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Sorry, Liberals. DOGE Is 100% Legal. Here’s Why.
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. I want to revisit the hysteria, controversy—whatever term we use—about Elon Musk and his role…Victor Davis Hanson -
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The Left Thinks Losing Power Is Equivalent to ‘Authoritarianism’
If you listen to the Left’s elite opinion makers, you might think that the Trump administration’s current large-scale attempt to reform and reduce the scope of the vast federal bureaucracy is tantamount to dictatorship. President Donald Trump is certainly launching a full-scale barrage against the administrative state. The Left’s #Resistance from within has been feeble at best compared…Jarrett Stepman -
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Latest to Draw DOGE Scrutiny: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
In its latest frontal attack on the federal bureaucracy, the Trump administration is moving to drastically downsize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, created during the Obama administration, has been temporarily rendered ineffective, as a Trump appointee ordered its employees to stop working Sunday. Created by a 2010 act of Congress as an agency,…George Caldwell -
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Why Chinese AI DeepSeek Won’t (and Can’t) Work
The world is abuzz with the news about DeepSeek, the new open source AI platform that changed the paradigm regarding how much time, money, and processing power is required to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems. Its origin in Communist China only adds to its mystery—and concern for those of us in the West. Big Chinese…Steve McKee -
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The Left Unwittingly Proves Trump’s Point on the Need to Root Out Anti-Christian Bias
President Donald Trump last week announced a new task force dedicated to eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government. Trump noted that the federal government under President Joe Biden “engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.” The new president pledged not to “tolerate this abuse of government” and…Tyler O’Neil -
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Lies, Damn Lies, and University Research Overhead Costs
Over the weekend, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would be cutting the rate at which it pays universities for overhead on federal research grants from an average of about 60% to 15%. Not surprisingly, there were howls of protest from university staff and their fellow-travelers in the media. Given their professional commitment…Jay Greene -
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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover—or a Politician by His Voice or Appearance
As people tuned in for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent Senate committee confirmation hearings, many heard his voice and immediately tuned out. Yet, listeners’ less-than-stellar auditory experience may not necessarily be a bad thing. RFK Jr. has spoken publicly about his voice, which is the result of a rare neurological condition called spasmodic dysphonia. In…Mary Mobley -
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‘BETRAYAL’: Lawmaker Responds to FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens
Elon Musk claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated $59 million last week to house illegal aliens in New York City. The Department of Government Efficiency, an agency established to root out government waste, “discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk wrote…Virginia Allen -
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DOGE Takes Over Washington, Literally and Figuratively
President Donald Trump's Department of Government of Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, is dominating both the federal bureaucracy and the headlines in the early days of the administration. To rein in the administrative state, DOGE has taken over the offices of what was formerly the U.S. Digital Service. The U.S. Agency for International Development and…George Caldwell -
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The Daily Signal Names Keith Koffler as Managing Editor
The Daily Signal announced Monday the hiring of Keith Koffler to serve as the media outlet’s next managing editor. Koffler brings over 25 years of experience in political journalism and digital media leadership to the news organization. Koffler joins The Daily Signal from Fox News Digital, where he served as senior editor since January 2021,…Robert B. Bluey -
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For Super Bowl 60, This Would Be a Halftime Show Worthy of the Big Game
Somewhere, the Motown music hitmakers of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the original members of the Four Tops and The Temptations who have passed on, are surely rolling over in their graves at what soul and R&B music has devolved into when an incomprehensible and vulgar mess like rapper Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like…Peter Parisi -
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How Trump Is Uprooting Radical ’60s Foundations of Poisonous DEI and CRT Programs
President Donald Trump has certainly undertaken a systematic demolition of former President Joe Biden’s diversity, equity, and inclusion regime since returning to the Oval Office. But Trump is also going further. He appears intent on correcting the distortion of the original pledges of the civil rights movement. In other words, Trump is not only dispatching Bidenism to the…Mike Gonzalez -
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Trump Rides the Vibes
After a flurry of activity—the president’s tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trips to Panama and El Salvador, the release of arrested Americans in Venezuela—it seemed clear that the focus of Donald Trump’s foreign policy would be…Michael Barone -
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Why Congressman and Former Green Beret Says Next Generation Is ‘Condemned’ to Conflict
After years of military service, and long before running for Congress, Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., and his wife started a family and focused on growing their business in North Carolina. The couple had “nothing to do with politics until Afghanistan came crashing down” in 2021. Watching Afghanistan fall so quickly back into the hands of…Virginia Allen -
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America’s Addiction to Big Sugar Leaves a Bitter Aftertaste
If the Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health and human services secretary, he has his work cut out for him. His quest to make America healthy again won’t be easy, but it should include tackling Big Sugar, an industry that has substantially increased Americans’ grocery prices—and significantly decreased their health. In the U.S.,…Andrew Hale -
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DHS Secretary Noem: Time to Cut ‘Red Tape’ in the Way of Hurricane Recovery
SWANNANOA, NORTH CAROLINA—Four months after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the federal government will continue to provide support but also needs to get “out of the way” of recovery efforts and cut much of the red tape involved in getting assistance. “I think that the federal government would…Virginia Allen -
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F-Minus: A Tale of Two Cities’ School Districts
The Nation’s Report Card recently went public. It’s the kind of thing that kids hide from their parents. The National Assessment of Educational Progress offers a grim view of America’s classrooms. Between 2022 and 2024, the share of fourth graders reading below basic level grew from 37% to 40%; among eighth graders, from 30% to 33%. Fourth grade math improved…Deroy Murdock -
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Selective Indignation: Lara Trump’s Fox News Show Upsets Liberal Scolds
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased “fact-checker” PolitiFact, and one of its executives, Kelly McBride, moonlights as the baldly boosterish “public editor” making excuses for National Public Radio. Tom Jones—not the hip-swaying Welsh pop singer—is their resident Brian Stelter, penning…Tim Graham -
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If You Really Support Immigration, Stop Excusing Chaos
Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants being expelled by the Trump administration. Gomez was, of course, mercilessly mocked by conservatives across social media. And there’s really nothing wrong with sympathizing with those trying to escape the deprivation and tyranny of…David Harsanyi -
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Trump Is Leading a Historic Counterrevolution Against the Deep State
Something truly revolutionary is taking place in Washington. President Donald Trump not only won an election; he’s fundamentally changing the way the federal government does business. Unlike the early days of his first term, Trump is directly targeting the nodes of real power in the nation’s capital. He’s launching a multifront assault on the Regime. Even Politico,…Jarrett Stepman