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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…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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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…Robert Moffit -
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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…Ben Johnson -
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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…Virginia Allen -
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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…Ted Bromund -
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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…Virginia Allen -
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Judge Likens Biden-Big Tech Censorship to Orwell’s ‘1984.’ Admin’s Answers on Free Speech Prove Him Right.
President Joe Biden’s censorship efforts with Big Tech companies have shocked even a federal judge, who asked the administration last week whether the president’s staff had ever read George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984,” because the court case reminded him so much of the censorship in that book. Judge Terry A. Doughty, chief district judge…Tyler O’Neil -
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18 States Sue Biden Administration Over Redefining ‘Illegal Border Crossings’ as ‘Lawful Pathways’
Missouri and 17 other states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over what they call its “unlawful open-border policies.” “The situation at the southern border is out of control, all thanks to Joe Biden,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “He refuses to carry out his…Virginia Allen -
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Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs
As part of its monthlong focus on adolescent health, the Biden administration is promoting a document that tells Planned Parenthood and other taxpayer-funded family planning offices how to talk to minors about sex without their parents overhearing, and how to secretly deliver birth control to adolescents without parental knowledge or consent. Federally funded guidelines instruct…Ben Johnson -
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Biden Admin’s Grants to Left-Wing Projects Aim to ‘Destroy’ Conservatives, Watchdog Says
The Biden administration has weaponized taxpayer-funded anti-terrorism grants to “destroy” conservatives, including Christians and “highly reputable conservative organizations” such as The Heritage Foundation, the Media Research Center contends in a new report. The report, titled “Exposed,” says that a grant program run by the Department of Homeland Security, reorganized under President Joe Biden to focus…Ken McIntyre -
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Biden Admin Says School District Can’t Remove Sexually Explicit Books Because It Violates Students’ Civil Rights
The federal Department of Education concluded an investigation into a Georgia school district Friday, arguing that the removal of several books containing pornographic material “created a hostile environment” for LGBTQ and nonwhite authors and readers, according to a letter. The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Forsyth County School District after…Kate Anderson -
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‘Let’s Take the Fight to Them’: Why This Legal Group Keeps Suing Biden Administration
An organization called America First Legal has filed at least two dozen lawsuits against the Biden administration. “We need to fight for the American people, advance conservative principles, and be there to really make a difference,” Gene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel for America First Legal, says. Hamilton served as counselor to the attorney…Virginia Allen -
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Fact-Checking Biden Admin’s Claim That Illegal Immigration Drops With End of Title 42
President Joe Biden and administration officials say that fewer illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border into the U.S. since the end of Title 42. Title 42, a public health measure allowing quick removal of illegal aliens, was lifted late Thursday night with the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, border and immigration experts…Fred Lucas -
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GOP Highlights Attacks on Pregnancy Centers, Pro-Lifers Under Biden Admin
WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers on a House Judiciary subcommittee spent Tuesday morning highlighting President Joe Biden’s administration’s apparently selective use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. During the “Revisiting the Implications of the FACE Act” hearing, the lawmakers brought forward Mark Houck as a witness. Houck is the father of seven children who…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Biden Administration’s 82% Cut to Allowable Catch Imperils New England Fishermen, Trade Group Warns
Jerry Leeman III grew up in a family of commercial fishermen in Harpswell, Maine, and says he and others are ready to oppose aggressive federal regulations that could strike a “death blow” to their livelihoods. After being in commercial fishing for 28 years, this week he launched the New England Fishermen Stewardship Association, the first…Fred Lucas -
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‘Disaster’: State Financial Officers Slam Biden Admin’s ‘Upside Down’ Mortgage Policy
A new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy that took effect Monday "will have the net effect of making it significantly more expensive for people with good credit to buy houses," according to almost three dozen state financial officers. Thirty-four state financial officers shared their "deep concern with the new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy" in…Samantha Aschieris -
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GOP Lawmakers Press Biden Administration Official on Whereabouts of 85,000 Migrant Children
“Please do better,” Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., told a Biden administration official responsible for caring for children who cross unaccompanied and unlawfully into the United States. “I have always promised to hold the powerful to account, regardless of political party,” Porter said during a Tuesday hearing, speaking to Robin Dunn Marcos, director of the…Virginia Allen -
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EXCLUSIVE: Smith Blasts Biden Admin for Barring Priests From Ministering at Military Center
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith tore into President Joe Biden's administration for barring Catholic priests from ministering to service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, warning that the move calls into question "the Federal Government’s respect for, and protection of, the innate religious rights of Catholics in…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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3 Ways New State Attorney General Aims to Hold Biden Administration, the Left Accountable
A whistleblower says a transgender clinic at a children’s hospital in St. Louis is lying to parents about gender treatments. Now, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an investigation into the clinic to find out what’s really going on inside the four walls of the children’s hospital. “We’re looking to shut these types of…Virginia Allen -
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Job Creators Network Head Slams Biden Admin, Democrats for ‘Reckless Spending’
The president of the Job Creators Network says "reckless spending" by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats has diluted Americans' buying power, in a response to a government report Thursday on two key price indexes. "Persistently rising wholesale prices hurt small businesses, which tend to operate on tiny profit margins that inflation erodes," Alfredo Ortiz,…Samantha Aschieris