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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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    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 | Vijay Menon
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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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    Why Trump Was Right to Reverse Obama’s Policy on Military Gear for Police
    Speaking to a supportive crowd at the national convention of the Fraternal Order of Police, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that President Donald Trump would shortly sign an executive order—which he has now done—rolling back limitations that had been placed by the Obama administration on the ability of the military to transfer excess equipment to…
    John G. Malcolm
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    We Hear You: Trump Prescribes Pain of Obamacare for Congress
    Editor's note: Fred Lucas' reporting on a possible move by President Trump to compel Congress to live with Obamacare, and on a surprising U.S. vote at a U.N. human rights gathering, stirred response from The Daily Signal's audience. We've got some of that and more in today's roundup. Write us at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Trump Fires Back at the ‘Fake News’ Media
    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, President Donald Trump fired back at the “fake news” media for complaining about the different tones he used in his back-to-back speeches. Hillary Clinton is still in the…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Trump Praises Vets for Keeping ‘History and Culture’
    President Donald Trump spoke about patriotism and unity Wednesday, in addressing the American Legion’s 99th National Convention, before enacting another reform at the long-troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. “We look at them and say, ‘You’re fired,’” @POTUS says. During his remarks, the president invited Medal of Honor recipient and Vietnam Navy veteran Donald E. Ballard…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Lays Out a Winning Strategy for Afghanistan
    After months of speculation and delay, President Donald Trump has sided with the expert advice of his military and national security team on the way forward to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. In what was by far his best and most statesmanlike speech since taking office, Trump outlined a new approach Monday night to the…
    Luke Coffey
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    6 Takeaways as Trump Recommits US to ‘Defeat the Enemy’ in Afghanistan
    President Donald Trump announced an unspecified surge of  troops in Afghanistan to “kill terrorists” and “defeat the enemy” during a prime-time address Monday night to soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, at the same time rejecting nation building and promising “principled realism.” The president also touted a regional strategy, warning that he expects more responsibility from…
    Fred Lucas
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    Corporations, Democrats Join Forces to Block Trump Nominee to Run Export-Import Bank
    The business community of South Carolina is pressuring Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott to oppose President Donald Trump’s nomination of a critic of the Export-Import Bank to run the institution. Thus far, the most vocal critics of the nomination of former Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., have been large national business groups and Senate…
    Fred Lucas
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    Far-Left Antifa Agitators on the Rise in the Age of Trump
    When self-described anti-fascists showed up in force Saturday to oppose a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, some of them turned violent, according to media reports and eyewitness accounts. President Donald Trump did not specify radicals who operate under the banner of Antifa, an abbreviation for anti-fascist or anti-fascist action, when he said Tuesday…
    Ken McIntyre | Kevin Mooney
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    How Trump Can Avoid Getting Bogged Down While Draining the Swamp
    Military veterans, trying to get medical care or other services, face a maze of subagencies in the Department of Veterans Affairs. And that’s just one of many reasons for making the federal government more efficient, policy experts say. “The VA has 42 different offices, including 14 specifically related to health,” said Rachel Greszler, research fellow…
    Fred Lucas
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