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    Powering America: Trump’s Energy Plan

    On Day One back in office, President Donald Trump began dismantling the Biden administration’s costly energy agenda and replacing it with practical and sustainable energy solutions.  Trump is restoring “balance” to American energy policy, according to Gabriella Hoffman, director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at the Independent Women’s Forum.  The Trump administration is…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Restoring Confidence’: 5 Highlights of Trump’s First Month as CPAC Gathers to Celebrate

    President Donald Trump’s enraptured supporters, gathering just outside Washington, D.C., for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, have much to celebrate after Trump’s first month in office. They summarize Trump’s accomplishments with one of his campaign mottos, “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Trump has signed about 70 executive orders aimed at securing the border; cutting wasteful…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Done With Unfair Tariffs Against America, Wants More Free and Fair Trade

    President Donald Trump is redefining the concept of “tariffs,” challenging their historical framing in order to use them to create freer trade that benefits America. Numerous U.S. trading partners slap much higher tariff rates on U.S. products than we do on theirs, and through the new possible tariff system signed into place by executive order…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Rocket Men: Trump and Musk Vow to Rescue Stranded Astronauts

    In a joint interview, President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk discussed rescuing two Americans stranded on the International Space Station.  “At the president’s request or instruction, we are accelerating the return of the astronauts, which was postponed, kind of, to a ridiculous degree,” Musk told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in…
    Jacob Adams
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    This Group Is Suing Trump Admin After Cuts to Refugee Program Slush Fund

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the State Department cutting funding for refugee assistance. The lawsuit alleges USCCB “faces irreparable damage” due to the loss of funds, with millions of dollars already spent on nearly 7,000 refugees that will no longer be reimbursed following the Jan. 24 refugee…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Restore Trump’s Authority Amid an Onslaught of Leftist Lawfare

    Is Donald Trump a president in name only? The very idea seems absurd, but federal judges have issued injunction after injunction after injunction, blocking the president’s ability to exercise executive authority—the very authority the Constitution clearly vests in him. Trump has appealed one of these injunctions to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Trump Effect’: Illegal Border Crossings Could Be on Track to Hit Near 50-Year Low

    The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the “Trump effect.” That total includes 29,116 apprehended at the border outside of official ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That’s the lowest since May 2020. And…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Puts Anti-Fraud Expert in Charge of Social Security After Acting Chief Quits in DOGE Clash

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump appointed a fraud detection expert to lead the Social Security Administration after its acting commissioner reportedly resigned following a dispute over access to sensitive documents, according to The Washington Post. Leland Dudek, who manages SSA’s anti-fraud office, will serve as acting commissioner while the Senate vets Frank Bisignano, Trump’s…
    Thomas English
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    EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Governors Arranged Meeting With Biden White House to Thwart Trump Agenda, Emails Show

    White House officials under outgoing President Joe Biden may have colluded with staffers representing a coalition of Democrat governors planning to thwart President-elect Donald Trump's agenda, according to a watchdog group and internal emails obtained from the coalition, known as Governors Safeguarding Democracy.  The precise date of the meeting is not clear, but it appears…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘There’s a Lot of Reasons’: First-Time Trump Voter Explains Why 2024 Was Her Breaking Point

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Connecticut mother explained on Thursday why she voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 after casting ballots for independent candidates in 2016 and 2020. In an appearance on journalist Mark Halperin’s “2WAY Tonight” Axios’ Trump White House reporter Marc Caputo asked a woman identified as Alex when she decided she had to vote…
    Jason Cohen
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    ‘President Trump Saved My Life’: Pardoned Pro-Lifers Reflect on Incarceration, Newfound Freedom

    Pro-lifers convicted under the FACE Act and released from prison after President Donald Trump pardoned them on Jan. 24 tell The Daily Signal they are grateful to God and to Trump for returning them to their families. Trump pardoned 23 pro-lifers who were convicted for actions including praying outside abortion clinics and encouraging women in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Is Right: Rogue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Must Go

    Almost immediately after the Senate named Russ Vought Office of Management and Budget director, President Donald Trump also named him the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a rogue agency with a long history of overreach and corruption. The agency has seen rampant internal racism and anti-woman…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Attorneys General Face Uphill Battle to Justify Lawsuits Against Trump Executive Orders

    Attorneys general in left-leaning states have been crowding into courtrooms to sue the Trump administration. This spectacle, the growing tangle of hastily issued injunctions preventing the enforcement of presidential executive orders, might lead some to think that they are observing the reverse side of a familiar pattern—one in which the party that lost a national…
    Jack Fitzhenry
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    ‘Mini-Me’ Executive Branch Agencies Run Amok. Not for Much Longer, If Trump Has His Way.

    In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington’s permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday informing it that the Justice Department will no longer defend the constitutionality of federal laws that limit the ability of the president to remove the heads…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Agenda on Track With Swift Cabinet Confirmations

    Senate Republicans have had a productive month confirming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to enact his MAGA agenda, and Trump has just three Cabinet nominees remaining to be confirmed: the secretaries of labor, commerce, and education.  Reacting to the breakneck pace of confirmations, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., praised his colleagues in a Fox…
    Jacob Adams
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    Schools That Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine Run Risk of Losing Federal Funds Under Trump Decree

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools with COVID-19 vaccination mandates. The directive comes one day after the confirmation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has raised questions about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. The executive order also applies to education service agencies, and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump v New York

    New York is getting its comeuppance. In the four years that Donald Trump was out of office, no state political establishment besides the Biden White House did more to persecute the former president through banana republic-style weaponization of courts. What’s more, New York became the poster child of what happens when you abandon Trump’s border policies and turn them…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Signs Order Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday cutting off federal funding to schools that mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, fulfilling a promise he made repeatedly on the campaign trail. “OK, that solves that problem,” said Trump after he signed the order in the Oval Office. The order prohibits “federal funds from being used to support”…
    George Caldwell
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    DEEP STATE ALLIES: Who Are the Leftist Groups Suing to Block Trump’s Reforms?

    President Donald Trump has entered Washington like a bull in a China shop, shattering the Mandarin norms of the administrative state in order to undermine the deep state, but the bureaucrats are fighting back. A bevy of leftist organizations—mostly unions and woke pressure groups—have proved themselves deep state allies by filing lawsuits to block Trump’s…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘MEGA Partnership for Prosperity’: Trump Touts Strong Relationship With India

    At a Thursday evening joint press conference, President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a framework for increased defense and economic cooperation—although that cooperation may include tariffs imposed by the U.S. To “deepen every aspect of our partnership and our friendship,” Trump said, “the prime minister and I are announcing a framework…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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