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    Trump Admin to Revoke Biden’s Veterans Affairs Abortion Rule
    Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is applauding the Trump administration‘s reversal of a Biden-era rule that permitted the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to perform abortions. On Friday, the administration posted the proposed rule change in the Federal Register, which will be formally published on Monday, to prevent VA-run hospitals and other medical centers…
    Jacob Adams
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    With FY ’26 Looming, Congress Faces Major Decisions on How Government Is Funded
    In the coming weeks, Congress could decide whether government funding is set by traditional bipartisan spending bills, or through temporary funding measures and quick-fix, surgical spending cuts. The Senate is staying in session for part of its typical August state work period, laboring through a hot Washington summer to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial and…
    George Caldwell
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    EXCLUSIVE: 1,500 Truck Drivers Taken Out of Service for Poor English Following Transportation Department Directive
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Following new guidelines from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to enforce English language proficiency for commercial truck drivers, 1,500 drivers have had their licenses placed out of service by law enforcement, The Daily Signal has learned. “‘America First’ means safety first. Americans are a lot safer on roads alongside truckers who can…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Transportation Department Reforms Biden ‘Climate Justice’ Program
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation is moving away from the Biden administration’s climate justice initiative, which made it harder and pricier to build buses. Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, forced grant recipients of a $1.5 billion Federal Transit Administration grant program to build buses in accordance with low or…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump: No Senate Vacation Until Nominees Are Confirmed
    President Donald Trump doesn’t want any senators going on summer vacation until more of his nominees are confirmed. “Hopefully the very talented [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune, fresh off our many victories over the past two weeks and, indeed, 6 months, will cancel August recess (and long weekends!), in order to get my incredible nominees…
    George Caldwell
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    1 Year After Butler, Lawmakers Decry Political Violence, but Questions Remain Unanswered
    A year removed from the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, questions remain unanswered as to the motives of the gunman, who was fatally shot by a Secret Service countersniper, and how such a horrific episode can be prevented in the future. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., who represents…
    George Caldwell
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    Top Trump Administration Official Discusses Rescissions Package
    Trump administration Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testified before a Senate panel on Wednesday about defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal government programs totaling $9.4 billion in reduced spending. “A vote for rescissions is a vote to show that the United States Senate is serious about getting our fiscal…
    Jacob Adams
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    Did LA Riots Help Put Trump and Musk on Track Toward Reconciliation?
    The riots against enforcement of federal immigration laws that began in Los Angeles more than a week ago have led to vandalism, destruction of property, and assaults on law enforcement officers. But one of the results of the riots their instigators surely did not intend was the creation of common ground between Elon Musk and…
    Virginia Allen | Elise McCue
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    Hegseth Was Right to Ban Race in Admissions At Military Service Academies, but Not for the Reasons You Might Think
    On May 9, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memorandum to the entire Department of Defense prohibiting the military service academies from using race in admissions, which they had been doing for decades. Effective immediately, offers of admissions to the highly selective military service academies must be based “exclusively on merit.”     Hegseth justified…
    Cully Stimson
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    Media Shows Sympathetic Views on Antisemitic Terrorist
    Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colorado, who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman’s victims was a Holocaust survivor. Soliman and his family had come to the United States on…
    Erick Erickson
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    Marc Elias Moves to Thwart Trump DOJ’s Litigation Over Alleged Voter Inaccuracies
    Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias moved this week to intervene in a Trump Justice Department lawsuit filed last week against North Carolina for the state’s alleged inaccurate voter registration rolls.  The Justice Department’s lawsuit alleges North Carolina’s Board of Elections used a state voter registration form that failed to require voters to provide identifying information…
    Fred Lucas
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    WATCH: DHS to Deport Family of Man Charged in Colorado Terrorist Attack
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement concludes a new operation in South Carolina as protests among leftists break out over arrests of illegal immigrants in New England, California, and Oregon. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announces that the family of the man charged in connection with a Colorado terrorist attack Sunday will be deported. House, Senate,…
    Tony Kinnett
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    WATCH: Legacy Media’s Bizarre Relationship With Terrorism
    Legacy media outlets can’t decide how to cover a horrific Islamic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, and continue repeating debunked stories straight from Hamas. Arrest and deportation efforts by the second Trump administration cause crocodile tears on and off national television. Pride month brings out the weirdest people on Earth, but notably fewer than in…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Slow to Condemn Colorado Attack, Reps. Omar and Tlaib Are Branded ‘Muslim Terrorists’ by Fellow Lawmaker
    The morning after an attack on a group of people in Colorado demonstrating in support of freeing the hostages held in Gaza, Democrat Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both of whom are Muslims, had yet to issue statements condemning the violence.   Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., who is Jewish, was critical…
    Virginia Allen
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    5 Years After the Floyd Riots, the Left’s Thirst for Political Violence Has Not Quenched
    Five years after the death of George Floyd, the political Left is increasingly embracing violence as legitimate action, aided and abetted by soft-on-crime forces funded by billionaire George Soros. Floyd’s death sparked numerous deaths and other violence, including massive property damage to predominantly black neighborhoods and businesses. The Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots alone saw two people…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    ‘HE’S AMAZING’: Howard Lutnick Opens Up About Trump’s Confrontation With South African President
    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick praised President Donald Trump’s courage and tenacity in confronting the president of South Africa with a video showing chants of “Kill the Boer, Kill the [white] farmer” in the Oval Office. “Well, the president is willing to call it out, straight out, right to the president of South Africa and say,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Inside Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Visit to Fort Bragg
    FORT BRAGG, North Carolina—On Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first trip to Fort Bragg since restoring the base’s name, he unveiled a plan in step with his core mission of prioritizing lethality and the warrior ethos in the military.  Hegseth began Thursday at the 82nd Airborne Division’s All-American Week review ceremony.  After landing in Fayetteville, Hegseth…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Hegseth Vows to Involve ‘Best’ US Companies in Missile-Defense ‘Golden Dome’ Construction
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed America’s commitment to making all the materials for the “Golden Dome” missile-defense shield domestically. “We’re going to defend America with great American companies,” Hegseth told The Daily Signal on Thursday. “We’re committed patriotically to the defense of the homeland.” The U.S. plans to build a “Golden Dome” to guard against…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Virginia County Votes Not to Report Illegal Alien Terrorists to ICE—in Name of ‘Public Safety’
    The Arlington County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its police department’s ability to report illegal aliens arrested for felonies and terrorist activity to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Board members couched their decision as a way to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, which, funny enough,…
    Erin Poff
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    With Injunction Lifted, Pentagon Set to Remove Trans Service Members From Military
    Days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Pentagon’s ban on transgender-identifying service members, the Department of Defense will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 people diagnosed with gender dysphoria out of the military. Others will have 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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