Recent polling suggests a notable shift in how younger Americans view abortion, with signs that the pro-life movement is gaining ground among adults ages 18 to 29.

Multiple surveys show an increase in the share of young adults identifying as “pro-life,” while support for unrestricted abortion access has declined in recent years.

According to data from Gallup and others, the percentage of young adults calling themselves pro-life climbed to about 37% in 2025, an increase of about 8 to 11 percentage points compared to polls from 2022 and 2023.

Over the same period, the percentage of young adults who say abortion should be legal in all circumstances has declined sharply, falling by roughly 10 to 14 percentage points, according to Gallup data.

Generational Divide

These findings come amid broader national polling showing a persistent generational divide on abortion policy.

A separate Pew Research Center survey from 2024 found that adults under 30 are more likely than older Americans to say abortion should be legal “in all or most cases,” but that support has fallen from earlier years.

One of the most striking shifts comes from young men. In summer 2025, an IPSOS poll in Great Britain found that 46% of men ages 16 to 34support the legal abortion— a rate 25 points lower than the average population.

Why Are Views Shifting?

Abortion today is more accessible due to the proliferation of prescription drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol. Since the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, abortions have steadily increased in the United States.

So what’s causing young people to back away?

Analysts and movement leaders attribute the shift among young people to a variety of factors, including pro-life campaigning on college campuses, increased engagement with religious communities, and sustained debate over abortion policy since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Younger men’s views in particular have become more favorable to pro-life messaging, contributing to the overall change in self-identification among Millennials and Gen Z.

Some observers point to cultural and technological changes as key drivers of the shift.

Advances in ultrasound and fetal imaging—widely shared on social media platforms popular with Gen Z—have made prenatal development more visible to young people than ever before. Short-form videos and graphics showing infant growth shape younger Americans’ views of pregnancy and human development in ways that to earlier generations didn’t experience.

Changing Landscape

Another factor is the changing political and social landscape following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

With abortion policy now largely determined at the state level, younger Americans are encountering the issue in more concrete and local terms—through ballot initiatives, campus activism, and legislation—rather than as an abstract national debate. This has fueled increased engagement from both sides, including more visible and organized pro-life outreach aimed at young voters.

Together, these trends indicate that the evolving views of young Americans are being shaped less by traditional party affiliation and more by cultural exposure, digital media, and localized political experiences—factors that may continue to influence how the abortion debate unfolds in the years to come.

While abortion remains a deeply contested and polarized issue nationally, the emerging data on young adults suggests that the pro-life movement is resonating with a notable portion of the next generation of voters—potentially reshaping the long-term trajectory of this debate.

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The following remarks were delivered by Dr. Matthew Spalding at the Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event in Summerfield, North Carolina, on Jan. 21.

It is great to be with you on this wonderful occasion. 

But I must point out that we wouldn’t be here today, were it not for those remarkable Americans who gave us a country to celebrate. 

Unlike other countries, America’s ends are to be found in its beginnings. 

In 1776, when it announced itself to the world, America was little more than thirteen small colonies on a barren continent, thousands of miles from their ancestral homeland, surrounded by hostile powers. 

Ours is the story of a band of patriots who united together to declare independence from—and declare war against—the most powerful nation in the world. 

At its birth, our Founders justified independence and nationhood by asserting self-evident truths. Working from the great principle of human equality, they claimed political legitimacy based on the consent of the governed. 

Appointed Commander in Chief of a bunch of untrained militia, General George Washington led a continental army to the unlikely military victory that began this noble experiment in popular government. 

This is that story. 

Built to Last

Through a carefully written constitution, our Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. 

They sought to establish religious liberty, provide for economic opportunity, secure national independence, and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government—all in the name of a simple but radical idea of human liberty. 

This is that story. 

What is truly revolutionary about America is that, for the first time in human history, universal ideas about man became the foundation for a particular nation and a particular system of government and its political culture. It was because of these principles, not despite them, that, rather than ending in tyranny, the American Revolution culminated in a constitutional government that has long endured. 

Well over two centuries later—having won its independence from the British Empire, established its sovereign nationhood, completed its continental expansion and brought unprecedented prosperity to its citizens, survived a devastating Civil War that threatened its very life, abolished slavery and raised up the emancipated to be citizens equal to their one-time masters, and triumphed in two world wars fought on foreign soil and a decades-long struggle against worldwide communism—the United States has become the freest, wealthiest, and most powerful nation in the world. 

