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    Did the Obama Administration Spy on Trump Using Flimsy Evidence? Let’s Find Out
    If the Justice Department and FBI are, as we’ve been told incessantly over the past year, not merely patriots but consummate professionals incapable of being distracted by partisanship or petty Washington intrigues, why are President Donald Trump’s antagonists freaking out over the fact that an inspector general will assess whether political motivation tainted an investigation…
    David Harsanyi
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    Congress Is Trying to Ignore Trump’s Spending Reduction Request. It Needs to Act Now.
    In early May, President Donald Trump submitted a rescission request to Congress to roll back more than $15 billion in spending. The House initially seemed poised to pass the package before Congress’ Memorial Day recess, but now, CQ reports that consideration of the package will be delayed until at least June. Congress has less than…
    Justin Bogie
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    ‘She’ll Be President Someday’: Meet the Adopted Little Girl Trump Praised
    Adopting a daughter has changed her life and opened her eyes to the beauty of adoption, one mother says. Finding out that the baby was addicted to an opioid couldn’t dim that beauty, she recalls in an interview with The Daily Signal. “I can’t even tell you or measure the amount of joy that she…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Has ‘Enormous Strategic Steadiness,’ Says Gingrich
    Among all the presidents he has dealt with, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Donald Trump is “the most unique” and is “changing history.” The former House speaker has worked with many presidents, and said that although President Ronald Reagan “was remarkable in his own right,” Trump “is, in some ways, the most unique person…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    Fact Check: Has Trump Appointed 1 in Every 8 Circuit Court Judges?
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed that one-eighth of all circuit court judges have been appointed by President Donald Trump. Verdict: True Of the 165 active circuit court judges, 21—or 13 percent—have been appointed by Trump. Fact Check: Senate Republicans emerged from a weekly luncheon Tuesday to speak with reporters about their party’s recent accomplishments. “We were…
    David Sivak
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    New Trump Administration Move Deals Significant Blow to Planned Parenthood
    The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to soon file a proposal that would update regulations of the Title X Family Planning grant program—and likely deny Planned Parenthood millions of taxpayer dollars. The proposal would require Title X grant recipients to maintain a strict physical and financial separation between their family planning programs…
    Monica Burke
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    Trump Judge Tally Setting Records Despite Unprecedented Democrat Obstruction
    The Senate confirmations on May 15 of two more of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees bring the total number approved so far in the 115th Congress to 39. Twenty-one of the 39 have been to appeals courts. The appeals court total is the highest at this point of any president in history. Trump has made 114…
    Thomas Jipping
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    Trump Is Keeping His Promises, but Congress Isn’t, Says Conservative Lawmaker
    Rep. Jim Jordan says President Donald Trump has accomplished a lot in his nearly 17 months in office but Congress has dropped the ball on making good on promises to the American people. “Taxes have been cut, the economy is growing, unemployment is at its lowest level, [Justice Neil] Gorsuch is on the court, ISIS…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Democrats’ Procedural Moves Continue to Stall Trump Nominees
    President Donald Trump still has more than 275 executive and judicial branch nominees pending Senate confirmation because of Democratic obstruction, far more than his presidential predecessors at the comparable points in their presidencies. The Senate confirmed Trump’s pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, on Thursday. That still leaves many administration positions open…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Rejection of Iran Deal Puts America First
    May 8, 2018, is not just the date when President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran deal. It will ultimately go down in history as a day that the United States made the entire world safer. Though not everyone is on board yet, one day soon the world will be thanking us. Trump deserves…
    Armstrong Williams
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    How the Media Just Created a Powerful New Lie About Trump
    If you’ve been scanning news headlines in the past 24 hours, you might have read that President Donald Trump on Wednesday called immigrants “animals.” Here are a few of the headlines: “During Roundtable, Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’” (NPR) “Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’ in Rant” (New York Times) “Trump ramps up rhetoric…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Trump’s Rescission Request a Much-Needed First Step to Restoring Budget Sanity
    Over the next 10 years, our publicly held debt is set to almost double, going from around $15 trillion today to more than $28 trillion in 2028. Debt as a percentage of our entire economy is set to grow from 76.5 percent today to 96.2 percent in 2028, a level not reached since the end…
    Sen. Mike Lee
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    The Reason Liberals View Melania Trump as a Threat
    Need more evidence that there are two Americas? Here: Left-wing hatred of Melania Trump is inversely proportional to flyover admiration for the first lady. In just the last month, late-night clown Jimmy Kimmel mocked Trump’s Slovenian accent, CNN contributor April Ryan attacked her as “not culturally American,” former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines derided her…
    Michelle Malkin
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    Blame Hamas, Not Ivanka Trump
    Perhaps because they never were on board with President Donald Trump’s promise to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, some have unfairly targeted Ivanka Trump in the aftermath of the embassy opening. There has been an outrageous effort to both implicitly and explicitly connect Ivanka’s presence in Jerusalem at the embassy opening…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    The Left-Wing Plot to Repeal the Trump Tax Cuts
    Former RATE Coalition Co-Chairman Jim Pinkerton spoke to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey and Ginny Montalbano about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, current economic conditions, and left-wing efforts to repeal the tax cuts. Pinkerton is a former Reagan and Bush White House official. An edited transcript of his interview is below. Bluey: We’re here to talk about tax…
    Robert B. Bluey | Ginny Montalbano
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    Podcast: The Week in Review, Plus an Interview With Jim Pinkerton on the Trump Tax Cuts
    On today’s edition of The Daily Signal podcast, Rob Bluey and Ginny Montalbano review the week’s top news. We feature an exclusive interview with Jim Pinkerton, former co-chairman of the RATE coalition, about the success of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and how left-wing groups are plotting to repeal them. We also share some of…
    Robert B. Bluey | Ginny Montalbano
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    Problematic Women: Melania Trump’s Approval Ratings Reach a Personal ‘Best’
    Michelle Obama demeans women who voted for President Donald Trump (again), Melania Trump’s favorability ratings reach a personal “best,” and did celebrities at the Met Gala appropriate Catholic culture? Plus: women stand up against the leader of the “resistance,” and a special tribute for Mother’s Day. All that and more in this week’s edition of…
    Kelsey Bolar | Bre Payton
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    Trump’s ‘Rescission’ Package Would Save Unspent Tax Dollars
    President Donald Trump on Tuesday submitted a special message to Congress requesting that $15 billion in unspent funding be rescinded. That’s a good first step toward re-establishing fiscal responsibility. Congress should embrace it and quickly adopt the president’s rescission package. Still, the package does nothing to claw back the tens of billions of additional dollars…
    Justin Bogie
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    In Eric Schneiderman’s Fall, Trump Resistance Loses ‘Ringleader’
    Just two weeks ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was coming off a legal victory against the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda for fuel efficiency standards. “When the Trump administration puts special interests before public health and our environment, we’ll take them to court—and we will win,” Eric Schneiderman says. “As we’ve proven again and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Ends Iran Nuclear Deal, Leaving Ball in Iran’s Court
    President Donald Trump pulled the plug on the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, taking it off life support after months of warning that the flawed 2015 agreement needed to be ended or mended. When it became clear that France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—three other signatories to the nuclear deal—could not reach an acceptable agreement with…
    James Phillips
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