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As the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill moves to the Senate, one major question remains: What exactly does President Donald Trump want in it? Trump has consistently pushed for the bill’s passage, despite saying he doesn’t view it as perfect. “It’s an unbelievable bill,” Trump said in an Oval Office event with Elon Musk on…
To mark the 53rd anniversary of Title IX, the Department of Education is announcing investigations into two apparent violations of the federal law protecting women’s spaces and sports. Title IX was enacted into law on June 23 in 1972, so President Donald Trump’s Department of Education will celebrate June as Title IX month. Secretary of…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, is set to introduce a bill on Tuesday that would establish a commission to study antisemitism in the United States. The bill would be the latest effort in the House to address the sobering rise of hatred toward Jews in the U.S. If enacted, the bill would…
Former Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is talking tough, even while remaining mum on his own political future. The Minnesota governor, whose second term runs through January 2027, claims to have a strategy for his fellow Democrats: “Bully the s— out of” President Donald Trump. “Maybe it’s time for us to be a little…
The FBI announced that the Chinese national charged with illegally voting in Michigan last year fled the country, and reportedly with a different passport than the one he was ordered to surrender to authorities. The FBI’s criminal complaint says former University of Michigan student Haoxiang Gao used his student ID to register to vote and…
A nonprofit that supports unions across the world received extra infusions of cash from a federal agency after one of the union group’s employees took a leadership role at the agency. She later went on to serve as the agency’s acting chief of staff. Lauren Stewart spent 15 years at the Solidarity Center, a left-leaning…
The Biden administration is to blame for Sunday’s terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, because the former president granted a visa to the illegal immigrant who threw the Molotov cocktail, according to the White House. “The Biden Admin granted the alien a visa and then, when he illegally overstayed, they gave him a work permit,” said…
The lead suspect in the violent attack on a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday was in the country illegally, according to a top Department of Homeland Security official. “The Colorado Terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, wrote on X Monday. “He entered the country…
The FBI is investigating an attack in Boulder, Colorado, Sunday after a suspect reportedly threw at least one incendiary device at a crowd of people who expressed solidarity with the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. An FBI spokesman, speaking at a press conference at 6:40 p.m. Mountain Time, confirmed that six victims, ages…
New mom and marathoner Natalie Daniels was booted from her running club for saying that people who identify as transgender should not compete against biological women in sports. When Daniels began training for the Boston Marathon just a few months postpartum, she interviewed with the organization XX-XY Athletics, a clothing brand which aims to protect women’s…
Rep. Riley Moore in March introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would halt the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals. The West Virginia Republican’s bill has taken on new relevance in recent weeks as the Trump administration has sought to revoke the student visas for international students attending Harvard University. Chinese…
Fallout from the House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill continues as a liberal advocacy group, Protect Our Care, is spending big on political ads against 11 GOP lawmakers in battleground districts. The digital ads are a key component of the liberal group’s $10 million “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign that claims the targeted Republicans helped deliver “the…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery because of her history of pushing woke ideology, donating to Democrats, and denigrating Republicans, a White House official told The Daily Signal. Kim Sajet has donated $3,982.40 to Democrats, including Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the DCCC,…
A segment of the Democratic Socialists of America has thrown its weight behind an open letter declaring that Elias Rodriguez, the alleged murderer of two Israeli embassy staff, was “fully justified” in killing the couple because he intended to prevent “genocide.” The Palestinian activist group Tariq El-Tahrir released the letter Monday. The Democratic Socialists of…
President Donald Trump bade farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday, telling reporters that the Department of Government Efficiency’s work would continue even after the end of Musk’s service as a special government employee. “Elon has worked tirelessly, helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations,” Trump said….
California officials are taking another shot at undoing a voter-approved measure in the city of Huntington Beach that requires ID to vote. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an appeal in the California 4th District Court of Appeals after an Orange County Superior Court backed Huntington Beach’s authority to…
Convicted former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., took to X on Friday to accuse his party of weaponizing justice and unfairly ousting him from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in order to advance its political goals. Menendez, 71, resigned from the Senate in 2024 after being sentenced on Jan. 29 to 11 years in prison for…
A veteran Ohio Democrat, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, might be looking to return to politics soon. Politico reported Wednesday that Brown—who lost his seat to Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno in November—has told allies he’s considering a run for governor, but not for the Senate. Brown’s spokesman vehemently denied that. “The Politico story is untrue. Sherrod…
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for 500,000 illegal aliens living in the U.S. In a 7-2 ruling on Friday, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that barred the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under…
An illegal alien responsible for the death of a 24-year-old Colorado woman has been arrested. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the arrest on Thursday of a 16-year-old from Colombia who was convicted of reckless driving resulting in death but was released back onto the streets of Colorado by the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office. ICE…