President-elect Donald Trump may be following President Barack Obama’s lead come Jan. 20, using executive orders to roll back parts of the outgoing president’s signature health care law. During a meeting with Republicans on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said the president-elect plans to kick off his administration by signing executive orders to begin…
The special counsel’s report on Russia’s election meddling will be released with redactions within a week, and the results of a separate probe into alleged Justice Department misconduct is coming within two months, Attorney General William Barr told a House panel Tuesday. House Democrats, who weren’t happy to hear about redactions in special counsel Robert…
A House Democrat leading an investigation of oil industry “misinformation” blames social media companies for blocking legislation to counter climate change, even as Big Tech corporations move to demonetize and suppress debate on climate-related issues. Google acted to demonetize “climate denial” information. Facebook upped its fact-checking of climate-related posts, and emails obtained by watchdog groups…
A 1,402-acre ranch in Texas may become ground zero for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a Republican, spearheaded purchase of the ranch, which is located along the border with Mexico in Starr County between Laredo and McAllen, Texas. Now, Buckingham says, Texas may lease the land to the federal…
As President Donald Trump continues to advocate targeted tariffs, some Republican congressmen say they support his tariffs on imports from Canada, China, and Mexico. While Republicans believe in free trade, they want to give Trump space to maneuver, according to Rep. Derek Schmidt. “The president was very clear with the American people he believes tariffs are…
The Obama administration’s directive that public schools give transgender students access to the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice will not stand in Texas, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said. “We are going to look at every pathway to resist the federal government,” Patrick, a Republican, said in a Wednesday interview with The Daily Signal….
Editor's note: We got some great feedback about our video report on the effects of the border wall built near San Diego, and this week's mailbag leads off with your comments.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Kelsey Harkness did a really good job covering the border wall in San Diego ("Underreported: How Building a Border Wall Changed San…
President Joe Biden’s lax immigration enforcement and open borders policies made this country highly vulnerable to acts of terrorism. One of the big lessons of this weekend’s antisemitic Molotov cocktail and flamethrower attack in Boulder, Colorado, by Egyptian national Mohamed Soliman is how vulnerable we’ve made ourselves to infiltration by foreigners looking to do violence or acts of…
House Republican leadership says Democrat politics bears some of the blame for the murder of an 18-year-old university student in Chicago. Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University, was murdered by Jose Medina, an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the country in 2023 and was released by law enforcement shortly after. Medina was then…
Sunday was the Super Bowl, and your friendly Washington bureaucracy had a message for you: No drones allowed. Technically, NRG Stadium and the immediate vicinity, all of Houston, and the surrounding towns, are classified as a “No Drone Zone.” Anyone flying a drone within 34.5 miles of the stadium was subject to criminal prosecution for…
A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton to appear for a deposition as part of a lawsuit filed by the watchdog group Judicial Watch, saying that the former secretary of state’s written responses in the case have “left many more questions than answers” about her decision to use a private email system while in office….
Keith Self, a House fiscal hawk, has penned a letter to a key stakeholder in the spending process calling for reining in federal spending and cutting off funding to programs at odds with congressional conservatives’ priorities. In a March 12 letter to House appropriations committee chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., Self, a member of the House…
The GOP is keeping tax policy in the headlines with a successful Tax Day, as Americans can expect an average $3,000 refund. Members are now looking ahead to how they can continue to be the party of “working Americans.” During a press call about President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act—now commonly referred to as the…
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has predicted indictments in the Justice Department’s probe of the origins of the FBI’s Russia-Trump investigation. Although U.S. Attorney John Durham of Connecticut has been on the case since May 2019, however, it’s not clear what the precise criminal charges might be, if any. “I expect indictments based…
“Everyone knew that wasteful Washington spending would spur inflation.” —House GOP Commitment to America, September 2022 For a party that campaigned relentlessly against Bidenflation this year, you’d think Republicans might use their new power in Washington to make it a priority to curtail wasteful government spending. Think again. Earmarks are the very symbol of “wasteful Washington spending.”…
Left-leaning federal bureaucrats aim to oppose President Donald Trump from within the administrative state, and some Biden administration appointees have attempted to "burrow in" to the federal bureaucracy by switching from "political" to more permanent "career" positions. While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million…
The final votes of the 2020 primaries were cast Aug. 11, concluding a primary season marred by confusion, lawsuits, and an investigation by a United States Postal Service inspector general. Threats of fraud, foreign interference, and large-scale voter disenfranchisement have brought the Postal Service’s ability to transport the expected surge of mail-in ballots this November…
Does watching a leftist activist dressed like an elf lecturing you about feminism for an hour sound like a good time? How about watching “Star Wars” dump on Donald Trump and the MAGA movement? If not, I’d recommend avoiding TV for a while. As much as it seems like parody, these are apparently plot…
Gov. Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken says that California is a low-tax state. Yes, really. At an SXSW conference Sunday in Austin, Texas, Gov. Gavin Newsom had the chutzpah to argue that, actually, Texas and Florida are higher tax states than California. “We have the most progressive tax rates in America,” Newsom said when asked about…
Conservatives in the House and Senate are forging their own path ahead on Obamacare’s repeal and replacement, with plans to introduce legislation unwinding the health care law that Congress passed in 2015. In a press conference Tuesday, just hours after two House committees released the GOP’s replacement for the health care law, Rep. Jim Jordan,…