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House Advances Big, Beautiful Bill
The House of Representatives passed a rule to bring a massive 10-year budget framework—known as the one big, beautiful bll—to the floor, as Republican leadership attempts to send it to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature by Independence Day. The bill would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and provide funding for border security and defense…. -
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Nationalism Is the Answer to Globalism
Two 2016 elections—President Donald Trump in the U.S. and Brexit in the United Kingdom—sent our global elites reeling. The only people not surprised that borders and sovereignty prevailed on both sides of the Atlantic, it seemed, were those still bold enough to call themselves nationalists. Yoram Hazony was so bold as to be an unapologetic… -
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Trump’s Winning Streak May Soon Face Obstacles
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 review, very quickly, some challenges ahead for the MAGA movement in general and… -
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Nick Freitas Talks Founding Principles, Fighting Socialism, and Life After Politics
As Independence Day approaches, The Daily Signal sat down with politician-turned-Virginia’s newest “conservative influencer” Nick Freitas to talk about the nation’s founding, the internal struggles the country has had with the forces of socialism, and how his life has changed since he announced that he was not going to seek reelection to public office. >>>… -
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Border Czar Homan Credits ‘Trump Effect’ for June’s Low Illegal-Alien Encounter Numbers
Border czar Tom Homan is praising the “Trump effect” after another drop in illegal-alien encounters at the southern border in June. “Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070,” Homan wrote on X. “That is less than a single day under [President Joe Biden]. As a matter of fact,… -
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Turning Up the Heat: China Continues Its Years Long Military Pressure Campaign Around Taiwan
“Taiwan is, of course, a country,” proclaimed the island’s President Lai Ching-te on June 22. In his first of a series of 10 lectures, Lai reaffirmed that Taiwan’s sovereignty derives from its 23 million people, earning him a swift rebuke from Beijing. True to form, Beijing resorted to calling Lai’s speech “a ‘Taiwan independence’ declaration… -
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Grassley Reveals the FBI Suppressed Evidence of China Meddling in 2020 Election
The FBI suppressed intelligence about Chinese meddling in the 2020 election, according to emails released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The FBI declassified and provided requested records to Grassley after the senator received whistleblower information about the matter. Emails show that on Sept. 25, 2020, the FBI’s field office in Albany, New… -
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Rocky Road Ahead for ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ After Senate Triumph
After the Senate’s narrow 51-50 passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote, Republican senators celebrated finally getting the massive 10-year fiscal framework across the finish line there. The bill passed the Senate despite the “no” votes from Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins… -
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The Trump-Deranged ‘Experts’ Were Wrong. Again.
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 want to talk about our so-called experts. We know they’ve been wrong when they sign… -
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Trump Tours Florida’s New Illegal-Alien ‘Alcatraz,’ Where Guards Take ‘Form of Alligators’
President Donald Trump toured a new detention center for illegal aliens referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday. “I mean, you don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure,” Trump said of the location of the detention facility after stepping off Air Force One in Florida. “They have a… -
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Senate Passes Big, Beautiful Bill in Tie-Breaking Vote
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a 10-year fiscal package that would serve as the vehicle for fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on tax cuts and border security. Despite intra-party debates on overall deficit levels, health care reform, and how to undo former President Joe Biden’s environmental… -
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Whip Emmer: Support Our Cattlemen With Big, Beautiful Tax Cuts
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is touting an endorsement from a major cattle rancher organization as he pushes for Republicans in Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would extend and expand on President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a trade association with over 178,000 members, endorsed… -
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Maryland Federal Judges All Get Hit With DOJ Lawsuit for Violating the Law
On June 24, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an unprecedented complaint against all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland, as well as the clerk of the Maryland district court, for engaging in what Attorney General Pam Bondi calls an “egregious example of unlawful judicial overreach into the Executive Branch’s ability to… -
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DOJ to LA: See You in Court Over Sanctuary City Policies
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ sanctuary city policies, citing the supremacy clause regarding the preemption of federal statutes over state and local law in the U.S. Constitution. According to Los Angeles City Council members, as many as 1 in 10 Los Angeles residents may be… -
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Fact Check: Is Trump Administration Providing Citizenship Data to Election Officials a ‘Hair on Fire’ Development?
The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its system to share citizenship verification data with state and local election officials, which has prompted “hair on fire” concerns from one legacy media outlet and a legal scholar. Additionally, one former Biden White House official has alleged the Trump administration is creating a database to include citizens… -
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Congress, Don’t Expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
As President Donald Trump aims to make America affordable again and cut costs for American families, special interests are concurrently working against the MAGA agenda by trying to add provisions into Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” One of these is the expansion of the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), a giveaway to corporate developers to… -
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Who Are the Potential House GOP Holdouts on Senate Budget Bill?
With Senate Republican leadership hoping to send its version of the GOP budget reconciliation bill back to the House for final approval before Friday of this week, there remain a few potential holdouts in the House of Representatives to getting the bill signed by the president by the July 4 deadline. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.,… -
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Canada and Mexico Want US Billions, but Also a Fight
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 our two North American partners, Canada and Mexico. We’ve been in… -
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Why Trump’s Trip to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Could Boost ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
President Donald Trump is visiting a detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday, which the White House contends backs up the need to pass the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” A reporter on Monday asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt why Trump would travel to the detention center about 50 miles west of Miami while… -
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What Sen. Tillis’ Retirement Could Mean for GOP
Sen. Thom Tillis announced Sunday that he would not be seeking reelection, just one day after President Donald Trump threatened to support a primary challenger against the North Carolina Republican owing to his vote against proceeding with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. There could be major implications for Republicans—with a possibility of losing the…
