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Biden Administration ‘Hopes’ Gas Doesn’t Reach $4 a Gallon, Energy Secretary Says
The Biden administration hopes the price of gasoline won’t reach $4 per gallon, but Americans should expect higher energy costs, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said. “We certainly hope not,” Granholm said when asked if the price at the pump would surpass that threshold, during a CNN interview Sunday. Granholm then blamed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting… -
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Were Biden’s Claims at COP26 Climate Change Summit Accurate?
President Joe Biden returned from Scotland early on Wednesday after delivering his climate change agenda at the COP26 climate change summit. From energy policy to the supposed costs imposed by climate change, the president’s remarks covered a range of topics. To better understand the president’s climate change agenda, The Daily Signal spoke with Katie Tubb,… -
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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, but Biden Says Free Community College?
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ free community college plan will increase costs for both students and taxpayers. Fortunately, the Biden-Harris promise of free community college appears less likely to make it into the final version of the Build Back Better Act, the $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend plan currently under debate in Congress. The… -
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Biden’s Irresponsible ‘Build Back Better’ Tax-and-Spend Scheme Risks Higher Inflation
Rising prices continue to erode Americans’ paychecks, supply chain problems are causing gridlock at U.S. ports, and stores have bare shelves as Christmas approaches. Worse, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged that he expects the supply-side issues to persist into next year. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s top legislative priority—the so-called Build Back Better plan—is a $3.5… -
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Sean Spicer’s Road Map for Stopping Biden’s Radical Plan to Change Our Nation
Sean Spicer wants you to take President Joe Biden at his word—his policy agenda really will radically transform America as we know it. Spicer’s new book, “Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America,” details the Biden administration’s agenda and how it is already proving disastrous. He also provides readers with a… -
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The Ideology Behind Biden’s Disastrous First 9 Months
Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the… -
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‘Complete Open Border Is Just Not Sustainable,’ Border Chief Ousted by Biden Says
As a onetime U.S. Border Patrol chief, Rodney Scott previously kept his questions and objections about policies he considered unsustainable to himself. But now, after the Biden administration ousted the nearly three-decade agency veteran, Scott is speaking out. “We have to be able to control the border to simply know who and what is coming… -
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Rubio Delays Vote on Biden Nominee Over ‘Defense of Infanticide’
Sen. Marco Rubio has delayed a committee vote on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead global health development at the U.S. Agency for International Development, citing the nominee’s past comments on gruesome partial-birth abortion techniques. “Atul Gawande’s defense of infanticide is disqualifying,” the Florida Republican said in a statement. “Infanticide should be condemned, not celebrated,… -
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Biden on Energy Crisis: Begging Others to Save Him From Himself
President Joe Biden is drowning in a sea of crises of his own creation, and Americans are the ones who are paying the price. There’s an ongoing humanitarian and national security calamity at the southern border. Thirteen U.S. service members are dead, and an unknown number of our citizens remain stranded in Afghanistan following Biden’s… -
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Lawsuit Alleges Cronyism at Biden EPA to ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Green Agenda
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is violating the law in a “purge” of advisory committees in order to “rubber-stamp” regulations, a lawsuit alleges, and in the process sweeping away a Trump administration policy against conflicts of interest. The lead plaintiff in the case is Stanley Young, who in March was ousted from the EPA’s… -
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Biden Administration Tries to Use Intimidation to Silence Parents
Under a patina of impartiality, fact-checkers have long engaged in a uniquely dishonest genre of journalism, claiming mastery over truth and facts when, most often, they are merely editorializing on highly debatable contentions. Here, The Associated Press, once the most reliable straight-news source in the nation, claims that a viral tweet from critical race theory… -
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Biden Vows to ‘Get This Done’ After Meeting With House Democrats on Giant Spending Bills
President Joe Biden told reporters Friday that he was in no rush to see his $1.1 trillion infrastructure package and separate $3.5 trillion spending bill pass Congress, as divisions among Democrats over the two measures slow their path to becoming law. “We’re gonna get this done,” Biden said after meeting with the House Democratic Caucus on Capitol… -
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Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster: Predictable and Not Over
A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday put a bright spotlight on President Joe Biden’s imprudent withdrawal from Afghanistan. At one point, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, asked Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, some simple yes-or-no questions about its consequences. “Has the military’s task to defeat terror threats from Afghanistan… -
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Biden Struggles to Corral His Party Over Trillions in Spending
President Joe Biden expressed confidence Friday that Congress will pass both a $3.5 trillion spending bill and a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, although the more expensive measure is backed only by his fellow Democrats. Biden is facing a divided party as more centrist Democrats from purple and red states express concern about the price tag… -
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Biden Talks Tough on Nicaragua, but Caves to Vicious Regime
In recent months, Nicaragua’s brutal and longtime dictator-president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, have plunged the Central American nation into an unprecedented human rights and political crisis—just hours south of the U.S. border. So far, the Biden administration’s response has been weak. Elected with just 38% of the vote in… -
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Twitter and the ‘Fact-Checkers’ Line Up for Biden
Twitter makes it easy to realize that the purpose of “fact-checkers” is most commonly rushing to defend President Joe Biden from misinterpretation … and mockery. On Sept. 20, Twitter warned, “A video of President Biden discussing hurricane preparedness has been edited out of context, according to fact-checkers.” Tweets aired this clip of Biden from Aug…. -
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Is Biden Bringing Terrorists From Afghanistan to America?
Is President Joe Biden bringing terrorists from Afghanistan to the United States? The answer: Even Biden himself cannot know for sure. The Biden administration is bringing two distinct types of evacuees into the U.S. from Afghanistan. Some hold Special Immigrant Visas. Others are so-called parolees. In June, the Congressional Research Service published a report explaining… -
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Cruz Urges Ocasio-Cortez, Democrats to Visit ‘Biden Cages’ for Kids at Border
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited portion of remarks Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, delivered in a Senate floor speech Wednesday. I’ll tell you, I’ve been to the border. I’ve been to the Biden cages. For four years, Democrats went on and on and on. The corrupt corporate media went on and on and on… -
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Biden ‘Incompetent,’ ‘Unfit’ to Serve, Republican Study Committee Chairman Says
President Joe Biden’s administration has been a “constant crisis” and has confirmed the suspicion of many Americans that he is “incompetent” and “unfit” for office, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks said Tuesday. The Indiana congressman cited the escalating crises at the southern border and in Afghanistan as needing oversight hearings in Congress, but he… -
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As Biden Continues to Foment Border Crisis, Governors Step Up
With President Joe Biden’s administration completely neglecting the crisis at the southern border, states have to step up to secure the nation and keep Americans safe. To nobody’s surprise, one state doing so is Texas. As the Biden administration wastes millions of taxpayer dollars each day by not continuing to build a border wall, Texas…