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Vance Announces New Plan to Combat Nationwide Welfare Fraud
ByElizabeth Troutman Mitchell January 8, 2026April 23, 2026

Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration has created a new assistant attorney general position to crack down on fraud nationwide. The new official will have “nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said at Thursday’s White House press briefing. “Unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way,”…

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Dictators Wrap ‘Evil Behavior’ in Talk of Human Rights, Pompeo Says
ByFred Lucas October 22, 2019April 16, 2026

Dictators too often pervert the word “right” for nefarious means, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday morning, as the U.S. prepared to assemble a new commission focused on human rights. “When I came to the State Department, it became very clear to me—I had seen this in my time in Congress too—people throw around…

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Q&A: Why Some GOP Lawmakers May Be Able to Force an Amnesty Vote
ByKatrina Trinko, Daniel Davis, Tommy Binion May 22, 2018April 16, 2026

This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview on The Daily Signal podcast Monday. Since the interview was recorded, House GOP leadership announced there will be a vote on the Goodlatte-McCaul bill in June. Katrina Trinko: Immigration was supposed to be dead as an issue, but in recent weeks a number of Republicans have…

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Free Speech Should Be Especially Valued at Law Schools. So, Why Isn’t It?
ByAnna Low March 25, 2023April 17, 2026

A Bloomberg Law columnist is upset that students at Yale Law School didn’t protest the First Amendment and shout down an invited speaker, James Ho, a Trump-appointed judge who sits on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On March 15, Ho spoke at Yale Law School, and according to Vivia Chen’s opinion essay, his…

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A Recession by Any Other Name Is Still a Terrible Economy
ByMiles Pollard, Richard Stern August 5, 2022April 28, 2026

Having given up fixing the economy, President Joe Biden and his handlers are instead fixing the dictionary. The recent announcement of two consecutive quarters of economic contraction—the traditional start of a recession—is the result of the policies championed by Biden and his allies in Congress. Unprecedented money printing and federal spending make it harder for…

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Supreme Court Narrowly Upholds Tax on Unrealized Gains From Overseas Company Profits
ByCully Stimson, Seth Lucas June 20, 2024April 28, 2026

The Supreme Court issued a much-awaited ruling in a tax case, holding that the mandatory repatriation tax passed as part of the 2017 Trump tax cuts did not exceed Congress’ constitutional authority. The court’s holding was narrow, and significant in large part for issues it did not address, leaving open questions related to the constitutionality…

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The Deadly Consequences of Democrats’ War on ICE Enforcement
ByJarrett Stepman January 8, 2026April 22, 2026

Democrat politicians have put countless lives at risk becasue they can’t accept an administration that vigorously enforces U.S. immigration laws. The tragedy that unfolded Wednesday as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in Minnesota who appeared to be driving at him should never have happened. Democrat politicians, looking to take…

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African Nations Shouldn’t Let COVID-19 Sink Continental Free Trade Agreement
ByJoshua Meservey, Jamie Ramirez Hashem July 21, 2020April 28, 2026

What would have been the world’s most extensive free trade zone since the formation of the World Trade Organization was supposed to go into effect July 1. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the launch date into doubt. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is an ambitious attempt to reduce trade restrictions among all 55…

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Costco’s Wholesale Refusal to Cut DEI Draws Warning From 19 States
BySuzanne Bowdey January 29, 2025April 17, 2026

It’s a shrinking club, but there are still headstrong CEOs who refuse to bend to the anti-woke winds. None have grabbed more headlines than Costco, the big box holdout who’s clinging to diversity, equity, and inclusion while a stampede of businesses run the other way. After voting down a shareholder resolution last Thursday to return…

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How US Can Keep ISIS From Taking Root in Afghanistan
ByNathaniel DeBevoise, Luke Coffey April 24, 2018April 16, 2026

As the territorial integrity of ISIS’ “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria erodes, the terror group now finds itself looking to its contingent group in Afghanistan, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan, or IS-K, in order to maintain its operations. In the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan, IS-K has been actively recruiting fighters associated with…

