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Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain has agreed to take questions from congressional investigators probing former President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline, according to an aide with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee is also investigating the potential unauthorized issuance of sweeping pardons and other executive actions. Klain agreed to…
President Donald Trump toured a new detention center for illegal aliens referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday. “I mean, you don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure,” Trump said of the location of the detention facility after stepping off Air Force One in Florida. “They have a…
With the Senate passing its own version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” around noon on Tuesday, the significantly altered budget reconciliation goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson will attempt to swiftly send the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk before Republicans’ self-imposed deadline of July 4. But before the Big, Beautiful Bill…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter Tuesday to the 50 state governors, urging them to remove distractions from roads, including divisive and distracting political messaging like rainbow crosswalks. “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” Duffy said in a statement first provided to The Daily Signal. “Today I…
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a 10-year fiscal package that would serve as the vehicle for fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on tax cuts and border security. Despite intra-party debates on overall deficit levels, health care reform, and how to undo former President Joe Biden’s environmental…
More than 51 million seniors would pay no taxes on Social Security income under the proposed “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” according to a new report Tuesday by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. The legislation includes the largest tax break in American history for seniors, according to the report, which means that “88% of…
The U.S. Agency for International Development has officially closed, marking “the beginning of a new era of global partnership, peace, investment, and prosperity,” according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Starting Tuesday, the Department of State will take over the work of USAID. In March, Rubio announced that 83% of USAID programs were being canceled…
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is touting an endorsement from a major cattle rancher organization as he pushes for Republicans in Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would extend and expand on President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a trade association with over 178,000 members, endorsed…
Following last week’s “firehouse primaries” in the race to fill a critical open seat in the tightly divided U.S. House of Representatives, the Virginia Democratic and Republican parties have chosen their nominees for a Sept. 9 special election. Republican nominee Stewart Whitson, an Army combat veteran and former FBI special agent, will face Democratic nominee…
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ sanctuary city policies, citing the supremacy clause regarding the preemption of federal statutes over state and local law in the U.S. Constitution. According to Los Angeles City Council members, as many as 1 in 10 Los Angeles residents may be…
The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its system to share citizenship verification data with state and local election officials, which has prompted “hair on fire” concerns from one legacy media outlet and a legal scholar. Additionally, one former Biden White House official has alleged the Trump administration is creating a database to include citizens…
With Senate Republican leadership hoping to send its version of the GOP budget reconciliation bill back to the House for final approval before Friday of this week, there remain a few potential holdouts in the House of Representatives to getting the bill signed by the president by the July 4 deadline. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.,…
President Donald Trump is visiting a detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday, which the White House contends backs up the need to pass the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” A reporter on Monday asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt why Trump would travel to the detention center about 50 miles west of Miami while…
Sen. Thom Tillis announced Sunday that he would not be seeking reelection, just one day after President Donald Trump threatened to support a primary challenger against the North Carolina Republican owing to his vote against proceeding with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. There could be major implications for Republicans—with a possibility of losing the…
Heritage Action, which has 2.5 million grassroots activists nationwide, came out swinging for the U.S. Senate’s budget reconciliation bill in a press statement released Monday. The group, one of the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the United States, backed the budget bill that is set to pass the upper chamber early this week. It will…
Hundreds of Iranian mothers lifted their babies above their heads in a symbolic act of sacrifice during the annual Hosseini Infants Ceremony in Tehran on Friday. The ceremony, with similar celebrations held across Iran on June 27, takes place on the first Friday of the Islamic month of Muharram and commemorates the death of Shia…
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear arguments in a case involving a teacher who claims she was fired over social media posts expressing her views on transgenderism, immigration, and other controversial issues. Justice Clarence Thomas called the case “the latest in a trend of lower court decisions that have misapplied our First…
Senate fiscal hawks are seeking a major concession in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a partial repeal of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The fiscal conservatives managed to introduce the amendment after withholding their vote on a motion to proceed with the massive 10-year budget framework. Now, almost a decade removed from the day…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani failed to directly condemn the controversial phrase “globalize the intifada” on NBC News Sunday. The term “globalize the intifada” is widely seen as a call to violence against Jews, and Jewish advocacy groups were angered when Mamdani declined to directly denounce the phrase. When asked…
The Senate is in the midst of up to 20 hours of floor debate on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after Senate Democrats had clerks read the entire 940-page bill aloud for 16 hours starting Saturday night. Senate Republicans managed to advance the bill Saturday evening despite a three-hour voting standstill as holdout senators…