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UNCONSTITUTIONAL: State AG Explains How the Biden Admin Twists the Law in New Transgender Foster Care Rule
Jonathan Skrmetti, the Republican attorney general of Tennessee, has pledged that he will sue the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden if it finalizes a rule forcing gender ideology on foster parents. Skrmetti laid out the legal arguments against the rule in a conversation Wednesday with "The Daily Signal Podcast." "This… -
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Biden Admin Thinks Gender Dysphoria Is a ‘Disability.’ It’s Not.
The Biden administration has been known to stretch the law beyond a plain reading to support a desired policy outcome. Take the longstanding federal law that criminalizes the shipment of abortion drugs, for example. The Justice Department argues that the law doesn’t mean what it says. Wrong. Or how about Title IX of the Education… -
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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Legislation Challenges Biden Admin Push to Use Federal Funds for Abortion
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL: Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., is leading Republican lawmakers in introducing two pieces of pro-life legislation challenging President Joe Biden's efforts to increase the number of abortions. “Following the historic Dobbs decision, the Biden administration has deliberately ignored federal law in order to pursue its far-left, pro-abortion agenda—all without the authority of Congress,” Brecheen… -
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Rand Paul: Americans Fear Two-Tiered System of Justice Under Biden Administration
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul shared Wednesday that Americans across the United States fear to make political statements and decisions given President Joe Biden’s administration’s attitude toward political dissenters. Paul spoke Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. ahead of a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie, “Police State,” a film that investigates the… -
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IRS Targets Conservative Group Exposing the Biden Admin
The Internal Revenue Service has moved to audit a conservative group that has exposed the radicalism of some of President Joe Biden's nominees to senior administrative posts, and in so doing, led him to withdraw their candidacies. The American Accountability Foundation has exposed numerous Biden nominees, and it published emails showing that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,… -
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How Many Illegals Has Biden Admin Released Into US? Mayorkas Can’t (or Won’t) Say.
During a Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas couldn’t answer a question about how many illegal immigrants federal authorities have released into the U.S. interior under the Biden administration. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed Mayorkas on the issue, but the DHS secretary couldn’t provide a number at Tuesday's Senate Homeland Security… -
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The Insidious Way the Biden Admin Forces Staff to Preach DEI
Promoting the gospel of diversity, equity, and inclusion isn't an extracurricular activity at the Department of Commerce—it's an essential part of every employee's job, according to a new memo obtained by The Daily Signal. If the hard-nosed economists at Commerce don't preach about institutional racism or display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios, they… -
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Biden Admin Releases 96% of Inadmissible Aliens Who Use Its ‘CBP One’ App
The Biden administration has released into the country nearly all the inadmissible aliens who scheduled appointments through its CBP One mobile application so far this year, according to new information obtained by the House Homeland Security Committee. Between Jan. 12 and Sept. 30, fully 95.8% of the illegal aliens who scheduled appointments to claim asylum through… -
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Biden Admin Reports Over 3 Million Illegal Aliens on America’s Borders in Single Year
For the first time ever, U.S. border agents encountered over 3.2 million illegal aliens on America’s borders in a single fiscal year, a number that is greater than the combined population of Hawaii, Alaska, and Vermont. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CPB, reported Saturday that agents encountered 3,201,144 illegal immigrants at or between ports… -
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Biden Admin Wants Explicit Content to Stay in School Libraries, House Panel’s Chairman Says
What’s been labeled an epidemic of “book banning” is actually an epidemic of sexually explicit materials getting into American school libraries, witnesses at a House hearing say. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a subcommittee hearing on Thursday morning discussing the prevalence of explicit content in school libraries. Early Childhood, Elementary, and… -
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With US Distracted, Biden Admin Quietly Funds Open Borders Allies
Amid the prospect of a possible government shutdown over the fiscal 2024 budget, the Biden administration’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently announced $22 million in grants for organizations to “help prepare lawful permanent residents for naturalization.” The announcement drew little attention. After all, helping legal immigrants become citizens hardly seems scandalous, compared with the… -
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As Biden Admin Advances War on Fossil Fuels, Here’s How You Can Fight Back
The Biden administration is advancing its war on fossil fuels, and you’re going to pay for it. In July, President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation released a Corporate Average Fuel Economy rule that will dramatically shape the auto industry. The new rule, created quietly by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, mandates absurdly high fuel… -
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Biden Administration Defends Building of Border Wall, Indicates It Was Forced
The Biden administration is defending its plan to construct 17 miles of border wall in South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in the U.S. Federal Register that a wall in Starr County, Texas, will be constructed to “deter illegal crossings in areas of ‘high illegal entry’ into the United States.” President Joe… -
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Biden Administration Now Wants to Ban Furnaces
In an attempt to force Americans to conserve energy, the Department of Energy is banning a whole class of popular furnaces, eventually raising heating costs and reducing product choices for families and businesses alike. And it is using an outdated law to give itself the authority to do so. While the DOE did recognize many… -
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The Biden Administration’s Very Selective ‘National Emergency’ to Free Americans Wrongfully Detained Abroad
The Biden administration has been praising itself in a Department of State press release for successfully bringing home American citizens who had spent years in Iran “imprisoned as part of the Iranian regime’s cruel practice of wrongful detention.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken even touted the administration’s commitment to ensuring it has “brought home every wrongfully… -
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Biden Admin Tries to Force Its Religion on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
In President Joe Biden’s America, if you disagree with transgender orthodoxy, you might not be able to run a business. Federal law prohibits harassment on the basis of sex in the workplace, and under Biden, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission aims to weaponize that law against employers who believe that biological sex can’t be altered… -
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Biden Admin Twists the Law to Force Abortion Policies on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
Last year, Congress passed a law to protect pregnant women from employer discrimination, and Democrats insisted the law could not be used to force employers to provide leave for abortions. “Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act … the [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] could not—could not—issue any regulation that requires abortion leave, nor does the act… -
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WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? Heritage Sues After Biden Admin Refuses to Hand Over Docs on SPLC, Moms for Liberty
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Has the Biden administration acted against the parental rights group Moms for Liberty after the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center put it on a "hate map" with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan? The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project asked that question, demanding records from various agencies under the Freedom of Information… -
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German Refugee Family of Homeschoolers Targeted for Deportation by Biden Administration
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement told a German Christian family that was persecuted for homeschooling their children that they needed to prepare to be deported after living in the U.S. for 15 years, says Kevin Boden, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Uwe and… -
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Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern border of the U.S. The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He is now written…