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In a move that has gotten little notice in the press, the Biden administration is proposing federal hiring rules that easily could be abused to deny employment to anyone who questions liberal, woke policies, criticizes the government, or belongs to a politically incorrect organization. The vague, nebulous language of the proposed changes in existing government…
Like Nero bragging about rebuilding Circus Maximus after burning it down, President Joe Biden took to the podium Tuesday night to take credit for solving a slew of problems he helped create. At the top of his State of the Union address, the president boasted that he had “more jobs created in two years than…
The Biden administration recently announced it’s considering declaring a “public health emergency” on abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in June that overturned Roe v. Wade. “This stupidity never ends with this administration,” Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., told The Daily Signal when asked about the possible…
In his second State of the Union address, President Joe Biden on Tuesday night covered everything from the economy and Medicare to gun control, fentanyl, and Big Tech in remarks lasting about an hour and 12 minutes. Ryan Walker, vice president of government relations for Heritage Action for America, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to…
President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday night. (His address in 2021 was to a joint session of Congress but not a true State of the Union speech because he had just taken office, although that’s a distinction likely lost on audiences outside Washington.) Meanwhile, RealClearPolitics co-founder and President Tom…
During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden made several notable claims. The Daily Signal team checked them out to see if the facts add up—or if some crucial context was missing. 1. Inflation Reduction Act and Health Care Costs Biden touted the $740 billion spending bill Democrats dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, claiming…
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, celebrated a new generation of leadership battling radical left-wing agendas in her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday. “A new generation of Republican leaders is stepping up … not to be caretakers of the status quo, but to be changemakers for the American…
President Joe Biden introduced the parents of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old man who was fatally beaten by Memphis police officers, as he called for police reform Tuesday night during his State of the Union address. Biden left out the fact that Senate Democrats blocked a police reform bill in 2020. “There are no words to…
President Joe Biden touted his policies at the southern border Tuesday night during his second State of the Union address. “We now have a record number of personnel working to secure the border, arresting 8,000 human smugglers and seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last several months,” Biden said. U.S. Customs and…
President Joe Biden claimed that “12 years is not enough to win the economic competition for the 21st century” in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. “If you want America to have the best-educated workforce, let’s finish the job by providing access to preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds,” Biden continued. Although providing opportunities…
House Republicans booed President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening over the president’s claim that the GOP wants to cut Medicare and Social Security. “Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years,” Biden said. “That means if Congress doesn’t vote to keep them,…
President Joe Biden touted the $740 billion spending bill Democrats dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, claiming during his State of the Union address Tuesday night that the new law will decrease health care costs. “With the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law, we’re taking on powerful interests to bring your health care costs…
During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden celebrated how far the country has come since the COVID-19 pandemic-induced recession, but he also referenced the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, repeating his claim that it was the “greatest threat” to American democracy since the Civil War. He noted that his second State…
President Joe Biden has gotten into a revisionist history habit. He has repeatedly claimed that he inherited an economic disaster. It was his policies, he alleges, which brought us back from the brink—and Biden is likely to repeat that narrative in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The only problem with Biden’s…
Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says “there’s little evidence to suggest” the Biden administration and the Education Department are enforcing the law on foreign funding for colleges and universities. “The colleges complained vociferously when we asked them to simply do what they were supposed to do under the law and report their funding,” DeVos told The Daily Signal in a…
Updated May 18: The Senate voted 49-47 Thursday along party lines to confirm President Joe Biden's nomination of Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, for a seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Abudu's confirmation to the appeals judgeship, in which Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was the only…
The classified information from the Obama-Biden administration discovered Nov. 2 at a Biden-friendly think tank in Washington must have been moved there sometime after it opened in early 2018. It’s not clear where the documents were kept after Jan. 20, 2017, when Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, left office after eight years….
The Biden administration is getting ready to claim that its new immigration “parole” process is a success—drastically cutting down the number of immigrants illegally crossing the southern border between ports of entry. What it won’t tell you is that it’s playing a crooked shell game—simply taking the same illegal aliens and shifting the processing burden…
Are you better off than you were two years ago? A number of reports on Saturday suggested that White House chief of staff Ron Klain will step down after the State of the Union address next month. So, it’s a good time to look back on the Biden presidency so far. Last year, just before…