This is our story. 

Principles That Define and Inspire

To this day, so many years after the American Revolution, the principles proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and promulgated by the United States Constitution still define us as a nation and inspire us as a people. They are responsible for a prosperous and just nation unlike any in the world. They are the highest achievements of our tradition, serving not only as a powerful beacon to those throughout the world who strive for freedom but also a warning to tyrants and despots everywhere. It is because of these principles, not despite them, that America has achieved its greatness. 

America is a good country, a great country, perhaps the greatest, not because it is perfect—it is made up of imperfect human beings—but because it is dedicated to, and constantly aspires to uphold, permanent principles about human liberty that are true. 

Through its noble efforts to achieve its highest ends, this country has done more to advance those principles than any other. 

America is beautiful not only for its spacious skies and amber waves of grain, as the patriotic hymn goes, but also for its “glory-tale of liberating strife.” 

This is what unites us. 

This is what makes America exceptional. 

I vividly remember America’s bicentennial celebration in 1976. I was in Middle School, and remember the fireworks, and the Tall Ships, and the Freedom Train. All that deepened my love of country and sparked my love of history. Today I write books and teach about America to my students at Hillsdale College. 

Rediscover America

Given the opportunity to help create the Freedom Trucks all these years later, I jumped at the chance to tell America’s story, one that would capture the heart, spark the imagination, and instruct the mind of my fellow Americans. 

I want to thank our friends at PragerU and Spevco for bringing that story to life in the Freedom Trucks, and Freedom 250 for taking the story, the story of the American people, on the road. 

We are now in the 250th year of our country’s life. 

I invite all Americans to take this unique opportunity to learn—or perhaps relearn—our history, to discover anew the truths to which it is dedicated, and to fall in love with America again, or perhaps for the first time.

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Vice President JD Vance acknowledged “the elephant in the room” at the March for Life on Friday—that the second Trump administration has not acted fast enough on pro-life policy.

“I want you to know I hear you, and I understand there will inevitably be debates within this movement,” he told the crowd.

“We love each other, but we’re going to have open conversations about how best to use our political system to advance life, how prudential we must be in the cause of advancing human life.”

Pro-lifers from all over the country gathered at the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Friday, to advocate for the right to life of unborn children.

Vance’s remarks come amid frustration of pro-life leaders that the administration has not done more to regulate the chemical abortion pill, the predominant method of abortions.

“The administration needs to take bold action on the abortion pill,” Live Action president Lila Rose told The Daily Signal. “It should not be on the market. It’s a extremely dangerous drug for women, and then it has killed several million unborn children.”

Vance said debates within the pro-life movement “help keep people like me honest.”

“We have made tremendous strides over the last year, and we’re going to continue to make strides over the next three years to come. But I’m a realist. I know that there is still much road ahead to travel together,” he said.

“Take heart, and see how far we’ve come, but don’t lose sight of why we march,” he continued.

Vance assured marchers that the pro-life movement’s voices are heard by their government.

“Under this administration, with the president of the United States and the vice president, you have an ally in the White House,” he said.

Vance touted pro-life achievements from President Donald Trump’s first year in office, such as reviewing whether Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally received $88 million in loans during the COVID-19 pandemic; ending use of fetal tissue from aborted babies in federally-funded research; and reinstating the Mexico City Policy to ensure taxpayers don’t fund international abortion providers.

But he said the administration’s efforts to create more affordable housing also aid the pro-life cause.

“When we ensure that real families, moms and dads, instead of Wall Street, have access to American homes, we help create that important culture of life,” he said.

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The Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event this week launched a nationwide tour of interactive museum trucks designed to bring American history to communities across the country. 

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the Mobile Museum truck revealed Wednesday is one of six that will tour the United States in celebration of the semiquincentennial. 

Dr. Matthew Spalding, vice president for Washington operations at Hillsdale College, delivered remarks on America and its founding at Revolution Academy in Summerfield, North Carolina. 

“In 1776, when it announced itself to the world, America was little more than 13 small colonies on a barren continent, thousands of miles from their ancestral homeland, surrounded by hostile powers,” Spalding said at the event. “Ours is the story of a band of patriots who united together to declare independence from—and declare war against—the most powerful nation in the world. At its birth, our Founders justified independence and nationhood by asserting self-evident truths.” 

