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Biden ‘Missing in Action’ on Debt Ceiling, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Says
President Joe Biden “has been missing in action and misleading the public,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday in New York as the debt ceiling debate continued in Washington. “I met with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 1—75 days ago,” McCarthy said in a speech at the New York Stock Exchange… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Smith Blasts Biden Admin for Barring Priests From Ministering at Military Center
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith tore into President Joe Biden's administration for barring Catholic priests from ministering to service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, warning that the move calls into question "the Federal Government’s respect for, and protection of, the innate religious rights of Catholics in… -
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Numbers Don’t Lie: Dictator Biden’s Electric Vehicle Edict Is Technologically Unachievable
Regarding electric vehicles, President Joe Biden cannot simply use his bully pulpit to preach EVs’ virtues. Gift-wrapping them in lavish taxpayer-funded subsidies is not enough for Biden, either. So, this dictator rules by fiat. Rather than ask Congress to enact a pro-EV law, Emperor Biden issued a decree on Wednesday, via the Environmental Protection Agency…. -
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The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos
Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States? Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency? Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the United States’ lead in boycotting Russian oil? Why is the president of Brazil… -
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3 Ways New State Attorney General Aims to Hold Biden Administration, the Left Accountable
A whistleblower says a transgender clinic at a children’s hospital in St. Louis is lying to parents about gender treatments. Now, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an investigation into the clinic to find out what’s really going on inside the four walls of the children’s hospital. “We’re looking to shut these types of… -
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Job Creators Network Head Slams Biden Admin, Democrats for ‘Reckless Spending’
The president of the Job Creators Network says "reckless spending" by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats has diluted Americans' buying power, in a response to a government report Thursday on two key price indexes. "Persistently rising wholesale prices hurt small businesses, which tend to operate on tiny profit margins that inflation erodes," Alfredo Ortiz,… -
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Watchdog Group Responds After National Archives Disputes News About Biden Move in Mar-a-Lago Raid
The National Archives and Records Administration is pushing back after revelations this week that the White House appears to have played a role in the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida in August. But America First Legal, which first obtained the records, said the belated response shows a misunderstanding of… -
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March Report Shows ‘Inflation Is Far From Dead,’ Whatever Biden Says: Economist
An economist says that "inflation is far from dead" after the consumer price index report showed inflation rose 0.1% in March, up 5% from March 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. "Today's inflation data show prices rising more than twice as fast as the Fed's target 2.0% rate," EJ Antoni, a research… -
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New Docs Tie Biden to FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago
The Biden White House potentially played a role in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, based on government emails obtained by the America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog group. AFL obtained the information through a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Archives and Records Administration, and on Monday followed with additional records requests. … -
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Hunter Biden Associates’ 80 White House Visits Evidence ‘Biden Family Enterprise Centered Around Joe Biden’
Hunter Biden’s business associates’ more than 80 visits to the White House is more evidence that Hunter Biden’s various business enterprises were all about President Joe Biden, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer told The Daily Signal. Associates and business partners of the president’s son visited the White House while Biden was vice president,… -
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At CBS News, Kid Gloves for Fetterman, Brass Knuckles for Greene
CBS News offered a perfectly awful contrast on its Palm Sunday news shows. On “Sunday Morning,” Jane Pauley puffed and polished Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. In the evening on “60 Minutes,” Lesley Stahl assaulted Trump-adoring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. The Pauley interview lasted almost 10 minutes and was perfectly pitched to relaunch Fetterman as… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Leads Fight Against Biden ‘Conservatives Need Not Apply’ Hiring Rule
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Biden administration is considering a regulation that would enable bureaucrats to screen out conservatives during the vetting process. Forty-one people representing 35 organizations wrote a letter opposing the rule in a public comment exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal. "This regulation twists proven hiring requirements into vague standards that… -
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Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims About Economy and Manufacturing
President Joe Biden touted what he considers his economic accomplishments Monday during a speech at a manufacturing plant in Fridley, Minnesota. Biden visited a power-generation facility operated by Cummins Inc., a company that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power-generation products. Cummins is spending $1 billion for manufacturing plants in New York, North Carolina,… -
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‘You Don’t Deserve to Be President,’ Nikki Haley Tells Biden From Tour of Southern Border
Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, visited the nation’s southern border Monday, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 race to do so. “What I’d say to President [Joe] Biden is, ‘Shame on you,’” Haley told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner during her trip to the border. “You are… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers Move to Defund Law the Biden DOJ Weaponized Against Pro-Life Protesters
FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is leading lawmakers in calling for defunding the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned. In a letter sent to the drafters of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024, lawmakers asked that language… -
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Biden Earns an ‘F’ on Energy Policies, Lawmaker Says as House OKs GOP Bill to Lower Costs
When it comes to President Joe Biden’s energy policies, he has earned “an F,” says Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. Rosendale is one of 221 Republicans who voted Thursday in support of a bill, HR 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act. The vote was 225-204 with four Democrats joining the Republican majority and one GOP member voting… -
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18 State AGs Raise Alarm About ‘Dishonest and Divisive Track Record’ of Biden Judicial Nominee
The top law enforcement officials in 18 states sent U.S. Senate leaders a letter opposing the confirmation of Nancy Abudu, a Southern Poverty Law Center attorney whom President Joe Biden nominated to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "I believe in an independent judiciary," Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, a Republican and one of… -
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Joe Biden Stands at Pivotal Moment in His Presidency
Every president wields a certain level of power. Irrespective of party affiliation, background, training, or political ideologies, these elite individuals always will have bestowed upon them a unique ability—and even understanding—that with the office comes a level of power they can use to advance a good greater than themselves. I’m not referring to “authority,” defined… -
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Federal Agency Contradicts Biden, Says Student Loan Debt Cancellation Not in Effect
Another wrinkle has been introduced into the short, tortured existence of President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation plan. On Friday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued an opinion stating that the Biden administration’s student loan cancellation is not in effect because it’s a rule that “substantially impact[s] the rights and obligations” of private parties, and… -
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‘People Urinating in Our Field’: A Border Farmer’s Plight Under Biden Administration Policies
After Joe Biden became president, farmers in Yuma County, Arizona, watched as illegal aliens soiled large sections of their crops. “When the United States Border Patrol lost operational control of the border here in Yuma, we had a lot of people that were making it into the production areas,” farmer Cory Mellon told The Daily…