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    Trump Faces Federal Employee Unions in Government Efficiency Battle
    THE CENTER SQUARE—President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched power in Washington, D.C., that may throw a wrench in his plans: federal government public employee unions. “For President-elect Trump to succeed at making the federal bureaucracy more efficient and accountable to the American people, he’ll…
    Casey Harper
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    Reagan Was Right About Panama Canal. So Is Trump.
    “We built it. We paid for it. It's ours.” That was Ronald Reagan’s take on how we should think about the Panama Canal when Americans were debating giving it to the Panamanian government in the 1970s. “We cannot abdicate our responsibility for the operation of the canal and the security of the Western Hemisphere,” Reagan…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    BREAKING: Trump Makes Key Endorsement in House Speaker Race
    President-elect Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson for another round as leader of the House of Representatives Monday. Conservatives had wondered if Trump would oppose Johnson’s bid after the president-elect effectively killed the first massive spending bill to fund the government earlier this month. “We are the Party of COMMON SENSE, a primary reason…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump’s Opportunity to Bring Balance to White House Press Room
    The incoming Trump White House, including press secretary Karoline Leavitt, is signaling that it wants to revamp the press briefing room. This is an outstanding idea.  Numerous studies show a strained relationship between the national media and conservatives, leading many observers to hope the second Trump administration will proactively ensure that the White House briefing…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Biden Oblivious About Leaving Trump an Economy on the Precipice of Disaster
    Apparently believing that the more you repeat a lie the truer it becomes, President Joe Biden recently quoted a Time magazine article claiming that “President [Donald] Trump is receiving the strongest economy in modern history.”   The Time article was little more than a setup designed to position Democrats to take credit for the inevitable Trump economic boom—as…
    Andy Puzder
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    Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize
    Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits brought against Donald Trump, to the great glee of many of his “Never Trump” and Democrat detractors. Some of them had an immediate turnabout effect, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin…
    Michael Barone
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    How the Left Will Defend Its Censorship Regime Against Trump
    The reelection of President Donald Trump could serve as a historic turning point for free speech in America. President Trump has said he will investigate censorship practices by the federal government, end the rampant disrespect for First Amendment rights on our college campuses, and take on Big Tech’s Orwellian policing of speech on the internet. If successful,…
    Bradley Smith
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    SHOCKER!: PolitiFact Tags Trump for ‘Lie of the Year’ for Seventh Time
    Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they’ve singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene. It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked…
    Tim Graham
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    What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?
    In the weeks before his 2016 Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval. His inauguration in a few…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    How To Get Trump’s Agenda Through Congress
    A sweeping election victory on Nov. 5 means Republicans will have control of the House, Senate, and the White House come January. Capturing this trifecta, however, was just the beginning of conservatives’ fight to save the country.  Now comes the much harder task: conservatives actually have to govern. Republicans, animated by President-elect Donald Trump’s winning…
    Bradley Devlin
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    It Feels Like Trump Already Is President
    President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote. Now, a month before Trump takes the oath of office, President Joe Biden is limiting his public appearances to such an extent that it feels like Trump already is president….
    Debra Saunders
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    Like Your Taxes Low? Trump and Republicans Want to Keep It That Way
    Sunday is the seven-year anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a landmark piece of legislation that contributed to historic economic prosperity under the first Trump administration.  In December 2017, a Republican Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed this package of sweeping reforms into the U.S. tax code, both for individual filers and…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    5 Lies Biden Used to Break the Border—and How Trump Can Fix It
    Over the past four years, President Joe Biden conducted an experiment: What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry?  He released millions of illegal aliens at the border, paroled over a million more using programs Congress never authorized, and allowed at least 2 million more to evade the Border Patrol.  That resulted in…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Explaining the Beef Between Donald Trump and Chip Roy
    The drama surrounding the government funding deadline escalated Thursday when President-elect Donald Trump attacked Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. The shocking development came as Trump insisted on including a debt limit increase, which Roy firmly opposes. “The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great…
    Bradley Devlin
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    PARTISAN PUSH: All But 2 Democrats Vote Against Trump-Endorsed Government Funding Bill, Despite Debt Ceiling Increase
    Hours after President-Elect Donald Trump endorsed a new bill to fund the government, the House of Representatives took the first of multiple expected votes on the bill. The House first voted on whether to suspend the rules to pass the bill, the American Relief Act of 2025. That vote failed, 174 to 235, with both…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Administration Nomination Signals Return to Respect for Effective Patent Rights
    When President-elect Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Abigail “Gail” Slater to lead the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division last week, he expressed a return to his first administration’s policy of supporting innovation and rejecting support for predatory patent infringement by Big Tech companies. In his statement in support of Slater’s nomination, Trump recognized…
    Adam Mossoff
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    ‘President Trump Is Going to Usher in a Golden Age of Science,’ Health Expert Says
    Political agendas have “co-opted” science in America, according to the founder of an organization that helps consumers spend their health care dollars on proactive, preventative solutions like fitness, nutrition, and innovative health technology. In recent years, Calley Means, founder of Truemed and co-author of “Good Energy,” says science has become intermingled with public policy, which…
    Virginia Allen
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    ABC’s Payment to Trump Creates ‘Chilling Effect’ 
    After ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $16 million over George Stephanopoulos incessantly lying about Trump being held “liable for rape,” the hot concept in media panic was the “chilling effect.” MSNBC commentator Barbara McQuade lamented “the chilling effect it might have on people who otherwise would be critical of Donald Trump.” Is there…
    Tim Graham
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    Here’s How Trump Can Make America Beautiful Again
    Shortly after President-elect Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid, the former and now future president released some preliminary policy objectives. Among them, Trump promised that, if put back in office, his administration would undertake efforts to get rid of ugly public buildings and beautify American cities. This week on “The Signal Sitdown,” my guest…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump, Vance Throw Curveball Into Spending Fight as Hill Scrambles to Fund Government
    President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance want House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans on Capitol Hill to play hardball with obstructionist Democrats in the ongoing government funding fight. On Tuesday night, Congressional leadership released the text of the continuing resolution that will fund the government until March 14, 2025. With funding set to…
    Bradley Devlin
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