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    Trump Cabinet More Conservative Than Reagan’s, CPAC Panelist Says

    President Donald Trump’s Cabinet is more conservative than President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet was in the 1980s, a top official with the American Conservative Union declared during a Thursday panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Addressing fellow panelists and hundreds of conservative activists gathered at the annual conference, Dan Schneider, executive director of the…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Congressional Investigators Struggle to Find Source for Anti-Trump Dossier

    Congressional investigators are struggling to track down a source that allegedly provided some of the most salacious claims made in an anti-Trump dossier cited by federal officials as reason to begin spying on one or more of the president's associates. House and Senate committees investigating Russian interference in the presidential campaign have tried for months…
    Chuck Ross
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    New Trump Health Policy Would Make Coverage Options More Affordable

    The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to deliver affordable health care to millions of Americans with a proposed rule that would expand the availability of short-term, limited duration plans to one year. The rule comes as a result of the president’s executive order calling on federal agencies to take the necessary measures to scale back Obamacare’s…
    Whitney Jones
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    Survey of ‘Politics Experts’ Ranks Trump the Worst President in History. Here’s Why That’s Absurd.

    Over Presidents Day weekend, what more appropriately should be a celebration of George Washington’s birthday, The New York Times published the results of a survey of “politics experts” who ranked American presidents from greatest to worst. The poll relied on “170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section.” Their list…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Sessions Says FBI’s Handling of Anti-Trump Dossier ‘Will Be Investigated’

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a "dossier" damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser. “That will be investigated and looked at," Sessions said in an interview Sunday. Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox’s…
    Chuck Ross
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    History Has a Way of Vindicating Great Presidents. So Don’t Prejudge Trump.

    A recent event in Washington featured accomplished academics and government officials, some of whom had worked for either the George W. Bush or Obama administrations, discussing the first year of the Trump administration. The moderator for one panel mentioned how a former president had been unfairly maligned during his time, and how a significant percentage of…
    Richard Lim
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    An Interview With Armstrong Williams on Trump’s Authenticity, Ben Carson’s Calming Effect, and Black Achievement

    Armstrong Williams is a political commentator, entrepreneur, nationally syndicated columnist, and host of “The Armstrong Williams Show.” He’s also a passionate supporter of President Donald Trump and close friend to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. We spoke to him about his work in the media business, Black History Month, and Trump’s relationship with…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Podcast: The Week in Review, Plus Ben Carson’s Positive Influence on Trump

    Welcome to the first Friday edition of The Daily Signal’s podcast. We take a look at the top news stories of the week—including health care, North Korea, and immigration. Armstrong Williams, nationally syndicated columnist and host of “The Armstrong Williams Show,” discusses his relationship with Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of the Housing and Urban Development…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Trump Should Kick the Protectionism Can Down the Road

    President Donald Trump has certainly ramped up the protectionist rhetoric in recent weeks. Last month in Montreal, Trump’s trade adviser, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, renewed the president’s threat that the United States could withdraw from NAFTA because in its current form, it is “really not a good agreement for the United States.” A U.S. pull-out from…
    James M. Roberts
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    Trump’s Budget Takes a First Swing at Bloated Bureaucracies. Here’s What More Needs to Be Done.

    Early in his administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing all 15 of the departments of the federal government to submit plans within 180 days to “modernize and streamline their operations.” In September, they did just that, and many have already begun to implement changes. The newly released 2019 budget is the clearest…
    John York
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    On Law Enforcement, Sheriffs Rate Trump’s First Year an ‘A-Plus’

    For Clark County, Georgia, Sheriff Ira Edwards Jr., the danger sanctuary cities pose to communities became overwhelmingly clear during a recent conversation he had with a federal judge. “You delivered. The National Sheriffs’ Association gives your first year an A-plus for law enforcement issues,” @NationalSheriff says. “I was very, very surprised when I was in…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Goes After Automatic Raises, ‘Worst’ Employees to Drain the Swamp

    Most federal employees—99.7 percent, in fact—get a “performance based” raise each year under the government’s pay system. “We’ve set up a $1 billion fund [to give] managers the ability to pay people whose performance merits the increase,” @MickMulvaneyOMB says. President Donald Trump wants to change that as part of his new budget plan, in keeping…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Has a New Plan to Save Money on Food Stamps

    The Trump administration unveiled a new plan to revamp how people are receiving food stamps, suggesting that the government give them boxes of nonperishable food instead. The new suggestion, written in the 2019 budget proposal, would take half of the money people get from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and instead send families a box…
    Amber Randall
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    5 Takeaways From Trump’s New Budget Proposal

    President Donald Trump delivered his fiscal year 2019 budget request to Congress on Monday, officially kicking off the 2019 budget season. Congress must now do its job and build off the president’s budget and craft its own budget resolution. In light of last week’s budget-busting deal, now more than ever it is crucial for Congress…
    Justin Bogie
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    3 Things to Pay Attention to in the Trump Defense Budget

    The Pentagon on Monday announced the president’s budget request for defense at $716 billion. That number is in line with the recent budget agreement. The budget should be guided by the national security strategy through the national defense strategy. Nonetheless, the effect of both of these strategies on the defense budget is still to be…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Trump Budget Proposal Projects Deficit Spending for Next Decade

    President Donald Trump is proposing a 10-year spending plan that never produces a balanced budget, and increases deficit spending by $7.2 trillion over the next decade. The White House unveiled the $4.4 trillion fiscal year 2019 budget plan on Monday. “The first message [is] you don’t have to spend it all, but if you do,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Releases Infrastructure Plan Focused on Deregulation and New Funding

    The bulk of the money for President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan wouldn’t come from federal funds, and the plan focuses heavily on deregulation. While Republicans support deregulation and Democrats back infrastructure spending, Trump could fall short of attaining the bipartisan backing he hopes for on the bill. “It’s politically tough. Democrats may…
    Fred Lucas
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    US Won’t Rest Till ISIS Defeated, Trump Tells National Prayer Breakfast

    The U.S. will “never rest” until it finishes the job of defeating the Islamic State, the brutal terrorist army in Iraq and Syria, President Donald Trump said Thursday in remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. “It’s much harder to stab someone in the back after you’ve prayed for them.”—@SenatorLankford “For years ISIS had brutally tortured…
    Kyle Perisic
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    Here Are 3 Steps Trump Should Take to Fight Modern-Day Slavery

    Human trafficking may be illegal in countries around the world, but the gruesome practice remains alive and well. Contrary to popular opinion, human trafficking is not simply a third-world problem. Human trafficking is occurring all over the world, even in our own backyard. Human traffickers continue to buy and sell human beings, whether they be…
    Sang Hyuk Park
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    I’m From a Family of Farmers. Here’s What Trump Has Done for Our Industry.

    In the first year of his presidency, Donald Trump came through on his promise to support rural Americans and agriculture. Unfortunately, many news outlets didn’t give due attention to these accomplishments. Agriculture is a very important industry, and the changes that Trump has made have helped ease the burden of too much regulation on our…
    Micaela Wright
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