As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance. \But usaspending.gov is wrong on the biggest picture, RealClearInvestigations found. The total amount of spending across “all agencies,” […]
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“What kind of diplomacy, J.D., [are you] speaking about?” That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky interrupting the question-and-answer portion of a Feb. 28 Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior officials that was to precede Zelensky signing a rare earth minerals agreement with the U.S. […]
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Legislation in the U.S. House and Senate to rein in the federal bureaucracy and allow poor performers to be fired or disciplined would “codify” the efforts of the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative, said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. Loudermilk, along with Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., in the Senate, proposed similar versions of legislation […]
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Do we have ghost employees in the federal government? Elon thinks so. And, frankly, so do I. Ghost employees receiving paychecks and the government unions received dues on fake employees https://t.co/j93DdJCjWa pic.twitter.com/gHb5K65xxY — MrDirt (@MrDirt66) February 23, 2025 How many? Nobody knows for sure. That’s a large part of the reason Elon is asking employees […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky screwed up big time in his meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance. Big time! I have no idea how somebody that made it to President of a fairly large nation can be so clueless. I imagine that by now you’ve seen the clips of the rather testy exchange between […]
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, challenged President Donald Trump over transgender “women” in females’ sports as Trump addressed a meeting of governors at the White House on Feb. 21. (Tony Kinnett/Daily Signal collage of Win McNamee/Getty Images photos) “We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told President Donald Trump at a Feb. 21 gathering of the […]
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Activist judges are working overtime this week to block President Donald Trump’s America First priorities and stop the president from curbing government spending and putting a pause on refugee resettlement. In a significant blow to President Trump’s agenda, a Seattle-based federal judge blocked the president’s executive order suspending the refugee resettlement program on Tuesday. In his executive […]
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Don’t look now, but the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GPDNow estimate for the first quarter of 2025 shows the U.S. economy potentially contracting 1.5 percent annualized. Coupled with initial jobless claims peaking up to 242,000 the past week, a good question to ask is whether President Donald Trump inherited a recession from the outgoing administration of former President Joe Biden? […]
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As Congress considers a transformational budget bill that can pass the Senate with just 51 votes instead of 60 through the process of reconciliation, a recent poll finds that nearly three-quarters of Americans support reforms to Medicaid, one of the major entitlement programs that takes up a large percentage of federal spending. “A proposal has been […]
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Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department of Government […]