The Mobile Museum truck trailer expands three times its size by extending on both sides. Inside are two rooms—one covering pre-American Revolution history and the other covering post-American Revolution history.  

Love of History

Hillsdale College helped curate and edit the educational materials featured inside the trucks. 

Spalding explained the inspiration for Mobile Museum trucks: “I vividly remember America’s bicentennial celebration in 1976. I was in middle school and remember the fireworks and the Tall Ships and the Freedom Train. All that deepened my love of country and sparked my love of history.” 

The trucks provide interactive opportunities for young visitors. They include videos of George Washington, interactive screens where visitors can sign the Declaration of Independence themselves, and quizzes that let you see which side of the Revolution you would have been on. 

The kickoff event took place at Revolution Academy in Summerfield, North Carolina, and featured speakers and participants such as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids, and Richard Childress, CEO of Childress Racing. 

Cross-Country Tour

After the event, Spalding told The Daily Signal that his “objective is to help people learn—and in some cases relearn—that history, spark their interest in it and help them fall in love with their country again.” 

The trucks will tour the country, stopping at schools, NASCAR races, and rodeos, giving communities an opportunity to visit. 

“The Declaration of Independence doesn’t say, ‘Here are our personal opinions,’” Spalding said. “It says, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ and that difference is at the very center of what we wanted to capture.” 

He emphasized the strength of America’s founding ideas. 

“This is a good country,” Spalding said. “We’re not perfect, but it’s a great country and that has everything to do with those beginnings.”  

The Freedom 250 tour ensures that those beginnings are not forgotten. 

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Conservative members of Congress pushed back on biological male Rep. Tim McBride, D-Del., at a women-only press conference on legislation that would allow victims to sue the creators of nonconsensual sexually explicit artificial intelligence content on Thursday.

McBride, who now goes by the name Sarah, began identifying as a woman 10 years before being elected to Congress in 2014.

“He didn’t belong, and he will never be one of us,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., wrote on X on Thursday.

Other members of Congress, such as Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz, also spoke out against McBride for his unwanted appearance at the press conference.

“Why did a man show up at a women-only press conference? Biological men can never be women,” Biggs wrote.

McBride, Biggs, and Mace did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

McBride’s appearance at the press conference on the DEFIANCE Act, which passed the Senate last week and is now headed to the House of Representatives for a vote, ties into a larger and ongoing national debate on biological males who identify as women.

National Debate on Self-identifying Women

The comments from the conservative members of Congress come amid a national debate on whether biological men who self-identify as women can be socially and legally classified as one.

In Feb. 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports executive order, which banned biological males from competing in federally funded women’s sports.

Trump argued that allowing men who identify as women in women’s sports is a direct violation of Title IX of the Education Act of 1972, which states that educational institutions receiving federal funds cannot deny women an equal opportunity to participate in sports.

Trump also argued that federal courts in the cases of Tennessee v. Cardona and Kansas v. U.S. Dept. of Education have previously recognized that “ignoring fundamental biological truths between the two sexes deprives women and girls of meaningful access to educational facilities.” Trump’s order then called on Congress to protect biological women in education.

Weeks before, the House passed Rep. Greg Steube’s, R-Fla., Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which was sent to the Senate for a vote.

“Men have no place in women’s sports,” Steube wrote in a statement. “Republicans have promised to protect women’s sports, and under President Trump’s leadership, we will fulfill this promise.”

Democrat senators have since blocked the legislation from reaching the president’s desk for a final signature.

Democratic opponents of the legislation claim that Republicans are “fearmongering” on the issue of transgenders and have labeled proponents of the legislation as “transphobic.”

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On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index crashed 870 points, the biggest drop since October.

The mainstream media predictably blamed President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs over Greenland, but they were wrong.

Thanks to Bitcoin—which trades 24/7—we can actually go to the tape. It turns out Greenland barely made a dent. What caused the bloodbath was Japan.

Specifically, the drop was due to new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Monday press conference. She announced snap elections to bolster a raft of reforms, which would hike government spending and reduce tax revenue. This sent Japanese bonds crashing as bond investors worried Japan can’t handle its massive government debt.

