EconomyCommentary
How Does SNAP Have More People in It Than California?
Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of losing their federal… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Democrats Blame Republicans for Multiple Democrat Failures
A key reason Democrats make so many Republicans grind our molars is that they will not take responsibility for their own gargantuan failures. Instead, Democrats blame the GOP for the… Read More
PoliticsNews
Is This Senate Provision ‘Corrupt Fleecing’ or Justice for Arctic Frost?
A provision slipped into the funding bill that reopened the government at the last moment has caused harsh disagreement between the House and Senate. The… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
Many of the names of the Senate Democrats that voted with the Republicans to finally pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government until… Read More
PoliticsNews
Government Shutdown Ends With Trump’s Signature Hours After House Passes Funding Bill
The longest government shutdown in history is over after President Donald Trump signed a bill to fund the government into law on Wednesday night, just… Read More
PoliticsNews
Ohio Dem Tries to Pin Shutdown on GOP Opponent Who Voted to Fund Government 16 Times
After weeks of noncommittal responses during the nation’s longest federal government shutdown, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who is now looking to unseat Sen. Jon… Read More
Commentary
As Schumer Shutdown Comes to a Halt, Trump Proposal Could Turbocharge Patient Power
The 41-day Schumer Shutdown finally is winding down. Democrat intransigence petered out and not a nanosecond too soon. On Oct. 9, CNN quoted a “senior… Read More
PoliticsNews
Senate Defeats Schumer-led Opposition to Opening Government; Funding Bill Heads to House
The government shutdown is another step closer to coming to an end after the Senate voted in favor of a bill to fund the government…. Read More
PoliticsNews
House Members Ready to Finish the Job, End Shutdown
After months of rarely being in session, members of the House of Representatives will likely return to Washington this week and help end the longest… Read More
PoliticsNews
Senate Votes to Put Congress on Path Toward Ending Government Shutdown
A bipartisan group of senators voted 60-40 to approve a key procedural measure that puts legislation reopening the government on track to pass the Senate…. Read More
PoliticsNews
Bessent Throws the Book at Stephanopoulos—the ABC Host’s Own Book—in Debate Over Shutdown Hypocrisy
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent roasted George Stephanopoulos over the shutdown, citing the host’s own book when he joined ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday morning. When… Read More
Sec. Duffy Warns That More Traffic Controllers Are Not Coming To Work as ‘Democrats Refuse To Pay Them’
A growing number of flights are being cancelled and delayed as more air traffic controllers are refusing to come to work “because Democrats refuse to… Read More
PoliticsNews
NOVA Determines Virginia’s Democrat Sweep
Virginia Democrats swept the statewide elections Tuesday night—thanks to Northern Virginia voters who accounted for 88% of Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s victory margin. Democrat Ghazala Hashmi… Read More
PoliticsNews
Democratic Senator Misses Key Points as She Goes After Moreno on Shutdown
Heated exchanges on Capitol Hill over what’s been dubbed the “Schumer Shutdown” are becoming the norm. The latest dustup involves Ohio’s own Republican Sen. Bernie… Read More
PoliticsNews
Republicans Try a New Strategy to End Shutdown
Amid the longest-ever federal government shutdown, a possible path to reopening the government is emerging. But the task of Republican leaders in Congress, to cajole… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Freedom Caucus Eyes Extended-Term Stopgap Spending Bill
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., elaborated on the group’s support for a longer-term continuing resolution in an interview this week with The Daily… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
8 Winners and Losers of the 2025 Election
There’s no sugar-coating it: Sanity had a bad night Tuesday. Democrats, energized by having President Donald Trump to rail against, turned out at the polls… Read More
PoliticsNews
BREAKING: Trump Administration Finds Path to Keep SNAP Partially Funded
The Trump administration told a judge Monday that it would use contingency funds to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during the federal… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Dems to Democrat Base: Drop Dead
Democrats are fighting so ferociously to keep the federal government closed, it’s as if they were trying to kill a GOP-sponsored scheme to exempt the top… Read More
PoliticsNews
Fetterman Breaks Ranks: Dems ‘Need to Own the Shutdown’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., openly criticized his own party‘s refusal to reopen the government on CNN’s “State of the Union,” stating that Democrats “really need… Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: State Department Employees Responding to National Disasters Face Hardship Amid Shutdown
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The State Department is sounding the alarm on the financial hardship its employees who live paycheck to paycheck are facing amid… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Let’s Copy Canada’s Air Traffic Control System
When air traffic control is held hostage by federal budget fights, American travelers lose. The shutdown-induced mess at U.S. airports demonstrates yet another consequence of… Read More
PoliticsNews
This Shutdown Fight Will Change the Way Washington Works
Senators left Washington Thursday after another week of failing to reopen the government—ensuring that the federal government shutdown will go on for at least 34… Read More
PoliticsNews
State Attorneys General Join Together to Call for End to Shutdown
With Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits set to stop Nov. 1, 19 state attorneys general, led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, have sent an… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Modest Proposal for SNAP Amid the Schumer Shutdown
Democrats are warning that thousands of children may go hungry if Republicans don’t cave in to Democrats’ demands and agree to fund COVID-19-era Obamacare subsidies… Read More
PoliticsNews
Mamdani Has Taken Over the Democratic Party, Johnson Warns
Nearly a month into the federal government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson is shaming the Democratic Party for the ascendance of a socialist faction represented… Read More
PoliticsNews
Even Apart From Shutdown, Appropriations Process Faces Hurdles
In a press call hosted by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and the House Freedom Caucus, Republican members of Congress weighed in on the… Read More
PoliticsNews
Husted Continues to Slam ‘Schumer Shutdown’
Even before the federal government shutdown started almost a month ago, Republicans united around the label of a “Schumer shutdown,” and such blame is sticking…. Read More
Commentary
The Literal ‘Skeletons’ in the Democrat Party’s Closet
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
Health CareNews
4 Broken Obamacare Promises
A new round of Obamacare enrollment begins on Nov. 1 against the backdrop of an ongoing partial government shutdown that revolves around a debate over… Read More
