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    EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Aims to Force Veterans Affairs to Disclose Information Related to Diverting Resources to Illegal Aliens Under Biden  
    The Veterans Affairs Department is facing a lawsuit after failing to disclose information related to the department’s alleged improper use of medical resources during the Biden administration to benefit illegal immigrants.   Following a Daily Signal report in August 2024, a policy organization in Washington asked the VA for more information related to its reputed…
    Virginia Allen
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    Shutdown Exposes Democrats’ True Love: Illegal Aliens
    It’s hard to believe, but true: Democrats love illegal aliens more than Big Government itself. The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a “clean” continuing resolution on Sept. 19 on a vote of 217-212. It would have kept the federal government open through Nov. 21, well past fiscal year 2025’s conclusion on Sept. 30. Republicans performed their responsibility to finance Uncle Sam’s activities, from Social Security to…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Shutdown Becomes a Big Apple Battle
    Amid a government shutdown fight that highlights disagreements between New York-born President Donald Trump and two Democrat leaders from New York in Congress, the Empire State has found itself in the spotlight. After Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., denied Republicans his party’s votes necessary to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the government…
    George Caldwell
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    Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence
    As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes. The law never caught up with Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur. She died last Thursday, age 78, an honored guest of Cuba’s Communist regime—and honored, disgracefully, by tenured radicals…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Government Set to Furlough Almost 750,000 Employees
    As the threat of government shutdown looms, the Department of Veterans Affairs says it will continue providing most services, even as nearly three quarters of a million federal employees throughout the government are furloughed. In a public contingency plan, the VA estimated 97% of its employees will keep working even without government funding, allowing medical…
    Mary Mobley
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    This Political Violence Didn’t Start in the Streets, It Started in the Halls of Academia
    When Charlie Kirk was assassinated this month, it marked not the beginning of political violence in America, but the culmination of a movement that started decades ago. The roots of this crisis trace back to the classrooms of our universities, where speech was redefined, dissent demonized, and violence reframed as justice. In the early 2000s,…
    Josh Williams
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    This Federal Bureaucrat Allegedly Lied About Taking Money From His Union
    An employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs who also led a public-sector union in Texas allegedly lied on a form about taking money from his union. He faces charges of making false statements and theft. Terry Lendo, then president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1745 union, reportedly filled out a form…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How College Courses Rationalize Political Violence
    Where do young people learn that it’s OK to kill over political differences? Look no further than what they’re taught in school. There, college professors routinely assign books by leaders of radical groups that murdered people to advance their political goals. These blood-drenched terrorists are presented as positive role models, and their violence is romanticized…
    Jay Greene
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    What Biden Chief of Staff Reveals to House Panel on Jill and Hunter
    Former President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff told a congressional panel Thursday that he asked the White House physician about a full medical and cognitive exam after Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate with Donald Trump.  Jeff Zients is the last scheduled witness to take questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘We Know Where You Live’: Political Violence on Trial This Week Over Threats to Trump Voters
    Last October, ahead of the 2024 presidential race, several Pennsylvania residents with pro-Donald Trump yard signs found threats in their mailboxes.  “Should your candidate win, the consequences will be staggering. … But more importantly, we know where you live, you are in the database. In the dead of a cold winters [sic] night, this year,…
    Fred Lucas
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    One Thing the Left Can Do If It Wants to Prove It Actually Opposes Political Violence
    The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Wednesday, but if the SPLC is serious in opposing political violence, it should do one better: It should remove Turning Point USA from its “hate map,” which plots Kirk’s organization alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. The FBI is…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Over 70 GOP Lawmakers Commend Veterans Affairs Chief for Ending Biden Abortion Rule
    More than 70 members of Congress have sent a public letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins supporting his effort to end a Biden-era rule that allowed Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers to perform abortions. The members’ letter—spearheaded by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and signed onto by 13 other Republican senators and 57…
    Jacob Adams
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    Swamp vs. Trump: IRS Union Sues to Reverse Executive Order
    Another chapter in President Donald Trump’s clash with what he calls the Washington, D.C., “swamp” is heading to court, this time, from the union representing mostly Internal Revenue Service employees.  The National Treasury Employees Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in the District of Columbia. The Treasury Department was among the departments included in…
    Fred Lucas
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    In Celebration of Labor Day, Trump Cabinet Members Share Their First Jobs
    Just in time for Labor Day weekend, the White House published a video Friday on YouTube featuring Trump Cabinet members sharing their first jobs and lessons learned. “I wanted to be a cheerleader in high school, and I couldn’t afford the uniform,” Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer recalled, opening the video. “So my first job…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    Transportation Secretary Celebrates Inaugural Ride of New High-Speed Train
    President Donald Trump is overhauling the train stations in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The Trump administration is taking over the management of Washington’s Union Station. The move comes amid the administration’s effort to clean up crime in American cities, starting with the nation’s capital. “I think the president has been pretty clear on…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    3 Blue States Could Be at Fault in Fatal Florida Car Crash, Transportation Secretary Says
    The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating three blue states’ possible involvement in an Aug. 12 fatal car crash in Florida that killed three. Illegal immigrant truck driver Harjinder Singh stands accused of causing the crash by making an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike 19 miles north of Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County. He…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Veterans Affairs Hails Historic Caseload Processing Achievement
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Veterans Affairs processed more disability benefits compensation and pension ratings claims in a single year than ever before, The Daily Signal has learned. “Under President Trump, VA is making major improvements to better serve veterans, and this announcement underscores that fact,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayers Spent $207 Million to Pay Bureaucrats to Work for Unions in Biden’s Final Year
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Taxpayers spent $207 million to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions in the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden’s final year in office. According to data exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal, federal employees worked 3.2 million hours for unions…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    VA Cuts Ties With Unions in ‘Best Interests of Veterans’
    The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it is severing its ties with unions, in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining with unions at some agencies. The move is intended to make it easier for VA leaders to promote high-performing employees, hold poor performers accountable, and improve benefits and services to America’s…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Mace in the Race: South Carolina Lawmaker Seeking GOP Nod for Governor
    Rep. Nancy Mace on Monday announced her candidacy in an already crowded field for the Republican nomination for governor of South Carolina.  “I’m running for governor because South Carolina doesn’t need another empty suit and needs a governor who will fight for you and your values,” Mace said in her announcement speech.  “South Carolina needs…
    Jacob Adams
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