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Trump: US Will ‘Take Over the Gaza Strip’
The U.S. will “take over the Gaza Strip,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday night while speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “We’ll own it,” Trump said of the Gaza Strip, adding that the U.S. will “be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on…Virginia Allen -
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Trump’s Freeze of USAID Is a Blow to Global Leftist Empire
The Trump administration is putting a stick of dynamite under the deep state, and Democrats are apoplectic. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump put nearly all District of Columbia-based employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave. According to Politico, this amounts to about 1,400 people in addition to 600 employees who were put on…Jarrett Stepman -
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants Us to Forgive, Forget Facebook’s Sins
Mark Zuckerberg is waging a charm offensive. His company, Meta, just agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed back in 2021 after being suspended by Facebook and Instagram. The settlement comes on the heels of Zuckerberg’s attendance at Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Meta’s purported shift away from…Daniel Cochrane -
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Birthright Citizenship: The Legal Debate Heats Up
Legal experts are debating the interpretation of the 14th Amendment inside and outside of courtrooms this week. The amendment has often been interpreted to mean anyone born in the United States is automatically a U.S. citizen, and yet its interpretation may not be that simple, according to Kurt Lash, professor at the University of Richmond School…Virginia Allen -
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Here’s How Trump’s Move on USAID Will Impact George Soros’ Funding Empire
By pausing foreign funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, President Donald Trump has dealt a major blow to the ecosystem of nonprofits that promote woke ideology against America’s interests. It is no accident that USAID’s funding has dovetailed with the grantmaking of leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations—and the foreign funding pause…Tyler O’Neil -
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Here’s How Senate Republicans Respond to California’s Devastating Wildfires
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Senate Republicans are working to eliminate the environmental regulations they think contributed to the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires last month. In response to the wildfires, which devastated more than 60 square miles of Southern California, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., joining two other senators, introduced two measures Tuesday intended to…George Caldwell -
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Trump Works to End California’s Man-Made Drought
California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water. After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to “ensure adequate water resources in Southern California.” He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty reservoirs….Victor Joecks -
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What New DNC Leadership Says About Direction of Democratic Party
After bizarre and inadvertently comical candidate forums, the Democratic National Committee elected Kenneth Martin to be its next chairman and gun control advocate David Hogg to be one of its new vice chairs. While the DNC boasted of its racial, sexual, and gender diversity (and its quota system to fill party leadership roles), DNC voters…Jacob Adams -
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Venezuela Agrees to Take Back Its Citizens, Releases US Prisoners
THE CENTER SQUARE—Eleven days after President Donald Trump took office, the Venezuelan government agreed to take back its citizens who illegally entered the U.S., including violent members of Tren de Aragua, and released six U.S. citizens who had been held in Venezuelan prisons. Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, went to Venezuela to collect six…Bethany Blankley -
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Trump Knows How to Win Trade Wars Before the First Shot Is Fired
Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with tariffs. Everyone else is baffled: Why did the president announce heavy taxes on imports from Canada as well as Mexico and China? America has an obvious interest in economic decoupling from China, a great-power rival. And by first imposing and then suspending tariffs on Mexican imports, Trump…Daniel McCarthy -
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By the Numbers: Sen. Ron Johnson Outlines Balanced Budget Proposal
Returning to a balanced budget is feasible if the United States would return to pre-COVID-19-era spending levels, said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the Senate Budget Committee. He cited spending levels under President Bill Clinton and has said the rate of increase should be based on population and the rate of inflation, barring…Fred Lucas -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Bill Targets Foreign Interference in Education
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., introduced a bill Tuesday to require universities to disclose any contracts they have with foreign adversaries to the federal Department of Education. The No Contracts for Foreign Adversaries Act would mandate that universities alert the Education Department of relationships with China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran in…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Can NJ’s Governor Legally Harbor an Illegal Alien Above His Garage?
The governor of New Jersey appeared to admit during recent public remarks that he has an illegal immigrant living above his garage and then proceeded to challenge the federal government to “try to get her.” “I don’t want to get into too much detail,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said Saturday, adding,…Virginia Allen -
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Why Is Left So Upset at Deportation of Criminal Illegal Aliens?
There is no greater love than this: The Democrat-Left’s blistering passion for illegal aliens, even those with yards-long rap sheets choked with violent crimes. President Donald Trump is busy keeping his solemn promise to the American people: Mass deportation of illegal aliens, starting with “the worst first.” He has placed dangerous thugs at the head of a reverse invasion across the…Deroy Murdock -
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How Trump’s Novel Legal Theory Made Mexico and Canada Cave Under Pressure
By using the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada and Mexico to pledge to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States, President Donald Trump pursued a novel legal theory. He declared an emergency then used his emergency authority to threaten to impose tariffs to get our neighbors to comply with his border enforcement…George Caldwell -
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Confirming Trump Cabinet Is Key to Forcing Deep State Transparency, Sen. Ron Johnson Says
Sen. Ron Johnson, leading Senate oversight in the new majority, anticipates more transparency under the Trump administration—but still expects challenges from the same bureaucrats that stonewalled his information requests during the Biden administration. Johnson, R-Wis., is the chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee….Fred Lucas -
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In New Record Low, Unionization Rate Falls to Single Digits in 2024
Despite the Biden-Harris administration’s “whole of government” attempt to increase unionization, the percentage of American workers belonging to unions notched down each of the past four years of their administration. Marking yet another record low, 9.9% of American workers belonged to unions in 2023. This follows a steady decline from 13.4% at the turn of…Rachel Greszler -
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Even Never Trumpers Are Warming Up to The Donald
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 a day about an irony. Maybe it’s something that’s a paradox. Have you noticed that there’s certain people who are coming…Victor Davis Hanson -
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EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog Asks Pentagon Chief Hegseth to Pull Security Clearance of Leftist Megadonor Reid Hoffman
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A watchdog group is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revoke the security clearance of Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor who had ties to the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and bankrolled litigation against President Donald Trump. Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, sent the…Fred Lucas -
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Deep State Resistance Is Crumbling in Trump 2.0
President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to the federal bureaucracy appears to be working. Nothing bedeviled Trump’s first term more than the outright resistance and hostility within the federal government to his administration. Armies of hostile bureaucrats stymied his plans, coordinated with legacy media to cook up negative stories, and generally behaved as if they—and not the president—had a right…Jarrett Stepman