The panic then bled into U.S. financial markets via the yen carry trade, where hedge funds and speculators have borrowed hundreds of trillions of yen at near-zero interest rates to park it in U.S. assets.

The trade worked fine when rates in Japan were kept artificially lower than in the United States and traders could employ plenty of leverage—like gambling with borrowed money.

But now Japanese bond yields are soaring with the 30-year yield setting new records and shorter-term securities like the 10-and two-year at the highest levels since the 1990s. The stratospheric rise in these yields is threatening to strengthen the yen with them—so, that free money spigot is reversing.

Unwinding the yen carry trade sent the hedge funds rushing for the exits, crashing stocks and bonds worldwide as they liquidated holdings to get out of their leveraged positions. Put simply, if they bought assets with borrowed money, the assets were sold to repay the loans before the interest on those loans could skyrocket.

Japan’s latest bond crisis is a near-repeat of the U.K. Gilt Crisis in 2022, when British Prime Minister Liz Truss introduced a package of tax cuts and spending hikes that sent bond yields soaring a point and a half in a single day—third world territory. And that sent the British pound crashing to a 37-year low against the dollar.

The wider issue is what the U.K.—and now Japan—have illustrated: Bond markets cannot digest fiscal deficits that have blown away peacetime records.

The fact this is happening in two of the most advanced—and heretofore drama-free—economies on Earth is ominous. The bond vigilantes are reminding everyone that they have the final veto on all government finance.

Even worse, the fiscal deficit in Japan is less than half that of the U.S.—3% of the Gross Domestic Product in Japan versus the 6.4% of GDP Congress is spending us into the hole every year.

While the dollar’s reserve currency status and our lower aggregate national debt buy time, this suggests we’re living on borrowed time. And when the crisis hits here, it could be even harder than Japan.

How the Land of the Rising Sun got here is illustrative since Congress is following the same recipe.

Japan’s original sin dates to when their easy money bubble burst in 1990, and instead of letting weak companies and banks die off, they put them on permanent life support with stimulus and low interest rates.

This created a zombie economy of money-losing companies that hog up one-third of all bank lending and almost 10 million Japanese workers essentially paid to lose money. The result is while American productivity grew by half since 1990, Japan’s actually dropped.

That in turn translated into real wages that are lower in Japan today than 1990, while also driving Japanese government debt to 230% of GDP—an eye-watering $70 trillion in U.S. GDP terms.

To finance all that debt, the Bank of Japan pushed interest rates down near zero for 30 years, which was necessary because otherwise the interest on that mountain of debt would eat Japan alive.

This created the free money machine of the century for foreigners in the yen carry trade, and it plunged Japan into 30 years of stagnation with no end in sight.

Beyond the economic costs, this has driven Japanese suicide rates to one of the highest rates on earth, while Japanese fertility has plunged to just 1.2 children per couple. Shockingly, that means eight great-grandparents turn into just 1.7 souls. If this keeps up, Japan’s population will fall by half per generation, leaving a shell of a developed nation.

Japan is the poster child for a creeping worldwide government takeover that’s transforming vibrant economies into permanent crony bailout apparatuses: Where government handouts and tax-funded NGO’s feast while the dwindling taxpayers—who pay for it—all check out, figuratively and sometimes literally.

The canary in the coalmine is singing.  Trump’s doing what he can. Now Congress needs to wake up and turn us back from the fiscal cliff with meaningful spending cuts.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking Maryland to rescind its “Public Health Abortion Grant Program,” which used Affordable Care Act funds to pay for abortions.

President Donald Trump’s CMS informed the Maryland insurance commissioner that the Public Health Abortion Grant Program exceeds what the Affordable Care Act allows for the use of those funds, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Signal.

Section 1303 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or if life of the mother is endangered. But the statute allows private insurance plans to cover abortion if the federal subsidies are kept completely separate from abortion coverage.

Enrollees pay at least $1 per month out of pocket into a separate account designated for abortion coverage.

CMS formally requested that Maryland rescind implementation of the Public Health Abortion Grant Program, which gives grants to “providers and abortion funds that provide services to individuals who cannot use their insurance for abortion care or face other coverage gaps, such as people who are under- or uninsured, young people, and those enrolled in plans with abortion restrictions (such as religious employer-sponsored plans, etc.)”

