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    Trump Is Right: ‘Everything’s Computer!’

    “Everything’s computer!” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday while checking out a Tesla. The president might be right about that, not only regarding the Tesla, but for the future of the American economy: The Trump administration is attempting to usher in the AI economy while bringing the tech giants working on this technology to heel….
    Bradley Devlin
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    Nippon Steel Could Be a Shining Legacy for Donald Trump

    Modern presidents have few opportunities for signature achievements to cement their legacies. But in the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump has the opportunity to make one of the most important economic decisions of the decade by approving Nippon Steel’s purchase of U.S. Steel.  America’s steel industry directly employs over 140,000 Americans…
    Mike Feuz
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    EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

    Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on deploying the National Guard.  The Governors Action Alliance, a Democrat organization that founded the group Governors Safeguarding Democracy, provided such guidance to the staffs of Democrat governors across the country…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is the World’s Worst Dictator

    Dictators crave power. President Donald Trump is using his power to give Americans more freedom. That’s a massive difference. Desperate to find an effective attack against Trump, some Democrats are recycling an old one. They claim he’s an authoritarian. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., invited laid-off federal workers to attend Trump’s recent speech to Congress. She…
    Victor Joecks
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    Trump Admin Claws Back $600K Grant for Menstrual Study of Transgender Men

    President Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture, Brooke Rollins, has canceled a $600,000 grant to study menstrual cycles in biological females who identify as men. The American Principles Project first uncovered the grant to Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study ‘menstrual cycles in transgender men,’” Rollins posted Friday on…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Why Does Trump Dislike the CHIPS Act?

    In his address to Congress last week, President Donald Trump suggested undoing one of the cornerstones of former President Joe Biden's legislative legacy—the CHIPS and Science Act. “Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” said Trump. But why does Trump hate it so much? The CHIPS and Science Act was one of Biden’s main…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Is Bringing About a Regime Change Not Seen Since 1933

    The second Trump administration is engaged in the first real transfer of power since 1933. What is taking place is an attempt at national transformation, and that is never quiet. “Buckle up, there’s more to come,” I tell friends—not only here but especially those overseas—who express anxiety with what they see as turmoil. Transfers of power produce…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Trump Is Draining the Higher Ed Swamp

    A reckoning is coming for higher education. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would pull $400 million in grants from Columbia University on Title IV grounds that the school has failed to protect students from repeated cases of antisemitism. As a follow up in a weekend of bad news for Columbia, one of its students…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Job Approval Wins Majority Backing, Poll Finds

    A majority of registered voters approves of President Donald Trump’s job performance, according to a poll released Friday by the Napolitan Institute that found the president’s job approval rating at 51%, with 32% strongly approving. The 51% approval rating in the poll of 2,000 registered voters conducted March 3 to March 6 was unchanged from…
    Jacob Adams
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    Countdown to Shutdown? Trump Backs Spending Deal, Dems Opposed

    Despite President Donald Trump urging Republicans to unite behind a continuing resolution spending proposal to keep the government open, some GOP lawmakers expressed skepticism Sunday, while Democrats are resolutely opposed.  Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a continuing resolution and avert a partial government shutdown. Despite some hesitation, no Republican lawmakers have outright opposed…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘RECORD PACE’: Trump Administration Has Hired Over 2,000 People in Just Weeks

    President Donald Trump and his administration have hired more than “2,000 people in these last few weeks,” Presidential Personnel Office Director Sergio Gor said Thursday. “It’s a record pace in hiring across the entire federal government, but it’s also the quality we’re looking for: Great people who will deliver on that mandate for the president.”…
    Bradley Devlin
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    20 Attorneys General Sue Trump Admin to Shield Recently Hired Bureaucrats From Being Fired

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A coalition of 20 Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday for firing thousands of probationary federal workers without providing advance notice. Led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the plaintiffs argue the mass terminations violate federal law, which they argue mandates at least 60 days’ notice before…
    Thomas English
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    Trump Supporters Oppose Medicaid Funding Cuts, Poll Finds

    Most Americans who voted for President Donald Trump oppose proposed cuts to Medicaid funding, according to a poll released Friday.  As Congress considers changes to the Medicaid program during budget conversations, a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that fewer than 1 in 5 adults (17%) want to see government decrease spending on Medicaid. …
    Moira Gleason
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    Trump Justice Department Could Enforce Expiration Date for Mail-In Ballots

    A new Trump administration Justice Department could enforce a federal court’s ruling requiring only ballots arriving on or before Election Day to be counted, voter integrity advocates said.  Just weeks before last November’s election, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case from Mississippi that federal law requires mail-in ballots to arrive…
    Fred Lucas
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    The 5 Fables Surrounding Trump

    Fable One: Trump is appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner Group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream 2 deal? Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated NATO members to meet their military…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump to Sign Order Modifying Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Federal Employees

    President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday afternoon modifying the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program to exclude organizations involved in illegal activities, a White House official said. The program allows government workers and employees of nonprofits to erase their student loan balance after 10 years of monthly payments. The problem with the program is…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Administration Will No Longer Use Emergency Room Law to Mandate Abortions

    To say that a lot of things are changing since President Donald Trump took office for the second time is like saying a hurricane has rearranged some features of a neighborhood. In addition to rescinding scores of President Joe Biden’s executive orders and canceling ideological policies across executive branch agencies, the Trump administration is changing…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Inside the House Freedom Caucus’ Meeting With President Trump

    Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus opened up to The Daily Signal about their meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss avoiding a government shutdown and passing the Trump agenda. The caucus met with Trump on Wednesday to discuss the plans to continue to fund the government while the president implements his reforms of…
    Jacob Adams
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    Trump Is Right. It’s Time to Make Shipbuilding Great Again.

    America desperately needs to make shipbuilding great again. President Donald Trump announced in his Tuesday night address to Congress that he will sign an executive order creating an office of shipbuilding to “resurrect the American shipbuilding industry, including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding.” Trump’s announcement, though it may be surprising, is long overdue. The total collapse in…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Whoa!’: CNN’s Harry Enten ‘Truly Surprised’ That ‘Majority’ of Americans Want Trump and DOGE to Cut Gov’t

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten expressed surprise on Thursday about the popularity of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cuts to the federal government. DOGE, which has laid off thousands of federal workers in an effort to drastically reduce federal bureaucracy, claims on its website to have saved taxpayers an estimated…
    Jason Cohen
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