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Biden’s Biggest Blunders in State of the Union
Check out President Joe Biden’s gaffes and strange claims in this video.Daily Signal Staff -
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Sarah Sanders Slams Biden’s ‘Left-Wing Culture War’ in State of the Union Response
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…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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FACT CHECK: Democrats Applaud Biden’s Call for Police Reform, Despite Blocking Recent Effort
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…Fred Lucas -
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FACT CHECK: Biden Touts Success at Southern Border During State of Union Speech
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…Virginia Allen -
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ANALYSIS: Biden’s Plan to Provide Universal Pre-K Education Raises More Problems Than Solutions
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…Tony Kinnett -
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Republicans Erupt, Call Biden ‘LIAR’ Over Medicare Claims
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,…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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FACT CHECK: Biden Boasts That His ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Drove Down Health Costs
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…Fred Lucas -
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FACT CHECK: Biden Calls Jan. 6 Worst Attack on Democracy Since Civil War
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…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Keeps Making Claims About Economy That Just Aren’t True
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…EJ Antoni -
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Asleep at the Wheel? ‘Little Evidence’ Biden Is Requiring Colleges to Report Foreign Cash, Betsy DeVos Says
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…Samantha Aschieris -
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5 Things to Know About Nancy Abudu, Leftist SPLC Lawyer Biden Tapped for 11th Circuit
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…Tyler O’Neil -
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6 Places Investigators Should Search for More Biden Classified Documents
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….Fred Lucas -
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Biden Administration Is Playing Deceitful Shell Game to Claim Fewer Illegal Border Crossings
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…Erin Dwinell -
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6 Failures of Biden’s Presidency in Year 2
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…Jarrett Stepman -
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The Biden Classified Documents Fiasco: What Do We Know So Far?
What do we know—so far, at least—about the Biden classified documents situation? The information provided to the public has come from people who work for, or are otherwise close to, President Joe Biden and has been filtered selectively through a media largely predisposed to protect the president. According to Bob Bauer, who is Biden’s…John G. Malcolm -
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Team Biden Joins School Library Wars, Launching Federal Investigation
“Whoever succeeds in telling the stories to the children gets to control the future.” That was Kirk Cameron’s answer to people wondering why he’s joined the debate over America’s libraries. As parents everywhere fight to keep graphic content out of their children’s hands, Texas officials are warning the battle is taking an ominous turn. It’s not just the…Suzanne Bowdey -
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New Biden Rule Permits Money Managers to Play Politics With Trillions in Retirement Savings
President Joe Biden’s Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people’s retirement savings. The administration is pushing environmental, social, and governance investing, which allows retirement fund managers to select stocks of companies based on their positions on social and environmental issues. Put…Stephen Moore -
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On Classified Documents, Biden Is Out of Excuses
Every president probably stashes away classified documents. The chances of any president being successfully prosecuted for pilfering them are infinitesimal. Nevertheless, Joe Biden has engaged in the same behavior as Donald Trump—perhaps worse, since vice presidents are unable to declassify documents—and precedent and transparency, our very democracy, demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland name a…David Harsanyi -
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House Republicans Ramp Up Probe of Biden Classified Documents
Two House committees on Friday cranked up inquiries into President Joe Biden’s apparent mishandling of classified material, one day after the attorney general named a special counsel to investigate the matter. Oversight and Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., made a follow-up inquiry to the White House, while Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sought answers from…Fred Lucas -
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Experts Explain Real Reason Biden Administration Suggested Banning Gas Stoves
“Someone cooked this up,” says one expert of the Biden administration’s claims that gas stoves pose a health hazard. Steven Milloy, author of multiple books including “Green Hell” and “Scare Pollution,” is one of several experts in energy, the environment, and public health who are calling the administration’s bluff on the danger of gas stoves….Virginia Allen