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BREAKING: RFK Jr. Confirmed as HHS Chief
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by the Senate in a mostly party-line 52-48 vote Thursday morning. All 45 Senate Democrats and the two nominal independents who caucus with them voted “no.” They were joined by one Republican, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who also… -
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Ernst Seeks to Crack Down on Government Employees Doing Union Activities During Work Hours
Republican lawmakers want to rein in the amount of time federal employees spend on union time—including activities such as lobbying Congress and negotiating more benefits—during taxpayer-paid worktime. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, recently introduced the Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act, and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. introduced companion legislation in the… -
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Just How Deep Did Biden Administration Corruption Go?
Recovery and rebuilding efforts continue across the Southeastern United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s devastation last September. In the breakneck pace of the newscycle since the general election campaigns, one of the most under-covered stories from 2024 is how the Biden administration withheld desperately needed hurricane aid from Trump supporters impacted by the… -
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Millions for DEI and Climate: Here’s Where DOGE Found Waste and Abuse in Federal Grants
White House documents obtained The Daily Signal back up the Trump administration’s previous claims that the Department of Government Efficiency had unearthed large amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse. The documents reveal that the Department of Defense paid $2.3 million “to support its virtual reality training course featuring a DEI avatar” at Air University at… -
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Here’s Why the Left Can’t Quit the Deep State
The deep state is sinking, and the Left has decided to go down with the ship. That’s one of the realities that’s perplexing some political commentators in the early days of the second Trump White House stint. One would think that after an electoral shellacking combined with the popularity of President Donald Trump’s policies in the early days… -
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Senate Confirms Gabbard as Intel Chief
The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence in a 52-to-48 vote on Wednesday. Gabbard, who served four terms in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021 as a Democrat but subsequently became an independent and then a Republican, was approved on a near-party-line vote. All 45 Democrats and the two nominal… -
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How the Justice Department Conspired to Legalize Racist Hiring in Cobb County, Georgia, Before Trump Came In
If you want to see a prime example of the lawlessness of the Civil Rights Division under the Merrick Garland-run Justice Department, look no further than the “Consent Decree” with Cobb County, Georgia, that DOJ tried to sneak through before the Trump administration took over. The consent decree aimed to institutionalize racial discrimination in the… -
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DHS ‘Clawed Back’ $59 Million FEMA Allocated to House Illegal Aliens
The Trump administration has retrieved the $59 million the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated last week to house illegal aliens in hotels in New York City. “I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X on Wednesday. … -
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Trump Administration ‘Committed to a Peace Deal’ in Ukraine, Says Leavitt
Following groundbreaking developments regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, a Wednesday briefing from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered more details about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed the Trump administration is “wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal.” Leavitt began the briefing with the latest updates from the Trump administration’s… -
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Germany Is Self-Imploding
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. Hi, I’m Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Today I’d like to talk about the crisis facing Europe, specifically its self-implosion across the spectrum—energy,… -
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House DOGE Panel Fires Its First Salvo in ‘War on Waste’
The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held its first hearing Tuesday as part of an investigation into the “war on waste” in the federal government. Referred to as the DOGE Subcommittee, an arm of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, it is meant to run parallel to President Donald Trump's and Elon… -
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Trump Should Reinstate Obama’s Moratorium on Risky Biological Research
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab experimentation designed to genetically manipulate biological agents to make them more transmissible and pathogenic. Trump is right to do so. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than an estimated 15 million globally, the rationale for such a moratorium is stronger than… -
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Leavitt Slams ‘Judicial Activists’ for Injunctions Against Trump
While legacy media claim there is a “constitutional crisis” in the Trump administration, the real crisis comes from federal judges blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday. “The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch,” Leavitt said at a press briefing, “where district court judges… -
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MASSIVE DOWNSIZE: Why Trump’s Latest DOGE Order Will Help Restore Sanity to Our Government
While many Americans may be familiar with the three branches of government in the Constitution, fewer are aware of the fourth branch of government—a vast bureaucracy of “alphabet soup” agencies (think the IRS, FDA, DOJ, and many, many more) that technically answer to the president but enjoy civil service protections that make them hard to… -
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Here’s Why a Judge Can’t Block Trump’s Pause on Spending
Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump, quite sensibly, paused some federal spending programs to see whether they are lawful and advance America’s interests, which he had promised voters he would do. That temporary delay, however, set off a firestorm among the liberal states and organizations that, as recent disclosures have revealed, have benefited immensely… -
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Vance Outlines an Open, Forward-Looking AI Agenda
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance articulated a positive vision for American leadership in technology—one that is more innovative than the European Union’s, more aligned with American values than Big Tech’s, and more impervious to the Chinese Communist Party. Addressing these three audiences, Vance put their artificial… -
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LAWFARE: Web of Leftist Groups Working in Tandem to Tie Up Trump Agenda in Court
Lawfare hasn’t stopped since Donald Trump became president again, but has been repackaged into civil litigation to stop his second term agenda—and most of the civil lawfare can be traced to groups affiliated with a coalition known as Civil Service Strong. Members of the coalition scored federal court wins in recent days to temporarily block… -
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‘Let Freedom Ring’: British MP Hails Return of US as ‘Shining City Upon a Hill’ With Trump Back in Office
“The United States is once again the ‘Shining City Upon a Hill,’ to which the U.K. and, indeed, the world will once again look for leadership, for courage, for freedom.” Those are unambiguous words amplified by the Right Honorable Suella Braverman, king’s counsel and member of Parliament, former home secretary and attorney general of the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Banks Introduces Bill to Give Parents Greater Freedom in Child Care Choices
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., introduced a bill to give parents more power over their child care decisions. The Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices Act reforms a federal child care funding grant to better align it with the needs of families, according to Banks. The Indiana Republican says he wants to let parents… -
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‘No Exceptions’: Pentagon Schools Defy Hegseth by Renaming DEI Efforts
In preparation for Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Pentagon’s school system attempted to conceal its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts under a different name. The Department of Defense Education Activity agency renamed social-emotional learning as “resilience,” according to a Jan. 6 meeting recording obtained by The Daily Signal. During his first two weeks in office,…