Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ready to tax the rich to make her Green New Deal a reality. “People are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes,” the recently-elected New York Democrat told TV show “60 Minutes” in an interview set to air Sunday. Speaking of prior decades’ taxation rates in the […]
The new leader of House Republicans’ largest caucus says he plans to “streamline” its operations to effectively counter the Democrats as they take control of the lower chamber of Congress. For starters, the Republican Study Committee no longer will have a dozen or so task forces, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., said in a recent phone […]
Two of President Donald Trump’s key themes as a candidate were building a border wall and being a deal-maker. But he is struggling on both points during the partial government shutdown as Democrats officially take control of the House of Representatives. Trump and congressional leaders will meet again Friday after an unproductive gathering Wednesday in […]
House Democrats are putting together a plan to end the partial government shutdown, which does not include any additional funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who vehemently opposed the border wall, calling it “immoral, ineffective and expensive,” and her Democratic colleagues reportedly put together legislation that would reopen the government and allocate $1.3 […]
President Donald Trump has directed his administration to press for “energy dominance.” The Trump agenda has largely consisted of undoing environmental regulations put in place under the Obama administration and opening up federal land to energy production. Democrats and environmentalists have fought Trump’s energy agenda through Congress and the courts, but have not stopped significant […]
President Donald Trump issued an executive order effectively freezing federal pay for 2019 at current 2018 levels. Had the president not issued this executive order (and lacking congressional action on federal pay), federal workers would have received a 2.1 percent across-the-board pay increase, as well as a 25 percent increase in locality-based pay. A 2.1 […]
NBC’s “Meet the Press” devoted the full hour of its Sunday program to talk about climate change, and the show focused the bulk of its time discussing the matter with a who’s who of climate activists. MSNBC host Chuck Todd kicked off the program with a promise to the audience: the show will avoid debating the science […]
The new year is here, so why not start it off right with a new book? Here are 13 books that our friends at The Heritage Foundation think you might enjoy reading in 2019. Current Affairs 1) “Ghettocide: A True Story of Murder in America” by Jill Leovy Have you ever wondered why children and […]
Authorities and school officials either failed to act or were unclear about procedures when confronting the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Feb. 14, 911 logs, surveillance videos and interviews show. The South Florida Sun Sentinel released a minute-by-minute rundown of the Parkland, Florida, shooting in “Unprepared and Overwhelmed.” The Sentinel acknowledged many teachers and […]
Editor’s note: Thinking about the ties that bind us is a good way to ring out the year, so such thoughts lead off this week’s mailbag. Be sure to write us at [email protected] Happy New Year.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: My response to Jarrett Stepman’s commentary on identity politics is that the America of the […]
