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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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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Unveils Digital Social Security Card Access

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration is introducing digital access to Social Security numbers, refuting the left-wing media narrative that the president is cutting entitlement programs.   The Social Security Administration’s new digital Social Security number feature will allow account holders to have secure digital access to their Social Security number, The Daily Signal has…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Admin Hits Back at NY Times Over ‘Sob Story’ on Deported Illegal Alien Convicted of Kidnapping

    The Trump administration is firing back at The New York Times after the paper published a 3,000-word “sob story” about a criminal illegal alien recently deported back to Jamaica.   “Why does The New York Times continue to peddle sob stories about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?” asked Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump to Order Investigation Into ActBlue for Potentially Illegal Fundraising Methods

    President Donald Trump will sign a presidential memorandum Thursday launching an investigation into ActBlue for potentially illegal methods of fundraising for Democrats, The Daily Signal has learned. The memo directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and take appropriate action concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make “straw” or “dummy” contributions…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    New Poll Shines Important Light on the Deep State Rising in the Second Trump Admin

    A surprising number of federal bureaucrats who work in Washington, D.C., plan to oppose President Donald Trump from within the government—a deep state taking shape in his second term. D.C.-based bureaucrats are split along partisan lines, with Republicans planning to support the president and Democrats planning to oppose him, according to an RMG Research survey…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Two Beautiful Poles’: Trump to Pay for White House Makeover

    President Donald Trump is continuing his White House makeover, announcing Wednesday that he would be putting up an “almost 100-foot-tall” American flagpole on each side of the presidential mansion. “We’re putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side, and another one on the other side,” Trump told the press shortly after being…
    George Caldwell
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    Judge Blocks Trump Closing of Taxpayer-Funded Media Outlets

    A federal judge sometimes known for leaning conservative in politically-charged cases temporarily halted the Trump administration shutting the parent organization for Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded media outlets. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a senior judge in the District of Columbia, ordered that the U.S. Agency for Global Media restore publicly-backed media outlets that…
    Fred Lucas
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    Advice for Ivy League Universities: Take the Trump Deal, Before It’s Too Late

    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’ve talked about higher education before, but now it’s come into sharper focus with the Trump…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘Moving at Trump Speed’: White House Has 18 Trade Deal Proposals, Leavitt Says

    The White House has “18 proposals on paper” from foreign countries for trade deals, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday. “Again, these are proposals on paper that countries have proposed to the Trump administration and to our government,” Leavitt said. “You have Secretary Bessent, Secretary Lutnick, Ambassador Greer, Director Hassett and Peter Navarro,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Admin to Overhaul Database Used to Track Noncitizens’ Status

    The Trump administration announced Tuesday the overhaul of an online database used to verify the status of noncitizens in the U.S. The changes to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database are aimed at allowing officials to quickly verify the status of a noncitizen, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.   The Systematic Alien…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Homeland Security Committee released its latest “Border Brief” Tuesday, highlighting significant changes at the border since President Donald Trump took office, and a staggering year-over-year decline in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the United States.  “Southwest border crossings have hit another record-low because we now have a…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Administration Is ‘All Hands on Deck’ for Making American Food Safer, Ag Secretary Says

    The Trump administration is “all hands on deck” to ensure the food in the supply chain is “safe and healthy,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told The Daily Signal. “The bottom line is this: We have to make sure that the food that we’re putting into the supply chain is safe and it is healthy for…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Notches Key Victory Against the System of Tax Dollars Funding Illegals Across the Country

    Did you know that your tax dollars funded the housing and transportation of illegal aliens across the country? President Donald Trump has moved to stop this phenomenon, and his efforts recently met with an important success. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that it would not renew agreements with the federal government relating to…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Extending the Trump Tax Cuts’ Small Business Provisions Is Critical for Main Street

    Congress has a decision to make. Hang American small business owners out to dry, or lock in a tax system that allows America’s entrepreneurs to thrive? That’s the question Congress must answer when deciding whether to renew critical expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Passed by Congress less than a year…
    Preston Brashers
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    The Founders Agree With Trump On Alien Enemies Act

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen from El Salvador, has become an avatar of The Resistance 2.0. The story of his deportation to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has been twisted into an allegory for life under the second Trump administration. In the words of Rep. Alexandria…
    Bradley Devlin
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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….
    Robert B. 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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