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    Trump Waives Jones Act to Get Relief to Puerto Rico

    President Donald Trump temporarily waived a shipping regulation to boost relief efforts to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico after pressure from members of Congress on both parties. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the policy change in a Thursday morning tweet. At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico….
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Predicts Some Democrats Will Back Tax Plan

    Calling the House Republican tax reform plan a “once-in-a-generation opportunity,” President Donald Trump predicted the plan released Wednesday would have bipartisan support. “We’re going to have numerous Democrats come across because it’s the right thing to do,” @POTUS says. Speaking at the Indiana state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Trump invoked tax reforms of predecessors Ronald Reagan,…
    Fred Lucas
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    NFL Players Started This Controversy, Not Trump

    Because the left dominates the news media, the entertainment media, and academia, Americans are swimming—actually, drowning—in an ocean of lies. Here are a few examples: America is racist. America oppresses its minorities. America oppresses women. Universities have a culture of rape. There are more than two genders. All cultures are morally and culturally equal. Hurricanes…
    Dennis Prager
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    This Agency Wants to Shield a Select Few Solar Companies. Thankfully, Trump Can Reverse.

    Last Friday, the International Trade Commission voted 4-0 in favor of SolarWorld and Suniva’s Section 201 petition, finding that imports of solar cells and solar panels have inflicted “serious injury” on the domestic solar market. The commission made the wrong call with its verdict and is setting a dangerous precedent. Placing special-interest tariffs, large or…
    Rachael Wilfong
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    Trump Decision on Refugee Total Expected Within Days

    The Trump administration will decide within 10 days how many refugees may resettle next year in the United States, a State Department official said Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation. During a 120-day suspension of refugees entering the U.S. ordered by President Donald Trump, officials studied the specifics of vetting refugees, the costs of resettling them,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Conservatives Balk at Talk of Trump Amnesty Deal With Democrats

    President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders asserted that they haven’t reached a deal to give legal status to those who came to the country illegally as children—but one seems to be pending. “It’s a negotiating trick, and one that Mr. Art of the Deal has fallen for,” @MarkSKrikorian says. “We’re working on a plan—subject to…
    Fred Lucas
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    How GOP Attorneys General Forced Trump to Act on DACA

    President Donald Trump seems to be hatching a plan with Democrats in Congress about codifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, through a bill to grant amnesty to those brought illegally to this country as children. But the policy imposed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, might have continued on an executive basis without debate…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump: Rich Would Pay Same or More Under Tax Reform

    The wealthy would pay the same individual income tax rate, or possibly see an increase, under his tax reform plan, President Donald Trump said Wednesday. He emphasized, however, a strong commitment to slashing the corporate tax rate from the current rate of 39 percent to 15 percent, to make the United States more competitive internationally….
    Fred Lucas
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    Is Trump Taking a Page From His Own Book ‘The Art of the Deal?’

    The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported by the mainstream media. This week, we address the question on many minds: Is President Donald Trump taking a page out of his own book “The Art of the Deal” in siding with…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Trump Is Right. ‘Our Tax Code Is a Giant, Self-Inflicted Economic Wound.’

    In his second speech in two weeks on the need for tax reform, President Donald Trump again made a strong case, explaining that “our tax code is a giant, self-inflicted economic wound.” This time speaking in North Dakota, the president reiterated his four key goals for updating the broken U.S. tax system: a simplified tax…
    Adam Michel
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    See How Your Senators Voted on the Pelosi-Schumer-Trump Debt Ceiling Deal

    Senate lawmakers voted Thursday afternoon to advance a bill that would provide emergency relief funding to the victims of Hurricane Harvey and would temporarily raise the debt ceiling and fund the government through mid-December. Lawmakers voted 80-17 in favor of sending the bill back to the House for renegotiations. The Senate’s vote comes off the heels of…
    Robert Donachie
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    Trump Right That Congress, Not President, Should Decide on DACA

    Many have been criticizing President Donald Trump for ending the DACA program, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, that was implemented by President Barack Obama back in 2012, but it was the right thing to do under what we are, which is a constitutional republic. Why? Because the president doesn’t have the authority to…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    3 Reasons Trump Should Consider Appointing a Disaster Relief Commission

    With Hurricane Harvey leaving massive amounts of damage in its wake and Hurricane Irma now heading toward Florida, tools for disaster management, response, and recovery are needed more than ever. Looking to past examples, one model that may serve the Trump administration well is to set up a temporary commission to handle a disaster, as…
    David Inserra
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    Trump Correct to Put ‘Dreamers’ in the Hands of Congress, GOP Lawmakers Say

    President Donald Trump’s suggestion that children brought to America illegally get legal status only as part of reforms by Congress to immigration law sounds like good news, Republican lawmakers told The Daily Signal. “What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    House Republicans Unhappy That Trump Siding With Democrats on Debt Ceiling

    President Donald Trump’s decision to side with Democrats in their push to attach a three-month debt ceiling increase to must-pass hurricane relief funding is not sitting well with House Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., all advocated a…
    Juliegrace Brufke
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    • Opinion

    Congress Should Follow Trump’s Lead, Cut EPA Funding

    Mick Mulvaney, the current director of the Office of Management and Budget and my predecessor representing South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District, has been guided by the idea that every dollar spent by the federal government must be scrutinized. I took this principal to the heart as I examined the president’s budget request, which succinctly stated:…
    Rep. Ralph Norman
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    Trump to Make Dreamers Decision in Coming Days

    President Donald Trump will have an announcement in the coming days on the Obama-era program shielding illegal immigrants from deportation if they entered the country as children. “We love the dreamers. We love everybody,” @POTUS says. If Trump ends the program, as he reportedly plans to, the question could be how it will unravel. “We’ll…
    Fred Lucas
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    Obama Gutted Work Requirements for Welfare. Why Trump Is Right to Restore Them.

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed an Obama administration policy that undermined one of the most successful domestic policy reforms in the last half-century. In doing so, Trump took strong steps to preserve the original intent of the 1996 welfare reform law: to weaken the cycle of poverty by reducing dependence and promoting self-sufficiency through…
    Robert Rector
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    How Trump Can Keep the Economy at 3% Growth

    Americans received good news this week: The economy, as measured by gross domestic product, grew at a 3 percent rate in the second quarter of 2017. President Donald Trump has made sustained 3 percent economic growth the key target of “MAGAnomics.” To be a success, that initiative will have to improve the economy enough that…
    Salim Furth
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    Trump Says Tax Reform Could Create ‘Millions and Millions of New Jobs’

    President Donald Trump hit his campaign themes of bringing back American jobs and raising wages in launching his quest for tax reform, while blasting special interest loopholes. “I don’t want to be disappointed by Congress,” @POTUS says. “Let’s put, or at least try to put, the partisan posturing behind us and come together as Americans…
    Fred Lucas
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