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When Tomatoes Became Veggies: 19th-Century SCOTUS Tariff Ruling Hints at the Questions the Court May Soon Face
President Donald Trump has been using an old tool ignored by recent presidents to target trade abusers like China that impose significant barriers to American products and services—tariffs. We all want free and fair trade, but trade is not free and fair when it is only free and fair on one side. As The Heritage… -
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Trump Can Still Lead Without a Third Term
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 The Daily Signal. You know, one of the most popular topics in the media is President Donald Trump is… -
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House Panel Plans to Raise SALT Deduction Cap for Members in Blue States
House Republicans are proposing to raise the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap to $30,000, up from its current rate of $10,000. The move was announced on Monday by the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo. The deduction would apply to single and joint filers who make $400,000 or… -
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House Panel’s Medicaid Reform Proposals Set Off Predictably Fierce Debate
The House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled its proposals to revamp Medicaid on Sunday night, drawing the predictable cheers and jeers from Congress' varying factions—establishment Republicans, Democrat Medicaid crusaders, and hard-line fiscal conservatives. The debate over how to handle Medicaid has emerged as the most hot-button issue in Republicans' rush to pass a budget reconciliation… -
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Trump Administration Is Exposing the Hubris of Institutional DEI
Harvard University was likely in violation of civil rights law in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the school practically said so, proudly, on its public website. Now it is under federal investigation. The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium reported Monday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency created to enforce civil rights law,… -
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Rejecting Calls for Medicaid Cuts, Hawley Castigates GOP’s ‘Wall Street Wing’
Sen. Josh Hawley is sounding the alarm that Republicans should avoid deep cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation process. In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Monday, the Missouri Republican senator took aim at what he called the “party’s Wall Street wing” for advocating to have the federal program face deep… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Congress Answers Call to Defund Second-Largest Transgender Hormone Provider
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Energy and Commerce Committee has announced its portion of the reconciliation bill would slash Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding. Now, a conservative think tank is urging Republicans in Congress to act to defund the abortion giant. The reconciliation bill contains language removing funding for organizations that participate in transgender medical… -
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Coalition Calls for Lawmakers, Tech Industry to Make AI Safer for Kids
Representatives of more than 50 organizations spanning the political spectrum signed a declaration urging members of Congress and tech industry leaders to protect children from the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence. The statement proposes five guidelines for AI products targeted toward children to follow. The “National Declaration on AI and Kids’ Safety” gives examples… -
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State Legislators From Across Country Urge End to Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood
More than 180 pro-life state legislators from 49 states have sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to end Planned Parenthood’s receipt of federal funds. The letter comes as Congress is considering restricting, through the budget reconciliation process, federal dollars from going to the nation’s largest abortion provider. “We’re absolutely making it clear to… -
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Too Much SALT Could Ruin the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” could be in jeopardy over a major SALT disagreement. Not the kind of salt that you keep in a shaker on the dinner table, but the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. A large increase in the SALT limitation could make extending the 2017 Trump tax… -
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A Way to Unshackle American Businesses and Boost the Economy
In recent comments marking the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump stated that his attention will next focus on efforts to reach a “big, beautiful new deal” in Congress to enact significant reductions in federal taxes and regulations. The president’s commitment is good news for all of us. Federal taxes impose… -
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Crockett: Donors Want ‘Safest White Boy’ as 2028 Nominee
Democrat donors want the “safest white boy” as their presidential nominee in 2028, Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett said on a radio show Thursday. “It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system will have about voting for a woman, because every time we voted for a woman we’ve lost… -
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How Trump’s Drug Price Executive Order Will Affect Medicare
President Donald Trump will take action on Medicare if pharmaceutical companies don’t lower prices across markets in response to his Monday executive order to slash prescription drug costs. Trump signed an executive order Monday morning instituting a “most favored nation” policy under which Americans will pay “the same price as the Nation that pays the… -
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Congress Must End, or Radically Amend, Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants
The Temporary Protected Status immigration program was enacted into law in 1990. Its original intent was to give a brief safe haven to aliens in the U.S. without regard to their legal or illegal status when man-made situations or natural disasters temporarily made return to their countries unsafe. The law gives the homeland security secretary… -
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Last Living American Israeli Hostage Released Ahead of Trump’s Middle East Trip
Hamas has released Edan Alexander, the last living American Israeli hostage in Gaza, just as President Donald Trump departed the United States for a four-day trip to the Middle East. Trump called Alexander’s release “a step taken in good faith towards the United States and the efforts of the mediators—Qatar and Egypt—to put an… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Trump Governors Scheduled Briefings on National Guard ‘Protections,’ ‘Deployments’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of Democrat governors resisting the Trump administration scheduled at least two Zoom discussions focused on how to avoid assisting National Guard “protections” and “deployments,” according to email correspondence obtained by The Daily Signal. Executive order templates created for Democrat governors say the states “shall provide no time, money, facilities,”… -
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Justices to Weigh Birthright Citizenship-Related Injunctions, But Won’t Consider Underlying Issue
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in a case that stems from President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship. But the court won’t be ruling on the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order, but rather on the issue of nationwide injunctions. “This case is not about the underlying merits,” GianCarlo Canaparo, a Heritage Foundation… -
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Inside the $880 Billion Republican Plan for Medicaid Overhaul
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A key House committee has drafted a far-reaching proposal that would restructure Medicaid eligibility, restrict health care funding for transgender procedures, and dismantle several Biden-era climate initiatives, according to a document obtained by The Daily Signal. The plan is a critical piece of the House reconciliation bill that will become the… -
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Trump to Sign Executive Order to Slash Prescription Drug Prices
President Donald Trump says he will announce a new prescription drug initiative he promises will dramatically—and immediately—reduce the price of pharmaceuticals. “I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history,” Trump said in a… -
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Diversity Is Not Our Strength
That “diversity is our strength” is one of those obvious contradictions that people with common sense instantly recognize as hooey. It is poisonous hooey, mind you. As the British historian Arnold Toynbee said, “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” But the people selling diversity know that. They champion diversity not because it is a societal bonding…