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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has plans to retire, according to some political activists and news reports. “Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming, John Cornyn of Texas, and John Thune of South Dakota are actively reaching out to fellow Republican senators in efforts to prepare for an anticipated leadership vote — a vote that would occur…
Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for signing. On Thursday, the Florida House of Representatives passed the heartbeat bill in a 70-40 vote. The bill prohibits most abortions after a baby’s heartbeat is detected at six weeks of pregnancy. “Florida lawmakers today delivered a major win for babies and mothers…
The president of the Job Creators Network says "reckless spending" by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats has diluted Americans' buying power, in a response to a government report Thursday on two key price indexes. "Persistently rising wholesale prices hurt small businesses, which tend to operate on tiny profit margins that inflation erodes," Alfredo Ortiz,…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is taking heat for reportedly defending his controversial uncle, Leonard Jeffries, and antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in the 1990s. Jeffries’ uncle was a black studies professor who “eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people,” CNN reported Wednesday. Rep. Jeffries had previously “said he…
China’s recent military drills around Taiwan were meant to serve as a “serious warning” to both “pro-independence politicians” on the island as well as to its foreign allies, The Associated Press reports. “The People’s Liberation Army recently organized and conducted a series of countermeasures in the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, which is a serious…
The National Archives and Records Administration is pushing back after revelations this week that the White House appears to have played a role in the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida in August. But America First Legal, which first obtained the records, said the belated response shows a misunderstanding of…
What constitutes a politicized prosecution is generally a matter of opinion. What seemed definitely different about the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump is that a state prosecutor brought the charges. Legal experts differ as to whether the Trump case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, will unleash more local prosecutors…
Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona, a strong advocate for border security, is running for U.S. Senate in 2024. If Lamb wins the Republican nomination, he will face off against incumbent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Democrat who left the party to become an independent last year. “Arizona needs a proven conservative fighter…
The White House has labeled the use of the animal tranquilizer xylazine mixed with fentanyl “an emerging threat to the United States.” According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, “xylazine combined with fentanyl is being sold illicitly and is associated with significant and rapidly worsening negative health consequences, including fatal overdoses…
The ideas of low taxes, limited government, and free enterprise won the Cold War, but now they are being “strangled into stagnation,” former British Prime Minister Liz Truss warned Wednesday. Truss made her remarks in Washington at The Heritage Foundation's 2023 Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture, hosted by Nile Gardiner, director of the foundation's Margaret Thatcher…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—If a federal court upholds LGBT activists' claims against a Florida health agency's Medicaid rule on transgender interventions, that decision would have devastating consequences for civil rights law, health care providers, and public health, experts warn. LGBT activist groups led by Lambda Legal and representing four young people who identify as…
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced an “exploratory committee for president” Wednesday, his first step in entering the 2024 race. “I know that America is a land of opportunity, not oppression. I know it, because I’ve lived it,” Scott said in the video. “I will never back down in defense of the conservative values…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Job Creators Network Foundation monthly survey is providing somber insight into how some small businesses view the U.S. economy. Sixty-three percent of small business owners "said they’re worried that the shaky economic environment could force their business to close—a six-point jump compared to February," a press release said. The March…
An economist says that "inflation is far from dead" after the consumer price index report showed inflation rose 0.1% in March, up 5% from March 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. "Today's inflation data show prices rising more than twice as fast as the Fed's target 2.0% rate," EJ Antoni, a research…
The Biden White House potentially played a role in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, based on government emails obtained by the America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog group. AFL obtained the information through a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Archives and Records Administration, and on Monday followed with additional records requests. …
The House Judiciary Committee released internal FBI documents on Monday that show a plan to establish sources in local Catholic parishes to combat alleged potential violent extremism from “radical-traditional Catholics.” The committee also issued a subpoena to compel the bureau’s cooperation during its investigation into the FBI’s actions. Following the January leak of an FBI…
Hunter Biden’s business associates’ more than 80 visits to the White House is more evidence that Hunter Biden’s various business enterprises were all about President Joe Biden, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer told The Daily Signal. Associates and business partners of the president’s son visited the White House while Biden was vice president,…
House Democrats violated the Constitution in December in approving the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 omnibus spending bill with proxy voting, according to an amicus brief introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. Roy, along with nine other Republican members of Congress, were set to submit the amicus brief Tuesday about the harms of…
A defense expert and an Asian studies expert are weighing in on the People’s Liberation Army stating it is “ready to fight” following three days of military drills around Taiwan. “The theater’s troops are ready to fight at all times and can fight at any time to resolutely smash any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ and…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Psychiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, and other doctors testified in support of a Florida health agency's rule preventing Medicaid from funding various forms of "gender-affirming care," such as "puberty-blockers," cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries. "Patients suffering from gender dysphoria or related issues have a right to be protected from experimental, potentially harmful treatments…