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Republican Response to Biden State of the Union Highlights Border, Economy, and Foreign Policy Failures
In the official Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt highlighted several of the Biden administration’s failings—most notably, its handling of the southern border, which she called “a disgrace.” The Alabama senator declared, “Biden didn’t just create this border crisis, he invited it with 94 executive…Noah Slayter -
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SMOKING GUN: Biden DOJ Took Advice From Group Demonizing Concerned Parents, Docs Show
The Justice Department arm focused on prosecuting “hate crimes” welcomed input from a far-left organization known for demonizing conservatives and Christians right after that organization put parental rights groups, including Moms for Liberty, on a “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan, documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveal. (The Daily Signal is…Tyler O’Neil -
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Biden Administration Indicts Doctor Who Blew Whistle on Gender Treatments for Minors
UPDATED: JUNE 7 The Biden administration has indicted a doctor after he blew the whistles on sex change procedures for minors. U.S. marshals visited Dr. Eithan Haim’s home this week and summoned him to appear in court. Haim is facing four felony counts of violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as…Virginia Allen -
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Biden Appears to Contradict His Homeland Secretary on Border Security
There seems to be at least one impenetrable barrier connected to this country’s southwest border. It’s the one that stands between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and an accurate assessment of what’s actually happening there. In September 2020, the last month of that fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered 54,771 aliens trying to illegally…Terence Jeffrey -
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Congressman to Bring Abortion Survivor to State of Union Address in Response to Pro-Abortion Biden Guest
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Bob Good is bringing an abortion survivor and pro-life activist to the president’s State of the Union address as his guest on Thursday night. The Virginia Republican’s choice of guest is a response to President Joe Biden’s guest, Kate Cox, the woman at the center of pro-abortion uproar in recent…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Ads Target Biden Admin’s Efforts to Curb New Gas-Powered Vehicles
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers trade association released two new advertisements on Wednesday about the Biden administration’s efforts to drive gas-powered vehicles off the roads and replace them with electric vehicles. The ads, which are part of the association’s “seven-figure issue campaign raising awareness” in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, aim “to inform…Samantha Aschieris -
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Court Rules Biden Admin Can’t Force Christian Health Care Workers to Perform Trans Surgeries
A district court ruled Monday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission violated the First Amendment by attempting to force religious health care workers to provide gender-transition procedures. In 2021, the Christian Employers Alliance filed a lawsuit against the EEOC over two mandates requiring religious employers to provide health insurance that covered gender transitions as well as forcing…Kate Anderson -
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White House Silent After Former Border Patrol Chief Says Biden, Harris ‘Never Had 1 Conversation’ With Him
The White House has remained quiet since Raul Ortiz’s comment that he didn’t talk with either President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris while serving as chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. “I’ve never had one conversation with the president, or the vice president for that matter,” Ortiz said during an interview on…Virginia Allen -
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Venezuela Is Exporting Its Violent Crime Problem to US, Thanks to Biden
Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants. It’s not hard to figure out why. The killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, has become the latest and most prominent case of an American…Jarrett Stepman -
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Here’s What Happens When Matt Gaetz Interrogates Presidential Brother James Biden
James Biden told congressional investigators that his older brother, President Joe Biden, made loans to him of $200,000 and $40,000 without charging interest, but that he has no documentation of the transactions. “There weren’t any,” the president’s younger brother testified, according to a just-released transcript of his Feb. 21 deposition. Jim Biden, who at one…Fred Lucas -
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Fact-Checking 4 Big Claims Biden Made at the Border in Texas
President Joe Biden visited the southern border Thursday in Brownsville, Texas, where he delivered remarks flanked by local officials and by his recently impeached secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas. Biden made numerous claims and largely blamed Republicans for the influx of millions of illegal aliens because a compromise border security bill failed to pass…Fred Lucas -
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What Biden Plans to Do Thursday at Southern Border
President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Thursday with U.S. Border Patrol officials and local leaders in Brownsville, Texas, as part of his second trip to the southern border amid what the top House Republican calls the “catastrophe” that has occurred there on Biden’s watch. Biden’s trip comes as House Republicans push the president…Fred Lucas -
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House Republicans Demand Answers on Biden Admin’s Expensive, Stalled-Out EV Charger Program
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are demanding answers from two federal agencies regarding the Biden administration’s lagging electric vehicle charger subsidy program. Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, and H. Morgan Griffith of Virginia wrote to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on…Nick Pope -
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Why Won’t Legacy Media Investigate James Biden?
Politico is a member in good standing of the “establishment media.” Its journalists rotate in and out, to and from other pro-Biden outlets. But when Politico has a reporter who delves into the Biden family influence-peddling business, you can expect that work to be ignored routinely. Ben Schreckinger authored a book in the fall of…Tim Graham -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Rule Would Deprive Pregnancy Resource Centers of Funds and Favor Abortion Groups, Conservatives Warn
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization, Advancing American Freedom, is leading conservative groups in calling on Republicans in Congress to defund a pro-abortion rule backed by President Joe Biden’s administration that would punish pro-life centers. “We, as leaders of the pro-life movement, request that you defund the rulemaking process for the…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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How Many More Female Athletes Will Be Injured by Trans Players Before Biden Gives Up Trying to Rewrite Title IX?
An injury on a high school girls basketball team is another reminder of why Title IX exists and why the definition of “sex” is not up for interpretation. A high school girls basketball team decided to forfeit a game earlier this month after a male athlete playing for the other team injured one of the…Virginia Allen -
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25th Amendment Push Intensifies Against Biden
Members of Congress continue to suggest that President Joe Biden should be removed under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution—even after a psychiatrist who led a national movement to oust his predecessor called cognitive decline “normal.” Special counsel Robert Hur issued a report earlier this month finding that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,”…Fred Lucas -
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Jim Jordan Rips DOJ for Indicting Biden FBI Informant While Letting Steele Dossier Author Off the Hook
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, hinted Wednesday that the Department of Justice is operating under a double standard after it moved to indict an FBI informant who allegedly provided false evidence of corruption involving President Joe Biden, while letting the author of the debunked Steele dossier off the hook. Special counsel David Weiss indicted Alexander Smirnov—who told the FBI in…Jason Cohen -
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USDA Colludes With Left-Wing Group to Turn Out Voters Under Biden Order, Documents Reveal
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with a left-wing advocacy group to boost voter turnout as part of President Joe Biden’s executive order directing federal agencies to get involved in elections. The USDA worked directly with Demos, a New York-based group that helped draft Biden’s Executive Order 14019, according to records obtained by The…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Traps Veterans on VA Plantation
Democrats constantly crow about their faith in “the right to choose.” But that applies to little beyond abortion. Any woman who chooses to buy a gun or send her child to a charter school should expect “pro-choice” Democrats to stand in her way. Democrats crave control and uniformity, even when it comes to medical care…Deroy Murdock