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Members of Congress should reject draft legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare that is currently being circulated in the House of Representatives. At this point in the debate, they should focus their efforts instead on repealing Obamacare and transitioning out of its destructive effects. Regrettably, the House proposal combines the repeal and replace efforts into…
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, “The president’s decision to ask Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education should offend every single American man, woman, and child who has benefitted from the public education system in this country.” Expressing similar sentiments, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond said, “I expect…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered his first prime-time speech to a joint session of Congress. Heritage Foundation experts weighed in to respond to the president’s remarks on several policy fronts. Here’s what they had to say. Economy Health Care Immigration Foreign Policy and National Security Legal Infrastructure Education Economy Welcome Commitment to Tax Reform…
According to multiple news reports, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal will include a $54 billion increase for defense spending that will, in part, be offset by cuts to the budgets for the Department of State and foreign assistance. This has led a number of foreign policy and defense experts to express concern. Again according to…
In light of President Donald Trump’s executive order that should put an end to the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, The Heritage Foundation released the following statement: President Trump’s executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to reevaluate the Waters of the United States rule is welcomed…
On Monday, President Donald Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, announced that the administration will seek a defense budget of $603 billion for 2018—“one of the largest increases in history.” Trump said nondefense spending would be cut by an equal $54 billion, “the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the Reagan administration.” The White House…
After the financial market crash in 2008, liberal lawmakers insisted that more stringent regulations must be placed on our nation’s financial markets in order to prevent another collapse. In unison, they rallied around the straw man that massive deregulation of the financial system had caused the collapse. Of course, that claim, which is still perpetuated…
President Donald Trump concluded last week by calling upon to the military to ensure that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the “top of the pack.” This is a reasonable goal. The United States’ nuclear weapons are meant to deter large-scale attacks that could potentially end life as we know it. They also serve a…
Today the crisis of American government is expressed in an ungainly phrase that rarely appeared in conservative vocabulary in the 1950s and 1960s—the “administrative state,” by which is meant the independent “fourth branch of government” that fits nowhere within the scheme of the Constitution as understood by its authors. Conservatives were slow to perceive the…
On Thursday last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he “believe[s] that we will see greater enforcement” of the federal laws against recreational marijuana. While he acknowledged that the question to which he was responding was better directed to the Department of Justice, Spicer said that state legalization of recreational marijuana “is something…
Andrew Jackson is back in the White House—or at least his portrait is. Following President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, noted that the speech was modeled after Jackson’s and that it contained the “basic principles of [Trump’s] populist and nationalist movement.” Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday will…
Saying that the Greek debt crisis is “primarily a European issue,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin encouraged International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde last week “to hold to its hard line on Greece, keeping it out of a third bailout for the foreseeable future.” That is exactly the right advice. As The Heritage Foundation noted…
As a woman and a mother, I am thrilled that the Trump administration has rescinded President Barack Obama’s unlawful transgender school policy regarding the use of showers, locker rooms, dorms, and bathrooms in public schools and universities. President Donald Trump has returned the policymaking power back to parents and state and local officials. Like many Americans,…
Once again, Hollywood showcased its complete lack of diversity in thought at the Oscars. Of course, it’s a free country, and Hollywood is fine to keep its liberal streak going … just as conservatives can continue to decide whether they want to support new movies. But it does suggest that there might be a lot…
Five weeks into President Donald Trump’s presidency, the first time in eight years a Republican has been in the White House, where do conservatives see the country going? Here are highlights from The Daily Signal’s coverage of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the largest annual gathering of conservatives: 1. Trump talks policy objectives….
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Congress has written some laudable policies into the Pet and Women Safety Act of 2017 (H.R.909) that are designed to protect domestic violence victims from “trauma caused by acts of violence or threats of violence against their pets.” There is one provision of the bill, however, that takes a familiar step too far: It would…
A Washington Post article argues that a recently implemented federal school meals policy, the Community Eligibility Provision, is largely responsible for increased participation of low-income children in the school breakfast program. In reality, the Community Eligibility Provision turns welfare on its head by making it possible for children from middle-class and wealthy families to receive…
The year 2016 was a record-breaking year for the U.S. Coast Guard’s fight against drug trafficking. By the end of October, the Coast Guard had seized over 416,600 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $5.6 billion, the largest one-year amount in the service’s history. This total was accumulated over 263 individual interdictions primarily in the Caribbean,…
The AARP, the nation’s largest association of retired persons, is criticizing a proposal to more closely align premiums with actual health care costs, calling it an “age tax” that will supposedly “line the pockets of big insurance companies.” In reality, the proposed change would simply undo a misguided provision of Obamacare that forced insurers to…