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    When Melania Trump Asked to Borrow a Painting, Museum Offered a Literal Toilet

    First lady Melania Trump’s request to borrow a Vincent van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim Museum was refused, but a curator did offer another work of art: a functional 18-karat gold toilet. The curator at the Guggenheim responded to Trump’s request by offering to loan the White House a working toilet made of gold called…
    Thomas Phippen
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    How the Trump Administration Is Taking Serious Action to Protect Life, Conscience

    The Department of Health and Human Services made news last week when its Office for Civil Rights announced the creation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division dedicated to protecting our first freedom. The very next day, the department unveiled a proposed regulation to robustly enforce federal conscience statutes, and rescinded an Obama-era guidance…
    Melanie Israel
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    I Support Trump Because He Has Delivered, Not Because He’s a Role Model

    If there’s one thing I’ve always said, it’s that Christians should never check their faith at the door when they enter the public square. So, let me start by practicing what I preach. Like you, I’ve heard all of the allegations about President Donald Trump’s past, his years of baggage and personal failings. I don’t…
    Tony Perkins
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    Despite Hollywood’s Scorn, Melania Trump Has Accomplished Much as First Lady

    Hollywood’s feminist hypocrisy was on full display Sunday night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Actress Kristen Bell, who was hosting the event, joked about being a “first lady.” “I think my first initiative as first lady will be cyberbullying,” Bell said to “much laughter” from the audience, according to the The Huffington Post. “Because…
    Ginny Montalbano
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    Trump Has Vowed to Rebuild the Military. More Short-Term Spending Bills Won’t Achieve That.

    The government shutdown may be over for now, but that doesn’t mean our military and national defense are on track to achieve the rebuilding that President Donald Trump has promised. After three days of a shutdown, lawmakers agreed on a short-term continuing resolution that will keep the government open until Feb. 8. When your options…
    Frederico Bartels
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    Trump: School Choices ‘Empower Parents’ to Seek Best Future for Children

    President Donald Trump formally proclaimed this week to be National School Choice Week, and called on lawmakers, parents, and students to explore new education options. “To maintain our global leadership and strengthen our modern economy, America’s education system must prepare students for the unforeseen challenges of the future,” Trump said in a proclamation issued Monday….
    Fred Lucas
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    How Shutdown Under Trump Compares With Obama, Other Presidents

    The three-day partial government shutdown on President Donald Trump’s first anniversary in office had some marked differences from the last shutdown in 2013, aside from the duration. “I’m pleased the Democrats in the Senate have come to their senses and are willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders and insurance for vulnerable…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump: I’m Pleased ‘Democrats in Congress Have Come to Their Senses’

    President Donald Trump applauded Senate Democrats Monday for backing a bill that will keep the government funded through Feb. 8, which ends the three-day government shutdown over legal protections for 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and their families. “I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses and are now…
    Robert Donachie
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    ‘America First’ Polls Poorly in Other Countries. Trump Backers Don’t Care.

    As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama asserted that he was a “citizen of the world.” By contrast, during his first address to Congress last year, President Donald Trump said, “My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America.” Many around the world seem to…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Administration Wants Supreme Court to Review DACA Decision Immediately

    In a remarkable filing, the Department of Justice formally asked the Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to continue administering the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The petition is highly unusual, as the government bypassed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked the justices to hear the…
    Kevin Daley
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    Trump Will Address March for Life via Satellite

    President Donald Trump will address Friday’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., live from the White House Rose Garden via satellite, making him the first sitting U.S. president to address the event from the White House. “We’re excited to announce that the president will become the first sitting president to address the March for Life from the…
    Grace Carr
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    There Are 633 Key Administration Positions. Trump Hasn’t Appointed Nominees for 252 of Them.

    Just shy of one year in office, President Donald Trump has yet to fill more than one-third of key positions in the federal government—casting some doubt as to how quickly he will “drain the swamp” of the federal bureaucracy. “This administration is about to enter the second quarter of the game, and many crucial players…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Joins Governors in Backing Prison Reform

    President Donald Trump has dedicated his administration to “law and order.” Perhaps keeping that in mind, ahead of his meeting with the president, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said prison reform isn’t soft on crime, but “smart on crime.” Numerous states have enacted criminal justice laws to lighten penalties for nonviolent offenders and help ex-prisoners transition…
    Fred Lucas
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    Conservatives Warn Trump Not to Revive Earmarks If He Wants to Drain the Swamp

    Some conservatives are sounding the alarm over reinstating earmarks in Congress, as President Donald Trump voiced support Tuesday for reviving a budgetary practice that critics say feeds cronyism and corruption in government. “I hear so much about earmarks and how there was a great friendliness [among lawmakers] when you had earmarks,” Trump said Tuesday in…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Q&A: Black Activist Says Trump Policies, Unlike Obama’s, Create Jobs for Black Americans

    Project 21’s Horace Cooper joined The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood to discuss the historic low unemployment rate for black Americans and how the left is co-opting Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest tax reform and promote action for illegal immigrants covered by the DACA program. Here is an edited transcript of the video. Wood:…
    Genevieve Wood
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    Judge Orders Trump Administration to Maintain DACA

    A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to maintain the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program late Tuesday, an Obama-era amnesty policy that extends legal status to 800,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. as children. The ruling could ensures DACA’s security as President Donald Trump attempts to reach an immigration…
    Kevin Daley
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    Trump Signals Support for Internet Sales Tax Over Conservatives’ Objections

    A South Dakota lawmaker says President Donald Trump has promised that her bill requiring online merchants to collect sales taxes will be signed into law in 2018. “They all committed to me that we were going to get my bill passed in ’18 here,” Noem said, according to The Rapid City Journal, referring to the president…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    We Hear You: Tax Cuts, the GOP Establishment, the Job Outlook, and the Trump Economy

    Editor's note: Here's another smorgasbord of emails from The Daily Signal's audience, reflecting your thoughts on tax cuts and other matters as 2017 came to a close. Enjoy, and don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: The historic tax reform legislation draws a clear distinction between the governing matrixes guiding the…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Group That Tried to Sue Trump Over ‘Emoluments’ Clause Just Got Booted Out of Court

    A federal judge recently dismissed the first of three lawsuits against President Donald Trump that claim it’s unconstitutional for a president to own and profit from a business while in office. Judge George Daniels of the Southern District of New York authored the opinion, filed Dec. 21, giving a win to Trump. But more generally,…
    John-Michael Seibler
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    Trump Just Cut Aid to Pakistan. Why This Long-Overdue Move Could Have a Real Impact.

    They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It’s a lesson the U.S. government has learned the hard way in Pakistan. Fortunately, the Trump administration’s recent decision to suspend $255 million in aid to Islamabad serves as a welcome injection of sanity into the…
    Jeff Smith
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