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So far, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has swept through government agencies like the United States Agency for International Development, brushing off cobwebs and uncovering skeletons as it goes. Now, DOGE is set to enter a much bigger agency whose shortfalls demand reform: the Department of Defense. Long criticized for its budget woes, the DOD…
When members of Congress return from recess this week, they will face challenges in their efforts to effect legislative change. The GOP is attempting to codify President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda with narrow majorities in the House and Senate, all while a growing faction of Democrats is pushing for leadership to resist Trump even more. The…
Judging from the Left’s responses to President Trump’s order to wind down the Department of Education, you might be forgiven for thinking the president had just started World War III. “Donald Trump has officially declared war on America’s students,” Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., posted on X. Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, responded…
Fear is a strong motivator—especially when it’s given a political megaphone. And Democrat officials, public employee unions, and their minions in the media have no qualms about trying to terrify the public with ridiculous claims in an attempt to counter President Donald Trump’s swamp-cleansing initiatives through the work of the Department of Government Efficiency. Just…
For decades, leftist activists deftly navigated corporate shareholder meetings, successfully bullying risk-averse corporate executives into submission on everything from irrational climate mandates to divisive race and gender-based initiatives. Conservatives played catch up, with The Heritage Foundation at the tip of the spear against corporate wokeism in publicly traded companies. With decades as an influential think…
At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts famously invoked America’s national pastime in describing his view of the judicial role in our constitutional order: “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lives in one of San Francisco’s poshest neighborhoods—that nonetheless sits only about 2 miles from the Tenderloin, one of the most drug-infested corners of the city. In 2019, when President Donald Trump was in his first term and Bill Barr was serving as attorney general, David Anderson, who was then…
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to apologize to you. I have been writing columns and have suggested to you…
The Trump administration is routing DEI regimes on college campuses. The University of California announced Wednesday that it would drop diversity statement requirements when hiring new faculty. The university’s provost, Katherine S. Newman, announced the move. “The requirement to submit a diversity statement may lead applicants to focus on an aspect of their candidacy that…
We may think we live in a democracy, which comes from the Greek words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (rule). But with one federal district judge after another attempting to stop President Donald Trump from carrying out his policies, it’s starting to look more like a “krytocracy,” or rule by judges. Look at the litigation tracker…
For years, the Left has advanced utter untruths for cheap partisan purposes that they knew at the time were all false. And now when caught, they just shrug and say they were lying all along. They damned as incompetent, racist, and conspiratorial any who dared follow logic and evidence to point out that the Chinese…
The Democratic Party is in free fall. Once a party of pragmatic leadership, strong borders, fiscal responsibility, and law and order, it has devolved into a chaotic, leaderless mess. While President Donald Trump and Republicans rally around an “America First” vision prioritizing economic growth, national security, and government efficiency, Democrats seem more focused on tearing…
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Elon Musk is in the news, again. It should be triumphant news accounts of what he’s…
The summer of joy is long over. After the Democrat Party’s attritional winter of defeats, we are seeing the Left spring into action in the worst possible way. In just the last few weeks there’s been an explosion of vandalism carried out on Tesla cars. Axios reported on Thursday that the Justice Department and FBI are investigating widespread attacks…
President Donald Trump just keeps making better and better deals. There is another opportunity for a win in finding a sweet spot for a deal between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel. Trump is putting together another great deal, which will also benefit Americans at home and improve our international standing. The details of that deal…
The Left cannot tolerate dissent, but it absolutely hates a heretic. Elon Musk has transformed from climate hero to anti-bureaucratic villain, and the Left's shock troops are wielding Molotov cocktails at the most accessible symbol of his influence: the Tesla. Of course, in doing so, these vandals don't harm Elon Musk, the hated godfather of…
Spoiler alert: This article will assume the reader has already seen the first season. Is hit series “Severance” subtly making the case we should consider what we owe to unborn babies? Apple TV+’s “Severance,” Ben Stiller’s darkly comedic psychological thriller starring Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation,” “The Good Place”), lends itself to interpretations, most proposing…
I worked with President Donald Trump on the First Step Act and am acutely aware of the damage that unnecessarily tough-on-crime laws can do, but I am glad to vouch for the HALT Fentanyl Act, which advances both public health and just enforcement. Trump visited the Justice Department Tuesday, reaffirming his commitment to combating the…
In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president. The Trump administration sent a plane stuffed with alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador, which is apparently more of a crime…
WASHINGTON—Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don’t belong on our turf. Ah, but there’s a new sheriff at the opera. President Donald Trump is now chairman of the Kennedy…