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Obstructionist Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are pushing the government to the brink of a shutdown that could harm everyday Americans. I took to the Senate floor this morning to demand that Senate Democrats drop their far-left shutdown ransom and join Republicans in voting for the clean continuing resolution to keep the…
Before midnight, Senate Democrats must make a decision—allow the Republican-backed short-term spending bill to come to the floor or let the federal government run out of money and enter a shutdown. Republicans are attempting to prevent a partial shutdown of the federal government by passing a continuing resolution, which would roughly extend the spending levels…
Every year, the federal government sends hundreds of billions of dollars to the wrong people—criminals, ineligible recipients, and beneficiaries of bureaucratic errors. In 2024 alone, the federal government admitted to at least $162 billion in improper payments. That’s $1,200 for every household in America. That’s on top of the $233 billion to $521 billion that the Government Accountability Office estimates the…
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’d like to do something different today and the next day, and that is to do…
President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to “war ravaged Portland” on Saturday in a move that has been a long time in coming. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities have been besieged for months in the Oregon city with little indication that local authorities will do anything to get control of the situation. In…
Congressional Democrats are holding the government hostage, refusing to keep it open unless Republicans extend expiring Biden-era health care subsidies. They’re painting those subsidies as essential to American health care—but their demands are unreasonable and out of step with reality. Here are five things you should know about the expiring subsidies. 1) The Subsidies Are…
A newly released poll of New Jersey voters conducted 12 days after the murder of conservative leader and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shows the Democrat candidate for governor losing her massive lead in the race. Just a few months ago, Democrat congresswoman and former intelligence officer Mikie Sherrill was leading by 20 percentage…
Virginia governor candidate Abigail Spanberger proved yet again she wants to make Virginians poor and financially struggling—endorsing a terrible state law that is projected to increase energy costs by $3,500 per customer. Spanberger embraced the poorly named Virginia Clean Economy Act, signed into law in 2020 under former Gov. Ralph Northam, which will ban oil…
By 2034, there will be more seniors than children for the first time in our country’s history. Meanwhile, the federal debt has exploded and will be the equivalent of a second mortgage for today’s youth. Young people, in turn, will be called on to produce more to support an aging population and will be forced…
The Trump administration continues to have success pushing racial discrimination in the name of “diversity” out of higher education. Earlier in September, College Board quietly dropped its so-called “Landscape” program that provided demographic information to colleges and universities to use when considering applicants. College Board is the organization that administers the SAT and ACT tests for prospective college…
I married Joanna on Sept. 14, 2019. In our short marriage, we have been blessed with three children (Benedict, Gabriel, and Abigail). We have experienced the peaks of our love in the joyful and simple moments of life. However, we have also experienced the paradox of love in the shadows of suffering. Sept. 14 was…
Popular culture has two competing narratives about manhood. Charlie Kirk rejected both of them—and set an example that young men should follow. The dominant view is that masculinity is toxic. In 2018, the American Psychological Association issued guidelines declaring that “traditional masculinity ideology” limits “males’ psychological development.” It also has negative influences on mental and…
PITTSBURGH—If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10’s brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of young people who came out on…
Each of the 15 wealthiest congressional districts in the United States in 2024—when measured by median household income—had at least one thing in common: They all elected Democrats to the House of Representatives. Even as voters nationwide were electing President Donald Trump to a second term in office, he lost to then-Vice President Kamala Harris…
Joshua Jahn, 29, was just the latest perpetrator in the explosion in Democrat-Left political violence. Jahn’s assault on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas was like a fake-Gucci-bag knockoff of previous leftist attacks. Jahn was a rooftop sniper, just like Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, and Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot President…
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s latest strategic move, Democrats truly are damned if they do shut down the government and damned if they don’t. Perhaps it takes an “Art of the Deal” businessman to cut the Gordian knot of government shutdown politics once and for all. First, a little background: The Constitution gives Congress the…
A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the Left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other media outlets downplaying or excusing progressive…
In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading, and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand “the fundamentals of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of the United States.” Do they? According to studies, over 40% of new immigrants aren’t proficient in even the most…
Four of America’s nominally closest allies—Britain, Australia, France, and Canada—disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn’t merely betray the broader Western civilizational inheritance to which they lay claim. They also rewarded terrorism, strengthened the genocidal ambitions of the global jihad, and sent a bona fide chilling…
President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address. Before he arrived, there were reports that U.N. staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some U.N. programs. Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met by a series of…