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    Trump Rightly Targets Smithsonian Museums

    The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this week’s much-anticipated one, members yielded to President Donald Trump’s demand for an audit of politicized content. Alas, they also circled the wagons around Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to a document that…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Trump’s Counterrevolution: 4 Stars Driving Change Against DEI

    President Donald Trump clearly made it a mission in his second go-around in the White House to make larger institutional changes to the way the federal government does business. He clearly intended not only to make the government more efficient, but to change institutional power structures that embolden the permanent bureaucracy. Some of those efforts,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How Trump’s Veterans Affairs Secretary Fights ‘Lies, Innuendo, Rumors’ from Democrats

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins is setting straight the left-wing story that President Donald Trump’s cuts to “waste, fraud, and abuse” will harm veterans. “That’s all I’ve been doing for a little over four and a half months now is fighting lies, innuendo, rumors from the hill and other parts of the press, saying…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Did LA Riots Help Put Trump and Musk on Track Toward Reconciliation?

    The riots against enforcement of federal immigration laws that began in Los Angeles more than a week ago have led to vandalism, destruction of property, and assaults on law enforcement officers. But one of the results of the riots their instigators surely did not intend was the creation of common ground between Elon Musk and…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘NOT A GRAY ISSUE’: Why the 9th Circuit Upheld Trump’s Use of the National Guard

    It took the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals only a few hours to block a lower court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard in the Los Angeles riots. The appeals court acted expeditiously because Trump was so clearly in the right, according to Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    In Face of LA Chaos, Majority of Americans Still Approve of Trump Deportations 

    Despite Democrat efforts to condemn the Trump administration’s arrests of illegal immigrants, voter approval of deportation efforts continues to rise.   A recent poll from Napolitan News Service found that 56% of respondents either strongly or somewhat approve of the deportations of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S.  The country’s eyes remain glued to the Los Angeles…
    Lucy Spence
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    Trump’s Rescissions Package Becomes First Heritage Action Key Vote of Session

    Heritage Action has scored President Donald Trump’s rescissions package as its first key vote of the 119th Congress. The rescissions package passed the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon. “Heritage Action applauds the work President Trump and his administration have done to deliver a bold rescissions package to Congress,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Trump’s Power Play: Repealing Biden’s Energy Rules Is a Win for America

    President Donald Trump’s latest move to repeal the Biden administration’s power plant regulations marks a pivotal moment in America’s energy policy. If finalized, this proposal would not only lower electricity costs for millions of Americans but also strengthen domestic manufacturing and reduce the risk of blackouts. The public has 45 days to comment. The new…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Musk Expresses ‘Regret’ About Some of His Anti-Trump Posts

    Tech titan Elon Musk appears ready to mend fences with President Donald Trump, expressing regret over some of his social media activity attacking the president last week. “I regret some of my posts about President @DonaldTrump last week,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X on Wednesday. “They went too far,” the tech mogul…
    Jacob Adams
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    Greta Thunberg Should ‘Go to an Anger Management Class,’ Trump Says

    President Donald Trump recommends that young left-wing activist Greta Thunberg “go to an anger management class.”   “Well, she’s a strange person. She’s a young, angry person,” Trump told reporters when asked about the Israel Defense Forces’ interception of a boat carrying Thunberg about 100 miles off the coast of Gaza. “I don’t know if…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Trump-Harvard Dispute, Explained

    Harvard University remains embroiled in controversy more than a year after violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations began on its campus in April 2024. Recently, the Trump administration asked Harvard to disclose information about foreign students seeking to enroll, after the administration alleged that the university was guilty of civil rights abuses and antisemitism from its failure to…
    Philip Roberts
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    EXCLUSIVE: Comey Confronted by Congressional Condemnation for Alleged Trump Threat as 2 GOP Senate Giants Join the Fray

    Sens. Mike Lee and Josh Hawley are introducing a resolution condemning former FBI Director James Comey for an Instagram post that may have encouraged violent action against President Donald Trump. “This message promotes violence against the sitting president of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” reads the resolution, obtained by The Daily Signal. “It is…
    Bradley Devlin
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    New Polling Shows Voters Back Trump Deploying National Guard to LA

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—New polling reveals that more than half of U.S. voters support President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles.   RMG Research polling conducted among 1,000 registered voters on Monday found that 52% of respondents either “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops…
    Virginia Allen
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    Congress Should Quickly Approve Trump’s Rescission Legislation

    President Donald Trump‘s rescission legislation has finally arrived in Congress, where it will have 45 days to be approved by both chambers on a simple majority vote. Success would be a significant victory in Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Left’s political infrastructure. It sounds simple, right? It is—very. Except Washington is full of Republicans afraid of their…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Trump Has Winning Message on LA ICE Riots

    Riot season has started with a bang in California. Actually, many bangs, hurled rocks, torched cars, and a lot a flag waving—but not the Toby Keith variety. The mayhem began in and around Los Angeles over the weekend after increasingly fiery and certainly not peaceful protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids morphed into large-scale violence. It…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Former Lois Lerner Deputy Involved in Obama-Era IRS Scandal That Targeted Conservatives Leads Major IRS Division Under Trump

    A former top deputy to Lois Lerner, the former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations division and a central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting scandal, now runs one of the primary operating divisions of the IRS, according to a report from the American Accountability Foundation.  The report alleges that Holly Paz “seems to have…
    Bradley Devlin
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    ‘Gold Cards’: How Trump Wants to Eliminate National Debt

    If previous statements from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remain true, then the United States could roll out its “gold card” program soon—an unprecedented initiative to sell US residency to wealthy clients in order to raise revenue. To be sure, there has been much talk of these gold cards, but with no implementation to date. If…
    George Caldwell
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    Modern Feminism Gets a Whole New Meaning Under the Trump Administration

    It’s ironic, isn’t it? The modern feminist movement began as a cry for liberation—yet in recent years, it seems to have circled right back to restriction. The script has flipped, and instead of championing real choice, mainstream feminism is now dictating which choices are acceptable, rewarding women not for excellence but for optics.  Many women…
    Hannah Brusven
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    How Trump’s Administration Has Protected Whistleblowers Bullied by Biden’s

    When Dr. Eithan Haim blew the whistle on illegal sex-change procedures for minors at the Texas Children’s Hospital, the Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department to silence him, plunging Haim and his wife into than $1 million in debt.  By contrast, had Haim shed light on the gender transitions that violated Texas law under the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Quiet Economic Boom of Trump 2.0

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. The Trump budget is making its way through the Senate. And people on both sides of the issue of fiscal sobriety are arguing because the Biden…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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