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    Trump’s National Security Strategy Lays Out a Pragmatic China Strategy
    The White House has released a new National Security Strategy whose central purpose is unambiguous: to ensure the United States remains the preeminent global power. At its core is a new and pragmatic China strategy.  The document opens with a blunt indictment of the past three decades of American policy, especially on China. Successive administrations—Republican and Democratic alike—embraced the delusion that flooding…
    Helen Raleigh
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    Indiana’s GOP Supermajority Senate Could Vote Against Map That Could Save Trump From Impeachment
    Today, the Indiana State Senate will vote on redistricting legislation that could help Republicans hold the House in the midterms and save President Donald Trump from future Democrat impeachments. The bill to change Indiana’s congressional map from a 7-2 Republican advantage to a 9-0 sweep will be voted on by Indiana’s Senate this afternoon. The…
    Jacob Adams
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    The SAVE Plan Is Ending. Here’s Why It Matters.
    Finally, the time has come: the end of the unlawful so-called SAVE era, an era marked by the Biden administration’s attempts to force American taxpayers to pay for college loan debts. On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced a proposed joint settlement with the state of Missouri and six other states to end the Biden…
    Madison Marino Doan
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    Kennedy Center Honors Continues Trump Momentum to Unify Americans Through Art
    The incredible artists who were awarded Kennedy Center Honors Sunday night rose above partisan rancor and helped showcase the universal appeal of President Donald Trump’s valiant efforts to restore America’s cultural jewel.  Trump made history as the first president to host the Kennedy Center Honors, an event founded 48 years ago to give lifetime achievement medals to iconic artists.  I spoke…
    Carrie Sheffield
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  • opinion

    Trump’s Case on Birthright Citizenship Is Stronger Now Than Ever
    From the moment President Donald Trump issued his executive order on birthright citizenship back in January, a Supreme Court showdown on the meaning of the citizenship clause was almost inevitable. And, indeed, the nation’s highest court agreed last week to decide whether the order is constitutional, after nearly a year of high-profile litigation that has largely kept the administration from enforcing the order.  While the task of securing…
    Amy Swearer
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  • news

    Trump Backs GOP Alternative to Obamacare Subsidies
    President Donald Trump signaled his support Tuesday for a Republican alternative to the pandemic-era extra Obamacare subsidies Democrats championed during the government shutdown earlier this year. “Well, I like the concept,” the president said when asked about the bill, which Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., unveiled Monday. “I don’t want to give…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Judge Says Trump Must End National Guard Deployment in Los Angeles 
    A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state’s Democratic governor, finding that the Republican president had exceeded his authority. “Today’s ruling is unmistakably clear: the federalization of the California National Guard…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    ‘They Always Have a Hoax’: Trump Kicks Off Affordability Tour in Pennsylvania
    On the first stop of President Donald Trump’s affordability tour, he said making America affordable is his highest priority, while again calling the term a Democrat hoax. “I have no higher priority than making America affordable again,” Trump said. “That’s what we’re going to do. And again, [Democrats] cause the high prices and we’re bringing…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Urged to Make Reforms to Lower Health Care Costs
    A national grassroots nonprofit is urging President Donald Trump to take “swift action” on a policy that it believes would directly impact affordability: health care price transparency. Save Our States Executive Director Trent England sent a letter to Trump supporting his work on lowering health care costs and urging him to require mandatory advanced notice…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Accuses Ilhan Omar of Marrying Her Brother
    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump accused Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of marrying her brother during an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns released Tuesday. Questions about whether Omar committed immigration fraud have dogged the Somali-born Minnesota congresswoman since she was elected to Congress in 2018, with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune uncovering inconsistencies regarding her marital…
    Harold Hutchison
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  • opinion

    ‘Trump Accounts’ Are a Powerful Way to Teach Investing and Saving to Kids
    President Donald Trump announced an innovative policy within his “Big Beautiful Bill,” a measure that would create $1,000 savings accounts, known as “Trump Accounts,” for each U.S. citizen born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2029, although the accounts may be renewed for future babies.  Cash for these Trump Accounts would be deposited into…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin to Increase Accountability for Federal Employees
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration is seeking to increase accountability for federal employees by implementing new performance standards and training. The Office of Personnel Management issued a memorandum published online Tuesday to fulfill President Donald Trump’s mandate for a federal workforce that prizes excellence, deals with underperformance, and fulfills its mission.  “Federal employees…
    Jacob Adams
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    The Trump-Musk Split Is a Gift to the Left
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to comment on this strange, bizarre, surreal, sudden fallout—or was it so sudden—between Elon…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    We Asked Army 250th Anniversary Parade Attendees Whether Trump Is a ‘King.’ Here’s What They Said.
    The Daily Signal’s Olivia Pero and Lorenzo Prieto traveled to the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday celebration in Washington, D.C., to ask attendees what the parade meant to them, does President Donald Trump really deserve to be called a “King,” and whether California Gov. Gavin Newsom is correct in saying that only authoritarian regimes, like North…
    Daily Signal Staff
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  • opinion

    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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  • news

    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 | Elise McCue
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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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