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‘Transparently Crooked’: Biden-Harris Admin Buying Votes With Medicare Changes, Experts Say
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in September that it would be reducing certain Medicare prescription drug premiums in what experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation called a ploy to buy votes before the November election. Enrollees in the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit are slated…Owen Klinsky -
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Biden-Harris Admin Raids FEMA Funds to Resettle Illegal Aliens
Editor’s note: This commentary originally was published in September 2023. Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden-Harris administration is highly adept at hiding how it funds its open-borders agenda. In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White House is trying to push through a $40…Simon Hankinson -
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Republican Governors HUMILIATE Biden
Republican governors clean up President Joe Biden’s mess in both disaster recovery and the longshoremen’s port strike; the world still doesn’t care what the unelected wife of the president thinks; and scammers are just as annoying as ever. On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we give you the tools you need to…Tony Kinnett -
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Biden-Harris Inflation Wreaks Supply Chain Havoc With Dock Strike
On Monday, nearly 50,000 workers at 36 ports with the International Longshoremen’s Association began striking, the latest failure of Biden-Harris economic policies. The workers are demanding higher pay, a backlash against the record 20% cumulative inflation under the failed leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. This strike could have major inflationary…Carrie Sheffield -
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Biden-Harris Border Policy Encourages ‘Unspeakable Acts’ of Suffering
Kamala Harris traveled to Arizona to visit the southern border on a campaign trip on Friday—a trip House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green described as “little more than the arsonist returning to the scene of the fire.” “This issue [immigration] cannot be reduced to a political issue,” Vice President Harris declared in 2021…Sydney Hudson -
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Just How Deep of a Hole Is the Biden-Harris Administration in, Anyway?
After a disastrous vice presidential debate, embarrassment on the world stage from Israel and Iran, and a crippling longshoremen’s strike, a desperate last-minute move signals that the Harris/Walz campaign has finally run out of ”vibes,” “joy,” and ideas. On this latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dig into each of these three reasons…Tony Kinnett -
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Hurricane Helene Response Highlights Biden and Harris’ Failure to Lead
In the wake of a catastrophic disaster, effective leadership and a rapid, coordinated response are critical to mitigating the impacts and restoring public confidence. That’s not what is happening. The aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm and caused catastrophic flooding in North Carolina, has revealed significant gaps in the…Brian Cavanaugh -
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Biden-Harris Justice Department Follows SPLC Script on Noncitizen Voting Cases
The Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for removing more than 3,000 noncitizens from voter rolls just weeks after a coalition of left-leaning groups—including the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center—filed a similar lawsuit. Alabama is far from a battleground state, but the Justice Department’s move could have national consequences by setting a legal precedent for…Fred Lucas -
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Biden-Harris Education Department’s Financial Aid Form Failures Have Left Students, Families in Lurch
The U.S. Department of Education had millions of phone calls from families to its call center go unanswered and had technical glitches plague its student-aid application processing. Nearly 75% of calls seeking help went unanswered more than five months, and understaffed call-center representatives told families to “try again later” in what was part of a…Madison Marino Doan -
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‘Unprecedented’: Retired Border Patrol Chief Blows Whistle on How Biden-Harris Admin Hid Border Crisis
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Retired Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott blew the whistle to the Daily Caller News Foundation on what he calls the Biden-Harris administration’s going to great lengths to hide the illegal immigration crisis from the public, just days after a current sector chief made similar claims. Aaron Heitke, a former chief patrol agent for the…Jason Hopkins -
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Did Biden, Harris Know There’s ‘Scant Evidence’ for ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ When They Pushed It on Kids? Group Demands Answers
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly supported "gender-affirming care" for "transgender" minors, but the National Institutes of Health has approved multiple research grants acknowledging there is "scant evidence" to support the idea that experimental medical interventions improve the lives of children who identify as the opposite sex….Tyler O’Neil -
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Joe Biden Refuses to Let Go of Kamala Harris
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we cast our lots on the key determining factor of every American presidential contest: Which candidate is going to make a mistake in the final stretch that costs him or her the election? Who is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with under…Tony Kinnett -
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Biden-Harris Admin’s Border Crisis Was by Design, House Report Says
Unprecedented numbers of violent gang members, drug cartel operatives, and aliens on the terror watchlist are among the estimated 11.6 million illegal aliens expected to have entered the United States during the Biden-Harris administration, a report released Wednesday by the House Committee on Homeland Security states. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ open…Brandy Perez -
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Eric Adams Claims Innocence, Says Biden-Harris Admin Targeted Him
THE DAILY CALLER FOUNDATION—Democratic Mayor Eric Adams of New York City said on Wednesday that he was “innocent” after being indicted by a federal grand jury following multiple federal investigations, accusing the Biden administration of retaliating against him for criticizing its “broken immigration policies.” Federal prosecutors in New York secured an indictment against the former New York…Harold Hutchison -
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Efforts by UN, Biden to Eliminate Fossil Fuels Would Leave Billions in Poverty Worldwide
It’s Climate Week at the United Nations in New York, and the U.N. General Assembly on Sunday voted to phase out fossil fuels, at the same time abandoning its sustainable development goals of eliminating poverty and hunger. That’s because no nation has ever eliminated poverty and hunger without fossil fuels. Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t…Diana Furchtgott-Roth -
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8 Dems Vote With Republicans Against Biden-Harris Admin’s Electric Vehicle Mandate
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House passed a bill Friday that would overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s de facto electric vehicle mandate if it becomes law. By a 215-191 vote, the House approved H.J. Res. 136, a bill that would vacate the Environmental Protection Agency’s tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles if it passes the Senate and is signed…Nick Pope -
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Women Are Dying Because Biden-Harris’ FDA Removed Safeguards on Abortion Pills
TV icon Oprah Winfrey lent her star power to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, but sadly their segment on the story of Amber Nicole Thurman shows Harris is anti-science and refuses to take responsibility for the failures of the Biden-Harris Food and Drug Administration’s lax abortion-drug policies, which harm women. Thurman—whose case Harris also highlighted…Carrie Sheffield -
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Stunning Costs of Biden-Harris’ ‘America-Last’ Border Policies—Part 2: The BorderLine
Last week, I looked at the effects of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy on crime and jobs. This week, I want to look at its increasingly devastating effect on public housing and public services and how that affects everyday Americans. Since January 2021, the administration has used a variety of quasi-legal fudges to treat millions…Simon Hankinson -
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Biden-Harris Price Controls Causing Senior Drug Prices to Skyrocket
If there’s one axiom, we all know about Washington, D.C., is that it’s full of well-intentioned policies and unintended (read: harmful) consequences. A recent reminder of unintended policy consequences is the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. The IRA was passed in August 2022, and according to its champions in Congress and the White House, it was…Martin Hoyt -
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The Stunning Costs of Biden-Harris’ ‘America-Last’ Border Policies—Part 1: The BorderLine
To sum up the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies in a phrase, I’d say “America Last.” Over nearly four years, we have seen the results of an unprecedented experiment: What happens when a first world country abandons its legal limits and processes on immigration and allows nearly unlimited, unvetted migration? This is effectively what the Biden-Harris…Simon Hankinson