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    Karoline Leavitt: What It’s Really Like Working for President Trump

    Karoline Leavitt made history when she became the youngest person ever to hold the title White House press secretary. In a special episode of “The Signal Sitdown” filmed at the White House, Leavitt opens up about her relationship with President Donald Trump, her political upbringing, and how the president is garnering record support with young…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump Acts to Protect American Voters

    On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to take numerous actions intended “to protect the integrity of our election process.” His order is a well-designed, comprehensive plan that will ensure that the federal government assists the states in conducting “free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion.” …
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘DEMOCRACY AT RISK’: Pressure Groups Suing Trump Lose Their Minds After Facing One Ounce of the Left’s Own Medicine

    Leftist groups that are suing to block President Donald Trump from fulfilling his promises to the American people can’t take the idea that the administration refuses to roll over and play dead. Twenty-two leftist pressure groups—sorry, “civil rights organizations”—released a statement warning that Trump’s “dangerous assault on the legal profession and the rule of law”…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump to Pull Stefanik UN Ambassador Nomination to Protect Republican House Majority

    President Donald Trump is pulling the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to be United Nations ambassador. The move is designed to protect House Republicans’ slim majority, the president said. “With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat,” the president said on Truth Social….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Senate Confirms Trump Nominees for His Make America Healthy Again, Finance Agenda

    The Senate has been working this week to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees essential to his agenda on health care and finance. Those nominees, though less high-profile than Cabinet members, will play leading roles in the Trump administration. The week saw the confirmation of two nominees important to Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again”…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Administration Pushes Back as UN Meeting on Women Embraces Abortion, Gender Ideology

    The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded its annual meeting in New York last week. As always, sex radicals from the developed world did their best to push their agenda—under the cover of women’s equality—on rightly resistant countries in the developing world.  The meeting marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Congress…
    Grace Melton
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    Trump Admin, Don’t Try to Befriend People Who Despise You

    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. There’s been a story out this week about a leak with national security implications. Apparently, about…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Signal Lawsuit Against Trump Assigned to Same Judge Who Blocked Tren De Aragua Flights

    The judge who ordered that flights carrying suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers to El Salvador must return to the U.S. was assigned a lawsuit against Trump administration national security officials regarding a Signal chat. A far-left government watchdog is suing Trump administration national security personnel for discussing the forthcoming strike on the Houthis in a…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Reversing Biden’s Red Tape: Trump’s Deregulation Agenda Drives Down Inflation

    U.S. inflation fell last month, with core prices at their lowest level in four years. It’s a harbinger for future price drops to come, thanks to planned spending cuts and tax reforms that will drop inflation further.  Inflation will also likely decline thanks to President Donald Trump’s herculean deregulation efforts. The White House estimates that…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Defensive Gun Uses Show Trump Order on 2A Is a Step in the Right Direction

    Last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that might prove to be one of the most significant actions ever taken by any administration to protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Among other things, the order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to thoroughly review all existing executive branch policies and regulations involving firearms to identify…
    Amy Swearer
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    Trump Administration Hit by Record Number of Injunctions From Partisan Courts

    Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a storm of executive orders, a great many of which have been halted or blocked—not by the now-Republican-controlled Congress, but by federal district courts. According to numbers compiled by the Harvard Law Review, U.S. district courts have issued more sweeping injunctions against…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    Trump Officials Assured Skeptical Senator Dr. Oz’s Views on Transgenderism Have Changed

    The Trump administration has assured a conservative senator who raised concerns about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s positions on transgenderism that the nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have changed, The Daily Signal has learned. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote Oz a series of questions on March 18 about Oz’s past statements expressing…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Will Trump Turn Nationalism Against America?

    President Donald Trump is nothing if not strong-willed, and he’s the leader of the mightiest nation on Earth—but there’s one power even Trump can’t afford to discount. It’s the power of nationalism and national pride, which Trump himself harnessed to win two terms in the White House. But the same force that helped make Trump…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Despite Trump Order, Another Bureaucrat Stubbornly Clings to Power

    If you miss the flurry of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus now that the animals are gone, you might catch the next meeting of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The kind of circus one sees all too often in the nation’s capital is alive and kicking at this federal body….
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Issues Executive Order Prioritizing Fair, Honest Elections

    President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that calls on federal government resources to help states ensure fair and honest elections. “Free, fair, and honest elections, unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion, are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic,” the order states. “The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump May Freeze Millions in Funding for Planned Parenthood, Report Says

    The Trump administration will freeze approximately $20 million in funding for Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the Journal, the administration will put on hold about $120 million in grant funding for “family planning” as it reviews whether recipients are in violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Waste of Money’: Trump Calls for Defunding NPR, PBS Ahead of House DOGE Hearing

    President Donald Trump said National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service are a “waste of money” and that he would “be honored” to defund the taxpayer-funded networks. Trump made the comments in response to a reporter’s question Tuesday, one day before the CEOs of the two networks are set to take questions from a…
    Fred Lucas
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    Vance Clocks Kamala as Trump Plays Grandfather-in-Chief

    Somebody in the White House leveled Kamala Harris Thursday with a line that would have made Don Rickles blush. The real shocker? It wasn’t President Donald Trump, notorious “Insulter-in-Chief.”  In fact, Trump was off spending his day hosting a bunch of cute school kids, relishing again in his newfound role as “grandfather-in-chief.” No, the mic-dropping,…
    Al Perrotta
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    ‘BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL’: Mike Lee Takes Action to Restrain ‘Whims’ of Judges Blocking Trump Orders

    Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, filed a new bill Monday aiming to restrain the district court judges that have been issuing restraining orders blocking President Donald Trump's agenda. "America's government cannot function if the legitimate orders of our commander-in-chief can be overridden at the whim of a single district court judge," Lee said in a statement…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Keep the Trump Tax Cuts So American Families Can Thrive

    Hide your wallets, taxes could be going up after Christmas! One of President Donald Trump’s greatest economic accomplishments of his first term, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, expires at the end of this year. Only 6% of Americans are aware that these tax cuts could be stripped away, and if they disappear, that’s a…
    Sandra Asuncion
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