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( Video clips at link) Nothing they have done to disrupt President Trump and his MAGA agenda has worked. Even the hundred-plus judges rulings are starting to fall by the wayside. The autopen story has crept back into the news A pro-energy group is renewing its call for an investigation into over half a dozen Biden administration executive actions related to climate that it believes should be deemed null and void due to them being signed by an autopen without any public comment from former President Joe Biden confirming his knowledge of them. Power the Future, a nonprofit organization that...

A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that American households are not bracing for a surge in inflation—instead, they’re growing more concerned about income, employment, and their financial outlook. The findings may bolster calls from President Trump and others for the Fed to begin cutting interest rates. According to the New York Fed’s April Survey of Consumer Expectations, short-term inflation expectations remained steady at 3.6 percent, while five-year expectations edged down to 2.7 percent. Although medium-term inflation expectations ticked up slightly to 3.2 percent—the highest since mid-2022—the overall picture does not reflect widespread inflation anxiety. What...

Consumer sentiment fell sharply in March, with Democrats’ expectations for the economy hitting an all-time low, according to the University of Michigan’s latest consumer sentiment survey, highlighting an unprecedented partisan divide in economic outlook. The survey’s headline index dropped to 57.9, down from 64.7 in February, reaching its lowest level since November 2022. While sentiment declined across income levels and age groups, Democrats saw the sharpest deterioration, with their expectations index plunging to 28.2—a level lower than during the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, or Donald Trump’s first term. By contrast, Republican expectations remained high at 95.7, marking a...

In his recent address before Congress, President Trump delivered a clear and unflinching message: The U.S. will no longer squander its power on utopian projects or endless commitments to a fading rules-based international order. Instead, his administration will focus on hard-nosed realism, prioritizing national interests, blunting the ambitions of revisionist powers and shoring up America’s defenses. This is not a vision for a new Cold War but a pivot to a grand strategy of restraint — a shift long overdue and one that will inevitably reshape the contours of global power. There is a growing, almost hysterical, strain of thought...

It’s only March, and we have yet another declaration of a “constitutional crisis.” The latest dire declaration comes from roughly 950 law professors, who refer generally to actions and policies implemented by President Trump as “beyond his constitutional or statutory authority.” So — what happens if the “experts” hold a crisis and no one shows up? After years of such claims, the perpetual crisis has left a dwindling number of people inclined to panic. Many simply have more pressing matters at the moment and have the same reaction of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “There cannot be a crisis...

House Oversight Committee Democrats are panicking over comments President Donald Trump made Friday about reforming the U.S. Postal Service. While Trump has not established a specific plan, he criticized the Postal Service and talked about how it might be improved upon during the swearing in of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. “We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And it will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is already sending shockwaves through the political establishment after gaining access to the Treasury Department’s critical payment system, which processes approximately $5 trillion in annual government disbursements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent authorized DOGE’s access following the abrupt departure of longtime Treasury official David Lebryk, who had repeatedly blocked Musk’s attempts to gain control. Lebryk announced his retirement after being placed on administrative leave, marking a significant shift in Treasury operations. The payment system handles essential government functions, including payments for Social Security and Medicare. Industry experts are now warning that any disruption could...

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Senator Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries just announced they are introducing legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country. This is huge.

Consumer sentiment fell in January for the first time in six months, with inflation concerns and a sharp drop in perceptions of current conditions among Democratic voters driving the decline. The University of Michigan’s sentiment index dropped to 71.1, its lowest in three months, from 74 in December. The decline was more pronounced than preliminary data suggested, underscoring growing unease about the economy’s trajectory. Consumers reported feeling better about their personal finances and said incomes were stronger. But assessments of business conditions, the labor market, and economic growth slumped.

One of the benefits of being a Washington insider, from the president of the United States to the lowliest bureaucrat, is never having to admit your policies are wrong. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) - the nation's 10th largest - the financial policy chickens of this, and previous administrations, have predictably come home to roost. Record debt, massive new spending, and the failure of regulators to see what was coming contributed to the run on SVB. It didn't help that in 2018 President Donald Trump signed the biggest rollback of Dodd-Frank bank regulations since the global financial...

For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush presidency and into the Bill Clinton administration. Clinton fired the inherited official—the first time a president ever fired an...

