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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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,… -
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JD Vance’s Redeeming Grace
In this age of cancel culture, the legacy media likes nothing more than claiming a scalp. We saw it play out in Washington this week with the abrupt resignation of a 25-year-old DOGE staffer named Marko Elez, whose now-deleted X posts were the subject of a Wall Street Journal exposé. Thanks to the intervention of… -
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President Trump Offers Palestinians a Chance for Peace and Prosperity
Since President Trump’s reelection, we’ve seen the most momentous first two weeks of any presidential tenure. But even by Trump’s standards, this week’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu can’t be considered anything but historic. In his first term, their discussions produced the lauded Abraham Accords. This time, Trump came out and said what no American leader… -
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Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the Art of the Ultimate Deal
Days after shocking the world with his upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump espoused his hope of negotiating the “ultimate deal” between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs to resolve the “war that never ends.” As Trump told The Wall Street Journal at the time: “As a deal maker, I’d like to do… -
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MUSK-ETEERS: Legacy Media Melt Down Over Trump Admin Employing Talented Youths
The legacy media’s new freak-out—after they got finished with the “Elon Musk makes Nazi salutes” cycle—is that the new administration is bringing in too many young people. Yes, really. That’s their strategy to take President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Musk down a peg. Here’s an example of what lefties in the media are freaking… -
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Mexico Is Our Enemy and We Should Act Accordingly
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. I’d like to talk today about the status of Mexican-American, not as a Mexican-American citizen, but Mexico’s relationship with the United States. What is the Mexican-American… -
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The GOP-Led Senate’s Rapid Pace of Trump Cabinet Confirmations
With the confirmation of Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget Thursday night, the Senate has outpaced itself for the number of Cabinet confirmations completed by this point in time since the George W. Bush administration in 2001. Now, it’s down to the home stretch with crucial confirmation votes for director of… -
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Heritage Experts React to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Budget Resolution
On Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released the Senate Budget Committee’s budget resolution for fiscal year 2025, which is anticipated to be the source of getting much of the MAGA agenda through Congress. Heritage Foundation experts analyzed the text and made suggestions. “To those who voted for and support real border security and a stronger… -
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‘It Really Disturbs Me’: One Republican’s Dire Warning to His Party
Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., has a dire warning for his fellow Republicans—find a way to make President Donald Trump’s agenda affordable or face economic collapse. “I’m looking forward to us being the Congress that actually does something other than always talking a big game,” Brecheen told The Daily Signal. “Just a pronouncement of the problem… -
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Members of Congress Warn About Looming Debt Crisis
As Republicans in Congress explore how they will accomplish President Donald Trump’s agenda through budget reconciliation, concerns about a national debt crisis percolate in the background. “Whether new spending comes in the form of tax relief or actual new spending, such as a border wall … it will have to be offset, because it can’t… -
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USAID and George Soros’ Foundation Bankrolled a News Outlet That Spurred the First Trump Impeachment
The U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with the Open Society Foundations, the funding network established by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros, to bankroll a news organization that attacks conservatives and seems to have inspired the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. USAID has received renewed scrutiny in recent weeks after Trump paused U.S…. -
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Foreign Funding, Ranked Choice Voting Top Election Integrity Concerns, Report Finds
The 2024 election concluded with few complaints or disputes from either side—but key improvements still need to be made to ensure free and fair contests, according to a new report from an election integrity watchdog. “The election integrity movement has had enormous success over the last four years. But make no mistake: The fight is… -
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2 More States Moving Forward to Block Noncitizens From Voting
Two states advanced proposals this week to amend their constitutions to require citizenship for voting. The South Dakota Senate voted 33-2 on Tuesday for an amendment banning noncitizen voting. Two days later, the Kansas House of Representatives voted 90-28 for a similar amendment to its state’s constitution. The amendments would still have to be passed… -
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Taxpayer-Subsidized College Tuition for Illegal Aliens—but Not for Citizens
Did you know that 25 states offer in-state college tuition to illegal aliens? Probably not. And did you know that there is a federal statute that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless a state offers the same tuition break to students from other states? Didn’t think so. One of the… -
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What Does an Executive Action Add to the First Amendment?
It’s hardly a sign of civic health when a president begins his term by instructing his subordinates to abide by the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. Yet within hours of his oath of office, President Donald Trump did just that. In an executive action styled as “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,”… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Roy Reintroduces Bill to Prohibit Inaccurate Pronouns on Passports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced a bill Friday to prevent passports from being used to promote "radical gender ideology." The Passport Sanity Act prohibits the secretary of state from issuing a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that includes the unspecified (X) gender designation. “Radical gender ideology must…