President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday night. (His address in 2021 was to a joint session of Congress but not a true State of the Union speech because he had just taken office, although that’s a distinction likely lost on audiences outside Washington.) Meanwhile, RealClearPolitics co-founder and President Tom…
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., initially filed a privileged resolution on May 23 "to censure, condemn, and fine" the California Democrat $16 million "for his egregious abuse of the trust of the American people." Luna introduced a…
Republican leadership in the House has its hands full this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to get about a dozen fiscally conservative Republicans to sign off on the Senate’s budget plan by the end of the week. President Donald Trump has urged the House to “quickly” pass the plan that the Senate approved on…
President Obama made life a bit more difficult today for Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. In an unusually deep wade into the decision-making process at the supposedly independent FCC, the president came out in favor of imposing common carrier regulation on America’s Internet service providers, saying in a video released by…
Editor's note: Our audience paid close attention to the news that Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement gave President Donald Trump a second opportunity to appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court. He did so 12 days later. Here's a sampling of the early response. Send your own views to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Everyone is…
As states nationwide begin the process of reopening, Americans continue to battle over the methods governors and local authorities have used to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, many states and localities have set up arbitrary and, in many cases, absurd rules that do little more than aggravate citizens and almost nothing to stop the spread…
Northwest Georgia faces a crowded race to fill the surprise vacancy in Congress created by the sudden departure of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene, who represented the state’s 14th Congressional District, recently resigned from Congress following escalating disputes with President Donald Trump. The dispute erupted after Greene pushed for the release of Justice Department files linked to Jeffrey Epstein, causing Trump…
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., traveled to Texas this weekend for a first-hand look at the security at the U.S. border with Mexico. The trip comes as Congress wrestles with how to fund the Department of Homeland Security with a deadline of Feb. 27. Conservatives hope to use the funding measure as leverage to attack President…
Remember the much maligned Tea Party movement? These were the patriotic Americans—millions of them—who took to the streets and the town halls across America and revolted against President Bush’s corporate bailouts, President Obama’s stimulus spending blowout and Obamacare, and the Federal Reserve’s policy of tossing trillions of dollars out of helicopter windows (figuratively). Good news:…
President Donald Trump’s Oval Office conversation with two Russian officials last week was “wholly appropriate,” national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Tuesday, expanding on his previous explanation about classified information shared by the president. “The president in no way undermined sources or methods,” H.R. McMaster says. When Trump met with the Russians, McMaster said, he…
A group of Republican state attorneys general alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that President Joe Biden’s climate policies are a major overreach and could damage their states’ economies. The 12-state coalition said Biden overstepped his constitutional authority by declaring there were “social costs” of continued greenhouse gas emissions in a Jan. 20 executive order. The lawsuit,…
Journalist Bari Weiss revealed in another major Twitter Files update Thursday that Twitter operatives were suppressing the accounts of major conservatives like “Libs of TikTok,” Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk. Yet Twitter denied that it was suppressing or shadow banning accounts: in 2018, Head of Legal Policy and Trust Vijaya Gadde and Head of Product…
The successful capture of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the early hours of Jan. 3 has sparked a debate in Congress over the legality of the executive branch’s use of military force, especially in the Western Hemisphere. So far, most Republicans in Congress have expressed public support for “Operation Absolute Resolve,” which involved the…
Over the past four years, President Joe Biden conducted an experiment: What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry? He released millions of illegal aliens at the border, paroled over a million more using programs Congress never authorized, and allowed at least 2 million more to evade the Border Patrol. That resulted in…
House Republicans are looking to pass a continuing resolution on Tuesday to keep the government running. If a resolution isn’t passed by Friday, then nonessential parts of the government will temporarily shut down. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told The Daily Signal that congressional Democrats appear to be angling to shut the government down….
A Senate bill that would rescind a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule on overdraft protection is headed for a vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told The Daily Signal that the regulation issued by the Biden administration would have led to few financial options for…
Waiting on a routine flight from Sacramento back to Santa Barbara, Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., discovered he was a terrorist. Or at least that’s what the FBI thought. McClintock was clearly more of a frequent flyer than radical extremist. But a classic case of mistaken identity, not ties to terrorism, landed him on the FBI’s…
Members of the House Freedom Caucus are staking out a tough stand on immigration reform, including any effort to codify the now-suspended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into law. “It is unlikely that I will vote for any kind of DACA, absent a global fix for the border security problem,” Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.,…
A new Democratic House majority, now predicted to occur by NBC News and Fox, could be poised for impeaching President Donald Trump, many experts say. Special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly is set to release a report shortly after the midterm elections regarding whether the 2016 Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russians to affect the outcome…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Department of Government Efficiency continues to flag unusual federal government expenditures, state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration to secure funding for their initiatives in Mexico and Costa Rica meant to train foreign prosecutors. Seven state attorneys general from both parties signed a letter insisting the programs are…