PoliticsCommentary
California’s Inferno of Regulations
Last year, California wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced: “We are 100% committed to getting this neighborhood rebuilt again!” Gov. Gavin… Read More
PoliticsNews
Billions in Tax Dollars Pay for Empty Federal Buildings
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—Selling off unused or underused federal property could save taxpayers $3 billion in deferred maintenance costs, and more than $100 million in operation costs each year,… Read More
PoliticsNews
Questions Surround Minnesota Bureaucrat Who Went on to Work for Church Whose Grant She Approved
A new report in Minnesota highlights how a former bureaucrat involved in granting a church millions of dollars later went to work as a consultant… Read More
EconomyNews
Bluey and Bannon Reveal How Congress Can Balance the Budget
President of The Daily Signal Rob Bluey called on Republicans in Congress to massively reduce the national deficit, telling host Steve Bannon during a Tuesday… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Seeks Answers to Half Trillion in Federal Fraud Payments
While a massive welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota has garnered national attention, lawmakers are poised to examine new ways to prevent longstanding fraudulent use of… Read More
PoliticsNews
Not Just Minnesota: How Tax Dollars Are at Risk of Fraud in This State
More than $250 million in federal funding for Illinois programs risked misuse due to poor monitoring, state audits show. With Minnesota facing scrutiny over a… Read More
PoliticsNews
Somalia’s Values Matter
I recall a saying from my youth that went, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” This comes to mind… Read More
SocietyNews
California’s Incompetence After Wildfires Woke a Sleeping Giant
In a podcast episode for the upcoming one-year anniversary of the California wildfires, Palisades resident Elaine Culotti lays out the state’s inept response and how… Read More
PoliticsNews
Here Are Some of the Wackiest Things Featured In Rand Paul’s New Report Alleging $1,639,135,969,608 in Gov’t Waste
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus” report Tuesday detailing over $1 trillion in alleged wasteful… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The $100 Billion Question Nobody’s Asking: Why Are Taxpayers Funding Big Tech Contracts With Nothing to Show for It?
When the government, or anyone for that matter, spends $100 billion annually on information technology, you’d expect transformative results. Instead, we get a masterclass in… Read More
PoliticsNews
Taxpayers Fund Transgender, DEI Apps With Grants Meant for National Security
Federal small business grants intended for national defense technology have gone to create mobile apps for gay men, “transgender” women, and LGBTQ+ parents, and have… Read More
PoliticsNews
Trump Administration Moves to Slash Federal Building Space. How Much Could That Save Taxpayers?
Taxpayers are stuck paying more than $81 million per year for the maintenance or leasing of about 10,000 federal buildings sitting vacant or underused. The… Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayers Spent $207 Million to Pay Bureaucrats to Work for Unions in Biden’s Final Year
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Taxpayers spent $207 million to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Food Stamp Reforms in One Big Beautiful Bill Act Promote Upward Mobility
Means-tested welfare is the third-largest segment of federal spending, only outranked by Social Security and Medicare. The U.S. welfare system has been growing for decades,… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘Other People’s Money’: How New OPM Chief Is Maximizing Efficiency at Executive HR Agency
The new director of the executive branch’s human resources department is aiming to make the agency the most efficient in the government, he told reporters… Read More
PoliticsNews
Musk and Trump Part Ways, but Vow to Continue Work of DOGE
President Donald Trump bade farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday, telling reporters that the Department of Government Efficiency’s work would continue… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
‘DOGE’ in the States: One State’s Success Story Making 25% of Regulations and Fees ‘Disappear’
Following up on a story we shared with you on April 25, more states are looking for their own “DOGE,” or Department of Government Efficiency…. Read More
EducationCommentary
The Left Ignores ‘the Science’ on Federal Education Programs
Why do the folks who shout about “following the science” repeatedly object when decisions are made to shutter federal education programs that rigorous research—i.e., “the… Read More
LawNews
EXCLUSIVE: Why Elon Musk’s Lawyer Thinks He Is Allowed to Continue Running DOGE
After Elon Musk’s 130-day term as a special government employee ends on May 30, the billionaire entrepreneur’s attorney says he expects Musk to continue to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The High Cost of Big Government—A Heist on Taxpayers
$521 billion. That’s the estimate the federal government itself put forward of annual fraud levels. That’s enough money to rebuild every crumbling bridge and school… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Stop Freaking Out—DOGE Is Exactly What Washington Needs
Judging by the Left’s reactions over the past few months, you would think the Department of Government Efficiency was burning down the federal government. The… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It’s All Lawfare: Everyone but the Cronies Get Cheated, Mistreated by Big Government
Not to get all Old World on you, but the Oxford Dictionary defines “lawfare” thusly: “Legal action undertaken in order to exert power or control,… Read More
PoliticsNews
Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments
Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Medicaid paid health… Read More
LawNews
Kari Lake Vows to Slash US Agency for Global Media Budget
Kari Lake said the Trump administration is putting the United States government on a diet through spending cuts, and that she will contribute by slashing… Read More
PoliticsNews
Federal Gov’t Agencies Quietly Went on Giant Spending Sprees for Years, Report Finds
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A host of federal government agencies have overseen massive spending for years while greatly expanding their workforces, according to an OpenTheBooks report. Annual… Read More
SocietyNews
Trump Admin Claws Back $600K Grant for Menstrual Study of Transgender Men
President Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture, Brooke Rollins, has canceled a $600,000 grant to study menstrual cycles in biological females who identify as men. The American… Read More
SocietyNews
‘Whoa!’: CNN’s Harry Enten ‘Truly Surprised’ That ‘Majority’ of Americans Want Trump and DOGE to Cut Gov’t
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten expressed surprise on Thursday about the popularity of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of… Read More
PoliticsNews
Rep. Harriet Hageman: Rooting Out Woke Agenda in Government
A group of lawmakers are working to uncover the radical Left’s woke agenda that had wormed its way into nearly every corner of the federal government… Read More
PoliticsNews
Comer: DOGE Follows GAO in ‘Identifying Trillions of Dollars Lost’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Trump administration is homing in on how trillions of tax dollars are being misspent, the Government Accountability Office is… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Democrats Had Their Own Version of DOGE Under Clinton and Gore. Why Are They Terrified Now?
While Democrats in Congress howl over President Donald Trump’s cuts to wasteful and fraudulent government spending, they’ve been hit with a partywide case of amnesia…. Read More
