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    Trump Can Use Congressional Review Act to Nullify Biden’s Rules

    In advanced number theory, there are “countable infinities” (which go on forever), “uncountable infinities” (which are infinitely larger), and finally, there are the biggest infinities of all, which are called “federal rules.” In truth, no one knows how many federal crimes and liabilities Americans are subject to because these pseudo-laws are buried in an ever-expanding…
    Roger Severino
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    President Trump’s CIA Pick Faces Grilling in Confirmation Hearing

    John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, faced a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday, where Democrats pressed him on the claim he “politicized intelligence” while serving as director of national intelligence in Trump’s first administration. According to his prepared opening remarks to the committee, Ratcliffe…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Biden Tried to ‘Trump-Proof’ Government With Federal Telework

    As taxpayers have spent billions to pay for mostly vacant federal office space, President Joe Biden’s administration worked with federal employee unions to lock in telework levels to help “Trump-proof” agencies, according to a congressional investigation.  The House Oversight and Accountability Committee released a report Wednesday morning ahead of a hearing titled, “The Stay-at-Home Federal…
    Fred Lucas
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    3 Republican Senators Respond to Poll Showing Nearly Half of DC Federal Bureaucrats Aim to Oppose Trump

    Republican senators highlighted a growing deep state opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, citing a revealing new poll on the federal bureaucracy and urging Trump to be vigilant as he enters office next week. The poll, which the firm RMG Research conducted on behalf of the Napolitan Institute and released Monday, revealed that 42% of what…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    GOP Culture War Fights Were Instrumental to Trump Win, Report Says

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Republicans’ embrace of the culture war was a massive part of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding win in 2024, according to an American Principles Project report released Tuesday. Republican messaging on transgender issues such as child sex changes, men in women’s sports, and taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners swayed voters by 1.3…
    Wallace White
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    Why Jack Smith Passed on Charging Trump With Incitement

    Special counsel Jack Smith’s final report asserted federal prosecutors lacked grounds to charge President-elect Donald Trump with incitement for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests, while it also said there was not a significant enough amount of fraud that it altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The Smith report’s concession on incitement…
    Fred Lucas
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    Shunning Cancel Culture, Carrie Underwood to Perform at Trump Inauguration

    Country music superstar and “American Idol” alumna Carrie Underwood is set to perform at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C., adding to the ranks of A-list entertainers rejecting the pressures of cancel culture. The news of Underwood’s performance went viral when a photo of a program for Trump’s inauguration…
    Elise McCue
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    DEEP STATE GEARING UP: Nearly Half of Federal Employees in the Swamp Plan to Resist Trump, Poll Finds

    A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump. Most Americans, even many of the elites who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, are willing to support Trump's administration, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Return of Trump and End of Social Media Censorship Spark Global Backlash from Leftist Elites

    Sometimes, ostensibly discrete global events come into focus and form a unified pattern. When that happens, the world suddenly starts making sense. Here are some examples of “disparate” occurrences: The governments of Europe’s three most powerful countries suddenly complain that Elon Musk’s X is allowing conservatives to communicate and unite on a global basis, Facebook…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    THE STENCH IS GONE: Trump Responds to Lawfare Prosecutor’s Surprise Resignation

    President-elect Donald Trump celebrated the resignation of Jack Smith, the special counsel who oversaw two legal cases against Trump and whom a judge had ruled was improperly appointed. "The Stench of Deranged Jack Smith and his thugs is GONE," Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. "They were sent packing after spending over $100,000,000, destroying the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Takes the World Stage. Embrace the Chaos.

    Embrace the chaos—that’s my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage. If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald Trump was going to be more congenial toward our allies in the international community, Tuesday you got your wake-up call. During a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump explained how he plans…
    Debra Saunders
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    TRUMP EFFECT: Meta Announces End to DEI Programs

    The Trump Effect is in full swing before the new president even takes office.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company would end its major diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Meta put out a memo to employees explaining the move, which was published by Axios. “The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Faces Starting Term Without a Cabinet

    With less than 10 days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Republicans worry that government bureaucracy will prevent the new president from starting his term with a fully confirmed Cabinet. Cabinet and Cabinet-level nominees traditionally face extensive paperwork obligations, including FBI background checks and financial disclosures, but Republicans are now suggesting that this bureaucratic process has…
    Jacob Adams
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    How Trump Responded to the New York Sentencing

    Just 10 days before his second inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump’s designation as a convicted felon became official Friday in a New York court.  New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning no jail time, fine, or other penalty. Such a sentence means it will not likely interfere with Trump’s duties as…
    Fred Lucas
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    Donald Trump’s Last Hurrah

    President-elect Donald Trump’s second tour in the White House can be a glorious last hurrah or the last flicker of a dying comet. The choice is his. Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 free from customary political obligations or ambitions. He has no political debts to pay. He defeated Democratic nominee Kamala…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Americans Are More Optimistic About the Economy After Trump’s Reelection, Survey Shows

    Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they were before Donald Trump’s reelection, a newly released survey from pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan News Service shows. A survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in early January reports 24% of Americans say their financial situation is improving and 33% say it’s getting worse. The Napolitan Institute press…
    George Caldwell
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    5-4: Two Republican-Appointed Supreme Court Justices Agree With Democrat Appointees in Allowing Trump Sentencing to Proceed

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a New York court from sentencing President-elect Donald Trump in the "hush money" case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of fraud in relation to the case last spring in a prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. New York…
    Fred Lucas
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    Selective Force, Strategic Restraint: Unpacking Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy

    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. Have you noticed recently that Donald Trump has both issued threats to our existential enemies abroad and that he’s called for peace as well? In other…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    What Merrick Garland Wants to Release on Trump Before the Inauguration

    Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to release the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report alleging President-elect Donald Trump committed crimes in challenging the 2020 election—but he’s withholding the volume on Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left the presidency in 2021.  This comes one day after U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily…
    Fred Lucas
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    Left Launches Multi-Front ‘Trump-Proofing’ Effort at Federal, State Levels

    Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was formally certified on Monday, but he still faces “Trump-proofing” efforts in Washington and in the states—and in some cases, from familiar foes.  Democrat governors and attorneys general in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York declared their intentions to challenge Trump’s efforts on multiple fronts, from…
    Fred Lucas
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