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    EXCLUSIVE: 3,000 Military Veterans Reject Pentagon’s ‘Left-Wing Social Agenda,’ Support Tuberville’s Fight

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The cavalry is coming to help Sen. Tommy Tuberville.  For months, the Alabama Republican has waged a fight against the Defense Department’s woke agenda by blocking the Senate’s approval of nearly 200 promotions for military generals and flag officers.  The military establishment, Senate Democrats, and the Biden administration have resorted to…
    Rob Bluey
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    • News

    ‘Woke’ Pentagon Unites House Conservatives, Tuberville in Standoff Over Military Promotions

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A group of House conservatives made their way across the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday night for a rare appearance on the Senate floor. They were there to show solidarity with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican crusading against the Pentagon’s woke leadership. At least 10 conservatives were on hand to witness…
    Rob Bluey
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    Beijing Telegraphs Its Intentions With Recent Military Exercises Around Taiwan

    In a historic event on April 5, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy held the highest-ranking meeting ever between a Taiwanese president and a U.S. official on U.S. soil. During Tsai’s visit, and following a trip to Taiwan by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last Aug. 2, the Chinese Communist Party…
    Brent Sadler
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    Beijing’s Hypocrisy Hits New High With Missile Defenses

    For years, China complained about the development and deployment of American missile defenses, a capability that Beijing didn’t have and claimed would undermine strategic stability and security in Asia. It’s funny how you don’t hear Beijing protesting about the development and deployment of U.S. missile defenses anymore now that China itself is developing and deploying…
    Peter Brookes
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    Palestinian Arab Terrorism Gets a ‘Moral Equivalence’ Pass

    This past week, Jews all over the world marked Passover, the celebration of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. As we congregated around seder tables to read from the “Haggadah”—the compendium of texts telling the story of the exodus—we said the following words: “And this [God’s blessings and the Torah] is what kept our fathers and…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Defense Department ‘Drastically Shifted Off Course,’ Rep. Mike Waltz Says as Military Readiness Panel Reports

    America is facing “the most serious and alarming recruiting and retention crisis that we’ve seen since Vietnam,” Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., said Thursday at a Heritage Foundation event focused on military readiness. “Over the last couple of years, we have seen a fundamental shift in our military culture, in the military itself, and in the…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Gaetz Grills Top Brass on Drag Queen Story Hours After Service Members Report Politicization of Military

    The nation’s top general agreed that drag queen story hours should not occur on American military bases after an exchange Wednesday with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., during a budget hearing held by the House Armed Services Committee.  Gaetz questioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on drag queen story hours occurring on…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    4 Takeaways as Lawmakers Probe Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Efforts

    President Joe Biden has extensively promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion as the focus of government agencies, including the Defense Department and its armed services. The House Armed Services Committee held a subcommittee hearing Thursday to address whether these programs are making the military stronger or actually are wasting resources, creating more division, and contributing to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    40 Years After Reagan, Neglected US Missile Defense Is Dangerously Obsolete

    Forty years ago Thursday, President Ronald Reagan addressed the American people to announce his plan for a national ballistic missile defense system. This new program, known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, was envisioned to eventually protect the United States from any Soviet nuclear attack. However, years of force degradation and confusing policies from…
    Patty-Jane Geller
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    Did Silicon Valley Bank Prioritize Social Justice Over Risk Management?

    After one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space collapsed last week, President Joe Biden tried to reassure Americans that their banking system was still safe. But if bank examiners are not doing their job, which was the fundamental problem in the Silicon Valley Bank crash, then customers’ deposits are not safe….
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens

    In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    The Left Is Downplaying Reality of Fentanyl Crisis

    The Left refuses to connect the dots between the fentanyl and border crises because it would require acknowledging that we have an open border. The truth of the matter is that the border crisis and fentanyl problem in America are directly related. Drug overdose or poisoning is the leading cause of death for Americans aged…
    Erin Dwinell
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    Arkansas’ Sanders Signs Ambitious Education Reform Agenda of School Choice, Anti-Indoctrination

    Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday signed into law what she called “the largest overhaul of the state’s education system in Arkansas history.” The “Arkansas LEARNS” initiative is an ambitious reform agenda that expands school choice, modernizes school transportation, restructures teacher compensation to pay more for performance, provides supplemental education for struggling students, and…
    Jason Bedrick
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    • Opinion

    6 Charts Show Crucial Facts About Spending, Taxes, Deficits Missing From Biden’s Budget

    The Biden administration on Thursday released an outline for its fiscal year 2024 budget. As expected, it promotes the same swampy, big-government agenda as last year, which the country desperately needs to avoid. Beneath the administration’s spin, the ultimate message is that it thinks the federal government doesn’t have enough power and control over our…
    David Ditch
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    • News

    Districts in California, Kansas, DC Area Push Black Lives Matter at School’s Left-Wing Agenda

    Observances of Black Lives Matter at School Week across the country included lessons on unconscious racial bias, globalism, and so-called microaggressions developed by far-left groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Howard Zinn Education Project.   D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice this week approvingly cited numerous examples in Hayward, California; Lawrence, Kansas; and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Hawley Proposes Stock Trading Ban for Senior Government Officials 

    The president, vice president, and other senior officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government would be barred from holding and trading stocks under a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.  Hawley’s proposed ban also would apply to the spouses of such senior officials.  “Senior members of the executive branch—who have access to privileged information—shouldn’t…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘American Studios Shouldn’t Be Creating CCP Propaganda’: House Homeland Security Panel Chairman

    A Republican congressman is once again working to counter how the Chinese Communist Party attempts to influence Hollywood and its filmmaking decisions.  Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., reintroduced the Stopping Communist Regimes from Engaging in Edits Now Act, or SCREEN Act, on Wednesday. “Since I introduced the SCREEN Act in [February 2022], the Communist Chinese Party escalated…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    • Opinion

    National Effort Thwarted, DHS Funds ‘Mary Poppins’-Style ‘Ministry of Truth’ in Rhode Island

    Not to be deterred by its embarrassing failure to carry out its 2022 national “Disinformation Governance Board” plan, the federal Department of Homeland Security has now resorted to funding a grassroots surrogate operation in Rhode Island. A grant of more than $700,000 was provided by the DHS to the University of Rhode Island, which in…
    Mike Stenhouse
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    The Biden Administration Has Been ‘Making the Fentanyl Crisis Worse,’ Republican Warns

    OXON HILL, Md.—The crisis at the southern border is both unending and unrelenting. As The Daily Signal previously reported, more than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border since the start of fiscal year 2023 on Oct. 1. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, recently traveled with…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Merrick Garland’s Unsatisfactory Answers to Senate Judiciary Committee’s Legitimate Questions

    After what seemed like an eternity getting him there, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally went face-to-face on Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican members of which were looking to get answers on a number of contentious issues. Those included an unfortunate FBI memo that has since been withdrawn, as well as complaints surrounding the Department of…
    Michael Letts
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