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‘Very Impressed’: Trump Thanks Schumer for Whipping Dems’ Support of Spending Bill
President Donald Trump thanked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for getting Democrats on board with the Republican spending package to keep the federal government open. The Senate voted late Friday afternoon to advance the continuing resolution, a short-term spending bill. That cleared the way for a final vote to avert a government shutdown. “I…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Counselor Fights to Advise Minors Against Gender Transition in Supreme Court Case
When Erin Brewer was 6 years old, she and her older brother were accosted by two grown men. She was raped. Her brother was not. Brewer called herself a boy for the next several years because, she said, she felt vulnerable as a girl. She wore her brother’s hand-me-downs, used the boys bathroom at…Moira Gleason -
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Universal Injunctions Are Out of Control
In less than two months, President Donald Trump has signed more than 80 executive orders, reshaping federal government policy and administration of the executive branch on a range of issues including immigration, national security and defense, gender, education, and government efficiency. Predictably, the Left is trying to use the courts to fight this political battle,…Thomas Jipping -
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Yes, Mr. Khalil, Your Actions Have Consequences
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. There’s been a lot of frenzy in the news about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. He’s…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Senate Dems Cave, Help GOP Advance Bill to Fund Government, Avoid Shutdown
The Senate on Friday voted 62-38 to end debate on a continuing resolution to fund the government through September, all but guaranteeing final passage of a GOP-crafted bill that would avoid a partial federal shutdown. Nine Democrats and one nominal independent who caucuses with them helped push the Republican-backed bill over the finish line. Democrats…George Caldwell -
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Trump’s Overtures Toward Greenland Are Paying Off
Acquiring Greenland remains a priority for the Trump administration, and there are signs that a deal may be inching closer to happening. You may have missed it, but President Donald Trump referred to Greenland in his joint address to Congress in early March. Trump said to the people of Greenland, “We strongly support your right to determine your…Jarrett Stepman -
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Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Defense’s school system touted the video game Minecraft as a tool for teaching social-emotional learning, a Trojan horse for diversity, equity, and inclusion. A Department of Defense Education Activity middle-school teacher sent an email to staff encouraging them to use Minecraft to teach kids to “develop important [social-emotional learning]…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Vance Vows Accountability for Offshoring of Jobs
In a speech Friday at Vantage Plastics, a plastics manufacturing plant in Bay City, Michigan, Vice President JD Vance touted American workers and the progress the Trump administration has been making to make American manufacturing great again. “We are an administration that is going to do things for the American people and for American workers,”…Jacob Adams -
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What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech
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 at the Justice Department for an event focused on fighting fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has become an escalating problem in the United States. Trump said during the Biden…Fred Lucas -
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West Virginia Bans Biological Males From Women’s Spaces
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed a bill Wednesday to define sex-based terms in state law and prohibit biological males from entering female-only spaces in public schools, colleges, and correctional facilities in the state. “Today, we sent a strong message that West Virginia stands with women,” Morrisey said in a press release. “West Virginia will…Moira Gleason -
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Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Senate Strikes Blow to Drug Traffickers With Passage of HALT Fentanyl Act
Update: The Senate passed the HALT Fentanyl Act on Friday afternoon by a vote of 84-16. America has many adversaries: China, Iran, North Korea, to name a few. But perhaps America’s biggest enemy is fentanyl, a highly addictive and highly lethal synthetic opioid. In this war on fentanyl, the Senate is preparing to launch its…Bradley Devlin -
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Good Riddance, Mahmoud Khalil
On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd in New Orleans, thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, many decked out in Islamist garb, descended onto Times Square chanting, “Globalize the intifada.” One of the organizers of the protest was Columbia University Apartheid Divest,…David Harsanyi -
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5 Principles for Conservative Governance in America’s Golden Era
Adapted from a speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Texas Summit on March 7, 2025. We are here at an extraordinary moment of renewal right now. President Donald Trump has reversed four years of decline, four years where Joe Biden tried to destroy this country. But thanks to our president’s leadership right now, and alongside House…Rep. August Pfluger -
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After Years of Dealing With Illegal Immigration, ‘Maybe This Issue Is Actually Going to Get Tackled,’ Border Rancher Says
LUNA COUNTY, N.M.—A Border Patrol helicopter flew overhead in a sight Russell Johnson said was a rarity over his ranch until President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Johnson says he would like to see an even greater Border Patrol presence along New Mexico’s border with Mexico, but agents “have at least some presence on…Virginia Allen -
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Check Out the Family Ties of House Dem Championing Status Quo at NIH
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Democratic member of Congress has emerged as a vocal defender of the status quo at the National Institutes of Health and is the son of scientists connected to the embattled government agency. Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts expressed opposition to the Trump administration’s cuts at the NIH at a House Energy and…Emily Kopp -
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‘BLATANTLY LYING’: Payton McNabb Responds After Sorority CEO Claims DZ Didn’t Expel Her Over Transgender Issues
Cindy Menges, CEO of the sorority that expelled Payton McNabb for posting a video of herself confronting a man in a women's bathroom, attempted to reframe the issue in response to sorority sisters' outrage. Menges claimed the expulsion had "nothing to do" with McNabb's "advocacy for banning trans-athletes from sports," and that "Delta Zeta Sorority did…Tyler O’Neil -
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Columbia’s Priorities Are Clear, and Jewish Students Aren’t One of Them
President Donald Trump pulled a staggering $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University, one of many hotbeds of antisemitism and pro-terror protests that have sprung up in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel by Hamas. The campus was, for weeks, occupied by rioters who took control of Columbia’s core areas and…Armstrong Williams -
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Detrans Awareness Day Comes With a Warning
WASHINGTON—“I realized I am a guinea pig,” Forrest Smith said of his transition from male to female at age 19. After five years, Smith detransitioned. He spoke about his personal journey at a briefing on Capitol Hill on March 12, Detrans Awareness Day, first celebrated in 2021 to promote awareness of individuals who realized they…Debra Saunders -
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Leading Senate Republican Has Questions About Oz’s Record on Trans and Life Issues as Major Hearing looms
With the Senate Finance Committee preparing to interrogate Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, Friday morning, one Senate Republican says Oz’s record on transgenderism and abortion is “concerning.” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told EWTN that Oz “promoted, I know, trans doctors and activists on his…Bradley Devlin