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a bill into law last May establishing the abortion grant program. The law says that if CMS advises the state that the law violates Section 1303 of the Affordable Care Act on or before June 30, 2031, the “law will be of no further force and effect.”

CMS has determined that the law “exceeds the permissible use for these funds under Section 1303 of the ACA,” so the state will be required to end the program. Maryland Insurance Commissioner Marie Grant confirmed that she has received the letter.

The law made about $25 million available for abortions on July 1 because the $1 surcharge has grown since the ACA took effect in 2010. But Maryland estimated that it would be able to make about $3 million available annually for abortions in future years.

Maryland was the first state to allocate ACA-segregated funds toward abortions.

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While some Democrats are downplaying the fraud recently exposed in Minnesota, one Democrat Minnesota congresswoman seems to be concerned.

Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., recently reintroduced a piece of legislation she says will “crack down on fraud in federal programs.” The Stop Fraud in Federal Programs Act seeks to increase penalties for federal fraudsters and require third-party audits for one specific USDA managed program. 

“Today I reintroduced my bill to crack down on fraud in federal programs and hold perpetrators accountable,” Craig said in an X post this week.    

The first piece of the bill will raise the maximum prison sentence from 10 to 20 years and require the convicted person to pay $250,000, or twice the value of the stolen property, whichever is more.  

“We’ve got to restore trust in our government and ensure fraud schemes like Feeding Our Future never happen again,” Craig said in a statement. “That starts with prosecuting criminals to the fullest extent of the law, and my bill that I’ve been working on since 2023 will help us do that.”

The Trump administration is calling Feeding Our Future the largest Covid-Era fraud scheme charged in the country. The million-dollar nonprofit was supposed to be giving free meals to children as a sponsor of the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program. Attorney General Pam Bondi says this scheme cost the US $300 to $400 million.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced in early January that the USDA has paused all federal funding, equaling almost $130 million, to Minnesota until the state can provide payment justifications for all grants since January 2025 within 30 days. 

The second part of the bill requires third-party audits on all USDA Summer Food Service Programs and the non-profits who receive the funds.  

While Craig does seem to be combating fraud, she denies that Minnesota fraud is correlated to the Somalia community living in the state. Bondi, however, claims that out of the 78 defendants charged from Feeding Our Future, 72 are of Somalian descent and 5 are fugitives in Africa.

The congresswoman has been active in the media calling for ICE to leave the state. The same week she introduced the Stop Fraud in Federal Programs Act, she also introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.  

Craig was unable to be reached for comment.  

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The biggest joke on television is the idea that late-night hosts are “doing news.”

Yet from a legal viewpoint, that has been the position of the networks—that when Jimmy Kimmel hosts Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., for a softball interview to announce his bid for governor of California, it’s “bona fide news” rather than Pravda-style propaganda.

President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman—Brendan Carr—is calling out the truth of matter in a new official announcement that puts the networks on notice he will no longer tolerate their abuse of the FCC’s news exemption.

Carr, who has earned a reputation as a no-nonsense boss at the FCC, is acting to realign policy with reality: That daytime and late-night entertainment shows are just entertainment.

They’re not news, and they don’t deserve to be treated as such.

The “public notice” from the FCC’s Media Bureau—a sort of early-warning alert for potential future enforcement actions—tells broadcasters that “late night and daytime talk shows” are not automatically “bona fide news,” and says the “FCC has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late night or daytime television talk show program on air presently would qualify for the bona fide news exemption.”

Translation: Watch out Kimmel, Colbert, and ABC’s “The View” because you no longer get the kid-glove treatment from the FCC when you muck around with left-wing politicians.

Carr is 100% correct: it’s not what Congress enacted. Congress specified bona fide news, the notice explains, for a reason—Congress was “concern[ed] that broadcast stations would apply the exemptions too broadly in service of a political agenda.”

It’s hard to see anything other than a political agenda at work when you look at the 2025 guest list on “The View”: Sens. Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Amy Klobuchar, John Fetterman, Cory Booker, Raphael Warnock, and Bernie Sanders, just to name a few (all Democrats).

Only one Republican was invited on the show—retiring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The same could be said of late-night shows: CBS’ Stephen Colbert featured 31 partisan officials in 2025, all Democrats, and Kimmel had on 11—again without a single Republican elected official.

