President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to the federal bureaucracy appears to be working. Nothing bedeviled Trump’s first term more than the outright resistance and hostility within the federal government to his administration. Armies of hostile bureaucrats stymied his plans, coordinated with legacy media to cook up negative stories, and generally behaved as if they—and not the president—had a right […]
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz offered a full-throated endorsement to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. “I am going to vote for Bobby Kennedy, because I think he’s a change agent who has the courage to take on some of the corruption […]
Yes, it’s been shamefully entangled with the cartels.
In the aftermath of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing last Thursday, there were doubts expressed over whether she’d be able to win enough support from the nine Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee to advance her nomination for Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to a full floor vote. Advertisement […]
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has sharply criticized a high-ranking appointee of California Gov. Gavin Newsom for dismantling the state’s emergency response volunteer firefighting units. Shortly after Newsom appointed Matthew Beevers as adjutant general of the California Military Department in May 2023, Beevers decommissioned the Emergency Response Command, a highly trained joint command consisting of two volunteer […]
For an “apolitical” civil service, politics certainly seems to color many of its activities. Last week, President Trump placed 50-60 senior executives with the US Agency for International Development on administrative leave (see Trump Suspends As Many As 60 Senior Bureaucrats for Trying to Evade His Executive Orders – RedState) for attempting to sabotage his […]
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has been aggressively identifying and eliminating a wide swath of federal spending since President Donald Trump took office. Now, a new subcommittee in the House bearing a similar name, Delivering on Government Efficiency, is taking a look at National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, both […]
Trashing President Trump’s imposition of a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada (among other countries), Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning cited Canada’s role as a US military ally and played a clip of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing the same. “The promised trade war, it’s here, She announced near the top of […]
We’ve been talking about the threats of tariffs and retaliatory tariffs with Canada and Mexico as the Democrats flipped out and lost their minds predicting disaster. Advertisement Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) even told us that we’d have to live with more expensive beer and Mexican avocados. Chuck Schumer claims that […]
That sound you hear is conservatives rejoicing and leftists wailing as Elon Musk, having left Democrat slush fund USAID a shell of what it used to be, heads to the next stop on his Tour de DOGE: the Department of Education. Advertisement Conservatives have long wanted the federal government to […]
