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Despite Tough Talk, Biden-Harris Admin Rolls Out Red Carpet for Illegal Alien Gangs: The BorderLine
Nothing illustrates the grave price of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy like the preventable crimes that occur with dismaying frequency across the country. At the border, Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has for nearly four years been catching, then almost immediately releasing into the U.S. interior, thousands of young illegal alien men weekly. It…Simon Hankinson -
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High Prices Brought to Us by Biden-Harris Admin’s Economic Policies
Watching Vice President Kamala Harris propose her “federal ban on corporate price gouging” in the food and grocery industry reminded me of an arsonist who stands next to a burning inferno, ignoring her own role in the conflagration. In an apparent effort by Harris to run on reform as a semi-incumbent, her proposal is more…Robert Henneke -
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Biden-Harris Admin Spends $250K Looking for LGBT Landmarks as National Parks Fall Into Disrepair
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The National Park Service has doled out about $250,000 in grants to add LGBTQ+ landmarks to the National Register of Historic Places even as it faces a multibillion-dollar backlog maintaining the public land it oversees. Through the National Park Service’s so-called Underrepresented Communities Grant Program, which was designed to diversify America’s historical landmarks to…Robert Schmad -
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Biden-Harris Admin Uses Loopholes to Expand Welfare Benefits, Again
It seems reasonable that a program designed to assist those with low incomes should go only to low-income households. But the Biden-Harris administration is using a dubious mechanism to get around that expectation in a program designed to help low-income families pay for broadband internet service. Congress created the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program in 2020,…Rachel Sheffield -
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Zuckerberg Says Biden-Harris Admin Pressured Facebook to Censor Content
The Biden-Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor content on its platform relating to COVID-19 and other major stories, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed in a Monday letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor…Bradley Devlin -
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The Facts Behind Biden-Harris Admin’s Loss of 300K Migrant Kids
In 2014, Vice President Joe Biden was dispatched to Guatemala by President Barack Obama to implore Latin American countries and their citizens to stop smuggling unaccompanied children into the United States. “These smugglers routinely engage in physical and sexual abuse and extortion of these innocent, young women and men, by and large,” Biden said in…Bradley Devlin -
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Biden Administration’s Latest Illegal Immigration Scam: The BorderLine
In June, I wrote about “parole in place” for alien spouses when the Biden administration first announced this latest in its series of gimmicks that I call Parole-a-Palooza. Now, it’s here. First, a little background. Prevented by pesky laws from admitting all the legal and illegal immigrants he wants, since 2021, President Joe Biden…Simon Hankinson -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Injunctions Blocking Biden-Harris Admin’s Transgender Title IX Rewrite
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld two lower courts' temporary injunctions blocking President Joe Biden's rule applying federal civil rights law to transgender issues in education, including school bathrooms and women's sports. The Department of Education under the Biden-Harris administration issued new rules reinterpreting Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a law that…Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin’s Inflation Reduction Act ‘Disaster’ for Americans, Think Tank Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two years on, the Biden-Harris administration’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act has been “devastating” for Americans who rely on the pharmaceutical industry, according to a memo from a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. “The American people have been forced to live with the disaster of the Inflation Reduction…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Kris Kobach: Biden-Harris Admin Has ‘Thumb on the Scales’ in Electioneering Order
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Known action by the Biden-Harris administration, combined with secrecy, “creates an impression” that the federal government has its “thumb on the scales” for the Nov. 5 presidential election, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says. Kobach, a Republican, is leading a multistate lawsuit to strike down President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order…Fred Lucas -
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US Households Lose More Than $15,000 a Year, Thanks to Biden Admin Regulations, Report Says
Federal regulatory costs tax the average American household more than $15,000 per year under the Biden administration, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute annual report released Tuesday. Households pay an average of $15,788 in hidden regulatory costs, according to the annual report, written by Clyde Wayne Crews and titled “Ten Thousand Commandments.” That’s more than…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Biden Admin Suggests Spending $78 Trillion to Achieve Net-Zero Global Carbon Emissions
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said during a speech in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday that the price tag for a global transition to a low-carbon economy amounts to $78 trillion in financing through 2050. Yellen said that in order to achieve the goal of net-zero global carbon emissions, there would need to…Rebeka Zeljko -
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7 States Sue Biden Admin Over New Rule Forcing Doctors to Perform Gender Procedures
THE WASHINGTON STAND—Seven states have come together to fight a new rule that could force doctors into performing gender-transition procedures. The Biden administration has made it clear it wants so-called “gender-affirming care” available to all—including young children. As such, it appears it’s willing to try and make it so that medical professionals are unable to…Sarah Holliday -
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Standing Up Against Biden Administration’s Weaponization of Justice System
President Joe Biden and his administration have intentionally weaponized the judicial system to target Republicans while protecting Democrats. Since taking office, Biden has used taxpayer resources to attack conservative parents on school boards, Catholics, and pro-life advocates. And that’s in addition to the blatant attempt to jail Biden’s top political opponent during an election year….Sen. Tommy Tuberville -
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Illegal Alien ‘Gotaways’ Near 2 Million Under Biden Admin
The number of illegal immigrant “gotaways” has skyrocketed to nearly 2 million under the Biden administration, a congressional source confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Roughly 1.9 million gotaways, illegal aliens who escape into the interior of the U.S., have been recorded since President Joe Biden first entered office in January 2021, a congressional source confirmed….Jason Hopkins -
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As Students Fail, Biden Admin Plows $900M Into Eco-Friendly School Buses
The Biden administration will hand out $900 million to pay for “green” school buses, as the nation’s public school students continue to perform poorly in the aggregate. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced the recipients of the funding for school buses designed to fight climate change, with schools in 47 states receiving money for the vehicles…Nick Pope -
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Biden Admin Hides Justification for Altering the Definition of ‘Recession,’ Heritage Plans to Sue
As Americans struggle to keep up with the rising tide of prices and feel the squeeze of high interest rates on housing, President Joe Biden continues to claim that the economy is good. “Bidenomics” is working, there’s no recession to see here, so shut up and enjoy the drag queen performances at the White House….Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Attorney Expressed Concerns About Conservative Media Coverage of Biden Admin Persecuting Christians, Pro-Lifers
A federal Justice Department attorney expressed concerns to a Michigan judge about conservative media coverage suggesting that President Joe Biden’s administration is persecuting Christians and pro-lifers for their beliefs. The discussion took place during a March pre-trial conference in USA v. Zastrow, in which the federal government brought Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE)…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Biden Admin in a DEI Bind(er) of Its Own Making, Stuck With Incompetent Jean-Pierre
The following is an updated version of a column originally published in December 2022. One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was “The Peter Principle,” a business management book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. The book’s premise was that employees get promoted based on their performance in their previous jobs until they…Peter Parisi -
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Here’s What Biden Admin Apologists Aren’t Telling You About Jobless Rate
Americans consistently voice their disapproval on the state of the economy in recent polls, largely because of the stratospheric cost of living. But apologists for the Biden administration point to the low unemployment rate of 3.9% in April as proof of the economy’s strength. Yet this is a hollow talking point, since the real unemployment rate is likely between 6.5% and…EJ Antoni