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    Donald Trump Is Emphatically Correct About Birthright Citizenship

    Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. “He can’t do it!” the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump’s landmark Day-One executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”…
    Josh Hammer
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    Trump Devastates Bureaucracy From the Top Rope

    Executive orders, bills signed, and a media firestorm with far more bark than bite sum up the bevy of news this episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” hits. From illegal immigration and Guantanamo Bay to freezes on hiring and strange grant funding, the second Trump administration is moving with a momentum never before seen in…
    Tony Kinnett
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    America’s Families Need a Strong Federal Trade Commission Under Trump

    The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and to protect that relationship from outside intrusion, like prohibiting gender education in schools. One of the greatest threats facing the parent-child relationship today comes through smartphones and social media, Big Tech’s digital products, that have…
    Clare Morell
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    ‘Should Have Been Prevented’: Trump Addresses Plane-Helicopter Crash

    As questions swirl about how a regional jet collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the Washington, D.C., area, President Donald Trump noted that Wednesday evening was a “CLEAR NIGHT.” “The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,” the president posted on Truth Social….
    Katrina Trinko
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    Trump Creates Task Force for Huge Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday

    America is so back. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a task force to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, which will take place on July 4, 2026. While the Left has tried to pummel any love for American history, Trump’s move ensures anti-American activists won’t have the last word….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    New Trump Executive Order Bans Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology in Public Education

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote critical race theory or radical gender ideology. “Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand,” the order says….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Directive Gives Military Families New Reason to Celebrate National School Choice Week

    Two welcome changes from the new White House in its first weeks are the turn away from diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and a fresh look at school choice. A great example is President Donald Trump’s executive order Wednesday on education choice for military families, just in time for National School Choice Week (Jan….
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Who Are the Nonprofits That Sued to Block Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze?

    The Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump ordered a temporary freeze of federal funding Monday, aiming to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering." While that order has since been rescinded amid a legal challenge, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that efforts to "end…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump to Detain Violent Illegal Immigrants at Guantanamo Bay

    President Donald Trump announced plans to open a new detention center for the worst illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the United States has held terrorism suspects.  “Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,”…
    Fred Lucas
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    BREAKING: Trump Signs First Piece of Legislation as 47th President

    Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday, the first piece of legislation he has signed since being sworn in as the 47th president. The law directs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest and detain illegal aliens charged with theft, assaulting a law enforcement officer, or other crimes causing death or serious bodily…
    Virginia Allen
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    McConnell-Trump Divide Deepens, Setting Stage for GOP Battle

    Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is making good on his word to “argu[e] more with [some Republicans] probably than the Democrats.” The former Senate GOP leader’s opposition to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation could be a sign of what’s to come as the upper chamber aims to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and enact his agenda…
    Jacob Adams
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    Most DC Bureaucrats Who Voted for Harris Say They’ll Refuse a Lawful Trump Order. Rand Paul Won’t Stand for It.

    A recent Napolitan Institute poll found that 64% of Washington, D.C.-based federal bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris for president said they would not follow a lawful order from President Donald Trump if they considered it bad policy. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., won’t stand for it. “The American people spoke when they voted President Trump…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Leftists’ Crocodile Tears Over Trump Are Falling Flat

    Just one week into President Donald Trump’s second administration, and the crocodile tears and sensational headlines are flooding in.  Whereas in the Biden administration, nuance and justification were front and center in every legacy news article, now headlines about the Trump administration’s deportation operations for known charged and convicted criminal illegal aliens are filled with…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Government Support for Irreversible Child Sex Changes

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday preventing the federal government from funding or supporting irreversible transgender medical interventions for minors. “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Birthright Citizenship Clause Too Many Forget, but Trump Is Right to Question

    Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship.   That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship documents for children born in the U.S. when neither parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of the child’s birth.    Critics paint it as…
    Amy Swearer
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    Kevin Roberts Pinpoints How Congress Can Help Trump Execute Massive Deportation Effort

    Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America, said it will require 12,000 more agents, 4,000 more attorneys, 1,000 more judges, and 1,000 more support staff to deport the 20 million illegal aliens that voters elected President Donald Trump to evict. Roberts wrote in a Monday op-ed published in Fox News…
    Tom Gantert
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    Trump Justice Department Fires Officials Who Worked With Jack Smith

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Over a dozen officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Donald Trump are being fired, a Department of Justice official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Acting Attorney General James McHenry determined the officials could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda,” Fox…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Trump Rocks Latin America as Leaders Adjust to Deportations, Tariff Threats

    Latin American leaders are scrambling to react to President Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy after he successfully forced Colombian President Gustavo Petro to back down on resisting the deportation of Colombian illegal immigrants back to their home country. After Petro's short-lived feud with Trump, Latin American leaders are scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss how…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Has Clear Advantage Over Universities and Should Seize It

    The Donald Trump administration is starting with a bang as it issued an executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion in government and severely curtailing it in the private sector. I expect that opposition to this effort will crumble quickly and most organizations will rapidly abandon the racial preferences that had oddly become accepted as…
    Jay Greene
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    Daily ICE Arrests Under Trump Already Surpassing Biden-Era Numbers

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Deportation officers made nearly 1,000 arrests across the country Sunday, marking the largest number of single-day arrests only six days into the Trump administration and far surpassing the Biden administration average. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made 956 arrests, according to an announcement from the agency. This figure has already outpaced the average daily…
    Jason Hopkins
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