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President Donald Trump, after wavering, decided to sign a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, asserting his highest duty as president is to “keep America safe.” Speaking to reporters Friday at the White House, Trump called the massive spending bill “ridiculous.” “I’m not going to do it again,” he said of signing such an expensive, hastily…

President Donald Trump said he will push for “phase two” tax cuts in remarks Thursday to a White House gathering of millennials, a key voting bloc that benefited from last year’s tax relief package. “The word ‘crumbs’ is going to be like the word ‘deplorable,’” @RealDonaldTrump says. After passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs…

Mercedes Schlapp, the White House director of strategic communications, speaks to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey about the media’s coverage of President Donald Trump and the administration’s top priorities in 2018. Schlapp attended the White House’s Generation Next event with millennials Thursday. An edited transcript of her Daily Signal interview is below. Rob Bluey: You…

Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens spoke to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey about why conservative policies are better for the African-American community. Owens appeared at the White House’s Generation Next forum for millennials Thursday. An edited transcript of her Daily Signal interview is below. Rob Bluey: How did you become a conservative? Candace Owens: I…

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta spoke to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey about the Trump administration’s approach to job creation, reducing government regulations, and what it’s like to work for President Donald Trump. Acosta spoke Thursday at Generation Next, a White House forum for millennials. An edited transcript of his Daily Signal interview is below. Rob Bluey:…

Ivanka Trump, senior adviser at the White House, speaks to The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness about her efforts to promote workforce development and job opportunities for Americans. Trump spoke Thursday at Generation Next, a White House forum for millennials. An edited transcript of her Daily Signal interview is below. Kelsey Harkness: We are here today…

Senate Democrats have slowed President Donald Trump’s efforts to build his administration by pushing the maximum 30 hours of debate for nearly every one of his executive branch nominees. “At this rate, the United States Senate would take 11 and a half years to confirm our nominees,” @MarcShort45 says. Of the 642 key government posts…

Two conservative lawmakers say they understand President Donald Trump’s push during the opioid epidemic to pursue the death penalty for drug dealers in some instances. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., addressed the proposal Wednesday during Conversations with Conservatives, a monthly meeting with reporters hosted on Capitol Hill by conservative lawmakers and…

When campaigning in 2016, President Donald Trump often noted how America was trailing other countries, and vowed to reverse that. On Monday, the president highlighted two specific issues: criminal punishment for drug dealers and the price of prescription medicines. “Every day, 116 Americans die from an opioid-related overdose,” @POTUS says. “This scourge of drug addiction…

Jim Carrey revealed his new portrait that resembles President Donald Trump in a tweet Monday. Carrey, the star of “Ace Ventura” and “Dumb and Dumber,” took to Twitter to show off his latest artwork, the Daily Mail reported. The comedian referred to the portrait as “the Wicked Witch of the West Wing and Putin’s flying monkeys”…

More than half of registered voters in blue or battleground states that Donald Trump won in the 2016 presidential election, each of which has a Democrat senator up for re-election, say the economy is better than it was a year ago, according to a new survey.   The survey, conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey, polled…

President Donald Trump met Thursday with representatives of the video game industry to discuss the impact of violent games as he advocates ways to make schools safer. “For a warped mind that is either evil or troubled, we have to ask ourselves, what kind of impact does that have?” @BrentBozell says. Among the president’s guests…

President Donald Trump asked a gathering of Latino business owners to “push” Democratic members of Congress on his proposal to grant legal status to a subgroup of illegal immigrants in exchange for stronger border security. “This is our time. This is our moment. Go get DACA,” Trump said in his remarks Wednesday to the Latino…

President Donald Trump had a successful year in seating appeals court judges, but it is lower-level federal courts that have blocked much of his policy agenda, including withholding funds from sanctuary cities and restricting travel from some nations. “Despite Senate Democrats’ use of petty political tactics to delay his nominees, the president will continue nominating…

A Republican president offers legal status to some 2 million illegal immigrants in exchange for stronger border security. However, in part because of chain migration, more than 1 million more gained amnesty than initially estimated. That’s what happened after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration reform bill in 1986. And some border hawks fear that…

President Donald Trump pushed for expanding background checks and floated the idea of raising the age to buy semi-automatic rifles, as he called for a “comprehensive” and “beautiful” bill to address guns and school safety. Trump met Wednesday with a bipartisan group of members of Congress, two weeks after a gunman used an AR-15-style rifle…