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    ‘Waste of Money’: Trump Axes Taxpayer Funding for NPR, PBS

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for “biased” news outlets NPR and PBS. “National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” the order says. “Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today, the media landscape is filled with abundant,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Escalates Fight Against Harvard

    President Donald Trump made a new announcement about how the federal government would treat Harvard University in a post Friday. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” the president posted on Truth Social. In April, Trump had floated the idea of Harvard losing its tax-exempt status. “Perhaps…
    Katrina Trinko
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    With Trump Back in Office, More Countries Are Expected to Join Abraham Accords

    TEL AVIV, Israel—After Oct. 7, 2023, and amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the Abraham Accords remain in place and may soon be expanded, according to a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow based in Israel.   “To be honest, President [Joe] Biden was not able to add any additional countries to the Abraham Accords….
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Executive Order Creates Religious Liberty Commission

    President Donald Trump on Thursday established by executive order a Religious Liberty Commission, a panel to be led by members of the clergy and government officials to advise the White House on religious liberty issues. “Americans need to be reacquainted with our nation’s superb experiment in religious freedom in order to preserve it against emerging…
    George Caldwell
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    Schumer, Jeffries Short on Specifics on Resisting Trump Agenda

    In remarks about President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his House counterpart, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, predictably excoriated the president’s agenda, but didn’t provide a clear strategy by which they would resist him. The two New York Democrats accused Republican congressmen of going along with Trump’s agenda…
    George Caldwell
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    Blurring Trump’s Posters Displaying Illegal Immigrant Mug Shots

    At the 100-day mark, it’s an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network “news” folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find President Donald Trump’s immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive the notion that he’s losing…
    Tim Graham
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    HILARIOUS: Trump Trolls Fake News With 100 Days of Media ‘Hoaxes’ List

    It’s 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, and his administration has continued to move at “Trump speed.”  The president has signed a record-breaking 142 executive orders, taking actions such as ending the “catch and release” policy on illegal immigration, declaring a national energy emergency, cutting DEI-related funding and policies, and downsizing the federal…
    Bradley Devlin
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    ‘We Are Just Getting Started’: Trump Hails His First 100 Days

    President Donald Trump declared it the “most successful 100 days” in American history. “They all want to come back to Michigan and build cars again. You know why, because of our tax and tariff policy,” Trump said in his remarks at the Macomb County Community College Sports and Expo Center in Warren, Michigan, to mark his…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Border Czar Tom Homan to Illegal Immigrants: Go Home

    WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home. If you don’t, he explained, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, and…
    Debra Saunders
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    Court Upholds Majority of Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity

    If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” you’ve been misled (as usual) by the mainstream media. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia only issued a preliminary…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump to Sign Executive Order Providing Automakers Tariff Relief

    President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday relaxing some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts. The directive is the result of conversations directly with domestic auto manufacturers, a senior Commerce Department official said on a call with reporters. The order “will go substantially toward reassuring American auto manufacturing,” Treasury…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    House OKs Anti-‘Revenge Porn’ Bill Backed by Melania Trump

    The House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill against “revenge porn” by a 409-2 vote, in a showing of bipartisan support for legislation backed by first lady Melania Trump. Revenge porn is the malicious distribution of sexual images of a victim. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who argued the bill was “ripe for abuse,” and…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Rejects Obama-Era Race-Based School Discipline Policies

    The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline. On Wednesday, the White…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Fact-Checking the Left’s 3 Claims Denouncing the Trump DOJ’s Arrest of Judges

    Democrats and legacy media outlets warned about the perils of the Trump administration’s arrest of state judges last week for obstructing the arrests of illegal immigrants.  Commentators and politicians cast the arrests of former New Mexico state Judge Joel Cano and Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan as an unprecedented attack on an independent judiciary and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Here’s What Trump Has Done During His First 100 Days in Office

    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. We’re coming up over the three-month mark or the proverbial “100 days” are on the horizon…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Administration Is Ending Kendi-ism

    The Trump administration is waging a necessary, multifront battle to collapse a DEI regime that’s poisoned Western institutions and caused Americans to lose faith in the equal application of standards and laws. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term have been filled with a flurry of executive actions not seen since the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Vows to Revive Columbus Day. Here’s Why We Should Honor the Great Explorer.

    Editor’s Note: On Sunday, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he is “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes” and that he is saving the legacy of the famed explorer from the “ashes.” In 2021, then-President Joe Biden became the first president to make an official statement celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day,” a holiday…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump to Sign Executive Orders Strengthening Law Enforcement, Punishing Sanctuary Cities

    President Donald Trump will sign two executive orders Monday aimed at securing the southern border. The first order “will strengthen and unleash American law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a morning briefing. The second order will start a crackdown on sanctuary cities, which the White House…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Under Trump Order, Federal Unions May No Longer Be Able to Protect Poor Performers

    First things first: President Donald Trump’s executive order on collective bargaining does not “strip unionization rights from most federal workers,” as some media outlets have wrongly stated. Not a single federal employee has lost his or her right to belong to a union. What the order does do is end the practice of collective bargaining…
    Rachel Greszler
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    What’s Behind the ‘Trump 2028’ Hat? Karoline Leavitt Responds to Speculation

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt drew laughter Friday with her response to a question about the new Trump 2028 hat, which the Trump Organization is selling for $50. “It’s just a hat,” Leavitt told Axios co-founder Mike Allen during an event at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. “It’s not something he’s thinking…
    Robert B. Bluey
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