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House Republicans Demand Answers on Biden Admin’s Expensive, Stalled-Out EV Charger Program
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are demanding answers from two federal agencies regarding the Biden administration’s lagging electric vehicle charger subsidy program. Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, and H. Morgan Griffith of Virginia wrote to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on… -
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Biden Admin Would Rather Align With Marxists Than Pro-Western Leaders in Latin America
Juan Gonzalez, who led the Biden administration’s curious policy of embracing anti-U.S. Marxist leaders in Latin America while making enemies of their pro-Western counterparts, has resigned his post as the National Security Council’s top hemispheric adviser. Gonzalez (no relation) will depart President Joe Biden’s National Security Council in March to spend more time with his children, an anonymous official told Bloomberg on… -
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Internal Documents Shed Light on Biden Administration’s Plan to Impose DEI on Pentagon-Run Schools
The Department of Defense agency that runs schools for military children approved a contract worth up to nearly $2 million for extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion programming and consultations, according to a copy of the contract obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation from the Functional Government Initiative. The Department of Defense Education Activity… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Cruz Introduces Bill to Block Biden Administration From Closing Ports of Entry
Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill Thursday intended to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from closing critical international land ports of entry at the southern border. “[President] Joe Biden is harming American farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, truckers and consumers by prioritizing welcoming illegal aliens over facilitating lawful commerce,” Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal… -
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64 Million Americans Risk Losing Work Under Biden Admin
Whether working full time for themselves or part time as contractors, picking up occasional gig work or having a side hustle, an estimated 64 million Americans performed some sort of independent work in 2023. These aren’t just accountants or Uber drivers. They’re IT consultants, makeup artists, musicians, interpreters, fitness instructors, copy editors, and truck drivers…. -
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Americans Should Be Alert to Biden Admin’s Smearing School Parents as ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Again
President Joe Biden’s White House notoriously helped craft the National School Boards Association’s letter comparing concerned parents to domestic terrorists back in October 2021. That letter, later retracted, led to an FBI memo, also later retracted. But last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center carried on this theme by adding parental rights groups to its “hate map,” which… -
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Trump’s Lawyers Accuse Jack Smith of Concealing Evidence, Working With Biden Admin
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers alleged Tuesday night that special counsel Jack Smith concealed evidence about his office’s collaboration with the Biden administration. In a 68-page Wednesday filing in the Florida case concerning his handling of concealed documents, Trump’s legal team claimed it obtained heavily redacted documents through a Freedom of Information Act request revealing “politically motivated… -
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ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE: Biden Admin Consulted Anti-Christian Group for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Strategy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Law-abiding Americans increasingly are convinced that their government views them as an enemy, perhaps even a “domestic terrorism threat.” A newly unearthed video may confirm those fears. Bureaucrats in numerous federal agencies apparently tag-teamed with the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that demonizes conservatives and Christians, including groups such as… -
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Guatemala’s Pleas for Help to Curb Migration Falling on Deaf Ears in Biden Admin
The last conversation the Guatemalan president had with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss immigration was in June, and the Central American country says its calls for help with border security have largely fallen on deaf ears, Kevin Lopez Oliva, the spokesman for Guatemala’s president, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Biden administration tasked Harris with… -
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Biden Admin Reverses Decision to Tear Down William Penn Statue. It Shows How the War on History Can Be Won.
The Biden administration has backed off and decided not to demolish a statue of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. In case you haven’t been following the latest in the war on history, the National Park Service announced over the weekend that it would be removing the famous Quaker’s statue from in front of his… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Adds LGBTQ Strings to Foreign Agriculture Grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cultivate the transgender ideology on a global scale using international farm-aid programs. That could mean attaching strings to international grants that the USDA doles out to support the Biden administration’s LGBTQ agenda, which President Joe Biden ordered in a presidential memorandum. The USDA’s Sub-Working Group for the Memorandum… -
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These 22 States Urge High Court to Allow Biden Admin, Big Tech to Censor Online Speech
Twenty-two states, along with the District of Columbia, are urging the Supreme Court to back the Biden administration’s coordination with Big Tech to censor speech online. In a brief, the states wrote that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals made a mistake in finding the federal government’s likely “coerced or significantly encouraged” content moderation in violation of… -
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Biden Admin’s Overtime Regulations Could Cost Millions of Workers Lost Flexibility, Benefits, Wages, and Jobs
The Biden administration is trying to hike the threshold under which hourly-wage work regulations apply by about $25,000 per year. The proposed overtime rule threatens to throw millions of workers out of their salaried jobs and into hourly work, leading to lost flexibility and autonomy, benefit and wage cuts, and job losses. The Fair Labor… -
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Ominously, Biden Admin Will Tear Down Monument to Reconciliation at Arlington Cemetery
The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is being torn down. After a short legal battle, the Biden administration will continue its plan to remove the statue, which is over a century old, from the cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia. Will this monument be treated with care once it’s removed? I find that doubtful. The… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Inquiries on Hunter Biden and FISA Surveillance Meet With Biden Admin Obstruction
A review by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project of documents recently released by the Justice Department reveals that for nearly three years, the agency actively has hindered congressional probes into a Chinese businessman associated with Hunter Biden, the president’s son. Patrick Ho, also known as Hé Zhìpíng, is a Chinese national who was a prominent… -
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Biden’s Admin Threatens to Dictate How You Cook Christmas Dinner. Heritage Is Suing to Unearth Its Plans.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Joe Biden’s administration signaled a move against gas stoves before claiming that it’s not considering a ban. Regulation on gas stoves would affect how Americans cook their Christmas dinners. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Wednesday to reveal the administration’s communications on the issue…. -
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Biden Admin’s Latest Spending Spree Amounts to a Backdoor Ban on Gas-Powered Appliances, Experts Say
The Biden administration announced Monday that it is spending more than $500 million to help state and local governments adopt green building codes, a strategy that amounts to a backdoor attempt to phase out gas stoves and other fossil fuel-powered appliances, energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Energy announced that it is… -
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WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? Biden Admin Refuses to Hand Over Docs Showing How It Altered the Definition of a Recession
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Treasury Department under President Joe Biden has refused to hand over documents showing how officials decided to alter the definition of a recession after the first two quarters of 2022 saw declines in gross domestic product, the traditional definition of a recession. The Heritage Foundation filed a Freedom of Information… -
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Biden Admin’s Pronoun Police Demand Employees Deny Biology
If your boss required you to announce publicly that 2 + 2 = 5 and act like you sincerely believed it, would you comply or be fired? Unfortunately, tens of thousands of federal employees are being put to a similar test by the Biden administration. But instead of being required to deny basic math, they’re being forced… -
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Biden Admin’s Woke, Wasteful Infrastructure Add-Ons Inflate Costs
This holiday season, millions of American families are still struggling to make ends meet due to the ravages of inflation. The cost of basics, such as food and family homes, have spiked since January 2021, meaning that real wages have dropped by thousands of dollars per year. At a time when responsible adults are carefully…