That isn’t news, it’s propaganda.

And, as the FCC warns in its notice, the airwaves cannot be used for programs “designed for the specific advantage of a candidate.” That presumption is hard to maintain with a straight face in light of these statistics, and doubly so when the hosts are sponsoring fundraisers or making max-out contributions to the candidates they are then interviewing for “the news.”

Indeed, ABC doesn’t even seem to consider Kimmel part of ABC News or he’d be prohibited by company policy from showering tens of thousands of dollars on Democratic candidates and PACs.

Television and radio networks broadcast are on public airwaves, and use of that public asset comes with certain responsibilities.

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a body of politicians, Congress has paid particular attention to equal time rules for candidates to ensure that the airwaves are not twisted into a tool for just one side of a hard-fought political contest. Congress required fair access to the airwaves for campaigns, including a right to equal time when a station features just one candidate during a race.

At the same time, Congress recognized that news isn’t always a 50-50 proposition: One candidate might do more public events, say more controversial things, or garner more newsworthy endorsements. So, Congress put in a narrow exemption providing that “bona fide news” shows are exempt from the equal time rule.

Over time, that rule has been expanded and twisted until—as we see today—virtually anything on air could count as news, to the point where the exception swallowed the rule. No longer can this be the case.

Let’s be real: Late night television and “The View” consistently promote one political party and its candidates over the other. Carr is right to put the industry on notice; network executives would be wise to take heed and avoid politicizing the airwaves. Our team at the Center for American Rights will continue to be vigilant for viewers to ensure the networks follow the law.

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On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance appeared at Midwest Terminals in Toledo, Ohio, where he touted the successes of the Trump administration.

Vance’s speech centered around “the great American comeback,” in wake of the Biden administration.

Prosperity Under Trump

The vice president believes the American economy is about to boom.

“I think that we are on the cusp of the greatest economic year in the history of the United America, because we’re doing something new,” Vance said.

Vance voiced the Trump administration’s appreciation of the American worker, and contrasted this administration with the policies of offshoring and globalization of prior administrations.

“We’re investing in you, we’re investing in American workers, we’re investing in American businesses and we’re saying to everybody that the United States is open for business, but only if you invest in our great American people and our great American businesses,” Vance asserted.

“We are done with the old approach of shipping American jobs overseas and investing in everybody else,” the vice president added. “We are back to investing in the American worker, and we’re not going to stop fighting for you until we return America to true golden age of great American prosperity.”

Vance continued to tout the adminsitration’s accomplishments that matter to Ohioans, including no taxes on tips and no taxes on overtime.

But there is still work to be done, especially when it comes to affordability after the Biden-era inflation.

Vance vowed to “fight every single day for better home prices for Americans, for lower prescription drug prices, and of course, for rising wages.”

“That is what we’re going to do, that is what we have done, and that is what we promise will be the legacy of the second Trump administration: more prosperity for you,” Vance claimed.

Midterm Elections

But for the Trump administration to achieve its objectives, the 2026 midterms are crucial.

Democrats are attempting to take the House and Senate from Republicans. The GOP has narrow majorities in both chambers.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, represents Toledo in Congress, and Republicans believe they can flip Kaptur’s seat this November.

Kaptur, in response to being called out in Vance’s speech, said, “The Trump Administration’s reckless tariffs and disastrous trade wars are straining the pocketbooks of workers, farmers, and consumers across our area–but I’m glad Vice President Vance took the time to visit and learn from our world-class workforce.”

“It was great to hear that he’s now interested in lowering drug prices after voting against those efforts in the Senate,” Kaptur continued. “Unsurprisingly, the VP avoided discussing the 68,000 manufacturing jobs lost nationwide over the past year or the $45 Million federal investment in Libbey Glass and tens of millions in Northwest Ohio road projects canceled on his watch–investments that would keep our region competitive. Northwest Ohioans see through fancy airplanes and staged drop by visits. They know I’ll never give up on our people or our future.”

Vance also gave a shout out to Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, who was appointed as his replacement. Husted is running in November’s special election against former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

The gubernatorial election also received a mention, with Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and his running mate, Senate President Rob McColley present.

