For Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the success of House Republican leaders’ Obamacare repeal and replacement plan, as well as the success of President Donald Trump, hinges on one thing: the cost of insurance premiums. “We ultimately will be judged only by one factor: if insurance premiums come down,” Meadows told The Daily Signal. “If the…
In Oregon, you can have cocaine, but not cranberries. Heroin, but no ham. Meth, but not mashed potatoes! Amazingly, a state that just legalized drugs wants to criminalize Thanksgiving! Talk about a double helping of hypocrisy—just in time for the holidays. Of course, Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, wasn’t exactly winning any popularity contests as it was….
Editor's note: This is in response to this article. The following statement is a response to the inaccurate article about my performance as the director of Arizona’s ESA program—an article for which I was never interviewed or contacted. I have been involved in the parental rights and school choice movement for almost ten years. I…
HOPEWELL, N.J.—Freshmen football players, changing in their high school locker room at the beginning of the school year, were startled to encounter a girl who said she identifies as a boy. The father of one of the players wrote to the school's principal and athletic director to express concern about the "young lady" and the “comfort” of the…
President Donald Trump raised questions Tuesday about the five months of missing messages between two FBI employees who were involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were found to have previously exchanged emails in 2016 about “an insurance policy” in case Trump won the presidential…
Greg Wrightstone, a geologist and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has posted content on LinkedIn for years. It would often spark discussions and debates among his followers—and the occasional trolls. That changed last month. Wrightstone, who serves as executive director of the CO2 Coalition, says he was banned from LinkedIn for…
Alaska’s open-pit Pebble Mine sits on 55 billion pounds of copper, 67 million ounces of gold, and 3.3 billion pounds of molybdenum—$500 billion in value. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to keep it there. The EPA is proposing significant limitations on extraction—before the Pebble Limited Partnership, the developers of the mine, have even filed…
The Department of Veterans Affairs remains embroiled in a scandal that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 veterans assigned to its medical facilities. Now, a report from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., outlines the actions of numerous VA employees who were suspended for various offenses but continued to get a salary from taxpayers. Coburn…
Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said Sunday that his group would consider supporting Paul Ryan for House speaker. House Republicans have coalesced around trying to push a reluctant Ryan to run for speaker, believing he is the only member who can unite a disparate conference. But to earn the support…
The Obama administration’s controversial efforts to sell the flawed Iran nuclear deal continue to reverberate, after Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes gave an ill-advised interview to The New York Times Magazine in which he bragged about the media “echo chamber” he built in collaboration with like-minded journalists and nongovernmental organizations. Even observers who agreed…
Sixteen liberal lawmakers who support a “Medicare for all” plan declined to respond to The Daily Signal on how they anticipate cases such as that of British toddler Alfie Evans should be handled in the United States. Alfie died Saturday morning at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, England, five days after the hospital followed government…
After the shock of losing the White House and failing to take the majority in the House and Senate, Democrats quickly regrouped and developed a new approach. From town hall protests to sometimes violent demonstrations, they’re fighting the Trump agenda at every step. Hillary Clinton recently emerged to announce she’s “part of the resistance.” In…
Pick a state, any state where rank-and-file public employees differ with the political agenda of their union leadership, and they can make a clean break from the union if they choose. That’s because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that nonunion government workers can’t be compelled to pay dues or other fees to support a union….
Fifty years ago this week, Ronald Reagan made what he later admitted was one of the worst mistakes of his political life: As governor of California, he signed a bill bringing no-fault divorce to his state. California was the first state to take the plunge, but by no means the last. Reagan’s signature unleashed what…
President Joe Biden touted his policies at the southern border Tuesday night during his second State of the Union address. “We now have a record number of personnel working to secure the border, arresting 8,000 human smugglers and seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last several months,” Biden said. U.S. Customs and…
REUTERS—Democrat Eileen Higgins became the first member of her party in nearly three decades elected mayor of Miami on Tuesday, defeating a Republican backed by President Donald Trump in a Hispanic-majority city in the heart of his Florida stronghold. CNN and the Associated Press called the election for Higgins less than an hour after polls…
Judge Ana Reyes, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction last week barring the Trump administration from expelling certain transgender service members from the military. The Trump administration appealed Friday, arguing the president’s executive order barring transgender individuals “turns on gender dysphoria—a medical condition—and does not discriminate against trans-identifying persons…
Reps. Tom Graves and Debbie Wasserman Schultz don’t agree on much, but the conservative and liberal lawmakers do share one goal when it comes to cutting government. Both Graves, a Republican from Georgia, and Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman from Florida, voiced support for shuttering the Open World Leadership Center. The Legislative Branch…
The Obamacare replacement plan offered by House Republican leadership eventually would lower health insurance premiums and reduce federal budget deficits, although 24 million Americans no longer would have coverage, the Congressional Budget Office says. In a report estimating the cost of the plan, released late Monday, the CBO projects the American Health Care Act would reduce budget…
A Pennsylvania election official confirmed Wednesday that noncitizen immigrants illegally voted in elections hundreds of times since 2000, casting doubt on the state’s ability to screen out ineligible voters on its election rolls. Jonathan Marks, commissioner for Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation, told a state legislative committee that an agency analysis found 544 improper…