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White House Refuses to Weigh In on Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports
The White House dodged a question on transgender participation in college sports during Monday’s press briefing. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if the Biden administration thought it was fair that biological males are now competing against women in college sports. The White House is “not the governing body…Kendall Tietz -
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What’s Driving Up Gas Prices—and Why the White House Won’t Help
When a news anchor confronted Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about high gasoline prices and asked about the Biden administration’s plan to increase oil production in America, she burst into laughter. “That is hilarious,” she said. It was early November 2021, and gas prices were averaging $3.39 nationally. The reporter wasn’t laughing. And now, with the…Katie Tubb -
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Despite What the White House Says, Obamacare Is Deeply Troubled
Open enrollment on Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges is in full swing. Consumers in most states, including the 33 that use the federally operated HealthCare.gov, have until Jan. 15 to sign up for coverage for 2022. The Biden administration says things have never been better, and that premiums are declining, more insurers are participating in the…Sally Pipes -
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White House Is Bypassing Usual Fiscal Review Process to Push Spending Bill Through. This Is Irresponsible.
The House of Representatives is charging ahead to pass a reckless tax and spending budget bill without even knowing how much it will cost the taxpayers and the American economy. Some members of Congress have demanded official cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation before considering this latest attempt…Matthew Dickerson -
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State Chapters of National School Boards Group Slam Letter to White House Depicting Parents as Domestic Terrorists
State members of the National School Boards Association slammed the organization following its letter addressed to President Joe Biden’s administration that compared parental concern at school board meetings to actions of “domestic terrorists,” according to emails obtained by Parents Defending Education through a public records request. Emails between Delaware, Florida, and Ohio school board officials…Kendall Tietz -
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Nation in ‘Energy Crisis,’ White House Adviser Says
A top White House official said there was an “energy crisis” in the U.S. and urged foreign fossil-fuel producers to ramp up production to quell it. “We see this as an energy crisis because this is not just natural gas prices that have been elevated, but crude oil is at very high levels at the…Thomas Catenacci -
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Biden White House Will Pay for Playing Inflation Games
White House chief of staff Ron Klain recently endorsed the idea that inflation and supply-chain struggles Americans are facing are “high-class problems.” I’m in no position to comment on whether the inflation spike we’re experiencing is “transitory” or not—though, metaphysically speaking, isn’t everything? Maybe it will be a short-term problem sparked by supply shocks and…David Harsanyi -
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Watchdog Seeks Answers on White House Involvement, Garland Conflict in Memo Targeting Parents as Terrorists
A watchdog group alleging the Justice Department’s controversial targeting of parents for speaking up on local school matters was a “White House priority” now seeks more information about Attorney General Merrick Garland and his son-in-law’s company to shed light on a potential conflict of interest. Garland, picked by President Joe Biden to lead the Justice…Fred Lucas -
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White House Fakery Defended by ‘Fact-Checkers’
When is a fake setting not a fake setting? When President Joe Biden sits in front of it. The “independent fact-checkers,” a phrase that in itself strains credulity, leaped to defend Biden after he received a COVID-19 booster shot in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Sept. 27. For political rookies, the EEOB is not…Tim Graham -
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Biden White House Tells Trump Appointees to Resign or Be Fired as Military Academy Advisers
The Biden administration told 11 former Trump officials to resign from their appointed positions on military service academy advisory boards or face dismissal, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Wednesday. The officials include former Senior Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, CNN reported….Sebastian Hughes -
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Ukraine’s Leader Visits White House 2 Years After Trump Asks Him for Probe of Biden
President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a central figure in the first impeachment of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. Biden and Zelenskyy focused on security against Russian aggression, anti-corruption initiatives, and energy and climate goals, according to the White House. “We have to focus very much now on the security issues, which…Fred Lucas -
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What You Need to Know About Biden’s Ill-Conceived Executive Order on Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden issued an executive order Aug. 5 calling for half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. A president can’t exactly force Americans to buy an electric vehicle, and Biden largely meant his executive order as a messaging tool to fuel enthusiasm for his climate agenda….Katie Tubb -
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How Biden White House Got Border Crisis Wrong as ‘Seasonal Migration’
Border officials reported an increase in the number of encounters with migrants at the southern border in June, out of line with the Biden administration’s attribution to seasonal migration and historical trends showing a decrease in encounters after May. The number of encounters at the southern border was “somewhat overstated” due to pandemic-related expulsions allowing…Kaylee Greenlee -
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Kayleigh McEnany’s ‘Faith Journey’ From White House Intern to Trump’s Press Secretary
What would it be like to go from being an intern at the White House to being White House press secretary? Kayleigh McEnany, the fourth and final press secretary to President Donald Trump, experienced that unlikely journey. She joins me today on “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss that passage as well as her forthcoming…Rachel del Guidice -
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Biden White House Admits Using Big Tech to Silence Americans
In what rightfully can be described as one of the most anti-free speech pronouncements ever made by the U.S. government, the Biden administration has come clean on its incestuous relationship with Big Tech. The jaw-dropping news was first delivered July 15 by White House press secretary Jen Psaki when she said: “We are in regular…Chris Talgo -
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Ensuring Competition Requires Economic Freedom, Not an Executive Order
President Joe Biden’s July 9 executive order, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” states: “The American promise of a broad and sustained prosperity depends on an open and competitive economy.” The directive further notes: For workers, a competitive marketplace creates more high-quality jobs and the economic freedom to switch jobs or negotiate a higher wage. …Anthony B. Kim -
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Biden’s ‘Competition’ Executive Order Realizes a Central Planner’s Dream
President Joe Biden on July 9 issued an executive order, purportedly to promote competition. The order, though, is yet another far-left directive to promote federal government intervention in the economy, pushing policies that may not even be authorized by Congress and that could trample on states’ rights. It punishes economic success and presumes that when…Daren Bakst -
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Biden on Track to Have Most Expensive White House Staff in US History
President Joe Biden has wasted no time filling out his White House staff, employing 567 people at a projected cost of $200 million over his four-year term. That is compared to the Trump administration, which spent $164.3 million between 2017 and 2020, and the Obama administration spending $188.5 million between 2009 and 2012, both of…Adam Andrzejewski -
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With Trump Out of White House, Media Suddenly Finds ‘Lab Leak Theory’ Plausible
Former President Donald Trump is known for a lot of things, but one of his special powers is his ability to make the entire corporate media act in concert to bring embarrassment upon themselves. For nearly a year, almost every major news outlet declared that it was a debunked, fringe conspiracy theory to even discuss…Tim Murtaugh -
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White House Task Force Is Payoff to Biden’s Union Cronies
With little fanfare, President Joe Biden on April 26 signed yet another executive order, this one establishing a White House task force on “Worker Organizing and Empowerment.” Implicit in its title is the leftist core belief that individual workers aren’t smart enough to know what’s good for them, so the government is going to intervene….Rusty Brown