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    Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase, Bank Says
    REUTERS—U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on accusations of debanking, the largest U.S. lender said in a statement on Thursday. Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, filed the $5 billion lawsuit Thursday morning in Florida state court in Miami on behalf of the president and several of his hospitality companies, a Fox…
    Manya Saini
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Scrutinizes Vast Sum of COVID-19 Funding for Planned Parenthood
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration is reviewing whether Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally received $88 million in loans during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Daily Signal can first report. “At the height of the pandemic, affiliates of Planned Parenthood took $88 million in taxpayer dollars to fund their abortion-on-demand agenda—and the Biden…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    America Just Hit a New Record, But Not a Good One
    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 22. America has hit another record, but it’s not a good one. Last year, the median age…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump: Outline for Deal Reached Over Greenland
    President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he had a “framework” of a deal with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over the future of Greenland. “Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’: Kavanaugh Raises Red Flag in Trump Fed Firing Case
    Conservative-leaning justices had tough questions for whether President Donald Trump can fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, in a Supreme Court case that could have a major impact on monetary policy and the economy.  Trump had attempted to oust Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook based on alleged misstatements she made…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Rebukes Canada’s Mark Carney at Davos
    President Donald Trump rebuked Canada before a meeting of global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Canada gets a lot of freebies from us,” Trump said during his speech Wednesday, adding, “They should be grateful also, but they’re not.” Trump told the room packed with politicians and business leaders that he had…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Has Strong Words for NATO Over Greenland
    President Donald Trump on Wednesday ruled out using force to acquire Greenland, saying that Denmark should instead hand over the island to the United States. “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable, but I won’t do that,” he said in a speech…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    When a Generation Abandons Liberty
    When New York City elected Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as its next mayor, the left-leaning headlines framed it as a “historic milestone.” But the only milestone I saw was this: more than 1 million voters choosing a path that has collapsed societies across continents—the empty promise of socialism disguised as progress—and, even more puzzling, a path embraced…
    Sophia Aros
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    Trump’s Debt Diet Is Working
    If there’s anything Republicans and Democrats can agree on, it’s how to spend money. Both parties created the federal budget deficit and contributed to the looming $38 trillion national debt, but President Donald Trump’s administration is actively working to close it. Since the budget is essentially financed by taxpayers, closing the gap means reduced borrowing…
    Nicole Huyer
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    Trump Banning Wall Street Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis
    President Donald Trump flexed his populist muscles earlier in January when he promised to ban Wall Street from buying up single-family homes. “For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing,…
    Murray Sabrin
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    Why Red States Are More Affordable Than Blue States
    Affordability has become the latest mantra for Democrats as they gear up for midterm elections. Yet, blue states lead the nation in driving up the cost of basic essentials like electricity and water, new studies say. A recent report by the Institute for Energy Research, titled “Blue States, High Rates,” found that while average electricity…
    Kevin Stocklin
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    Why Trump’s Strikes in Nigeria Are So Important
    In the midst of the back and forth of Nicolás Maduro’s capture, the seizure of “Ghost Fleet” oil tankers, and the banter over a possible annexation of Greenland, it’s easy to miss the significance of the Christmas U.S. missile strikes in Nigeria, which hit ISIS and other jihadist groups. This would be a real tragedy, as this was…
    Steven Bucci
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    ‘GREAT STUPIDITY’: Trump Blasts UK’s Chagos Islands Deal as Proof US Needs Greenland
    President Donald Trump excoriated the British government in a Truth Social post on Monday for agreeing to relinquish sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a strategic military location, to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands contain the Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, a military base leased by the U.K. to the U.S. and used jointly by both countries….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Justices Hear Arguments on Concealed Carry in Stores
    The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over Hawaii’s ban on carrying a handgun in public accommodations—such as stores, restaurants, and gas stations—without the property owner’s permission. Alan Beck, lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that entering such spaces is an “implied right,” unless the property owner opposes. He said Hawaii’s law flips that presumption and requires…
    Fred Lucas
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    45 Years Later, President Trump Is Delivering on Reagan’s Promise
    One year ago today—Jan. 20, 2025—President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Freezing winds and biting cold forced the ceremony indoors, echoing President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when temperatures plunged to 7 degrees Fahrenheit and the event moved to the same…
    Rep. Keith Self
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    We Want an Independent Fed, Not One With Trump Derangement Syndrome or Foreign Influence
    Global central bankers issued a statement last Tuesday defending U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell following the launch of a criminal investigation into the central bank chief. Powell is being investigated over the $2.5 billion he spent renovating the Fed building and potentially lying to Congress about the project. The headline tells you everything you…
    Tom Carter
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    Congress Reaches Deal on ICE Funding With Spending Package
    Bipartisan funding negotiators in Congress say they have a deal on a trillion-dollar package to cover major priorities such as deportations, health, transportation, and the military. The deal between Republican and Democrat appropriators comes after speculation about whether Democrats would allow funding for the Department of Homeland Security to advance. The $1.2 trillion funding deal…
    George Caldwell
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    In Trump’s First Year He’s Delivering on His Signature Promise
    What a difference a year makes. For the first time in half a century, the United States experienced net negative migration, according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution. The reason, the report concluded, was President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies. “The report attributed the shift to a combination of the large drop in entries…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How Trump Solved the Mess Obama and Biden Left Behind
    President Donald Trump has delivered a sharp policy reversal from the Obama-Biden era during his first year back in office, solving problems from border security to the economy to foreign conflicts, The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey said on Fox Business Network. “It sure is a different time in America,” Bluey told host Liz MacDonald on…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    4 Ways Trump Has Dismantled the ‘Deep State’ Since Inauguration
    On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second term inauguration, here are four ways he has dismantled the deep state in Washington. 1. Reinstating ‘Schedule F’ On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate Schedule F, which makes it easier for the president to fire bureaucrats. This reclassified about 50,000…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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