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House Set to Vote on Bill to Revoke Biden-Era Overdraft Regulation
A Senate bill that would rescind a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule on overdraft protection is headed for a vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told The Daily Signal that the regulation issued by the Biden administration would have led to few financial options for… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Department of Education Met With Far-Left Groups While Discussing Pro-Trans Title IX Rewrite
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights under President Joe Biden held multiple stakeholder meetings with leftist groups—including the Human Rights Campaign—while attempting to finalize its pro-transgender Title IX rules, new documents show. Between April 2023, when the civil rights office released its first draft of rules, and April 2024,… -
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Did President Biden Make Fires Worse at the Beck and Call of an Environmentalist Group?
As fires ravage the Carolinas and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declares a state of emergency, I remember how my brother and I spent long, hot summers in rural Colorado, cleaning up dry brush and dead wood to protect our mountain home from fires. My father, a volunteer fireman, taught us the importance of forest… -
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Biden Autopen Actions ‘Non-Delegable’ and ‘Invalid,’ Legal Analysis Finds
The pardon authority is the president’s alone and cannot be delegated, according to a legal analysis by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The watchdog group—which first conducted an analysis of former President Joe Biden’s White House use of autopen—released a memo late Monday night on the matter, bringing the numerous acts of clemency into question. … -
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The Joe Biden ‘Now They Tell Us’ Phenomenon
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to talk today about this sudden phenomenon of “Now they tell us.” I don’t… -
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Biden-Pardoned Jan. 6 Committee Members Can’t Likely Invoke Fifth Amendment
After a congressional report alleged that Jan. 6 Committee members deleted documents and tampered with a witness, outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned every member. But that pardon could help the House GOP get closer to the truth. Legal experts point to Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1896 that would likely mean the Constitution’s Fifth… -
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We Need a Book on the Scandal of Biden’s Decline
CNN host Jake Tapper announced that he and Axios reporter (and CNN analyst) Alex Thompson have a book coming out in May titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” They promise “an unflinching and explosive reckoning.” Conservative reaction was fierce. CNN was part of the cover-up. You… -
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Turns Out Top Execs of Org Picked for Billions by Biden EPA Are Big-Time Democrat Donors
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Top executives of a green organization that the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency selected to receive billions in public funds have collectively made hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal political donations to Democratic candidates and organizations in recent years, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Federal Election Commission data found…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Education Department Investigates Civil Rights Violations Ignored by Biden
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has hit the ground running by initiating investigations into antisemitism, threats to women’s sports and private spaces, and other violations ignored by the Biden administration. The Office for Civil Rights is a subagency of the Department of Education dedicated to addressing discrimination complaints…. -
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Historic Plummet in Illegal Border Crossings Reveals the Root Cause of the Biden Border Crisis
The massive flood of illegal aliens across the southern border has become a trickle, disappearing almost as swiftly as it first emerged four years ago. The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas reported on Tuesday that, according to the White House and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the number of border apprehensions in January fell to the lowest point… -
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Republicans Look to Redirect Global AIDS Relief Funding Diverted by Biden to Support Abortion Promotion
The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief is supposed to be a major lifesaving program from the United States to the world. Under then-President Joe Biden, however, it was used to promote abortion abroad. Now, Republicans in Congress are seeking to remove the PEPFAR’s promotion of abortion through its sponsorship of organizations that support the… -
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What Biden Gets Wrong About ‘Oligarchs’
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. The word “oligarchs” is in the news lately. I think all of you may have heard or tuned in to Joe Biden’s farewell address, where… -
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‘Pardongate’: Biden’s Pardons of Fauci, Milley, J6 Committee, Family Spark Questions, Outrage
President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to family members, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, protest. “Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” Biden announced Monday… -
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Biden Responsible for Single Greatest Disaster in Foreign Policy in a Century
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Joe Biden is on his way out of office and as a farewell to all of us, he reviewed the state of affairs abroad to… -
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‘Restore Law and Order’: Cotton Responds to Additional Biden Commutations
In the twilight of his tenure in office, President Joe Biden declared on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of 2,500 inmates incarcerated on drug offenses. This is in addition to the 1,500 commutations he gave out last month. The president noted that his most recent use of the pardon powers given to him by… -
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Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’
Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of whispering and fiery shouting, Biden apparently felt he had to lie or mislead about almost every one of his “achievements.” Yet to the extent that… -
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‘I’ve Never Seen an Outgoing President [Show] Such Contempt for the Voters,’ Ted Cruz Says of Joe Biden
This is a lightly edited transcript of Tony Kinnett’s interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Tony Kinnett: Welcome back to “The Tony Kinnett Cast” here on The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WYBC. It’s a pleasure to be joined again by Sen. Ted Cruz, this time, not on the phone dashing from one… -
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Fact-Checking 3 Claims in Biden’s Farewell Address
President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night. In his speech, Biden touted his record on the economy and his support for “democracy.” “The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France after our Civil War, like the very idea of America, it was built not by one person, but by… -
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The Buck Never Stopped With Joe Biden
When Donald Trump is sworn in next week, America will have a president for the first time in four years. The Joe Biden era hasn’t been a presidency but an interregnum, with seemingly no one in charge in Washington. The sign on Harry Truman’s desk used to say, “The buck stops here.” Where did it… -
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Special Counsel: ‘Well-Educated’ Hunter Biden Aware of Crimes
Hunter Biden knew exactly what he was doing when he committed felonies related to gun possession and not paying his taxes, special counsel David Weiss argued in his final report of outgoing President Joe Biden’s son. After a sweeping pardon in December, the president sought to cast his son in a sympathetic light. Weiss—who led…