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    What Trump Memo on Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Means for Federal Employee Unions

    Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in the federal government include minimizing the amount of taxpayer-funded time that federal employees spend working for their unions instead of doing the jobs they were hired to perform. This “paid union leave” is otherwise known as “official time.” A Feb. 27 memo…
    Rachel Greszler
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    How Many Tax Dollars Bankrolled Union Efforts to Block Trump?

    Your hard-earned tax dollars don't just fund the salaries of federal bureaucrats, they also support public-sector unions who negotiate sweetheart deals between the bureaucrats and management. Federal bureaucrats feverishly renegotiated those deals just before President Donald Trump entered office, attempting to block his reforms. Now, the Trump administration is demanding that each agency provide an…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Down to Earth: Trump, Musk Bringing Stranded Astronauts Home

    Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, two American astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, are scheduled to touch down on the Gulf Coast near Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. Tuesday. Their successful rescue will be another example of a promise kept by President Donald Trump. The president has made returning…
    Jacob Adams
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    Trump Ready to Enforce the Death Penalty

    WASHINGTON—Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing. Like all defendants, Mangione enters the courtroom with the presumption of innocence. But if a jury finds him guilty of the capital murder of which he…
    Debra Saunders
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    The Trump Counterrevolution’s Next Moves Abroad

    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. President Donald Trump caused a stir, again, when he suggested that the recent independence vote in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Ignoring All the President’s Women, Vanity Fair Ludicrously Accuses Trump of Nazi-Style Sexism 

    For a fresh look at how infantile, indolent, and insane the “Hate Trump” media have become, look no further than Olivia Campbell’s latest finger painting in Vanity Fair. This masterpiece of anti-MAGA madness is headlined “Trump’s New Administration Is Anti-Woman—a Playbook from Nazi-Era Germany.”  First things first: This headline writer should don a dunce cap and stand in…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Biden-Era App Was Like ‘Fast Pass at Disneyland’ for Illegal Aliens, Trump Press Secretary Says

    The Biden administration’s CBP One app facilitated the “mass illegal entry” of illegal immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. “It was like a fast pass at Disneyland,” Leavitt told The Daily Signal at a White House press briefing. The Trump administration, however, repurposed the app to make it easier for illegal immigrants…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Assails Clinton-Appointed Judge’s Rehiring Order as ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’

    President Donald Trump said it’s “ridiculous” that a federal judge ruled that the government must rehire fired government employees.   “I don’t think that’s going to be happening, but we’ll have to see,” he told The Daily Signal aboard Air Force One on Sunday. A judge appointed by President Bill Clinton ruled Thursday that the Trump…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Declares Biden’s Autopen-Signed Pardons, Executive Orders Invalid

    In a Truth Social Post on Monday, President Donald Trump said former President Joe Biden’s autopen-signed orders were invalid, contending that recent discoveries by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project render Biden’s pardons void. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT,…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘Very Impressed’: Trump Thanks Schumer for Whipping Dems’ Support of Spending Bill

    President Donald Trump thanked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for getting Democrats on board with the Republican spending package to keep the federal government open. The Senate voted late Friday afternoon to advance the continuing resolution, a short-term spending bill. That cleared the way for a final vote to avert a government shutdown. “I…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech

    President Donald Trump said the Justice Department is “turning the page on four long years of corruption and weaponization.”  Trump spoke Friday when delivering remarks at the Justice Department for an event focused on fighting fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has become an escalating problem in the United States.  Trump said during the Biden…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Reacts to Biden Autopen Controversy: ‘Who Was Signing All This Stuff?’

    Former President Joe Biden’s consistent use of an autopen e-signature during his presidency has become the talk of Washington, after a Heritage Oversight Project report called into question the validity and legal standing of Biden’s actions. An autopen, or signing machine, is a device that reproduces a signature without the signatory having to be present….
    George Caldwell
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    The Meritless ACLU Lawsuit to Stop Trump From Sending Illegal Aliens to Gitmo

    Earlier this week, the Trump administration brought about 40 illegal aliens it had taken to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a detention facility in Louisiana. The reason behind the surprise move is unclear, but it likely has something to do with the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others contesting the…
    Cully Stimson
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    Under Trump, FEMA Will No Longer Use These Terms in Official Documents

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reportedly gearing up to remove mentions of climate change and diversity, equity, and inclusion from its official documents. The agency is considering axing phrases such as “water conservation,” “electric vehicles,” and “fossil fuels” from official documents that direct its response to natural disasters, Politico’s E&E News reported Thursday. The…
    Ireland Owens
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    Judge: Trump Must Reinstate Fired Federal Workers

    The Trump administration must reinstate some fired probationary government employees, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Six agencies must give jobs back to thousands of recently-hired employees whom President Donald Trump fired in an effort to eliminate “waste, fraud, and abuse” from the federal government by cutting the federal workforce. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said employees…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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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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