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    Judge Blocks Trump Closing of Taxpayer-Funded Media Outlets

    A federal judge sometimes known for leaning conservative in politically-charged cases temporarily halted the Trump administration shutting the parent organization for Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded media outlets. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a senior judge in the District of Columbia, ordered that the U.S. Agency for Global Media restore publicly-backed media outlets that…
    Fred Lucas
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    Advice for Ivy League Universities: Take the Trump Deal, Before It’s Too Late

    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’ve talked about higher education before, but now it’s come into sharper focus with the Trump…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘Moving at Trump Speed’: White House Has 18 Trade Deal Proposals, Leavitt Says

    The White House has “18 proposals on paper” from foreign countries for trade deals, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday. “Again, these are proposals on paper that countries have proposed to the Trump administration and to our government,” Leavitt said. “You have Secretary Bessent, Secretary Lutnick, Ambassador Greer, Director Hassett and Peter Navarro,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Admin to Overhaul Database Used to Track Noncitizens’ Status

    The Trump administration announced Tuesday the overhaul of an online database used to verify the status of noncitizens in the U.S. The changes to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database are aimed at allowing officials to quickly verify the status of a noncitizen, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.   The Systematic Alien…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Homeland Security Committee released its latest “Border Brief” Tuesday, highlighting significant changes at the border since President Donald Trump took office, and a staggering year-over-year decline in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the United States.  “Southwest border crossings have hit another record-low because we now have a…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Administration Is ‘All Hands on Deck’ for Making American Food Safer, Ag Secretary Says

    The Trump administration is “all hands on deck” to ensure the food in the supply chain is “safe and healthy,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told The Daily Signal. “The bottom line is this: We have to make sure that the food that we’re putting into the supply chain is safe and it is healthy for…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Notches Key Victory Against the System of Tax Dollars Funding Illegals Across the Country

    Did you know that your tax dollars funded the housing and transportation of illegal aliens across the country? President Donald Trump has moved to stop this phenomenon, and his efforts recently met with an important success. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that it would not renew agreements with the federal government relating to…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Defunding NPR and PBS Through Rescissions is a Good Start

    President Donald Trump plans to ask Congress to rescind the funds it appropriated for public broadcasting, which is a good start in defunding NPR and PBS. The legislative branch must do that and then move to dissolve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Rescission deals with the immediate. It applies instant pain to the public broadcasters because Congress would claw back…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Extending the Trump Tax Cuts’ Small Business Provisions Is Critical for Main Street

    Congress has a decision to make. Hang American small business owners out to dry, or lock in a tax system that allows America’s entrepreneurs to thrive? That’s the question Congress must answer when deciding whether to renew critical expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Passed by Congress less than a year…
    Preston Brashers
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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….
    Robert B. 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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