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    A Triumphant Trump Celebrates Victory in Washington
    Donald Trump delivered his last rally before the second term of his presidency at Capital One Arena Sunday, promising a historic first 100 days to a crowd of 20,000 supporters who braved snow, sleet and rain to see him in Washington, D.C. With a Kid Rock concert to kick it off, and a Village People…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump’s Big Agenda for First 100 Days 
    President Donald Trump will be sworn in Monday with ambitious goals for his first day in office and first 100 days.  The major focus will be on securing the border and combating illegal immigration. But restoring the economy, and curbing crime are also high on his agenda, based on his remarks as a candidate before…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Reportedly to Launch Sweeping Deportations Day After Inauguration
    President-elect Donald Trump is expected to launch his promised large-scale deportation operation the day after he is sworn into office, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The incoming Trump administration will immediately begin mass deportation efforts in major sanctuary cities across the United States, with Chicago predicted to be first on the…
    Jason Hopkins
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    President Trump Is a Modern-Day Winston Churchill
    As President-elect Donald Trump takes office for a second White House term, his path bears striking resemblance to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the British bulldog who triumphed over existential threats in World War II.  And like Churchill, Trump, the American lion, is uniquely equipped and battle-tested for his enormous tasks at hand. Most obviously,…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Trump Should Reverse Biden’s Offshore Drilling Ban
    This week President Joe Biden invoked the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas drilling in most of America’s offshore areas, in perpetuity—or so he thinks. President-elect Donald Trump called the order “ridiculous” and pledged to reverse it immediately. That’s precisely what Trump should do, but it won’t be easy. In 2019,…
    Mario Loyola
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    Put Up or Shut Up: Time for Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferer Celebrities to Leave Country
    Cher has a new autobiography, “The Memoir,” which runs just over 400 pages, but apparently, that’s only half the story. We know that because the subtitle of the book, published in mid-November, is “Part 1.” “Part 2”—due out in mid-November 2025, but already available online for preorder by Cher’s biggest fans—presumably will be equally hefty….
    Peter Parisi
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    Political Tectonic Shift: Trump Gains Momentum as His Foes Stumble
    “It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re at a moment, in this week before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, when the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president is succeeding at just about every enterprise he undertakes, while his political and…
    Michael Barone
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    ‘Pure Socialist Wish Fulfillment’: Biden Attempts to Trump-Proof AOC’s Favorite Jobs Program
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, President Joe Biden’s lame-duck administration is racing to Trump-proof its green jobs program. The Biden White House has “quietly been winding down” the American Climate Corps—a de facto environmental public works program established via a September 2023 executive order that hires and trains civilians to work on climate change…
    Owen Klinsky
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    Has Trump 2.0 Learned From Trump 1.0?
    It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally here. Four years after all the Sturm und Drang that followed Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral loss to Joe Biden, the maestro of Mar-a-Lago is set to be inaugurated once more on Monday as president of the United States. And what an absolutely wild ride it has been. In…
    Josh Hammer
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    Heritage Action Lobbies for Trump Nominees in Senate, Launching Ad Campaign and Petition
    Advocacy organization Heritage Action for America is aggressively lobbying for the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominees in the Senate, launching an ad campaign and a petition to urge senators to act. As part of this effort, Heritage Action will air a 30-second TV spot on Fox News Inauguration Day that highlights the shortcomings of the…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘I Think We’re Going to Take a Lot of Hate,’ Border Czar Tom Homan Says Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration
    President-elect Donald Trump is expected to sign a slew of executive order on his first day in office, including multiple that pertain to securing America’s southern border with Mexico.  “I think people are going to be pleased with the executive orders he is going to sign,” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, told “The Daily Signal…
    Virginia Allen
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    Rep. Ralph Norman: What Trump Told Me After I Voted Against Johnson for Speaker
    Rep. Ralph Norman was on the House floor Jan. 3 when Rep. Nancy Mace, a fellow South Carolina Republican, phone in hand, told him that President-elect Donald Trump wanted to speak with him. Norman had just voted for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to become speaker of the House, rather than Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La. For…
    Bradley Devlin
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    From California Democrats to Woke Military Policies, Trump Puts Left on Notice
    California lawmakers appear almost as afraid of President-elect Donald Trump as they do of the wildfires that have raved 40,000 acres of their state. With fires still burning across Los Angeles County, California Democrats met to authorize $50 million in the state’s budget to “Trump proof” California.  State Senate Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener, a…
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer | Crystal Bonham
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    Trump Nominee to Lead Office of Management and Budget Faces Tough Questions from Democrats and Republicans Alike
    Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the Office of Management and Budget, faced tense questioning from both Democrat and Republican senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday. When Vought previously served in the same office during the first Trump administration, he helped Trump design a new classification for federal employees—“Schedule F”—to reclassify tens of…
    George Caldwell
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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 | Paul J. Larkin
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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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