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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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    Inside ‘the Most Brutal Fight in Washington’
    As the Right works to refine its stance on artificial intelligence, several coalitions are competing for the president’s attention, artificial intelligence experts tell The Daily Signal.  “Right now, behind the scenes, this is by far the most brutal fight in Washington,” former Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon told The Daily Signal. Because the stakes…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Katie Pavlich Gets Her Own Prime-Time Show—and Exclusive Interview With Trump
    Katie Pavlich became a household name for conservatives during her 16 years at Townhall and past decade appearing on Fox News. Monday night, she anchors her own primetime show on NewsNation, “Katie Pavlich Tonight.” Tuesday night, she’ll broadcast her exclusive one-on-one interview with President Donald Trump—one year after his second inauguration. As her friend, I’m…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Border Wins Can’t Overcome Economic Anxiety in Key Battleground, Poll Shows
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—New polling from North Carolina reveals that while President Donald Trump scores his highest marks on border security and immigration enforcement, economic anxiety is threatening to undermine the GOP’s efforts to retain a U.S. Senate seat in the battleground state. The survey of 1,512 registered voters, conducted Jan. 12-15 by the…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Will Congress Find a Way to Fund ICE?
    Republicans have a problem. With just two weeks before a deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, how do they get Democrats to fund deportation efforts? In the wake of Renee Good’s death in a shooting involving ICE officers in Minnesota, Democrats are slamming deportation efforts, possibly putting the annual homeland security bill in jeopardy….
    George Caldwell
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    No Compromise on the Hyde Amendment 
    Last year we went through the longest government shutdown in history.   The point of contention was the extension of what were supposed to be temporary additional Obamacare subsidies enacted during COVID-19   “Temporary” in Washington means forever. This is what must change.  The “temporary” subsidies were supposed to expire last year. But Democrats could not resist…
    Star Parker
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    Will Trump Create an American Comeback After Biden’s Dismal Economy?
    After a four-year economic bacchanalia, America was left with a cost-of-living crisis. Runaway government spending and overregulation pushed up prices for many essentials at a breakneck pace, like the cost of homeownership doubling. Fortunately, the Trump administration has been undoing the damage and setting the stage for an American comeback this year. It’s no exaggeration to say…
    EJ Antoni
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    Traditional Families and American Prosperity
    The aspect of life that has the most potential to bring Americans together may be the one that is currently dividing them the most. It is the relationship that people have with the traditional family—consisting of a mother and a father and children. The Census Bureau recently released a report about the living arrangements American…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Is a Red Line Still a Red Line?
    One of the most embarrassing moments of the extremely embarrassing Barack Obama presidency came in the context of the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, Obama vowed that “a red line for us,” which would thereby necessitate some sort of American intervention, “is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or…
    Josh Hammer
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