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    18 States Now Allowed to Restrict Food Stamp Usage on Junk Food

    Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday that she has granted waivers to six additional states, allowing them to prevent the use of food stamps to purchase certain items, like soft drinks and candy. “President [Donald] Trump has made it clear: we are restoring SNAP to its true purpose – nutrition. Under the MAHA initiative, we are taking bold,…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    The Navy Declares War on Bureaucratic Inefficiency

    The U.S. Navy publicly launched its new Rapid Capabilities Office, which is designed to improve the critical capabilities procurement process in a bid to ensure American maritime dominance into the next century. At the kickoff event hosted at the Capital Turnaround in Washington on Tuesday, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan explained that the new…
    Jacob Adams
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    Trump Backs GOP Alternative to Obamacare Subsidies

    President Donald Trump signaled his support Tuesday for a Republican alternative to the pandemic-era extra Obamacare subsidies Democrats championed during the government shutdown earlier this year. “Well, I like the concept,” the president said when asked about the bill, which Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., unveiled Monday. “I don’t want to give…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Bombshell Government Report Shows Data on Obamacare Fraud, Inefficiency

    As Congress debates whether to extend Obamacare premium tax credits, a new report from the Government Accountability Office reveals the subsidies are prone to fraud and sometimes go to dead people. The office, which is funded by Congress, revealed on Dec. 3 that the Obamacare marketplace “initially approved coverage for 19 of our 20 fictitious…
    George Caldwell
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    Judge Says Trump Must End National Guard Deployment in Los Angeles 

    A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state’s Democratic governor, finding that the Republican president had exceeded his authority. “Today’s ruling is unmistakably clear: the federalization of the California National Guard…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    DOJ Drops ‘Disparate Impact’ Standard in Civil Rights Law. It’s a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law.

    The Trump administration is conducting a profound revolution in civil rights law. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced that it is ending the use of disparate impact in enforcement of Title VI under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is a huge deal. “The prior ‘disparate impact’ regulations encouraged people…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    EXCLUSIVE: Husted Campaign Grassroots Effort

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, has announced a grassroots effort to blanket the Buckeye State ahead of next year’s special election. On Wednesday, Husted released a list of 112 grassroots campaign chairs to encompass all 88 counties across the state. An effective grassroots operation for Husted and other Republican candidates in Ohio…
    Rebecca Downs
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    ‘They Always Have a Hoax’: Trump Kicks Off Affordability Tour in Pennsylvania

    On the first stop of President Donald Trump’s affordability tour, he said making America affordable is his highest priority, while again calling the term a Democrat hoax. “I have no higher priority than making America affordable again,” Trump said. “That’s what we’re going to do. And again, [Democrats] cause the high prices and we’re bringing…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Urged to Make Reforms to Lower Health Care Costs

    A national grassroots nonprofit is urging President Donald Trump to take “swift action” on a policy that it believes would directly impact affordability: health care price transparency. Save Our States Executive Director Trent England sent a letter to Trump supporting his work on lowering health care costs and urging him to require mandatory advanced notice…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Accuses Ilhan Omar of Marrying Her Brother

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump accused Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of marrying her brother during an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns released Tuesday. Questions about whether Omar committed immigration fraud have dogged the Somali-born Minnesota congresswoman since she was elected to Congress in 2018, with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune uncovering inconsistencies regarding her marital…
    Harold Hutchison
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  • Democrat Elected Miami Mayor for First Time in Nearly Three Decades

    REUTERS—Democrat Eileen Higgins became the first member of her party in nearly three decades elected mayor of Miami on Tuesday, defeating a Republican backed by President Donald Trump in a Hispanic-majority city in the heart of his Florida stronghold. CNN and the Associated Press called the election for Higgins less than an hour after polls…
    Steve Gorman
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  • SLAPP DOWN: Court Defends Trans Activists Who Allegedly Lied to Get Real Estate Agent Fired

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transgender activists are “weaponizing” a law meant to protect participation in public debate, flipping it “on its head” to further a “personal vendetta” against a Georgia mom and real estate agent whom the activists previously tried to get fired, the mom’s lawyer says. Julie Mauck, the Georgia mom, publicly addressed a…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • ‘STUNNINGLY UNINFORMED’: Republican Slams Hegseth Scouting Memo

    Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, a co-chair of the Congressional Scouting Caucus, told The Daily Signal that he is attempting to meet in person with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to discuss the memo on the Department of War separating from Scouting America, the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. Sessions called the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    FBI Searched DC Shooting Suspect’s Home in Washington State, Location in California

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—FBI Director Kash Patel said during a Thursday press conference that the agency has searched the Washington state home of a gunman accused of ambushing two National Guardsmen and a location in San Diego, California. West Virginia National Guardsmen Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom were allegedly shot with a Smith and Wesson revolver…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Washington DC Is Changing—And These Stats Prove It

    Washington, D.C. has changed rapidly in 2025. President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital, and to great effect. At the same time, the city continues to struggle economically and the administration’s effort to limit the size and scope of the federal government has had a major impact…
    George Caldwell
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    Congress Should Adopt a California Rule to Remove Biased Washington Superior Court Judges

    Anyone paying attention to Washington’s criminal justice system knows that some judges on the Washington Superior Court are now so anesthetized to persistent and chronic crime that they hand out notoriously lenient sentences to recidivist and violent defendants. Don’t believe us? According to the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission’s 2024 annual report, 88% of sentences…
    Cully Stimson
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    Washington Post Columnist Gets Murder Rates Wrong. Here’s Why It Matters.

    In July, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. penned a piece titled “The good news about murder,” purporting to explain how and why violent crime rates rose during the pandemic years but have drastically fallen since. The problem? In his column, he conspicuously ignores the pre-pandemic crime spikes in cities with “progressive” policies and conveniently memory-holes…
    Cully Stimson
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    Kimmel Returns, and Washington Has Some Thoughts

    Comedian Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show on Tuesday after conversing with Disney executives, and Washington was watching. “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!” President Donald Trump, who had celebrated the host’s suspension after controversial remarks…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Has Constitutional Authority to Battle Washington Crime

    People can disagree about whether President Donald Trump had to send the National Guard to help fight crime in the nation’s capital, but it seems to have already reduced crime rates in the city. And most people who live or work in Washington, as we do, surely welcome the increased security. But not all. One person who doesn’t seem to get…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Unhinged Washington Protesters Show Why Democrats Are Losing Ground

    While Washington, D.C., residents are enjoying feeling safe on the streets of their community once again, angry middle-class suburban protesters want the National Guard to leave the crime-ridden city. When Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the National Guard troops at Union Station this week, protesters used their First Amendment rights…
    Elise McCue
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