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    Supreme Court Gives Trump a Quiet, Yet Potentially Large Victory Against Administrative State

    As Americans began to prepare for Memorial Day weekend, the Supreme Court quietly handed President Donald Trump a significant victory in the fight to rein in the rogue D.C. bureaucracy.   In a short, two-page order, the court stayed a district court order that directed Trump to reinstate two federal officials whom he had fired.  …
    Seth Lucas
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    Trump to Review Cutting Government Contracts with Harvard

    The Trump administration is reviewing cutting all federal government contracts with Harvard University due to concerns about antisemitism and racial discrimination, a senior White House official shared with The Daily Signal. The General Services Administration is assisting all federal agencies in a review for termination or transition of their federal government contracts with Harvard University…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    WATCH: Trump Honors Fallen Soldiers During Memorial Day Ceremony

    THE CENTER SQUARE—President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and others on Monday thanked those U.S. service members who died serving their country during a Memorial Day event at Arlington National Cemetery. “We gather today to honor the incredible service members who rest in glory in this cemetery and burial grounds around the world, and…
    Morgan Sweeney
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    Trump Must Avoid These 3 ‘Civilization Killers’ When Tackling the National Debt

    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. I’d like to talk about debt, debt, debt. All during the last few days, we’ve heard…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘Make the Changes They Want’: Trump Gives Senate Go-Ahead to Take Red Pen to ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump gave Senate Republicans permission to make major changes to the House-passed “one big, beautiful bill” Sunday evening, throwing a wrench in Speaker Mike Johnson’s efforts to persuade his upper chamber colleagues to refrain from significantly rewriting the legislation. Trump’s approval of Senate Republicans making “the changes they want” in…
    Adam Pack
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    Harvard ‘and Others’ Need to Get in Line or Lose Foreign Students, Trump Says

    President Donald Trump hinted of revoking other universities’ certification to host international students in response to a question about his move against Harvard. Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday in response to the Department of Homeland Security revoking the school’s certification to host international students. The Trump administration had stripped Harvard of its…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Administration Takes Another Step to Prevent Noncitizen Voting

    State and local officials will be able to cross-check the citizenship status of individuals using a Social Security number as a means to prevent illegal voting and voter registration.  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it updated the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) to coordinate with the Social Security Administration.  President Donald Trump’s Executive…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Administration Ends Harvard’s Ability to Host Foreign Students

    Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday in response to the Department of Homeland Security revoking the school’s certification to host international students. The Trump administration had stripped Harvard of its ability to enroll foreign students earlier Friday, accusing the school of failing to heed the law. “This administration is holding…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Was Right to Shame South African President

    In one of the most incredible scenes in American diplomatic history, President Donald Trump halted his meeting with the South African president Wednesday to show him a video montage of threats made to white citizens of his country. “Boer” refers to an Afrikaner, a descendant of mostly Dutch immigrants in South Africa. This meeting took place a week after…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Admin Frees Nation’s Largest Christian College From Biden’s $37.7M Fine

    Thanks to the Trump administration’s Department of Education, the nation’s largest Christian college has been freed from a massive $37.7 million fine. In 2023, the Biden administration accused Grand Canyon University of misleading doctoral students about program costs, swiftly imposing the hefty fine. Then-Education Secretary Miguel Cardona openly criticized GCU, stating he was “cracking down not only to shut…
    Sarah Holliday
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    WATCH: Trump Hits South African President With Receipts

    LIVE on “The Tony Kinnett Cast” at 7 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump delivers an incredibly potent diplomatic punch to the racially discriminatory government of South Africa, ending the age of America’s bootlicking on the world stage. Democrats and legacy media intensify their infighting, with Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios trying…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Trump’s Approach to Foreign Policy Draws Criticism, But Delivers Results

    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 just wrapped up a very successful tour of the Middle East Gulf states…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Admin Sanctions Mexican Cartel Members

    The Trump administration is targeting two high-level Mexican cartel members with sanctions, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday, in a move angel mom Anne Fundner calls a “very strong message.”  “These criminal organizations are, let’s make no mistake about it, they are foreign terrorist organizations,” Fundner says of the criminal drug cartels. “They’re involved in human trafficking, arms trafficking, [and]…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Shows South African President Receipts of Genocide

    President Donald Trump showed South Africa’s president a damning video montage of threats against white people in his country after Cyril Ramaphosa asserted that there was no genocide against white farmers there. During Ramaphosa’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, a reporter asked what it would take for Trump to believe there…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Now Says Biden Was ‘Not for Open Borders,’ Blames ‘Thugs’ in His Administration

    For years, President Donald Trump has bashed his successor and predecessor, President Joe Biden, for his handling of the southern border, but on Tuesday, Trump said Biden “was not for open borders.”   Biden “never talked about open borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes can flow into our country at will,” Trump…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Announces ‘Golden Dome’ Missile-Defense System

    The U.S. will build a “Golden Dome” to guard against missile attacks, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.   “In the campaign, I promised the American people I would build a cutting-edge missile-defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “That is what we are…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Reins in Bureaucrats’ Criminal Code

    In 2020, boat crewmen John Moore and Tanner Mansell found what they thought was an illegal fishing line off the Florida coast. Believing it the work of poachers, they cut the line, freed several entangled sharks, and called the authorities. In response, the authorities charged and convicted them of felony theft of government property. Moore…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Here’s What Trump Told House Republicans Behind Closed Doors

    President Donald Trump met with the entire House Republican Conference on Tuesday and delivered a strong message—namely, that the time for negotiations on the budget reconciliation bill is over. A number of House Republicans leaving the meeting said that Trump cautioned fiscal hawks against pushing for major reductions in Medicaid and cautioned blue state Republicans…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump’s Tariff Strategy Can Work but America Still Needs Deeper Economic Reform

    President Donald Trump’s tariff diplomacy has been a shock treatment to the global economic order, intended as a kind of radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer that created the Rust Belt. But overdoing the treatment can kill the patient instead, without removing the carcinogens in the economy. Fortunately, the administration’s negotiators have called a truce, and…
    EJ Antoni
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    What Trump Should Do With Qatar Plane

    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 this controversy about the 747 airplane that Qatar gave to President Donald Trump. And there’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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