Creative bookkeeping to the rescue!

Unpacking the baseline battle: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ and the national debt Top U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing a controversial accounting method to theoretically slash the multi trillion-dollar price tag of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” However, tax policy experts remain strongly divided over whether the tactic would constitute legitimate policy or a recipe […]

Democrats Already Lost Young Men. Now, Their Strategy Might Cost Them Women, Too.

Democrats lost the plot. First, it was among men, especially young men who were tired of being labeled “toxic” or “a cisgender male,” instead of simply men. Now, the Left is doubling down on an ideology that also could isolate one of their most reliable voting blocs—young women and suburban moms. Enter the MAHA movement. Make America Healthy Again, spearheaded […]

W.Va. Lawmaker Aims to Ban Chinese Nationals From Student Visas

Rep. Riley Moore in March introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would halt the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals. The West Virginia Republican’s bill has taken on new relevance in recent weeks as the Trump administration has sought to revoke the student visas for international students attending Harvard University. Chinese students represent the largest share of international students at Harvard. […]

Can Trump rely on a Nixon era Court decision?

1977 House Report: IEEPA ‘Basically Parallels Section 5(b) Of The Trading With The Enemy Act’ That Allows President To ‘Regulate… Importation’ Of Goods The 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) “defines the international emergency economic authorities available to the President in the circumstances specified in section 202. This grant of authorities basically parallels 15 section 5(b) […]

Democrat targeting fail?

2026 elections

All Eyes On 16 House Crossover Districts in 2026 — But Dems Are Overextended into Potential Conservative Territory In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Harrison Lavelle and Leon Sit pointed out the fact that while Democrats are sitting at an advantage heading into the midterm elections in terms of their party’s propensity for turning out in off-year […]

Can the Palestinian Authority survive the USAID cut?

Palestinian Authority in Gaza and West Bank Faces Collapse as USAID Funding Slashed GAZA: The Palestinians can no longer fund its military and political staff after losing more than 70% of its funding from USAID. In total financial collapse it can no longer pay salaries. Leaders are saying the loss of US funding is worse […]

The Lasting Damage of the George Floyd Riots

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. This week was the fifth anniversary, May 25, of the tragic death of George Floyd. It seems […]

2026 U.S. House Elections: Will Republicans Hold or Democrats Flip?

The 2026 U.S. House of Representatives elections, scheduled for November 3, will decide all 435 voting seats across the 50 states, plus five non-voting delegates from Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories, shaping the 120th Congress. Republicans currently cling to a slim 220-215 majority after the 2024 elections, where Democrats gained two seats despite Donald Trump’s […]

Courts gone wild! Trump Angry!

Court blocks Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, others A federal court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump doesn’t have unilateral authority to impose tariffs under an emergency law, blocking tariffs that upended markets and worried businesses and consumers. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade unanimously ruled Congress did not give tariff authority to […]

SCOTUS Allows Trump Administration to Revoke Legal Status for 500K Illegal Aliens

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for 500,000 illegal aliens living in the U.S. In a 7-2 ruling on Friday, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that barred the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration parole program. […]