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    Left-Wing Groups Call on Federal Election Agency to Defy Trump Executive Order
    A coalition of left-leaning organizations is urging the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity.  Trump on Tuesday issued the order that, among other things, requires federal voter registration forms require proof of citizenship and would cut federal funding to states that count mail-in ballots arriving after Election…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘NOT JOKING’: Trump Outlines Potential Road to Third Term
    President Donald Trump is “not joking” about seeking a third term in the Oval Office, he told NBC News Sunday morning. “There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a phone interview from Mar-a-Lago. One of those methods, he said, is having Vice President JD Vance run for president with Trump as…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    How Trump Is Decimating the Left’s Patronage Networks
    President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this is by effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded patronage networks.  What’s making Trump’s moves so effective is that many of these networks are based on government functions that long…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Inside President Trump’s Ambitious Policy Strategy
    President Donald Trump’s pace since returning to the White House has surprised the president’s friends, perhaps even more than his enemies. On the 66th day of his administration, Trump signed the 100th executive order of his second term, breaking FDR’s record of 99 executive orders in the first 100 days. While Trump plows ahead, the…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Deep State Union Gears Up to Sue After Trump Weakens Its Ability to Undermine National Security
    The American Federation of Government Employees is the tip of the deep state spear, taking President Trump to court as he tries to rein in the federal bureaucracy. AFGE promised yet another lawsuit Thursday, shortly after Trump signed an executive order removing the privilege of collective bargaining from a host of federal employees. “AFGE is…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Administration Halts ‘COVID-19’ Education Spending Spree, Sends Savings to Treasury
    On Friday, the Trump administration took another step toward reining in wasteful government spending and narrowing Washington’s role in K-12 education. The Department of Education announced that it would be modifying the liquidation period for states to spend remaining COVID-19 “relief” dollars, giving them until close of business on March 28 to obligate any remaining…
    Lindsey Burke
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    How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks
    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. How should we characterize the first seven weeks of the Trump administration because we get so…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Reportedly Shuts Off Flow of Taxpayer Dollars Into World Trade Organization
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Trump administration has reportedly suspended financial contributions to the World Trade Organization as of Thursday. The decision comes as part of a broader shift by President Donald Trump to distance the U.S. from international institutions perceived to undermine American sovereignty or misallocate taxpayer dollars. U.S. funding for both 2024 and 2025…
    Thomas English
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    Trump Appeals Deportation Case to Supreme Court
    The Trump administration made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to hear its case for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of a Venezuelan gang. The alleged members were sent to an El Salvador prison.  The administration is asking the high court to reverse an order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, of…
    Fred Lucas
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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 | Grace McNabnay
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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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