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‘UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY’: Trump Announces Game Plan for Cutting Government During Shutdown
President Donald Trump will meet Tuesday with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to decide which left-wing projects and personnel to cut during the shutdown. “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM,… -
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Teens, Screens, and the Unfolding Mental Health Crisis
It is becoming increasingly evident that smartphones—and the social media that comes with them—are resulting in alarming rates of depression and other detrimental behaviors among teenagers and young adults. And as a society, we are all paying the price. A recent study, tracking over 100,000 between the ages of 18-24 who received smartphones before age 13… -
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Why Victorious Ideas Don’t Always Win
Winning the war of ideas isn’t enough. Consider government-sanctioned racial discrimination. There’s a reason the Left hides behind acronyms like DEI. Judging people on their skin color, not their character, remains unpopular. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination in employment and education. In 2023, the Supreme Court even struck down affirmative action… -
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Amid Shutdown, Here’s What Republicans are Telling Dems on the Senate Floor
Republicans’ attempt to end the new government shutdown failed Wednesday, but there are signs that Democrats are listening to Republican arguments. As the votes were tallied for the second vote on a seven-week stopgap funding bill to reopen the government, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., was spotted chatting with almost a dozen Democrat senators for an… -
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Former BLS Nominee EJ Antoni Tells All About His Nomination Fight
This is a preview of Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with E.J. Antoni, chief economist at The Heritage Foundation. Don’t miss the interview by turning on YouTube notifications for when the episode premieres at 6:30 a.m. EST on Oct. 2. On Tuesday, the nomination of E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at The Heritage Foundation, to… -
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Why Schumer Shut Down the Government, According to JD Vance
Democrats shut down the government because Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is afraid he will lose his Senate seat to radical leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a party primary, Vice President JD Vance said at a Wednesday press briefing. “Why did this happen? Why did the Democrats shut down the government despite, as [White House… -
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Govt Out-of-Office Message Blames Dems for Shutdown
As the federal government closes shop, some agencies are offering their employees optional out-of-office email templates blaming Democrats for the shutdown. “I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill,” reads the Small Business Administration’s template, issued by HR to employees Wednesday morning. “Every… -
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What the West Might Not Understand About Putin’s Psyche
WARSAW, Poland—Maintaining power in Russia was and is a key motivator for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the war against Ukraine, according to the defense minister of Estonia. Russia’s war against Ukraine is part of Putin’s plan to address Russia’s “domestic issues,” Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur told The Daily Signal at the Warsaw… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Uses Reagan-Era Policy to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Gender-Transition Surgeries
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s State Department will soon expand the scope of the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars for abortions. “The department will soon take additional steps to close loopholes that allowed taxpayer funding for promotion of abortion in previous iterations of the Mexico City Policy and… -
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Democrats Trapped by Decades of Messaging on Government Shutdowns
The “Schumer Shutdown” is here and Democrats have essentially reversed 30 years of messaging about the dangers of closing the government. Forty-three Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., voted against a stopgap budget measure Tuesday night that triggered a government shutdown. This came over protests by congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump…. -
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So-Called Schumer Shutdown Puts Ohio Dems in Tricky Spot
Republicans in the House and Senate have wasted no time reminding voters how the so-called Schumer Shutdown hurts working families in Ohio, putting Ohio Democrats in an awkward spot for next year’s elections. On Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee launched a new ad targeting Democrat Reps. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, Emilia… -
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Michigan Religious Scholar Encourages Followers to Imitate Terrorist Leader
A Michigan youth center Friday hosted a memorial service mourning the “martyrdom” of terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah. The event featured local Islamic leader Usama AbdulGhani, a resident scholar and spiritual leader at a K-5 school, who praised Nasrallah’s “bravery” and “divine resistance”—a resistance he said is now led by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Nasrallah,… -
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Schumer’s Massive Gamble
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., actually went through with it. He and Senate Democrats shut down the government over using American taxpayer dollars to fund transgender surgery for minors, abortion, and illegal immigrants’ health care. And I can’t help but respect it. In a country with democratic institutions, it takes real courage to take… -
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Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin’s Parents Plead for Lenient Sentence Due to His Transgender Identity
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—After Nicholas Roske was incarcerated for purportedly attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Roske’s mother discovered a hospital discharge paper in his unemptied suitcase with the name “Sophie Roske.” “This is when several of the pieces of the puzzle started coming together,” Roske’s mother told the judge in a character reference,… -
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Unfit to Serve: Letter Signed by University Presidents a Desperate Effort to Keep Leftist Ideology Intact
President Donald Trump stated yesterday that a broad settlement with Harvard University was near at hand. But the determination of solid blue college administrations and faculties to thwart Trump’s policies to combat antisemitism and racial discrimination in admissions and to reduce the cost of higher education means that Harvard and, before it, Columbia University, will just… -
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‘Democrats Own This Government Shutdown,’ GOP Senators Say
Republican senators are condemning their Democrat colleagues for failing to agree on funding the government and upending the lives of Americans with the subsequent federal government shutdown. The decision will lead to many federal workers being furloughed without pay, including military personnel. “Unfortunately, hardworking Americans and millions of federal employees are left to pay the… -
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‘Does This Look Dirty to You?’ GOP Leaders Call on Democrats to End Shutdown
On the first day of the government shutdown, Republicans laid out a simple response to Democrats’ refusal to support a seven-week funding extension—not giving in to any of their demands. “The sad thing about it is that every single bit of this was entirely avoidable,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters at a Republican… -
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Christian University Won’t Let Turning Point Host On-Campus Event
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Chip Roy said Wednesday they plan to investigate a university’s decision to block a Turning Point USA event on campus—a claim that was disputed by the school. Paxton’s and Roy’s comments came in response to reports that Texas Christian University, a private school in Fort Worth, Texas, had… -
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PBS Offers Yet Another Reason It Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Money
After almost 20 years, PBS is reviving its fan-favorite “Reading Rainbow” kids educational show—this time, with a cast of woke hosts. If you were looking for another reason to justify the defunding of PBS, now you have one. “Reading Rainbow,” trademarked by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, first aired in 1983 to help kids continue reading through the summer to keep their minds sharp and avoid the “summer loss” phenomenon. The read-along show ran for 26 years until… -
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‘Taking the People’s Government Ransom’: Leading Conservatives Speak Out Against Democrat Shutdown
Major players in the conservative movement are weighing in on the Democrats’ “ransom” demands to end the government shutdown, which is poised to affect millions of Americans in the coming days. At the stroke of midnight, the government entered a shutdown after 43 Senate Democrats refused to vote for a stopgap spending measure—a continuing resolution—strikingly…
