Bill to Defund Taliban Faces Senate Vote
Legislation to defund nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan that have allegedly been hijacked by the Taliban has cleared the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and is… Read More
Commentary
Education and Workforce Committee Passes 3 Bills to Expand Flexibility, Boost Earnings, and Hasten Back Pay
On Thursday, the House Education and Workforce Committee passed three bills to boost flexibility, wages, and efficiency for workers. These three bills would modernize the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Should Taxpayers Be on the Hook for Bailing out Large Corporations? New Legislation Suggests Yes
Taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing banks and large corporations. Nor should government be making bank failures more likely. But Congress just introduced bipartisan legislation that would… Read More
LawNews
Chicago Sues Trump, Refusing to Drop DEI as Condition for Federal Money
Several blue cities, led by Chicago, want federal money to keep flowing but aren’t willing to abide by the Trump administration’s condition of dropping diversity,… Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Uses Reagan-Era Policy to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Gender-Transition Surgeries
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s State Department will soon expand the scope of the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of taxpayer… Read More
SocietyCommentary
PBS Offers Yet Another Reason It Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Money
After almost 20 years, PBS is reviving its fan-favorite “Reading Rainbow” kids educational show—this time, with a cast of woke hosts. If you were looking for another reason to justify the defunding of PBS, now you… 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
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
Education Commentary
Conservatives, Stop Funding Radical Leftists
Stop giving money to your adversaries. This should seem like an obvious rule of politics. But until the Trump administration went after funding for NPR,… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Panel Probes Taxpayer Dollars Sent to Left-Wing Groups
Left-leaning nonprofits receive taxpayer dollars in three key ways—through government contracts and grants, indirectly through government unions, and through taxpayer-funded union time—Daily Signal Senior Editor… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘This Was a Very Different Response,’ Noem Says Regarding Texas Floods
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised the rapid response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to the… Read More
PoliticsNews
NYC Mayoral Candidate Vows $65 Million in Funds for ‘Transgender’ Care; Penalties for Noncompliant Hospitals
If elected mayor of New York City, Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani is pledging to spend $65 million in city funds on “gender-affirming care” and vows… Read More
EducationNews
Harvard by the Numbers: How University Will Fare Without Taxpayer Subsidies
Losing federal funding will hit more than two-thirds of Harvard University’s research grants, but the vaunted Ivy League institution won’t be financially strapped in other… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘Obviously in Trouble’: 17 Years Later, California High-Speed Rail Leaders Sound Alarm Over Project Funding
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Leaders of California’s high-speed rail project are sounding the alarm on the project’s financial future after nearly 20 years of delays and… Read More
SocietyNews
‘Waste of Money’: Trump Axes Taxpayer Funding for NPR, PBS
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for “biased” news outlets NPR and PBS. “National Public Radio and the… Read More
EducationNews
Catholic Charter School Funding Fight Heads to Supreme Court
Oklahoma consistently ranks among the worst states in the country for public school outcomes. In an effort to improve educational options, the state’s official charter… Read More
SocietyNews
Trump Pauses Federal Funding for Some Planned Parenthood Facilities
The Trump administration is following through on its promise to withhold funding from abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Nine Planned Parenthood regional affiliates received notice Monday… Read More
Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Withhold Medicaid Funding From Planned Parenthood
The Supreme Court could soon strike a blow to America’s largest abortion provider. Amid growing concerns about the quality of care at Planned Parenthood facilities… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Sanctimony of ‘Sanctuary’ Cities: The BorderLine
The mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York were grilled at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday over their “sanctuary” policies that encourage… Read More
PoliticsNews
Biden Administration Scrubs Union Accountability Site
THE CENTER SQUARE—President Joe Biden has nixed a federal union accountability website despite his administration’s promises that it would be back. Biden administration officials had… Read More
EducationCommentary
Biden-Harris Admin’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Cancellation Plan’s Suspicious Timing
Just days before the election, the Biden-Harris administration has rolled out yet another plan to cancel student debt—this time aiming to clear the loans of… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
GOP Lawmakers Aim to Strip Government of All DEI Programs
A group of Republican lawmakers is working to strip all DEI programs out of the government through legislation they call the Dismantle DEI Act. “This… Read More
EducationCommentary
Taxpayers Are Subsidizing College Extremism
Mohamed Abdou is a pro-Hamas “anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization” at… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Planned Parenthood Checklist: More Abortions, Less Actual Health Care, More Tax Dollars Than Ever
Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report is out. Unlike last year’s annual report, now we’re finally able to see how the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe… Read More
PoliticsNews
EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Calls on House to Pass Bill Banning Earmarks
Rep. Ralph Norman reintroduced a bill Wednesday aimed at stopping a form of federal spending known as earmarks. “I’ve always said that earmarks are… Read More
PoliticsNews
How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election
Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Chuck Schumer’s $79 Million Week
Back on May 30, 2023, after then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cut a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend any limit on the federal debt through… Read More
SocietyNews
Taxpayer Protection: Idaho Law Blocks Funding for ‘Gender-Transition’ Procedures
An Idaho law enacted Wednesday (H. 668) protects taxpayers from paying for “gender transition” procedures in a variety of ways. The legislation “adds to existing… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How to Repair the Key Bridge Without Breaking the Bank
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came as quite a shock. After a massive container ship struck one of the bridge’s pillars, the… Read More
InternationalNews
Feds Shell Out Thousands on Computer Lessons for LGBTQ Refugees, Fostering ‘Economic Inclusion’ in Latin America
The federal government has used taxpayer dollars to fund services for LGBTQ refugees in Latin America over the past couple of years, federal grants show…. Read More
