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    Here’s Another Way the Biden Admin Might Push Illegal Student Debt-Shifting Scheme

    It’s clear that the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Joe Biden’s student debt bailout attempts has motivated his administration to find new ways to bypass Congress and the American people. That’s because the Biden administration wants to fulfill a campaign promise to its left-wing political base ahead of the 2024 election cycle. This time, the administration appears to be…
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    Biden Admin’s Latest Political Target: Christopher Rufo

    The weaponization of the federal government against President Joe Biden’s political opponents and anyone fighting “woke” orthodoxy is going at such dizzying speed that it’s hard to keep pace. Now, the authorities are investigating Christopher Rufo, a conservative commentator who is on the board of the New College of Florida, for—among other crimes—refusing to address someone as…
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    House GOP Questions Biden Admin Probe of Christopher Rufo’s Pronoun Use

    House Republicans are asking the Biden administration’s Education Department why it opened an investigation into scholar and commentator Christopher Rufo over his decision not to use the personal pronouns “ze” and “zer.”  Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank who is on the board of the New College of Florida, spoke Wednesday on…
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    Biden Admin’s Revolving Door Into Media Spins Heavily

    No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification. NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the “Today” news program on Saturdays. She is the…
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    ‘Egregiously Obvious’ That Biden Admin Violated First Amendment Rights, Tech Policy Expert Says

    Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, recently tweeted a lengthy thread in hopes of exposing Americans to the so-called Facebook Files. Using all capital letters, Jordan wrote July 27: “THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE.” Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also has tweeted about…
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    Is Obama Pulling Strings on a ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ Biden Administration?

    Who’s running the federal government? That question has been asked frequently as President Joe Biden continues to demonstrate signs of severe physical and mental decline.  The president often seems barely there. It strains credulity that a man who can hardly put a sentence together at this point is fully carrying out his duties as commander…
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    Biden Administration and University Leaders Hold Summit to Strategize Continuing Racial Discrimination

    President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is attempting to circumvent the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against using racial discrimination in college admissions. In its ruling, the Supreme Court found that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina had limited the admission of Asian candidates in favor of other “racial groups.” Citing the 14th Amendment…
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    Details of IRS Whistleblowers’ Testimony That Knocked Biden Administration on Its Heels

    Last week, IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and IRS criminal investigator Joseph Ziegler testified in detail about how Justice Department lawyers and FBI officials hindered their investigation of Hunter Biden‘s financial dealings. Based on the preponderance of evidence about these and past abuses, there is no longer any question that the FBI must be reformed…
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    The Biden Administration’s Plot to Kneecap Merit in Federal Hiring

    In yet another example of the Biden administration’s aggressively woke diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is now proposing to kneecap the government’s ability to hire the most qualified candidates for federal job openings. Its specious reasoning? To close the supposed federal “wage gap” between male and female or white…
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    Americans ‘Are Waking Up’ to Biden Admin’s ‘Assault on Their Retirement Accounts,’ GOP Lawmaker Says

    Investors throughout the U.S. “are being held hostage by those who … don’t want to maximize retirement profits, but rather seek to push a far left social and political agenda,” according to Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. “Forcing lower returns on Americans who are trying to build a securer financial future is wrong,” Huizenga said on…
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    ORDER UPHELD: Judge Blocks Biden Admin’s ‘Orwellian’ Collusion With Big Tech to Suppress Free Speech

    UPDATE July 11, 2023: Judge Terry Doughty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Monday rejected the Biden administration's motion for a stay of his historic July 4 preliminary injunction preventing the administration from pressuring Big Tech to censor Americans. Two days after Doughty issued the injunction, the Biden administration…
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    How This Accountability Group Exposes Biden Admin’s Woke Policies

    The Biden administration’s embrace of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—or DEI—represents an effort to “create equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity,” an advocate of conservative reforms says.  Tarren Bragdon, president and CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, says the Biden administration has taken actions to “use the power of the federal…
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    Biden Admin ‘Grossly Misusing Foreign Aid’ to Push Radical Agenda, Former USAID Official Says

    President Joe Biden’s administration is “grossly misusing foreign aid,” says Max Primorac, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “The Biden administration has subordinated U.S. foreign policy to its radical domestic social agenda and [is] grossly misusing foreign aid as a taxpayer-funded vehicle to promote abortion, gender…
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    Biden Admin’s Greatest Foe? ‘It’s the Moms, Stupid’

    The Biden administration is making clear once again whom it fears the most. It is not China, Russia, or, needless to say, Republicans. No. Enemy No. 1 is America’s mothers and fathers. They stand athwart the administration’s mad dash to remake America, yelling, “Stop!” This much can be gleaned from recent events. First is last week’s announcement that Randi Weingarten,…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Will the Biden Admin Punish States for Protecting Kids From Trans Procedures? Banks Demands Answers

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is demanding President Joe Biden's administration explain whether it will punish states banning transgender surgeries and procedures for children. During a June 13 House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing, Banks pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to address whether he supports the "restriction…
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    Biden Administration Fails to Share Intel on COVID-19 Origins, but Independent Evidence Is Piling Up

    The Biden administration has missed the June 18 statutory deadline for delivering U.S. intelligence information on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to Congress. Despite the missed deadline, the information about its origins is becoming clearer. This is due, in large part, to vigorous congressional oversight and the outstanding work of independent journalists in search…
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    ‘Really Bad Science’: Biden Admin Admits LGBT Lifestyle Produces Worse Mental Health, Addiction

    Americans who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual are far more likely to suffer from major depression and abuse illegal drugs, and are up to six times as likely to attempt suicide, according to a new report from the Biden administration. Although the report admits it cannot “explain the reasons” for these differences, it opens…
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    Fact Check: Biden Admin Says Encounters With Illegal Aliens Are Way Down at Border. Is It True?

    The Biden administration is celebrating a dramatic decrease of 70% in the official number of encounters with illegal aliens in the past month at the nation's southwest border.   “As a result of planning and execution—which combined stiffer consequences for unlawful entry with a historic expansion of lawful pathways and processes—unlawful entries between ports of…
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    In UK Relations, Biden Administration Substitutes ‘Declarations’ for Action

    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak—the U.K.’s third prime minister in the past year—visited the White House on Thursday in his first official trip to the U.S. This is the fourth time that Sunak and President Joe Biden have seen each other in the past four months. But familiarity isn’t breeding much in this relationship. The…
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    Head of ICE Retiring After Biden Administration ‘Did Not Allow Officers to Do Their Job,’ a Predecessor Says

    The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retiring. Tae D. Johnson, the deputy director and senior official performing the duties of the director at ICE, will step down from his position at the end of June.   “I appreciate his service to the country as a career law enforcement officer,” Tom Homan, the…
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