The Daily Signal reports on Joe Biden’s current political role, public statements, and party influence, with updates on investigations, policy advocacy, and his standing among Democrats.
A key House committee issued a subpoena to the FBI on Wednesday for a document that Republican lawmakers say potentially implicates President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme while he served as vice president. House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., signed on to a letter with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member…
As Americans deal with an economic hangover of high inflation and rising interest rates caused in large part by Washington’s irresponsible spending spree, House Republicans have delivered a legislative package to address these problems. Troublingly, leading Democrats are making patently false claims that will make it more difficult for the two sides to find common…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans in Congress are moving to rein in President Joe Biden’s executive order putting federal agencies in the business of getting out the vote. Their proposed legislation would defund any federally backed voter mobilization drives and prohibit the government from entering election-related agreements with private, nonprofit organizations to mobilize voters. Rep….
Democrats whine on and on about “The Big Lie.” In their minds, this phrase summarizes President Donald Trump’s argument that vote fraud, ballot irregularities, and ninth-inning rules changes sank his 2020 reelection bid. However, Democrats are mum about the Big Lie that slimed Joe Biden into the White House. Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell recently sang like a sparrow to the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. He explained how he,…
Your teenage daughter is training seven days a week, going for that college scholarship. She’s worked her whole life to excel, only to come up short thanks to a biological male who claims to identify as a girl. This nightmare could be yours, courtesy of President Joe Biden. Every day, it seems the federal government…
The president and chief executive officer of the Job Creators Network says “the economy is stagnating” following the release of the gross domestic product report on Thursday. “Today’s GDP report confirms what ordinary Americans and small businesses already know: The economy is stagnating,” Alfredo Ortiz said in a statement. “The continuation of the slow- or no-growth economy…
Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, testified that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who at the time was a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, “played a role in the inception” of the Oct. 19, 2020, letter from 51 former intelligence officials suggesting that “the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian…
The U.S. military evacuated official personnel from the embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday as civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and armed conflict plague the country. However, State Department officials indicate that because of the violence, the U.S. government might not help to evacuate as many as 16,000 Americans who remain. “That the U.S. was unprepared and…
Biden administration officials “want the cartels to maximize profits,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton contends. President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have created “opportunities for the cartels to expand their network, not just in Mexico or Central America, but across our country,” Paxton, a Republican, says. Since Biden took office, more than…
“She is the first woman in history to win the 100 and 200 meters in back-to-back Olympics.” That is how USA Today summarized the performance of Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Jamaican sprinter who dominated women’s track events in the COVID-delayed 2021 Olympics. Thompson-Herah won a third gold medal in Tokyo that year as the first runner…
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has announced an aggressive new auto tailpipe emissions rule that would ban most new cars and trucks that don’t run on batteries. In exchange for reductions in CO2 and other tailpipe emissions, the EPA plans to take away Americans’ freedom to choose our cars. It also touts the benefits…
The chief of the George Soros-backed Open Society Foundations, viewed as key to advancing the Biden administration agenda, is leaving his post in July. Tom Perriello, a former Democratic U.S. House member from Virginia, has been executive director of the foundations for five years. He is leaving the job and turning it over to the…
President Joe Biden is proposing a plan for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to receive subsidized health care through Obamacare and Medicaid. If the plan is finalized, illegal aliens who were brought to America as children will be eligible for the health care programs. “[M]y administration is announcing our plan to…
President Joe Biden is set to “transform” and “remake” the entire auto industry—“first with carrots, now with sticks”—notes The Washington Post, as if dictating the output of a major industry is within the governing purview of the executive branch. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing draconian emissions limits for vehicles, ensuring that 67% of all…
President Joe Biden “has been missing in action and misleading the public,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday in New York as the debt ceiling debate continued in Washington. “I met with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 1—75 days ago,” McCarthy said in a speech at the New York Stock Exchange…
Regarding electric vehicles, President Joe Biden cannot simply use his bully pulpit to preach EVs’ virtues. Gift-wrapping them in lavish taxpayer-funded subsidies is not enough for Biden, either. So, this dictator rules by fiat. Rather than ask Congress to enact a pro-EV law, Emperor Biden issued a decree on Wednesday, via the Environmental Protection Agency….
Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States? Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency? Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil? Why is the president of Brazil…
The National Archives and Records Administration is pushing back after revelations this week that the White House appears to have played a role in the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida in August. But America First Legal, which first obtained the records, said the belated response shows a misunderstanding of…
An economist says that "inflation is far from dead" after the consumer price index report showed inflation rose 0.1% in March, up 5% from March 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. "Today's inflation data show prices rising more than twice as fast as the Fed's target 2.0% rate," EJ Antoni, a research…
The Biden White House potentially played a role in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, based on government emails obtained by the America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog group. AFL obtained the information through a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Archives and Records Administration, and on Monday followed with additional records requests. …