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    The Founders Agree With Trump On Alien Enemies Act

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen from El Salvador, has become an avatar of The Resistance 2.0. The story of his deportation to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has been twisted into an allegory for life under the second Trump administration. In the words of Rep. Alexandria…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump, Tariffs, and Tech: Gary Shapiro’s Unfiltered Take

    Consumer Technology Association CEO Gary Shapiro watched five of America’s top tech leaders with front-row seat at President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January, calling the occasion “one of the highlight moments” of his career. During a recent interview with The Daily Signal, Shapiro praised Trump’s regulatory rollbacks while expressing concerns about his tariff policies….
    Rob Bluey
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    Trump Administration Halts New York Offshore Wind Project

    THE CENTER SQUARE—The Donald Trump administration has halted a massive New York offshore wind project as it conducts a financial and regulatory review of plans to erect towering turbines along the nation’s coastlines. The Interior Department issued an order earlier this week calling for the immediate halt of construction on the Empire Wind Project “until…
    Chris Wade
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    Trump’s Aggressive Dealmaking Is Reshaping Global Politics for America’s Benefit

    President Donald Trump, like one of his heroes Andrew Jackson, was born for a storm. Trump is disrupting national and international systems that no longer work for the American people. In the domestic realm, he’s launched a political counterrevolution on a scale of change not seen since the New Deal. But it isn’t just on the home front that Trump…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Boasts Manufacturing Loan Surge, Challenging Anti-Tariff Narrative

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As Democrats criticize tariffs as bad for business, the Trump administration's Small Business Administration announced an almost 75% surge in loans to small manufacturers, The Daily Signal has learned. “Loan applications and approvals for small manufacturers are surging—a clear sign that American manufacturing is roaring back, fueled by pro-growth policies that…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Trump Is Bringing Democracy Back’: Is Trump the Most Honest Politician in Washington?

    It’s been 15 days since “Liberation Day,” the day President Donald Trump announced a slew of tariffs on foreign goods. After unexpected movement in the bond market—bond yields rose rather than fell—Trump announced a 90-day pause on many of his April 2 tariffs. Since Liberation Day, however, the administration claims more than 130 countries have…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump Admin Shuts Down Agency That Drove Online ‘Censorship’

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Donald Trump administration announced it is closing an agency that funded and participated in “censorship” of disfavored viewpoints online. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center is shutting down almost a decade after its creation due to “free speech” concerns, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Wednesday press release. The Global…
    Hudson Crozier
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    California Sues Trump Over Tariffs

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The lawsuit states that California’s economy is “directly harmed” and alleges Trump’s effort to institute the tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) is unconstitutional. “President Trump’s new tariff regime has already had devastating impacts on the economy,…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Trump Administration at Risk of Being Held in Criminal Contempt Over Deportation Flights

    A federal judge has found that “probable cause exists” to hold the Trump administration in “criminal contempt” for carrying out deportation flights of illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.  Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on March 15 issued a temporary restraining order barring the U.S. from using the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly…
    Virginia Allen
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    In Speech, Biden Claims Trump Is Out to Gut Social Security

    In his first major public appearance since departing the White House, former President Joe Biden, without evidence, accused the Trump administration of trying to deprive Americans of Social Security benefits. Biden's detractors, such as President Donald Trump, later called attention to the 82-year-old’s quirky anecdotes and signature sidetracking in the Chicago speech, delivered at a…
    George Caldwell
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    Judge Rebukes Trump Administration for Doing ‘Nothing’ to Facilitate Release of Illegal Alien Deported to El Salvador

    A federal judge has rebuked the Trump administration for doing “nothing” to facilitate release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia after he was deported to El Salvador.   “To date nothing has been done,” Judge Paula Xinis said Tuesday.   Following an order from the District Court for the District of Maryland on April 4 directing the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Is Luigi Mangione the Left’s Donald Trump?

    On CNN, approving of murder is hardly any worse than voting for Donald Trump. Indeed, voting for Trump may be worse, given how CNN senior correspondent Donie O’Sullivan framed this question to Taylor Lorenz: ‘I’m sure you wouldn’t like to be compared to a Trump supporter,‘ O’Sullivan reassured her, ‘but some of how people cannot…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Trump Moves to Stop ‘Climate Lawfare’ Driving Up Energy Costs, Endangering US Energy Dominance

    President Donald Trump’s critics are right about one thing: The first few months of his second term have been a reckoning. Starting with the federal government’s pursuit of law firms and organizations that committed lawfare against the president to hobble his political comeback, Trump has now supercharged executive authority to stop the flood of ideologically based lawsuits…
    Yaël Ossowski
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    Judge Temporary Blocks Trump From Terminating Legal Status for 530,000 Illegal Aliens

    A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal status and work permits for over 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.   U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot terminate the legal status of the migrants “without case-by-case review.”  The Biden administration program…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Appointee Saves Tens of Millions by Cutting Funding for Child Sex Changes

    The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million. Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for child sex-change surgeries in the U.S. amounted to $108,516,134, of which $18,476,978 were submitted to Medicaid, including traditional Medicaid and managed Medicaid, according to data from medical…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Following Release of Propaganda Video, Parents of American Hostage Issue Plea to President Trump

    Yael and Adi Alexander say their “hope and trust rest” with President Donald Trump to bring home their son, Edan Alexander, after Hamas released a propaganda video of him.   “We implore you to use your leadership and negotiation skills to secure a deal that will bring all 59 hostages back to their families—including our…
    Virginia Allen
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    Now That Trump Is President, He Can Remind America That Christ Is King

    It is easy to overlook, but attentive visitors to George and Martha Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon will notice a small stone above their graves, etched with these words from John 11: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Though subtle, this…
    Kevin Roberts
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    Trump Has Made Conservatism ‘Hot’ Again—I Found Out for Myself at the Latest DC MAGA Social

    Welcome to the Golden Age, where being conservative is trending, and for more reasons than their commonsense politics. I attended the latest “cool kids” social at Butterworth’s, MAGA’s well-known hangout spot in Washington, D.C. On Thursday night, The Conservateur brought its famous “Make America Hot Again” social to the district—this time calling it “America Is…
    Emma Dayton
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    Only Trump Is Brave Enough for This Job

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Aside from congressional Democrats, there’s widespread agreement among the American people that the failed status quo in Washington must be confronted immediately. There’s also agreement that navigating our country around the economic iceberg that is rapidly approaching after decades of bad policy decisions is not a task for the faint of heart….
    David Bossie
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    Trump State Department Axes $25M Pro-LGBTQ ‘Global Equality Fund’

    A $25 million program that offered taxpayer funds to promote LGBTQ ideology abroad has been removed from the State Department website by the Trump administration. The Biden administration State Department’s Global Equality Fund posted its final grant application solicitation on Jan. 6, offering $2.1 million to help LGBTQ people “mitigate and recover from violence and restrictions…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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