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    Trump Border Czar Tom Homan to Illegal Immigrants: Go Home

    WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home. If you don’t, he explained, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, and…
    Debra Saunders
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    Court Upholds Majority of Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity

    If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” you’ve been misled (as usual) by the mainstream media. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia only issued a preliminary…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump to Sign Executive Order Providing Automakers Tariff Relief

    President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday relaxing some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts. The directive is the result of conversations directly with domestic auto manufacturers, a senior Commerce Department official said on a call with reporters. The order “will go substantially toward reassuring American auto manufacturing,” Treasury…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    House OKs Anti-‘Revenge Porn’ Bill Backed by Melania Trump

    The House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill against “revenge porn” by a 409-2 vote, in a showing of bipartisan support for legislation backed by first lady Melania Trump. Revenge porn is the malicious distribution of sexual images of a victim. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who argued the bill was “ripe for abuse,” and…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Rejects Obama-Era Race-Based School Discipline Policies

    The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline. On Wednesday, the White…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Fact-Checking the Left’s 3 Claims Denouncing the Trump DOJ’s Arrest of Judges

    Democrats and legacy media outlets warned about the perils of the Trump administration’s arrest of state judges last week for obstructing the arrests of illegal immigrants.  Commentators and politicians cast the arrests of former New Mexico state Judge Joel Cano and Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan as an unprecedented attack on an independent judiciary and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Here’s What Trump Has Done During His First 100 Days in Office

    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. We’re coming up over the three-month mark or the proverbial “100 days” are on the horizon…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: In First 100 Days, NASA Moves Toward Trump’s Goal of US Flag on Mars

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—During the Trump administration’s first 100 days, NASA has made significant moves toward planting an American flag on Mars and getting a man back on the moon.  In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said America “will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Administration Is Ending Kendi-ism

    The Trump administration is waging a necessary, multifront battle to collapse a DEI regime that’s poisoned Western institutions and caused Americans to lose faith in the equal application of standards and laws. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term have been filled with a flurry of executive actions not seen since the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Vows to Revive Columbus Day. Here’s Why We Should Honor the Great Explorer.

    Editor’s Note: On Sunday, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he is “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes” and that he is saving the legacy of the famed explorer from the “ashes.” In 2021, then-President Joe Biden became the first president to make an official statement celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day,” a holiday…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump to Sign Executive Orders Strengthening Law Enforcement, Punishing Sanctuary Cities

    President Donald Trump will sign two executive orders Monday aimed at securing the southern border. The first order “will strengthen and unleash American law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a morning briefing. The second order will start a crackdown on sanctuary cities, which the White House…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Under Trump Order, Federal Unions May No Longer Be Able to Protect Poor Performers

    First things first: President Donald Trump’s executive order on collective bargaining does not “strip unionization rights from most federal workers,” as some media outlets have wrongly stated. Not a single federal employee has lost his or her right to belong to a union. What the order does do is end the practice of collective bargaining…
    Rachel Greszler
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    What’s Behind the ‘Trump 2028’ Hat? Karoline Leavitt Responds to Speculation

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt drew laughter Friday with her response to a question about the new Trump 2028 hat, which the Trump Organization is selling for $50. “It’s just a hat,” Leavitt told Axios co-founder Mike Allen during an event at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. “It’s not something he’s thinking…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Unveils Digital Social Security Card Access

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration is introducing digital access to Social Security numbers, refuting the left-wing media narrative that the president is cutting entitlement programs.   The Social Security Administration’s new digital Social Security number feature will allow account holders to have secure digital access to their Social Security number, The Daily Signal has…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Method Behind the Madness of Trump’s So-Called Tariff Wars

    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. Where are we in the trade wars, the tariff wars? The stock market recently has recovered somewhat. We’re about where it was in August. I didn’t…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Admin Hits Back at NY Times Over ‘Sob Story’ on Deported Illegal Alien Convicted of Kidnapping

    The Trump administration is firing back at The New York Times after the paper published a 3,000-word “sob story” about a criminal illegal alien recently deported back to Jamaica.   “Why does The New York Times continue to peddle sob stories about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?” asked Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump to Order Investigation Into ActBlue for Potentially Illegal Fundraising Methods

    President Donald Trump will sign a presidential memorandum Thursday launching an investigation into ActBlue for potentially illegal methods of fundraising for Democrats, The Daily Signal has learned. The memo directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and take appropriate action concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make “straw” or “dummy” contributions…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    New Poll Shines Important Light on the Deep State Rising in the Second Trump Admin

    A surprising number of federal bureaucrats who work in Washington, D.C., plan to oppose President Donald Trump from within the government—a deep state taking shape in his second term. D.C.-based bureaucrats are split along partisan lines, with Republicans planning to support the president and Democrats planning to oppose him, according to an RMG Research survey…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Executive Order Will Bar Decertifying Colleges Over DEI

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday prohibiting higher education accreditors from participating in unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination, five sources familiar with the directive told The Daily Signal. Ensuring that accreditors don’t require colleges and universities to require unlawful discrimination, such as DEI policies, could protect conservative…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Two Beautiful Poles’: Trump to Pay for White House Makeover

    President Donald Trump is continuing his White House makeover, announcing Wednesday that he would be putting up an “almost 100-foot-tall” American flagpole on each side of the presidential mansion. “We’re putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side, and another one on the other side,” Trump told the press shortly after being…
    George Caldwell
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