In his first coronavirus press briefing since April, President Donald Trump sounded dour, warning the pandemic will get worse before it gets better, but also offered his more familiar optimistic tone in predicting a vaccine sooner than expected. The president also made a more emphatic case in favor of wearing masks, even pulling one out…
President Donald Trump asked two nuns with the Little Sisters of the Poor to join him in front of a Rose Garden audience Thursday before he signed an executive order easing enforcement of Obamacare regulations forcing religious organizations to pay for employee health plans covering contraception and abortion-inducing drugs. “Freedom is not a gift from government….
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump advocated a restrictive U.S. policy toward refugee resettlement and other forms of legal immigration. In his speech accepting the Republican nomination for president, Trump said he would suspend immigration from countries that are “compromised by terrorism.” Trump, when he assumes office in January, will find that he has…
President Donald Trump’s forceful use of export controls on high-end, dual-use semiconductors to contain the Chinese Communist Party’s technological ambitions is one of the most important national security achievements of his first term. Export controls are a national security tool that restricts the technology that corporations can sell or transfer to American adversaries. In a…
Since the Senate started holding hearings on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and Cabinet-level nominations, Senate Democrats have employed a variety of tactics to delay the votes needed for Trump to put the government’s leaders in place. Republicans have called Democrats’ actions “unprecedented,” but are they? A review by The Daily Signal of committee actions for…
A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump. Most Americans, even many of the elites who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, are willing to support Trump's administration, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the…
As I document in my book, “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph,” which is an explanation of Americanism, leftism, and Islamism, hysteria is a major tactic of the left. If you think about it, there is never an extended period of time—one year, let’s say—during which society is not…
There are many reasons why legal experts are questioning the legitimacy of the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But the major reason is that the main claim in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case—that Trump’s $130,000 settlement payment of a potential claim by Stormy Daniels was a campaign-related expense—is totally bogus. Here’s a…
President Donald Trump issued three executive orders earlier this year aimed at reining in the federal bureaucracy. But late last month, in a textbook case of judicial overreach, D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sided with the unions and struck down every major provision of those executive orders. The administration must appeal that decision….
The lawyer who argued the case for President Donald Trump’s executive order designed to bar terrorists from entering the country is the target of sharp criticism for his performance Tuesday night before a federal appeals court. “I’m not sure I’m convincing the court,” Justice Department attorney August E. Flentje said during Tuesday’s hearing. August E….
North Korea will be the top agenda item for President Donald Trump when he meets Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “We have somebody that is not doing the right thing and that’s going to be my responsibility,” @POTUS says. “As you know, I’ll be meeting with the president of China very soon in Florida,…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A judge’s ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was “unconstitutional” almost inevitably will end up before the Supreme Court, potentially dooming Smith’s Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump along with the classified documents case that the judge tossed. Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Joe…
The Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that monitors all air traffic in the United States, didn’t have an answer Monday to the question of whether Chinese spy balloons traversed American airspace during the Trump administration. The aviation agency said its cooperation with the Defense Department in restricting airspace where the balloon was shot down, however,…
“The only garbage I see out there is his supporters,” said President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, referencing a comedian’s comment at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. Biden said this as Vice President Kamala Harris delivered on the Ellipse, visible from the White House windows, what her campaign described as her campaign’s…
Pundits are already throwing out the names of individuals who could replace outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley after her Tuesday announcement that she intends to step down at the end of 2018. Current U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell is already getting a large share of the attention after President Donald Trump said…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Homeland Security Committee released its latest “Border Brief” Tuesday, highlighting significant changes at the border since President Donald Trump took office, and a staggering year-over-year decline in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the United States. “Southwest border crossings have hit another record-low because we now have a…
Political opponents have been quick to suggest that Susan Rice committed a crime in her waning days as national security adviser to President Barack Obama in the way she handled intelligence reports related to those close to the incoming president, Donald Trump. But to have broken federal law, national security experts told The Daily Signal,…
President Donald Trump, without saying he would pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, said Monday that he is open to signing a better agreement with the Islamist regime. “That doesn’t mean we won’t negotiate a real agreement,” @realDonaldTrump says. Commenting after Israel accused Iran of cheating on the deal, Trump also rejected the premise…
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Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris—ever since President Joe Biden, at the 11th hour, dropped out in July. Harris seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she has not been previously prepped for. Her answers at…