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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….
    Rob Bluey
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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 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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    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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    Is Luigi Mangione the Left’s Donald Trump?

    On CNN, approving of murder is hardly any worse than voting for Donald Trump. Indeed, voting for Trump may be worse, given how CNN senior correspondent Donie O’Sullivan framed this question to Taylor Lorenz: ‘I’m sure you wouldn’t like to be compared to a Trump supporter,‘ O’Sullivan reassured her, ‘but some of how people cannot…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Judge Temporary Blocks Trump From Terminating Legal Status for 530,000 Illegal Aliens

    A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal status and work permits for over 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.   U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot terminate the legal status of the migrants “without case-by-case review.”  The Biden administration program…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Appointee Saves Tens of Millions by Cutting Funding for Child Sex Changes

    The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million. Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for child sex-change surgeries in the U.S. amounted to $108,516,134, of which $18,476,978 were submitted to Medicaid, including traditional Medicaid and managed Medicaid, according to data from medical…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Following Release of Propaganda Video, Parents of American Hostage Issue Plea to President Trump

    Yael and Adi Alexander say their “hope and trust rest” with President Donald Trump to bring home their son, Edan Alexander, after Hamas released a propaganda video of him.   “We implore you to use your leadership and negotiation skills to secure a deal that will bring all 59 hostages back to their families—including our…
    Virginia Allen
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    Now That Trump Is President, He Can Remind America That Christ Is King

    It is easy to overlook, but attentive visitors to George and Martha Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon will notice a small stone above their graves, etched with these words from John 11: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Though subtle, this…
    Kevin Roberts
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    Trump Has Made Conservatism ‘Hot’ Again—I Found Out for Myself at the Latest DC MAGA Social

    Welcome to the Golden Age, where being conservative is trending, and for more reasons than their commonsense politics. I attended the latest “cool kids” social at Butterworth’s, MAGA’s well-known hangout spot in Washington, D.C. On Thursday night, The Conservateur brought its famous “Make America Hot Again” social to the district—this time calling it “America Is…
    Emma Dayton
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    Only Trump Is Brave Enough for This Job

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Aside from congressional Democrats, there’s widespread agreement among the American people that the failed status quo in Washington must be confronted immediately. There’s also agreement that navigating our country around the economic iceberg that is rapidly approaching after decades of bad policy decisions is not a task for the faint of heart….
    David Bossie
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    Trump State Department Axes $25M Pro-LGBTQ ‘Global Equality Fund’

    A $25 million program that offered taxpayer funds to promote LGBTQ ideology abroad has been removed from the State Department website by the Trump administration. The Biden administration State Department’s Global Equality Fund posted its final grant application solicitation on Jan. 6, offering $2.1 million to help LGBTQ people “mitigate and recover from violence and restrictions…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Tariffs Are Only the Start. Congress Must Now Cut Taxes and Regulations.

    President Donald Trump announced historic tariffs on April 2—“Liberation Day”—to ensure that America is no longer “looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered” by other nations. On Wednesday, the president announced a 90-day pause on the tariffs and lowered the tariff rate on most nations to 10%. He also raised tariffs on China to 125%. His bold leadership, which quickly brought 75…
    Kevin Roberts
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    Trump Takes Aim at the Heart of the Climate Industrial Complex

    The White House has begun to cut funding for a federal program that drives climate alarmism and bolsters the narrative that burning fossil fuels will doom the environment. The Trump administration is cutting funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces a National Climate Assessment. Agencies across the government use the assessment to…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Cracks Down on Obama-Era 13,000-Word Regulation on Shower Heads

    The Trump administration has been waging war against unnecessary regulations enacted by previous Democrat presidents, and shower heads are the latest target. Former President Barack Obama’s administration issued a 13,000-word regulation defining “shower head.” President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing that regulation’s repeal. “Overregulation chokes the American economy and stifles personal freedom,”…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Order Would Force the ACLU to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Lawfare

    What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law? No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that. When Chief Judge…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Stock Market Reacts to Trump Pausing Tariffs

    Mere minutes after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for more than 75 trading partners that did not retaliate, the stock market is booming. The S&P 500 was up 8.3% with less than an hour remaining in trading, approaching one of its best days in decades. The Dow surged 2,600 points, its biggest rally in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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