PoliticsNews
What’s Next for the Freedom Caucus?
The House Freedom Caucus has dominated the headlines since President Donald Trump took office in January. The group pressured House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with… Read More
EducationNews
‘Win for Taxpayers’: Fiscal Conservatives Back Trump’s Plans to Cut Education Spending
Fiscal conservatives are cheering the White House’s plans to introduce another rescissions package that includes cuts to federal education funding. “Additional rescissions packages are a… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Cuts Funding From NPR, PBS, and Foreign Aid
House Republicans passed a bill defunding foreign aid and public broadcasting shortly after midnight on Friday, in the first legislative codification of President Donald Trump’s… Read More
PoliticsNews
A Step Closer to Codifying DOGE: Senate Passes Public Broadcasting and Foreign Aid Cuts
The Senate passed a package cutting funding from public broadcasting and foreign aid by a 51-48 vote early Thursday morning, a step forward in Republicans’… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Overtaken by New Media, NPR and PBS Have Outlived Original Purpose, Should Be Defunded
Some of us are old enough to remember B.C. Before Cable, that is. That was long before flat-panel televisions with HDMI inputs, before broadcasters’ digital… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Republicans Call for Codifying More DOGE Cuts
At a Republican Study Committee media event Tuesday, House GOP lawmakers said they hope the White House continues to send them bills to codify Department… Read More
PoliticsNews
Senate Faces Litmus Test With Chance to Codify DOGE
The Republican-controlled Senate faces a major litmus test this week of whether it is willing to cut federal government spending going forward. This week, Senate… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Time to Act Is Now. The Senate Must Pass the Rescissions Package.
The time has come for Congress to address the unchecked expansion of the administrative state. The federal bureaucracies have created a new class of nameless,… Read More
LawCommentary
Modest Cuts, Outsized Outrage: The Truth Behind the Big, Beautiful Bill’s Budget Reform
An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program, that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If… Read More
PoliticsNews
Freedom Caucus Chief Outlines Strategy to Cut Spending, the Deficit
A few hours before a House vote on whether to defund foreign aid and public broadcasting, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., shared his… Read More
PoliticsNews
Trump’s Rescissions Package Becomes First Heritage Action Key Vote of Session
Heritage Action has scored President Donald Trump’s rescissions package as its first key vote of the 119th Congress. The rescissions package passed the House of… Read More
PoliticsNews
Senate Changes to ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Threaten House Passage
After its passage by narrowest of margins in the House of Representatives, Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill is facing the prospect of major changes… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Budget Hawks Cheer DOGE Package
The White House’s delivery to the House of Representatives of a package that would codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts into law… Read More
PoliticsNews
Ron Johnson on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Spending: ‘It’s Immoral’
As a Republican holdout on the “big, beautiful” budget bill, as President Donald Trump calls it, Sen. Ron Johnson thinks he has a fairly simple… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Ditch COVID Spending Spree: Congress Can Save $1.16 Trillion by Returning to 2019 Budget Trajectory
Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything. Thankfully, the global pandemic is a speck in… Read More
Health CareNews
Partisan Fighting Flares Over Medicaid Funding
At the beginning of critical markups on Republicans’ “one big, beautiful” budget bill, Democrats made clear that they would resist all of the proposed cuts… Read More
PoliticsNews
In Speech, Biden Claims Trump Is Out to Gut Social Security
In his first major public appearance since departing the White House, former President Joe Biden, without evidence, accused the Trump administration of trying to deprive… Read More
Commentary
How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks
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
PoliticsNews
PBS and NPR Heads Asked to Testify Before DOGE Committee
THE CENTER SQUARE—The House Subcommittee for the Delivering on Government Efficiency is calling the leadership of National Public Radio, a news operation that receives taxpayer… Read More
EconomyNews
‘The Moment We’ve Been Waiting For’: House Speaker Pledges to Enact DOGE Cuts
With $105 billion in taxpayer savings already identified, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency hit a big milestone this week. House Speaker Mike… Read More
PoliticsNews
Hill Republicans Strive to Avert Government Shutdown
House and Senate Republicans are working quickly to pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government to prevent a government shutdown that could occur… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Republicans Close in on Budget Agreement
The House of Representatives is set to vote Tuesday evening on a budget resolution that aims to pass much of President Donald Trump’s agenda. The… Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Groups Urge Congress to ‘Avoid Fake Spending Cut Gimmicks’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative organizations, led by a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is warning Congress against using “gimmicks”… 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
PoliticsNews
DOGE Takes Over Washington, Literally and Figuratively
President Donald Trump’s Department of Government of Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, is dominating both the federal bureaucracy and the headlines in the early days… Read More
PoliticsNews
How the House Freedom Caucus Plans to Make MAGA Affordable
With the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives, the House Freedom Caucus’ conservative members could have a veto over the upcoming budget reconciliation… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Atop Agenda for 119th Congress: Lock in Trump Tax Cuts
A top priority for the incoming 119th Congress and the second Trump administration should be to extend and build upon President-elect Donald Trump’s 2017 tax… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Fake ‘Emergency’ Spending in Washington Winds Up Costing Us All
It’s bad enough that Congress and the White House are making no serious effort to cut spending these days—something we all wind up paying for,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
House Budget Panel Republicans Deliver Plan to Tackle $33T Debt
The federal government reached an ominous milestone Sept. 15 as the gross national debt exceeded $33 trillion—or more than $57,000 per household. The debt increased… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Welcome Spending Cuts and Major Missed Opportunities in House Spending Bills
The U.S. House of Representatives left Washington July 27 for its lengthy summer recess having only passed one of 12 spending bills required to fund… Read More
