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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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 -
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JD Vance’s Redeeming Grace
In this age of cancel culture, the legacy media likes nothing more than claiming a scalp. We saw it play out in Washington this week with the abrupt resignation of a 25-year-old DOGE staffer named Marko Elez, whose now-deleted X posts were the subject of a Wall Street Journal exposé. Thanks to the intervention of…Robert B. Bluey -
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Heritage Experts React to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Budget Resolution
On Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released the Senate Budget Committee’s budget resolution for fiscal year 2025, which is anticipated to be the source of getting much of the MAGA agenda through Congress. Heritage Foundation experts analyzed the text and made suggestions. “To those who voted for and support real border security and a stronger…Jacob Adams -
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Democrats Delay Kash Patel’s Confirmation
Democrats have successfully delayed FBI director nominee Kash Patel’s confirmation process until next week. The Democrats’ obstruction is part of a trend of heightened hostility to President Donald Trump’s nominees in the past week, as Democrats have also attempted to delay the confirmation of budget chief nominee Russell Vought. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,…George Caldwell -
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Trump Ousts Global Broadcasting Board: What’s Next for Lake, Bozell?
The Trump administration ousted members of the board that would hire Kari Lake to head up the Voice of America, potentially easing her appointment to the long-troubled international broadcasting agency. Meanwhile, there is still no date set for a Senate committee confirmation hearing for L. Brent Bozell III to be chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the…Fred Lucas -
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Vance Addresses Religious Liberty Leaders in Washington
At a time when nongovernmental organizations are under intense scrutiny for what they are doing with federal funding, religious leaders, nonprofit executives, and religious liberty advocates gathered Wednesday to hear Vice President JD Vance articulate the Trump administration’s position on religious freedom. “Now, our administration believes we must stand for religious freedom, not just as…Jacob Adams -
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Virginia Catholic Bishop Advocates for ‘Well-Regulated Borders’ Amid Vance Controversy
The Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, came to the defense of secure border policies, amid debate over Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of Catholic assistance to illegal immigrants. The “Pastoral Statement on American Immigration Law” envisions a form of border security that works for the Catholic vision of the common good. In…George Caldwell -
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The Chainsaw President!
Finally, a real libertarian is president. That’s in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular. Argentina was once one of the richest countries in…John Stossel -
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8 Takeaways From Kash Patel’s FBI Confirmation Hearing
Kash Patel faced sharp questioning from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s nominee to be FBI director. “The only thing that will matter if I’m confirmed as director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, depoliticized system of law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and single…Fred Lucas -
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America Has Lost Faith in the FBI. Kash Patel Is the Right Pick to Fix That.
I have noticed a shocking trend in my conversations with families in my state and across the nation. For the past year, at almost every event I attended and when running into folks at restaurants, outside my offices and around the state, I asked a simple question, “Do you trust that the FBI and the…Sen. Rick Scott -
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It Makes Sense That the Left Fears Kash Patel
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. I want to talk today about the current nomination process, specifically Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s designate to be director of FBI. It’s causing perhaps…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Vance Slams FEMA in Virginia Town Devastated by Hurricane Helene
Vice President JD Vance slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency for incompetence Monday in Damascus, Virginia, a town near the Tennessee border that was devastated by Hurricane Helene. Vance, standing alongside Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, told the press, “Unfortunately, while actually the people have done an incredible job of rebuilding this community, they…George Caldwell -
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Can Brent Bozell and Kari Lake ‘Make Media Great Again’ at Broadcast Agencies?
Four years ago, immediately upon taking office, President Joe Biden told the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media to resign or be fired. Biden’s request, which Michael Pack honored at 2 p.m. Jan. 20, 2021, demonstrated his administration’s urgency to reassert control over the federal agency that operates government-funded media outlets broadcasting internationally. …Fred Lucas