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    Trump, Paul Forge Alliance on ‘Biggest Free-Market Reform of Health Care in Generation’
    Unable so far to achieve even a partial rollback of Obamacare from Congress, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could make it easier for some consumers to buy insurance across state lines—potentially increasing competition. “Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up … and you’ll get such low…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Calls for ‘Lower Taxes, Bigger Paychecks, and More Jobs’
    President Donald Trump talked mostly about tax cuts and tax reform, addressing supportive truckers Wednesday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—but also referencing Iran, a trade deal, and a mystery country that formerly didn’t respect the United States but does now. “To summarize, our plan goes from eight tax brackets down to four, expands the zero tax bracket…
    Fred Lucas
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    Should Trump Nix the Iran Deal?
    President Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not like the flawed and risky 2015 Iran nuclear agreement that he inherited from the Obama administration. He called it one of the worst deals ever negotiated during the presidential campaign and declared it to be an “embarrassment” in his speech to the United Nations…
    James Phillips
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    GOP Lawmakers Urge Confirmation of Trump Ex-Im Nominee
    Republican lawmakers are asking leaders of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Export-Import Bank. “We are writing to express our support for President Trump’s nominees to the Export-Import Bank, and especially his nomination of Scott Garrett to be the bank’s next president,” 26…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Why Conservatives Urge Trump to Undo Government Land Grabs
    U.S. presidents, Barack Obama in particular, have abused a 111-year-old law to grab millions of acres of private land for the government, and that has to change, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said Wednesday. Presidents have made such land grabs without regard for who lived on the acres they designated as protected, Lee said during an…
    Casey Ryan
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    San Juan Mayor Feuding With Trump Turned Her Back When Asked to Swear to Uphold the Constitution
    A 2013 video shows the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, turning her back when asked to swear to uphold the Constitution. On Saturday, President Donald Trump called out Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor, for her “poor leadership ability” in a tweet. The day prior, Cruz had been critical, saying, “If anybody out there is…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Ready to Sign House-Passed Ban of Abortions After 20 Weeks
    President Donald Trump is prepared to sign a late-term abortion ban, which the House passed Tuesday evening, if the Senate follows suit. A statement from the White House said the proposed law would promote a “culture of life.” Proponents say the measure, prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, would restrict the procedure at the…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Joined in Shock and Grief’: Trump Calls for Unity After Las Vegas Massacre
    President Donald Trump, saying the nation is “joined together today in sadness, shock, and grief,” announced he will travel Wednesday to Las Vegas to visit the families of at least 58 people killed in the Sunday night shooting there, as well as survivors and first responders. “We know God lives in the hearts of those…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Deregulation Day’ Spotlights Big Changes Trump Is Bringing to Washington
    Monday is “Deregulation Day” for the federal government as declared by President Donald Trump, and thus is an opportune time to deliver the findings of The Heritage Foundation’s latest tracking of regulation. The bad news is that the final year of the Obama administration brought the private-sector costs of its reign of regulatory excess to…
    Diane Katz
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    Trump Stands Up to the Castro Regime
    In withdrawing personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, the Trump administration took a limited and reasonable retaliation for attacks on U.S. diplomats in Havana. It could, and should, have gone further, but the actions at least convey to the ruthless Castro regime that it now deals with a government that will stand up for…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Librarian’s Scolding of Melania Trump Shows Need for School Choice
    What’s the first word you think of when you think of librarians? Is it some variation on strict, forbidding, or persnickety? One librarian is certainly living up to the stereotype. Liz Phipps Soeiro, librarian at Cambridgeport School in Massachusetts, thoroughly scolded first lady Melania Trump for giving the school 10 books by Dr. Seuss in…
    Anne Ryland
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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 | Tori K. Smith | Katie Tubb
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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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