ABC News is in “panic mode” to hire some Donald Trump supporters for The View and other ABC News programming. This will never happen, at least not on The View, but the New York Post has been told that “ABC News brass are in ‘panic mode’ as they hunt for conservative voices to balance the rabid anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the hosts on The View, as well as those on other shows.” After “last week’s rout by the former president,” the report continues, ABC News executives had “intense sit-downs with executive producers of the network’s various shows and other senior...

Cracks in the Democrats’ blue wall are only part of the story as last-minute campaign reallocation of advertising dollars spell out a shift to defense. “I’ve never seen such panic.” Well before early voting began or nominees were even official for the major parties, it remained clear that seven battleground states were pivotal to securing the White House. Now, with a week remaining in the race, reports show Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is pulling money from “TWO key swing states,” to shore up a third as well as a less-considered commonwealth. Daily Signal columnist Tony Kinnett reacted to the...

Blinken raised the issue during his conversations in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hinted that he would in fact restrict military aid to Israel over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as he spoke with reporters in Israel prior to his departure for Saudi Arabia. “I will follow the law,” he said when pressed if he would uphold Memorandum National Security Memorandum 20, which makes military assistance contingent on compliance with international law and international humanitarian law. The United States had warned Israel in April that it risked being...

Democrats and media elites are starting to get “heartburn” over Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances of preventing former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest political comeback in modern history. With preliminary early voting trends on Tuesday indicating Republicans are outperforming Democrats in key swing states, the Harris campaign will likely hit the panic button in the coming days with increased rhetoric meant to drive turnout. The Wall Street Journal’s Tarini Parti and Alex Leary reported on the positive early voting trends for Republicans:

The most fecund arsenal of dirty tricks in the history of the country has failed to derail President Trump’s campaign for a second term. How refreshing it is to see the Democratic Party in full panic mode. Nothing is working and as a result, the entire and profoundly unsuccessful Obama-Biden interlude is stricken and faltering. In fairness to the voters, the country could not have voted Republican in 2008 after the disaster of President George W. Bush — the Iraqi war topped out by the financial collapse and panic traceable to President Clinton’s requirement that the financial markets be flooded...

Democrats Recent attempts to burnish Kamala's image have failed big time!Kamala Harris and the Democrats have no platform and no message. Her campaign is scrambling to find some traction, but the only thing Democrats want to talk about is abortion and Trump is Hitler. The panic sets in It's so satisfying to watch the Democratic Party in a complete panic, but that's what happens when they sully America and attempt to install a Marxist who received zero votes into the White House while claiming they're saving democracy.Two months ago -- even a month ago -- Democrats were feeling bullish about...

No, I am not going to make a "Red Wave" argument. I got caught up in the excitement in 2022 and got burned. It happens, but it shouldn't happen to ME! Kamala Harris CAN win, but you don't have to be able to read the entrails of chickens or the scatterings of tea leaves to see that the campaign is panicking, and rightly so. It is obvious to the meanest intelligence. Imagine how alarming internal DNC polling must be for them to run “its first-ever” attack ads on Jill Stein.They assumed Arab, Muslim and leftists would snap into line and...

Kamala Harris’s recent attempt to boost her presidential campaign has become a public relations nightmare, leaving top Democrats scrambling and even President Biden subtly undermining her. Harris’s whirlwind media tour launched with an unexpected appearance on Call Her Daddy, a podcast known for its provocative discussions. It was a puzzling choice that instantly raised questions about her campaign strategy. Why, many wondered, would Harris choose a podcast associated more with edgy celebrity gossip than political discourse to showcase her leadership and appeal? The decision raised eyebrows within the party and among voters, casting doubt on Harris’s sense of judgment...

If you're running a political campaign, the one person you never want to be compared to is Hillary Clinton. The twice-failed presidential candidate went down in history after losing to Donald Trump in 2016, and plenty of speculation has revolved around whether her defeat was preventable. Most infamously, she never set foot in Wisconsin because she was confident the so-called "blue wall" states would hold. Ultimately, they didn't, and Trump walked away with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the entire election. Now, Democrats are beginning to panic, and the comparisons to Clinton are getting scarier by the minute. Democratic operatives, including...