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  • Trump Administration Keeps Vast Number of Guns From Mexican Cartels

    The Trump administration has stopped more than 4,000 firearms from going to Mexican drug cartels over the last year, and estimates it kept about 1,600 rounds of ammunition per day away from drug gangs.  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced that since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, it seized…
    Fred Lucas
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  • How President Trump Plans to Bolster Military Operations

    President Donald Trump told soldiers at Fort Bragg he is updating their equipment and facilities to ensure the American military is “the best trained, the best equipped, the most disciplined, and the most elite fighting force the world has ever seen.” Trump spoke in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, alongside first lady Melania Trump, to honor…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • What Karoline Leavitt Says the Press Is Missing About ICE Shooting

    Multiple Trump administration agencies are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “I would just remind all of you in the media, because I’ve seen the lack of reporting on this fact,” Leavitt said at a White House press briefing…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Trump’s Debt Diet Is Working

    If there’s anything Republicans and Democrats can agree on, it’s how to spend money. Both parties created the federal budget deficit and contributed to the looming $38 trillion national debt, but President Donald Trump’s administration is actively working to close it. Since the budget is essentially financed by taxpayers, closing the gap means reduced borrowing…
    Nicole Huyer
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  • 45 Years Later, President Trump Is Delivering on Reagan’s Promise

    One year ago today—Jan. 20, 2025—President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Freezing winds and biting cold forced the ceremony indoors, echoing President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when temperatures plunged to 7 degrees Fahrenheit and the event moved to the same…
    Rep. Keith Self
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  • Inside ‘the Most Brutal Fight in Washington’

    As the Right works to refine its stance on artificial intelligence, several coalitions are competing for the president’s attention, artificial intelligence experts tell The Daily Signal.  “Right now, behind the scenes, this is by far the most brutal fight in Washington,” former Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon told The Daily Signal. Because the stakes…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Trump Administration Halts Visa Processing for 75 Countries Over ‘Public Charge’ Concerns

    The State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries where immigrants are deemed likely to become a “public charge,” a State Department official confirmed to The Daily Signal. President Donald Trump’s State Department has directed consular officers to refuse visas starting Jan. 21, while the agency reassesses screening and vetting procedures, Fox News first reported….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Thousands of Somalis Face Deportation After Trump Administration Removes Protections

    The Trump administration is ending the temporary protected status designation for Somalia, a move that will affect several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S.  “Temporary means temporary,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.   “Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement…
    Virginia Allen
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  • What California Audits Show as Trump Moves in on Fraud Probe

    Recent California audits show several state departments are struggling with internal controls in distributing taxpayer-funded grants, as federal authorities are probing potential fraud.  A 544-page report, released late last month, shows that independent auditors flagged 10 different federally funded programs in the state that failed to follow rules for how federal grant money is spent,…
    Fred Lucas
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  • 4 Things to Expect From the Trump Administration in 2026

    After the Trump administration wrapped up its first news-packed year of the president’s second term, the White House will gear up for a year of addressing health care costs and other affordability concerns, saving the Republican majority in Congress, and more. Here are four things to expect from year two of Trump 47: 1. Saving…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • ‘90% Ready’: Trump and Zelenskyy Meeting Sunday at Mar-a-Lago to Further Peace Effort

    President Donald Trump will meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sunday at Mar-a-Lago, in a bid to reach agreement on a peace plan to end the Ukraine-Russia war, Zelenskyy confirmed Friday morning. “This meeting is specifically for the purpose of finalizing everything as much as we can,” Zelenskyy told reporters Axios appears to have first…
    Al Perrotta
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  • Trump Administration Announces Change to Offshore Wind Construction

    President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior is pausing offshore wind project construction due to “national security risks.” “Due to national security concerns identified by the Department of War, Interior is PAUSING leases for 5 expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms!” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X. “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • SCOOP: ICE Agents Are Becoming Burned Out as Trump Administration Pushes for More Deportations

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are becoming burned out, according to multiple sources.   ICE agents are “maxed out,” a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Signal, and yet there is “frustration” within the administration that deportation numbers aren’t higher.   “I think it is just an enormous challenge to get 20 million people out of this country,” the official said, referring to an estimation of the number of illegal aliens…
    Virginia Allen
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  • ‘Trump Accounts’ Are a Powerful Way to Teach Investing and Saving to Kids

    President Donald Trump announced an innovative policy within his “Big Beautiful Bill,” a measure that would create $1,000 savings accounts, known as “Trump Accounts,” for each U.S. citizen born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2029, although the accounts may be renewed for future babies.  Cash for these Trump Accounts would be deposited into…
    Carrie Sheffield
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  • EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin to Increase Accountability for Federal Employees

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration is seeking to increase accountability for federal employees by implementing new performance standards and training. The Office of Personnel Management issued a memorandum published online Tuesday to fulfill President Donald Trump’s mandate for a federal workforce that prizes excellence, deals with underperformance, and fulfills its mission.  “Federal employees…
    Jacob Adams
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  • The Trump-Musk Split Is a Gift to the Left

    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 more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to comment on this strange, bizarre, surreal, sudden fallout—or was it so sudden—between Elon…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • We Asked Army 250th Anniversary Parade Attendees Whether Trump Is a ‘King.’ Here’s What They Said.

    The Daily Signal’s Olivia Pero and Lorenzo Prieto traveled to the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday celebration in Washington, D.C., to ask attendees what the parade meant to them, does President Donald Trump really deserve to be called a “King,” and whether California Gov. Gavin Newsom is correct in saying that only authoritarian regimes, like North…
    Daily Signal Staff
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  • Trump Rightly Targets Smithsonian Museums

    The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this week’s much-anticipated one, members yielded to President Donald Trump’s demand for an audit of politicized content. Alas, they also circled the wagons around Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to a document that…
    Mike Gonzalez
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  • How Trump’s Veterans Affairs Secretary Fights ‘Lies, Innuendo, Rumors’ from Democrats

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins is setting straight the left-wing story that President Donald Trump’s cuts to “waste, fraud, and abuse” will harm veterans. “That’s all I’ve been doing for a little over four and a half months now is fighting lies, innuendo, rumors from the hill and other parts of the press, saying…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • ‘NOT A GRAY ISSUE’: Why the 9th Circuit Upheld Trump’s Use of the National Guard

    It took the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals only a few hours to block a lower court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard in the Los Angeles riots. The appeals court acted expeditiously because Trump was so clearly in the right, according to Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow…
    Tyler O’Neil
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