The Dollar Could Be Under Attack And The Fed Might Need To Get On Wartime Footing

“This would be a PERFECT time for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut Interest Rates. He is always ‘late,’ but he could now change his image, and quickly.” That was President Donald Trump on Truth Social on April 4 urging Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to begin the process of cutting interest rates, something the central bank […]

Democrats Launch New Anti-Trump ‘War Room’ To Push Propaganda Into Digital Spaces

In their latest effort to combat President Donald Trump’s America First policy initiatives, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is launching a “war room”, which appears to be nothing more than a propaganda machine aimed at criticizing and undermining the Trump Administration online. According to a statement from newly anointed DNC Chair Ken Martin  the “war room” will […]

How Trump Tax Cuts Really Affected Rich

President Donald Trump’s tax cuts from his first term helped low- and medium-income earners more than high earners, a new study from The Heartland Institute found. The conservative think tank based in Illinois examined Internal Revenue Service data from 2017, the year Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, through 2022, the most recent year that […]

Will Trump win on tariffs? This guy thinks so…

Everyone of a certain age knows the name Art Laffer.  He was one of Ronald Reagan’s economists and remains a national treasure. And he’s the creator of the famous “Laffer Curve” positing that there is an optimal rate for taxation that yields the maximum dollar amount of taxes and the minimum pain on those paying […]

In one week, U.S. attorneys in Texas file more than 500 border crime cases

As illegal border crossings drop to new lows under the Trump administration, prosecutors are filing a record number of cases against illegal foreign nationals in the interior of the U.S., with the bulk being filed in Texas. In one week, U.S. attorneys in Texas filed more than 500 border crime cases, the most of any […]

‘Constitutional Zombies’: Lawsuit Alleges Bureaucrats Operating Outside Law to Target Trump-Appointed Investigators

A panel of inspectors general has been “wielding power” outside supervision of the president or Congress in targeting officials appointed during the first Trump administration that investigated waste, fraud, and abuse in government, according to a court filing. Inspectors general have become a contentious issue after President Donald Trump fired 17 in January. However, inspectors general appointed […]

Waste of the Day: Layoffs at “Luxurious” Federal Agency

Topline: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, one of seven small agencies ordered to reduce its workforce in President Donald Trump’s March 15 executive order, had a payroll of $28.6 million in 2024, according to data obtained by OpenTheBooks.      Of the agency’s 200 employees, 164 earned between $100,000 and $204,000. All but 15 […]

Art Of The Deal: Trump Says ‘Great Deal’ In Works With South Korea As April 9 Approaches

President Donald Trump appears to be effectively using the April 9 deadline for his country-by-country tariffs announced on April 2 with great effect in order to bring trade partners to the table, saying that a trade deal with South Korea is now “probable” in an April 8 Truth Social post. Trump made the announcement of an […]

BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Order Forcing Trump to Rehire 16,000 Bureaucrats

The Supreme Court stayed a lower court judge’s order forcing the Trump administration to reinstate more than 16,000 probationary federal employees. The Supreme Court move will keep the employees off the payroll while lower courts resolve the underlying question of the firings’ legality. In the case, the American Federation of Government Employees—the largest public sector union in the […]

Don’t Like Trump’s Plan for the Economy? Let’s Hear Yours

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about the economy and politics very quickly. Whether you like it or I like it or whether the administration likes it or whether the Congress or the American people like it, the success or failure of President Donald Trump will hinge […]