EconomyAnalysis
Payroll Costs of the Federal Swamp Exploded 24% During Biden Era
There were 5% more federal workers—2.77 million in 2020 to 2.90 million in 2025—when President Joe Biden left the White House, but the costs of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Unhealthy Concentration of Federal Health Research Funding
The Trump administration has focused critical attention on the National Institutes of Health, and for good reason. Despite the importance of its mission, the NIH… Read More
Health CareNews
RFK Jr.’s Report Unveils Plan to Make America’s Children Healthy Again
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump’s top health officials unveiled a sweeping “Make America Healthy Again” agenda in a new 20-page report Tuesday. The report identifies… Read More
PoliticsNews
DOGE Stops Taxpayer Funding for Research on Retirement in China
For more than a decade, the United States has paid China for research into retirement. That ended this year when, through the urging of the… Read More
Health CareNews
Kennedy Defends HHS Budget, Staffing Cuts in Face of Democrats’ Criticism
At a hearing before a Senate panel Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the case that he’s running a cost-efficient,… Read More
EconomyNews
Embracing MAHA, PepsiCo to Move Away From Artificial Dyes in Snack Foods
The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda is moving forward after PepsiCo Inc., one of the nation’s largest producers of processed snack foods, announced… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Exposing NIH-Funded Research: Why I’m Blowing the Whistle on Corruption
I once stood within the halls of academia, benefiting from the generous funding of the National Institutes of Health. I was part of the system,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Trump’s Pick to Head NIH Did Not Follow the COVID-19 Herd
WASHINGTON–When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID-19 lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus–which he saw as an incitement… Read More
Health CareNews
Trump’s NIH Nominee Vows to Ensure Transparency, Accountability
During his confirmation hearing Wednesday to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya promised he would bring transparency and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Lies, Damn Lies, and University Research Overhead Costs
Over the weekend, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would be cutting the rate at which it pays universities for overhead on federal… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
I Disagreed With Jay Bhattacharya About COVID-19. Here’s Why I Support His Nomination for NIH Director.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya—the Stanford professor who is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the directorship of the National Institutes of Health—will bring transparency to this government… Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Demands Transparency as NIH Seems to Hide Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The National Institutes of Health could be hiding the effect of puberty blockers, drugs that often are given to minors as part of so-called gender-affirming… Read More
PoliticsNews
Hawley Presses Ex-NIH Official: ‘Is it ‘Normal’ For Scientists to ‘Pre-Bake the Outcome’ of Research?
A former National Institutes of Health official testified to a Senate committee on Thursday that the agency did not suppress inquiries into the origins of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
EXCLUSIVE: 4 Years Later, CDC Documents on COVID-19’s Origin in China Emerge as Oversight Wanes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Newly released documents from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal early evidence and analysis four years ago in which… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Monkeypox: House Investigators Find NIH Hiding Risky Viral Gain-of-Function Research
Can there any longer be any doubt? The behavior of senior officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the powerful federal agency… Read More
Health CareCommentary
What Are NIH Officials Hiding?: Fauci to Testify on America’s Response to COVID-19
Expect fireworks. On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to testify under oath before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to account for… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In COVID-19 Oversight, House Republicans Deliver a Win for Accountability
Better late than never. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the giant federal agency housing the National Institutes of Health, just suspended a… Read More
Health CareNews
What Federal Health Agencies Aren’t Disclosing About COVID-19 Vaccines
For more than two years, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has pushed federal health agencies for more information about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines—and about… Read More
SocietyNews
Inside the Federal Probe of Pitt’s Fetal Organ Harvesting Program
A federal probe may reveal violations of law in the University of Pittsburgh’s testing of body parts from aborted babies, according to a pro-life organization… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Uncovering COVID-19 Origins: Why Congress Must Breach Biden’s Stonewall
Next month, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will interview Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…. Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Would Ban Taxpayer Funding for Gender Researchers ‘Who Prey on Children’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Rep. Josh Brecheen is introducing legislation that would ban gender researchers from receiving taxpayer funding if they lead studies facilitating… Read More
Health CareNews
‘THAT’S SICK’: Republicans Grill Biden’s NIH Nominee on Transgender Study in Which 2 Kids Committed Suicide
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health testified before the Senate’s health committee Wednesday, responding to questions from Republicans who pressured… Read More
LawNews
Fauci, Other NIH Officials May Have to Pay Back Year’s Salary
Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the highest-paid employee of the federal government, might have to pay back his salary for his final year at the National… Read More
Health CareNews
EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Demand Answers From NIH on Transgender Youth ‘Experiments’ Study That Left 2 Dead, Others Sterilized
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Fifteen Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, demanding answers about… Read More
Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013
The latest budget deal, passed by a bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate, suggests that Washington agrees with House Minority Leader Nancy… Read More
EconomyNews
Sequestration? What Sequestration?
President Obama claimed that millions of Americans would suffer if Congress failed to prevent the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts known ominously as “sequestration.”… Read More
House Bill Ends the $3 Public Election Tax Check-Off, Spends “Savings”
H.R. 1724, the Kids First Research Act of 2013, sponsored by Representative Gregg Harper (R–MS), would end the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (PECF). That’s the… Read More
Heritage Experts’ Reaction to Senate Continuing Resolution
The massive spending bill, or continuing resolution, released by the Senate this week continues spending on programs which are inappropriate or wasteful and fails to… Read More
Education News
Organizing for Action Uses Discredited Information on Sequestration
President Obama’s campaign organization is using discredited information and misleading numbers in its latest effort to lobby Congress to stop sequestration. An email sent today… Read More
National Institutes of Health: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) made it onto an Obama Administration fact sheet listing the “most damaging effects of a sequester on the middle… Read More
