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House Narrowly Passes Trump-Backed Budget Plan on Party-Line Vote
House Republicans pushed through a Trump-backed budget framework on a 216-214 vote Thursday, providing a boost to the president’s legislative agenda. Democrats voted against it unanimously, while Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., were the only Republicans in opposition. The resolution’s passage came amid some protests from hard-line fiscal conservatives within the GOP,… -
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Solar Picnic Tables? How the Federal Government Has Treated Your Tax Dollars With Utter Disdain
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House Oversight Committee’s subpanel on government efficiency held a hearing Tuesday exposing billions of taxpayer dollars wasted annually on outdated federal buildings. Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency, opened the hearing by slamming federal agencies for maintaining a bloated real estate footprint. She… -
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Washington’s Leading Tax Cut Advocates Cheer Trump’s Tariffs Pause
Minutes after President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day pause on most of the tariffs he had imposed, Washington’s most prominent tax-cut advocates cheered the dramatic reversal. President Donald Trump announced on social media that tariffs will fall to a baseline of 10% for 90 days, except for China's, which will be raised even higher,… -
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Stock Market Reacts to Trump Pausing Tariffs
Mere minutes after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for more than 75 trading partners that did not retaliate, the stock market is booming. The S&P 500 was up 8.3% with less than an hour remaining in trading, approaching one of its best days in decades. The Dow surged 2,600 points, its biggest rally in… -
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Treasury Report Exposes How Fentanyl Traffickers Exploit Financial System
The fentanyl trade—which claimed tens of thousands of American lives in 2024 alone—is a multibillion-dollar business supported by sophisticated money laundering schemes, a new report from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed Wednesday. Bessent released the report amid President Donald Trump’s push to use tariffs as a weapon against foreign nations' reputed abuses of their financial… -
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Johnson Seeks to Quell Conservatives’ Mutiny Against Budget Plan
Republican leadership in the House has its hands full this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to get about a dozen fiscally conservative Republicans to sign off on the Senate’s budget plan by the end of the week. President Donald Trump has urged the House to “quickly” pass the plan that the Senate approved on… -
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As Experts Warn of Possible Recession, Americans Offer Mixed Reaction on State of Economy
As investment bank Goldman Sachs raised the probability of a U.S. recession from 20% to 35% at the beginning of April, Americans’ opinions on the economy continue to be mixed, according to a new poll. RMG Research conducted the national survey of 1,000 registered voters on behalf of the Napolitan Institute to poll Americans’… -
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Tariffs Are a Reason to Cut Taxes and Red Tape
If there’s one thing supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump’s tariffs should agree on, it’s the need to unchain prosperity at home while international trade is in flux. That means renewing the president’s first-term tax cuts, for a start, but it also calls for sweeping regulatory reform—a DOGE-like approach to slice the red tape… -
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Don’t Like Trump’s Plan for the Economy? Let’s Hear Yours
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about the economy and politics very quickly. Whether you like it or… -
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As Tariffs Tank Markets, Economy Craves Tax Cuts
More carrots, please. Feeling flogged by sticks, Wall Street greeted President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” with a bellowing Bronx cheer. On Wednesday, Trump unveiled 10% across-the-board tariffs on all imports, plus reciprocal taxes tailored to foil foreign tariffs on U.S. goods. Financial markets opened Thursday and swiftly wilted. After China slapped a retaliatory 34% tariff… -
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‘HANG TOUGH’: Trump Administration Placates Americans as Stock Market Continues to Drop
As the stock market continues to drop, Trump administration officials are assuring Americans that tariffs will save an economy that appears healthy from the outside but is rotting from within. In a Truth Social post Saturday, President Donald Trump urged Americans to “HANG TOUGH.” “HANG TOUGH, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be… -
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Trump-Backed Budget Resolution Clears Senate Hurdle on Party-Line Vote
Republicans in the Senate succeeded in passing a Trump-endorsed budget resolution on a straight party-line vote of 51 to 48 at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, were the only Republicans to vote against it. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., did not vote. The resolution’s passage is an important step in… -
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Trump Backs Senate’s Budget Plan: ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
President Donald Trump threw his support to the Senate’s budget plan Wednesday, as he called on Republicans to unify and pass a bill that would ensure that his 2017 tax cuts are extended and funding is provided for border security and other campaign promises. “Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John… -
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Up in Smoke? House Conservatives Eye Ban on Marijuana in DC Budget Bill
Conservative members of the House of Representatives are contemplating attempting to ban marijuana in the District of Columbia by amending a funding bill in Congress. The District relies on some federal funding to pay for part of its budget. Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are discussing tying the funding to conservative priorities in… -
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I Worked at Planned Parenthood for 15 Years—Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Dollars
Do states have the right to refuse to give taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities within their borders? As someone who worked at Planned Parenthood for more than 15 years and who knows what they do with that money, I can say unequivocally that they should have that right. One of the… -
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Supreme Court Justices Seem Inclined to Uphold Religious Charity’s Claim for State Tax Exemption
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday, on one of its last days of oral arguments for cases from the October 2024 term, in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. The case concerns the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s state unemployment tax exemption as applied to the work of the Catholic Charities Bureau. At… -
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Trump Administration Halts ‘COVID-19’ Education Spending Spree, Sends Savings to Treasury
On Friday, the Trump administration took another step toward reining in wasteful government spending and narrowing Washington’s role in K-12 education. The Department of Education announced that it would be modifying the liquidation period for states to spend remaining COVID-19 “relief” dollars, giving them until close of business on March 28 to obligate any remaining… -
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Lawmakers Call for Defunding as Report Reveals Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Gender Ideology
The federal government spent more than $174 million promoting gender ideology in the past three years, according to a new report. In one example of many, the State Department issued a taxpayer-funded grant to premiere “The Vagina Monologues” in India. Two lawmakers say the waste must end. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and Sen. Jim Banks,… -
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Texas Lawmaker ‘Sneaks’ into University’s Transgender Event, Exposes Programs Funded by Taxpayers
Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, according to a string of posts on his X account. “The Texas Government is promoting a radical, liberal agenda … with your tax dollars,” the Republican wrote on X, adding,… -
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Kari Lake Vows to Slash US Agency for Global Media Budget
Kari Lake said the Trump administration is putting the United States government on a diet through spending cuts, and that she will contribute by slashing the United States Agency for Global Media budget. Lake, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Voice of America, is currently serving as special adviser to Voice of…