Republican Party News
Featuring coverage of Republican priorities, legislation, and internal debates, this section examines how the party shapes U.S. politics from a conservative perspective.
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EXCLUSIVE: Vance to Give Remarks at Screening of Docuseries on Christian Dissidents in USSR
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Vice President JD Vance will attend a premiere of Rod Dreher’s Angel Studios series on Christian dissidents in Soviet-era Russia on Tuesday. Vance will deliver remarks prior to a showing of a docuseries at The Heritage Foundation about Christian survivors of the USSR based on American Conservative editor-at-large Dreher’s book “Live…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Kari Lake Vows to Slash US Agency for Global Media Budget
Kari Lake said the Trump administration is putting the United States government on a diet through spending cuts, and that she will contribute by slashing the United States Agency for Global Media budget. Lake, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Voice of America, is currently serving as special adviser to Voice of…R.E. Wermus -
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Doug Burgum’s ‘4 Babies’ Plan for US Energy Dominance
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum outlined the Trump administration’s aggressive strategy to restore American energy leadership through what he called the “four babies” approach: drill, baby, drill; map, baby, map; mine, baby, mine; and build baby build. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, Burgum said he’s committed to drilling…Rob Bluey -
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Vance: The American Economy Is Quitting the ‘Drug’ of Cheap Labor
“Cheap labor,” according to Vice President JD Vance, “inhibits innovation” and is “a drug that too many American firms got addicted to” over previous decades of globalization. “Whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies or importing cheap labor through our immigration system,” Vance continued, “cheap labor became the drug of Western economies.” Vance’s…Bradley Devlin -
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Vance Vows Accountability for Offshoring of Jobs
In a speech Friday at Vantage Plastics, a plastics manufacturing plant in Bay City, Michigan, Vice President JD Vance touted American workers and the progress the Trump administration has been making to make American manufacturing great again. “We are an administration that is going to do things for the American people and for American workers,”…Jacob Adams -
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Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War?
President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the “honeymoon” a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He’s fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year’s campaign. He’s even started what critics call a trade war. Every week, the White House astonishes liberals—and…Daniel McCarthy -
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Illegal Immigration Worsens Housing Crisis, Vance Tells Cities’ Leaders
Illegal immigration raises demand for housing, which increases costs for American citizens, Vice President JD Vance said Monday. And when Americans can own houses, they are stakeholders in the nation, which makes them better citizens, he said. “We want our citizens to feel that investment in their own country, and it’s hard,” he said. “It’s…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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There’s ‘Some Bad News and Some Good News’ at the Border, Vance Declares
There is both “bad news and some good news” from America’s southern border with Mexico, Vice President JD Vance told reporters Wednesday. Vance visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday and used the opportunity to contrast President Donald Trump’s border and immigration policies with those of the former administration. Starting with the…Virginia Allen -
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JD Vance’s Message to Catholics
Editor’s Note: These are the lightly edited remarks by Vice President JD Vance made Feb. 28 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. I will say that even though I, in my private-sector days, was a technology investor in Silicon Valley, I haven’t quite figured out…JD Vance -
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Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake Also Named Adviser to Global Media Agency
Kari Lake, who is President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Voice of America, will become a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA. The acting U.S. Agency for Global Media chief, Roman Napoli, announced Lake’s arrival in an email to the staff, VOA reported Friday, that read, “As…Fred Lucas -
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At Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance Praises Pope, Suggests Avoiding Media Controversies
Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed his relationship with the Catholic faith and Pope Francis at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Vance also discussed the elephant in the room about his relationship with the head of the Catholic Church, who nearly died this week. “We are not called as Christians to obsess over every…Jacob Adams -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Caused the Counterrevolution?
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars…Victor Davis Hanson -
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String of Pro-Life Prosecutions in UK ‘Prove JD Vance to Be Correct’
Just days after Vice President JD Vance warned Europe against imposing Orwellian laws criminalizing free speech and silent prayer, police in Scotland arrested a 74-year-old grandmother for silently offering to speak to women outside an abortion facility, if they wished. Rose Docherty stood outside the abortion wing of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow holding a…Ben Johnson -
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Kari Lake: Voice of America Winning ‘Information War’ Can Stop Trillion-Dollar Wars
Kari Lake blasted the legacy media Friday but vowed a “golden age in journalism” as President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Voice of America. “VOA has been telling America’s story to the world for 83 years this Monday. Now, sometimes the coverage has been incredible and sometimes it’s been pitiful,” the former TV journalist…Fred Lucas -
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Vance Sticks It to the Mann: The BorderLine
Europe’s ruling political and economic elites have long maintained that mass migration, legal or not, is at worst, inevitable, and at best, positive. But the fact remains that mass migration is unpopular with Germans and other citizens throughout the European Union. At the Munich Security Conference last week, Vice President JD Vance told European leaders…Simon Hankinson -
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Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director
The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to become FBI director today on a narrow vote of 51-49. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaksa joined Democrats in voting against the nomination. President Donald Trump nominated Patel to reform the FBI, which has been the subject of several whistleblower complaints in recent…Fred Lucas -
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Vance Urges CPAC Audience to Persuade Others About Sanctity of Unborn Life
Vice President JD Vance urged pro-life Americans to persuade their fellow citizens about the sanctity of unborn life. Vance’s speech, on the one-month mark of the second Trump administration, kicked off the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. “We’ve got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting, it is…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Patel, Stefanik, McMahon Among Picks Awaiting Senate OK
Just short of a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Senate has already confirmed the vast majority of Trump’s top Cabinet nominees. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., celebrated the feverish pace of the confirmations, writing on X, “The liberal media told you [Tulsi Gabbard’s, Pete Hegseth’s, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s] Cabinet nominations were…George Caldwell -
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RFK Jr. Shares How Faith Healed His Heroin Addiction. Could Faith Redeem US Mental Health Care?
Months before he became health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared his moving conversion story, expressing that belief in God helped break his longtime heroin addiction that began when he was a boy, the year after his father’s tragic murder. “We grow through pain,” Kennedy told podcast host Sage Steele. “Pain is…Carrie Sheffield -
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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…Wesley Hodges