutor, Colin McDonald, Tuesday afternoon to act as the Justice Department’s anti-fraud division lead. In a party-line vote, McDonald was confirmed 52-47 to be the first assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement at the DOJ. McDonald will work with Vice President JD Vance, whom President Donald Trump named the White House “fraud czar” to lead a new task force…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Proposed ‘Trump Wildlife Preserve’ Draws Strong Reactions
    A wildlife preserve in Ohio could be the latest government-run facility to bear the president’s name, but not in the way one might expect. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently unveiled a proposed rule to rename the “Charles O. Trump Wildlife Preserve” to the “Trump Wildlife Preserve.” The 128-acre area located in Pickaway County…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Consent Decree Marks Final Defeat of ‘Orwellian’ Biden ‘Censorship Regime’
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal health agencies and the White House under President Joe Biden pressured social media companies to censor speech that contradicted the federal government’s narrative, but two Republican attorneys general secured a consent decree Tuesday that will prevent the government from returning to that “Orwellian” strategy. “It was absolutely Orwellian,” Louisiana Attorney…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Demands More From NATO as Gulf States ‘Hit So Hard’ 
    President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his call for more NATO assistance in the Middle East.  When asked by The Daily Signal’s White House Correspondent Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell if he wanted the Gulf States to be more involved in the ongoing operation against Iran, Trump said, “A little bit, but more—more NATO.”   “I think our Gulf allies have been pretty good, to be honest with…
    Reagan Campbell
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    South Carolina Lawmakers Must Protect Parent Rights. Here’s What Families Need to Know.
    It happened again: A parent, this one in South Carolina, has accused teachers at her child’s school of hiding information about him from his family. Fortunately, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to protect parents from educators who insert a wedge between them and their children. Members of the state’s House of Representatives have advanced…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    White House Reveals New Strategy to Require Voter ID
    The Trump administration wants to use the process of reconciliation to move the SAVE America Act through the Senate, new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said in response to a question from The Daily Signal.  “There’s a framework that we can do through reconciliation, paying for, putting some of the policies that cost money…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pesticides and the Fight for America’s Health
    “You cannot have human health until you first have soil health,” says Rick Clark, a fifth-generation regenerative farmer.  Clark joined public health and public policy experts Monday at The Heritage Foundation to discuss “Feeding America Safely: A Practical Path Forward on Pesticides.”  The discussion focused on the importance of openness and transparency, the negative effects of pesticide residues in…
    Paul Nguyen
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The New Democratic Party
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson. For all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party, at least as we’ve known it for 50 to 100 years….
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base
    Ahead of the 2026 midterms, polling from a critical swing state found that President Donald Trump is retaining a vast majority of his voting base. A new League of American Workers survey showed that 85% of Wisconsin voters who voted for Trump in 2024 remain favorable of the president after he announced the commencement of…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Republicans Pitch Trump on Funding All of DHS But Deportations
    A group of Republican senators is pitching President Donald Trump on a plan to fund part of the currently shutdown Department of Homeland Security, while allowing for a future party-line budget bill to cover deportations later. Republicans already acceded to Democrat demands in February, when they agreed to separate the DHS funding bill from a…
    George Caldwell
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    Pentagon to Deploy 82nd Airborne to Middle East  
    The Pentagon is expected to send a combat team from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to multiple reports.   The elite 82nd Airborne Division is known for its rapid deployment, and “secures key objectives for follow-on military operations in support of U.S. national interests,” the Army states.   The move follows…
    Virginia Allen
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    Champagne Socialists Descend on Cuba to Virtue Signal Solidarity With Tyrants
    The sputtering Castro-ist regime in Cuba has managed to stick to its communist roots. It’s doing this by ensuring that while everyone is “equal,” foreign stooges and social influencers willing to spread propaganda for the regime are treated more equally than others. That’s a time-honored, socialist tradition. Over the weekend a junket of various activists…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Democrat Governor Celebrates Ramadan at Hamas-Linked Mosque
    New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, celebrated Ramadan at a mosque whose co-founder was convicted of funneling money to Hamas and with an imam who faced deportation proceedings over alleged Hamas ties. This imam also called for a “new intifada.” “Thank you to the Islamic Center of Passaic County for welcoming me to join…
    Tyler O’Neil
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