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EXCLUSIVE: New SBA Database Aims to Boost Supply Chains to ‘Make Onshoring Great Again’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration has launched a new tool to help small businesses identify American manufacturers and producers. Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler on Tuesday announced a “Make Onshoring Great Again” portal, which will feature a database of more than 1 million American suppliers. “The SBA is proud to support President…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Rubio Warns During Hearing of Possible New ‘Full-Scale Civil War’ in Syria
Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda and defended government reforms from attacks by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. Broadly addressing the shake-up at both the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, Rubio said that the agencies were soliciting comments during a…Jacob Adams -
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‘We’re Just Getting Started,’ Noem Tells Senate During DHS Budget Hearing
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before a Senate panel Tuesday on her department’s budget request for fiscal year 2026, touting the work the Department of Homeland Security has already accomplished under President Donald Trump while responding to questions on the budget and legal matters related to the detention and deportation of illegal aliens. “Now, at…Virginia Allen -
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Florida Appeals Court Puts Parental Rights Where They Belong
School districts across the country require parental notice or consent before minors may go on a field trip or even receive a cough drop. But for years, the Supreme Court said that those same minors have a constitutional right to get an abortion with minimal, if any, parental involvement. Now, the legal tables may have…Thomas Jipping -
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Senate Dems Critical of Bondi’s Easing of Journalist Subpoena Rules Were Mum on Obama, Biden Actions
Ten Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary Committee—including former Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois—have accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of attacking constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press by making it easier for the federal government to issue subpoenas to journalists for their testimony and sources. “When asked at your confirmation hearing to commit to ‘respect…Mark Tapscott -
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A Test Fit for America’s Finest Schools
“Merit” is making a comeback in higher education. Next stop: U.S. service academies. College officials around the country—including those at some of the most selective (and notoriously left-leaning) schools—have admitted a student’s high school grades and often-obscure extracurricular activities aren’t enough for making admissions decisions. Now, schools that abandoned use of college entrance exams during…Jonathan Butcher -
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Trump’s Tariff Strategy Can Work but America Still Needs Deeper Economic Reform
President Donald Trump’s tariff diplomacy has been a shock treatment to the global economic order, intended as a kind of radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer that created the Rust Belt. But overdoing the treatment can kill the patient instead, without removing the carcinogens in the economy. Fortunately, the administration’s negotiators have called a truce, and…EJ Antoni -
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Why This Republican Lawmaker Is a ‘No’ for Now on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Texas Republican Rep. Keith Self would vote against his party’s budget reconciliation bill as it currently stands. “I am a 'no' at the moment,” he told The Daily Signal. Months in the making, the bill would extend President Donald Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts and fulfill campaign promises, such as fully funding border security. But…George Caldwell -
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The Biden Cover-Up Scandal Just Got WORSE
LIVE on “The Tony Kinnett Cast” at 7 p.m. EDT: Former President Joe Biden’s announcement of his advanced prostate cancer one day after Axios’ release of the Biden/Hur interview audio is horrific. What the cancer announcement contained, coupled with damning new details discovered by our team at The Daily Signal, could be the biggest scandal…Tony Kinnett -
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Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Bid to Revamp Institute of Peace
A federal district court judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to reform the U.S. Institute of Peace by firing personnel and changing the agency’s management. In a ruling in a case brought by former Institute of Peace board members fired by the Trump administration, Beryl Howell, a senior judge of the U.S. District Court…Jacob Adams -
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There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
What is the greatest love of all? As Whitney Houston sang, it’s “Learning to love yourself.” To poet Eman Awad, the greatest love is “The feeling i feel but i don’t understand.” “No greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” according to the Gospel of…Deroy Murdock -
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What Trump Should Do With Qatar Plane
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. There’s this controversy about the 747 airplane that Qatar gave to President Donald Trump. And there’s…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Biden’s Presidency Is a Scandal of Historic Proportions
The “presidency” of Joe Biden is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity of a president who apparently left the entire ship of state to the unaccountable bureaucracy. On Friday, Axios released Friday night news dump audio of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur….Jarrett Stepman -
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‘Revenge Porn’: Trump Signs Bill Criminalizing Online Sexual Exploitation
President Donald Trump signed legislation backed by his wife aimed at protecting young people from “revenge porn.” “Big thing, very important, so horrible it takes place,” the president said at the Monday bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. “This would be the first-ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imagery posted without subjects’…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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ORWELLIAN: Women’s College Honors Inveterate Foe of Women’s Rights
Smith College, which presents itself as a women’s college, just granted an honorary degree to a man, and not just any man, but one of the most influential campaigners against women’s rights. Yes, in a piece of fresh Orwellian insanity, a women’s college granted an honorary degree to Rachel Levine, a man who has fathered…Tyler O’Neil -
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8 Takeaways From Biden-Hur Audio Tapes
Former President Joe Biden forgot the names of President Barack Obama’s former secretary of defense and comedian Jay Leno; referred to Africa as a country, not a continent; and was unaware he had in his possession a notebook with war advice in it for Obama during his interview with special counsel Robert Hur and investigators…Bradley Devlin -
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‘DOGE’ in the States: One State’s Success Story Making 25% of Regulations and Fees ‘Disappear’
Following up on a story we shared with you on April 25, more states are looking for their own “DOGE,” or Department of Government Efficiency. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a “DOGE task force” to audit spending, cut bureaucracy, and eliminate DEI programs. Earlier this year, the Georgia Senate passed a bill aimed at…Joe Thomas -
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Russia, Ukraine to ‘Immediately Start Negotiations Toward a Ceasefire,’ Trump Says After Call With Putin
President Donald Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday and said he thinks the call “went very well.” Following the two-hour conversation, Trump said, “Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire and, more importantly, an end to the war.” The conditions to end the war “will be negotiated between…Virginia Allen -
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GOP Aims to Codify Trump’s Border Agenda in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
House Republicans want to provide law enforcement at the border with the resources required to sustain President Donald Trump’s border security victories, members of Congress tell The Daily Signal. The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” makes the largest border security investment in history and equips Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport millions of illegal immigrants. “Thanks…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Grounded by Bureaucracy: Trump’s Chance to Ditch the Feds, Commercialize the Skies
Air travel in America isn’t great—and that’s putting it lightly. Our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems cost Americans tens of billions of dollars annually. That includes tens of thousands of years of lost time annually due to flight delays and cancellations, as well as higher prices caused by preventable limits on the supply of…Rachel Greszler