Fresh from a courtroom loss over The Associated Press’ access to the presidency, the White House on Tuesday put forward a new media policy that sharply curtails access to Donald Trump by news agencies that serve media outlets around the world. It was the latest attempt by the new administration to control coverage of its activities. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters, officials said. The proposal, which was presented to the State Department last week and is still in a highly preliminary phase, is not expected to pass muster with either the department’s leadership or Congress, which will…
Read More...This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The Trump administration is working hard to convince the public that its mass-deportation campaign is fully under way. Over the past several weeks, federal agents have seized foreign students off the streets, raided worksites, and shipped detainees to a supermax prison in El Salvador using wartime powers adopted under the John Adams administration. The tactics have spread fear and created a showreel of social-media-ready highlights for the White House. But they have not…
Read More...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. I want to wade into a very controversial topic. I want to be very careful. It’s the issue of whether biological men who have transitioned to the female gender should compete in female sports. And what is the reaction of those who say they should versus the federal government, under President…
Read More...GETTY RALLY PICTURES HERE AND C-SPAN LIVE STREAM HERE Two Dozen Lawmakers Join MoveOn, Indivisible, and Working Families Party at Treasury WASHINGTON – Yesterday, MoveOn Civic Action, Indivisible, and Working Families Party were joined by more than 3,500 attendees at a rally outside the Treasury building calling for Democratic leaders to use every tool at their disposal to hold Elon Musk and President Trump accountable for their overreach. Prior to the press conference, Representatives Maxwell Frost, Jasmine Crockett, and more were rejected from entering the Treasury building–all while an unelected…
Read More...Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the U.S. wrongly deported and who is now the subject of a major court battle, is “alive and secure” in a terrorism prison in El Salvador, the Trump administration said Saturday. The Washington Times stories: White House
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