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    Trump Admin Confronts British PM Over Free Speech Violations

    Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer are discussing how free speech violations there affect American citizens, as well as the British. The Daily Signal asked President Donald Trump to comment on Vance’s accusation of free speech violations in the United Kingdom during Vance’s speech at the Munich…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Top Task for Team Trump

    President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed 73 executive orders; he unleashed his Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by Elon Musk, to identify waste, fraud, and abuse across executive branch agencies; he deployed his foreign policy team…
    Ben Shapiro
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    ICE Arrests of Illegal Aliens Up 627% Under Trump

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s monthly arrests have increased 627% under President Donald Trump compared with the last year of the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.   In the first month of Trump’s presidency, more than 20,000 illegal aliens were arrested, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. During the last full year of…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Dismantles Legacy Media Monopoly at White House

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that more reporters would have more access to President Donald Trump, who is already one of the most accessible world leaders in recent history. Yet in the bizarro world of Washington, D.C., the elitist White House press corps reacted with scorn, calling the move a threat to…
    Rob Bluey
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    Trump White House Shakes Up Press Briefing Room With New Blow to Legacy Media

    Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that henceforth the White House press team—not the White House Correspondents’ Association—will determine which journalists are in the press pool. “As you all know, for decades, a group of the D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘It’s Called Having a Boss’: Scott Jennings Reminds Panelists Federal Workers Work for Trump

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican strategist Scott Jennings gave CNN panelists upset over an email asking government workers to outline their accomplishments a reality check Monday night, reminding them that all federal employees have President Donald Trump as their boss. White House senior adviser Elon Musk posted on X Saturday that federal employees needed to tell the Office…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Government Watchdog’s Waste List Buttresses Trump Complaints About FEMA, Telework

    Improper payments, empty federal buildings, and fragmented disaster response are among the key drivers of waste and inefficiency in the federal government, according to the Government Accountability Office.  The GAO’s 2025 High-Risk List, “Heightened Attention Could Save Billions and Improve Government Efficiency and Effectiveness,” was released Tuesday, and, among other things, it details the Federal…
    Fred Lucas
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    Gov. Mike Dunleavy: Trump Has ‘Rescued Alaska’

    “Everything has changed” for Alaska’s energy and natural resources production under the Trump administration, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says.   On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order unlocking the “bounty of natural wealth” in Alaska, from oil and gas to minerals and even timber.   “Whatever Alaska has is…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘We Will Kill You’: Senior Trump Official Lays Out New Counterterrorism Strategy

    Sebastian Gorka, senior director for counterterrorism for President Donald Trump, is “recalibrating” the whole intelligence community toward one message, he said. “The No. 1 thing the president and [National Security Advisor Mike] Waltz cares about, whichever region of the world you’re talking about,” he told The Daily Signal, “is whether it [that region] is being…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Vows to Deport Illegal Aliens at Unprecedented Scale in Speech to Conservatives

    OXON HILL, Md.—President Donald Trump slammed left-wing politicians for sending the American military abroad instead of protecting the southern border. “After years of politicians using our military to defend foreign borders while leaving our country defenseless, helpless, we deployed a group of people, active duty troops, to defend our border and repel the invasion of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s UN Ambassador Elise Stefanik Calls for a Global DOGE

    Editor’s note: Following are the lightly edited remarks of Rep. Elise Stefanik at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Feb. 22. Hello America First Patriots!!! It is great to be back at CPAC with a Republican trifecta! A Republican House, a Republican Senate, and of course, President Donald J. Trump in…
    Elise Stefanik
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    Trump ‘Dictates the Message’ of the White House, Spokeswoman Leavitt Says

    President Donald Trump is involved in every aspect of the White House’s communications strategy, press secretary Karoline Leavitt says. “He’s the president of United States. He’s also the communications director of the White House, because he dictates the message. He executes the agenda,” she said Friday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. “One of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘WE’RE WINNING’: AG Bondi Responds to the Left’s Lawfare Against Trump

    OXON HILL, Md.—Attorney General Pam Bondi told Sen. Ted Cruz that the Trump administration is winning against the legal challenges of the Left, and on the cases the administration doesn’t win, they will appeal them to the Supreme Court. Bondi riled up the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday by declaring, “We’re…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Nigel Farage Draws Inspiration From Trump to ‘Make Britain Great Again’ in UK Elections

    Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit effort and a member of the United Kingdom Parliament, predicted his country would follow the trend of the U.S. electorate and “make Britain great again.” Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Thursday, Farage, the leader of the Reform UK Party, noted that the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump: Federal Government ‘Should Govern District of Columbia’

    THE CENTER SQUARE—President Donald Trump voiced his support for repealing the District of Columbia’s Home Rule Act, citing crime, homelessness, and “graffiti.” Trump relayed his stance Wednesday to reporters aboard Air Force One. The president was blunt in his assessment of the district, saying the federal government would run it more effectively. “I think that…
    Sarah Roderick-Fitch
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    ‘Good Riddance’: Trump Fires ‘Biden Era’ Prosecutors

    In his effort to purge the federal government of political corruption, President Donald Trump is firing all prosecutors hired by his predecessor. On Tuesday evening, Trump announced via Truth Social that he is dismissing U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Joe Biden. “Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before,”…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    GROTESQUE: Judges Force Trump Admin to Fund Experimental Transgender Interventions

    Did you know that your tax dollars have been funding experimental “transgender” medical interventions that leave kids stunted, scarred, and infertile? Did you know that when President Donald Trump tried to put a stop to it, activist groups and Democrat attorneys general sued, and judges ordered the administration to keep funding these Frankensteinian “treatments”? It’s…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Newsom Diverts $50M from Californians to Fight Trump on Immigration

    Nearly one month after several parts of Los Angeles were engulfed in flames, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two California bills into law allocating $50 million to fight the Trump administration’s agenda, especially on illegal immigration. Amid the ongoing relief efforts in Southern California, some residents are expressing their displeasure with the governor’s move. Greg Burt,…
    Zachary Gohl
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    ‘Restoring Confidence’: 5 Highlights of Trump’s First Month as CPAC Gathers to Celebrate

    President Donald Trump’s enraptured supporters, gathering just outside Washington, D.C., for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, have much to celebrate after Trump’s first month in office. They summarize Trump’s accomplishments with one of his campaign mottos, “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Trump has signed about 70 executive orders aimed at securing the border; cutting wasteful…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Done With Unfair Tariffs Against America, Wants More Free and Fair Trade

    President Donald Trump is redefining the concept of “tariffs,” challenging their historical framing in order to use them to create freer trade that benefits America. Numerous U.S. trading partners slap much higher tariff rates on U.S. products than we do on theirs, and through the new possible tariff system signed into place by executive order…
    Carrie Sheffield
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