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International Energy Agency Promotes Oil Shortage Instead of Preventing It
ByMario Loyola December 14, 2023April 17, 2026

This year’s Conference of the Parties to the U.N. climate agreements, or COP, is being held in the Emirate of Dubai, arguably the world’s most extravagant display of oil wealth. Ironies abound. The host and president of this year’s conference, Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, happens also to be the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’…

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What Was the Purpose of Opening Our Southern Border?
ByVictor Davis Hanson April 3, 2025April 16, 2026

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. Now that we’ve seen, in the first eight weeks of the Trump administration, a 96% reduction…

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Team Biden Reveals Its Cynicism by Punishing Border Patrol Agents
ByJarrett Stepman July 11, 2022April 16, 2026

Remember last year, when a few mounted Border Patrol agents were accused of “whipping” Haitian migrants at the southern border? The media and left-wing politicos and celebrities whipped activists into a frenzy, accusing the Border Patrol of cruelty and actions reminiscent of the days of slavery. When the story broke, President Joe Biden—a man known…

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The Remaking of the Middle East
ByBen Shapiro August 21, 2020April 16, 2026

While all eyes have been on the Democratic National Convention taking place via Zoom, truly historic events have occurred in the Middle East. Among them: a long-awaited peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, including full normalization of relations; presumed peace deals to follow between Israel and Sudan, Oman and Bahrain; the possibility…

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Biden’s Proposed Education Spending Spree Is Untenable, Unaffordable
ByJude Schwalbach April 28, 2021April 17, 2026

The Biden administration’s recently released budget request would significantly expand the federal footprint on education through a greatly accelerated education spending spree. The administration requested nearly $103 billion for K-12 and higher education—a 41% funding increase—for the Department of Education. The president’s budget request includes significant funding increases for: School districts with students from low-income…

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As Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Market Share Goes Up, So Does Its Taxpayer Funding
ByConnor Semelsberger December 14, 2023April 22, 2026

To borrow from an old saying, nothing can be certain except for death and taxpayer funding for the abortion industry. At the request of pro-life members of Congress, the Government Accountability Office released the latest round of data detailing how much taxpayer funding goes to Planned Parenthood and other international abortion organizations. From 2019 through…

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The EPA Is Reportedly Going to Stop One of Its Costliest Abuses
ByDaren Bakst October 4, 2018April 16, 2026

If the Environmental Protection Agency decides to regulate emissions of a specific pollutant, should those emission reductions yield benefits that exceed the costs of doing so? The commonsense answer to that question is: Of course. But that’s not how things work with many EPA air pollution regulations. Instead, the EPA has found a way to…

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House Republicans Vote Twice to Pay Government Employees During Shutdown
ByRachel del Guidice January 24, 2019April 16, 2026

House Republicans have now twice voted to pay government employees during the partial shutdown, but neither bill has passed the Democrat-controlled chamber. “House Republicans have repeatedly introduced measures that would pay federal employees during the stalemate,” Rep. Mike Johnson, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal. “Unfortunately,…

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I Went to a #NoMuslimBanEver March. Here’s What I Saw.
ByGenevieve Wood October 19, 2017April 16, 2026

About 500 protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., for the #NoMuslimBanEver March, protesting the Trump administration’s travel ban. The Daily Signal went to the #NoMuslimBanEver March to find out why they were protesting. “I’m so upset to see many, many things this president is doing … to see him discriminate against a group of people, which…

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A Government-Managed Alliance With Saudi Arabia Isn’t the Solution for Low Oil Prices
ByNicolas Loris March 27, 2020April 22, 2026

As the world collectively battles with the coronavirus pandemic, leaders on the world stage also are grappling with how to address the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. As prices plummeted, one idea floated is for the U.S. to form an alliance with Saudi Arabia to stabilize prices. Although it’s not clear what…

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