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    Signal Lawsuit Against Trump Assigned to Same Judge Who Blocked Tren De Aragua Flights

    The judge who ordered that flights carrying suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers to El Salvador must return to the U.S. was assigned a lawsuit against Trump administration national security officials regarding a Signal chat. A far-left government watchdog is suing Trump administration national security personnel for discussing the forthcoming strike on the Houthis in a…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Reversing Biden’s Red Tape: Trump’s Deregulation Agenda Drives Down Inflation

    U.S. inflation fell last month, with core prices at their lowest level in four years. It’s a harbinger for future price drops to come, thanks to planned spending cuts and tax reforms that will drop inflation further.  Inflation will also likely decline thanks to President Donald Trump’s herculean deregulation efforts. The White House estimates that…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Defensive Gun Uses Show Trump Order on 2A Is a Step in the Right Direction

    Last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that might prove to be one of the most significant actions ever taken by any administration to protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Among other things, the order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to thoroughly review all existing executive branch policies and regulations involving firearms to identify…
    Amy Swearer
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    Trump Administration Hit by Record Number of Injunctions From Partisan Courts

    Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a storm of executive orders, a great many of which have been halted or blocked—not by the now-Republican-controlled Congress, but by federal district courts. According to numbers compiled by the Harvard Law Review, U.S. district courts have issued more sweeping injunctions against…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    Trump Officials Assured Skeptical Senator Dr. Oz’s Views on Transgenderism Have Changed

    The Trump administration has assured a conservative senator who raised concerns about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s positions on transgenderism that the nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have changed, The Daily Signal has learned. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote Oz a series of questions on March 18 about Oz’s past statements expressing…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Will Trump Turn Nationalism Against America?

    President Donald Trump is nothing if not strong-willed, and he’s the leader of the mightiest nation on Earth—but there’s one power even Trump can’t afford to discount. It’s the power of nationalism and national pride, which Trump himself harnessed to win two terms in the White House. But the same force that helped make Trump…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Despite Trump Order, Another Bureaucrat Stubbornly Clings to Power

    If you miss the flurry of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus now that the animals are gone, you might catch the next meeting of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The kind of circus one sees all too often in the nation’s capital is alive and kicking at this federal body….
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Issues Executive Order Prioritizing Fair, Honest Elections

    President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that calls on federal government resources to help states ensure fair and honest elections. “Free, fair, and honest elections, unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion, are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic,” the order states. “The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump May Freeze Millions in Funding for Planned Parenthood, Report Says

    The Trump administration will freeze approximately $20 million in funding for Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, the administration will put on hold about $120 million in grant funding for “family planning” as it reviews whether recipients are in violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Abraham Lincoln Charted a Course for Trump on Judicial Overreach, Josh Hammer Says

    President Donald Trump faces a bevy of district court judges issuing restraining orders and injunctions blocking his executive actions, and Josh Hammer suggests the president take a leaf out of Abraham Lincoln’s book on the issue. Trump has responded to the orders with calls for Congress to impeach lower court judges or restrain them in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Waste of Money’: Trump Calls for Defunding NPR, PBS Ahead of House DOGE Hearing

    President Donald Trump said National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service are a “waste of money” and that he would “be honored” to defund the taxpayer-funded networks. Trump made the comments in response to a reporter’s question Tuesday, one day before the CEOs of the two networks are set to take questions from a…
    Fred Lucas
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    Vance Clocks Kamala as Trump Plays Grandfather-in-Chief

    Somebody in the White House leveled Kamala Harris Thursday with a line that would have made Don Rickles blush. The real shocker? It wasn’t President Donald Trump, notorious “Insulter-in-Chief.”  In fact, Trump was off spending his day hosting a bunch of cute school kids, relishing again in his newfound role as “grandfather-in-chief.” No, the mic-dropping,…
    Al Perrotta
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    ‘BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL’: Mike Lee Takes Action to Restrain ‘Whims’ of Judges Blocking Trump Orders

    Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, filed a new bill Monday aiming to restrain the district court judges that have been issuing restraining orders blocking President Donald Trump's agenda. "America's government cannot function if the legitimate orders of our commander-in-chief can be overridden at the whim of a single district court judge," Lee said in a statement…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Keep the Trump Tax Cuts So American Families Can Thrive

    Hide your wallets, taxes could be going up after Christmas! One of President Donald Trump’s greatest economic accomplishments of his first term, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, expires at the end of this year. Only 6% of Americans are aware that these tax cuts could be stripped away, and if they disappear, that’s a…
    Sandra Asuncion
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    Supreme Court Rejects Trump Donor’s Defamation Lawsuit Against the Associated Press

    The Supreme Court doomed a lawsuit from Trump donor Steve Wynn Monday, declining to revisit the defamation case New York Times v. Sullivan (1964). Wynn, a casino developer, resigned as CEO and chairman of the board of his company Wynn Resorts amid sexual assault allegations in 2018—allegations he denied. He had previously served as vice…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Left-Wing Judges Try to Stymie Trump

    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. Ostensibly, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance won an overwhelming victory, and you can…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    House Republicans Mull Ways to Counteract Anti-Trump Judges

    Republican congressmen are gearing up for a fight against federal judges appointed by Democrat presidents overruling President Donald Trump’s actions.  So far, Republican Reps. Brandon Gill of Texas, Eli Crane of Arizona, and Andy Ogles of Tennessee have all filed articles of impeachment against judges who have overruled Trump’s orders, claiming they have overstepped their…
    George Caldwell
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    Obama-Appointed Judge to Trump Team: ‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’

    An Obama-appointed judge on a Washington, D.C., appeals court Monday brought up the U.S. government’s treatment of Nazis amid World War II under the Alien Enemies Act in a hearing about President Donald Trump’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members. Judge Patricia Millett, in noting the Trump administration’s process for removing alleged members of the…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Tremendous Change’: Trump Says ‘Won’t Be Long’ Until States Run Department of Education

    President Donald Trump said it “won’t be long” until states are “really running” the Department of Education. The Daily Signal asked Trump at his March 24 Cabinet meeting how red states can implement his Thursday executive order ordering Secretary Linda McMahon to start facilitating the closure of the Department of Education. Trump said federal information…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Racking Up Important Legal Victories as Left’s Lawfare Ramps Up

    The Left couldn’t defeat President Donald Trump at the ballot box. Now, their only hope seems to be defeating him at the courthouse. More than 130 cases have been filed against the Trump administration since Trump’s return to office just two months ago. With the help of activist federal judges, the Left’s large-scale lawfare operation…
    Bradley Devlin
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