“The question in November, it’s very fundamental,” Vance said. “It’s going to be do we reward the people like Jon Husted, who cut your taxes, who fight for lower housing costs, who fight for lower prescription drug costs? Or do we reward the crazy, far-left Democrats who think that America is one big get rich scheme for fraudsters? That’s it! That’s simply the question.”

“What I am promising you is that every day for the next three years, so long as I am the vice president of the United States, so long as Donald Trump is the president of the United States, we will remember that you are what makes America great and will never stop fighting for you,” he declared.

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President Donald Trump has revoked his invitation to Canada to join his new Board of Peace overseeing Gaza.

“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday, “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”  

The Board of Peace was initially announced as a body of world leaders that would help facilitate peace and new leadership in Gaza following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

However, Trump has indicated the board may play a larger role in global affairs.  

“I think we can spread out to other things as we succeed with Gaza, we’re going to be very successful in Gaza,” Trump said Thursday.

“We can do numerous other things. Once this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do.”  

Trump will chair the board, and appointed leaders include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.  

So far, leaders in 20 nations have agreed to join the board, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. 

No other permanent member of the United Nations Security Council has yet agreed to join the board, Reuters reported, with critics of the plan alleging it could undermine the work of the U.N.

Permanent board members must each provide $1 billion in funding, according to Trump.

Trump’s decision to revoke Canada’s invitation follows public controversy between Trump and Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney.  

Carney delivered a speech to global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday implying that the U.S. was at the center of a “rupture” in the world order.

Then, on Wednesday, Trump delivered a speech at the large event of global leaders and addressed Carney directly.  

“Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” Trump said. 

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services is officially moving to roll back a Biden-era policy of taxpayer-funded abortion travel for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S., The Daily Signal can first report.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the HHS Administration of Children and Families division, is making regulatory changes “to address how abortion services are facilitated or funded” for illegal unaccompanied minors in federal custody, an HHS official told The Daily Signal.

The changes “could eventually limit federal involvement in abortion for minors in government custody, particularly vulnerable children under federal care,” the official said.

The news comes on the morning of the 53rd annual March for Life, a national gathering of pro-lifers in Washington, D.C. to advocate for the right to life for the unborn.

On Nov. 10, 2022, the Biden administration originally proposed the “Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule,” requiring the Office of Refugee Resettlement to “ensure unaccompanied children have access to medical care, including transportation across state lines” for procedures including “family planning services, and medical services requiring heightened ORR involvement.”

Under that rule, the office allowed for minors in federal custody to have abortions, including out-of-state travel for abortions from states with abortion restrictions. 

A senior ORR official told The Daily Signal in an interview that the new rule will bring HHS policy in alignment with the Hyde Amendment, a longstanding federal policy prohibiting taxpayer-funded abortions in health care appropriations. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January to implement that policy across federal agencies.

“HHS remains committed to protecting unborn life and ensuring taxpayer funds are used ethically and lawfully,” the official said. “Today’s actions strengthen protections for healthcare providers, align department policies with federal law, and ensure federally funded research reflects ethical limits established by Congress.”

The administration told The Daily Signal in October that it had planned to alter the rule to comply with the Hyde Amendment.

Trump’s Office of Refugee Resettlement has submitted its changes to the Office of Management and Budget’s Regulatory Information Service Center. The official hopes that the revisions will move through the office and advance in the rule making process within the next few weeks.

HHS aims for the rule to last beyond the Trump administration.

“This measure closes the funding loopholes that were introduced under the Biden administration,” the official said. “We’re not going to use any taxpayer dollars directly or indirectly for abortion services, except where it’s expressly authorized by law.”

“Our goal is to save lives both for these young children that are coming across the border, that are pregnant,” the official said, “and to save the lives of their unborn babies.”

While the official expects “legal maneuvering” from the Left, HHS is “prepared to fight that if it happens.”

“The president has committed to protecting unborn children,” the senior official said, “and the agencies have followed through with mplementing the president’s executive order.”

“We are going to continue to protect life, and that’s exactly what we are doing,” the official continued, “and we’re happy that this is coming out before the March of Life. We’re happy that we are protecting these onboarding children and allowing them to come into the world.”

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Leftist media outlets take an extremely opportunistic approach to covering the intersection of religion and politics. They’re appalled at religion when it impedes their agenda, but they gush over religious figures when they align with their talking points.

On Jan. 19, New York Times religion reporter Ruth Graham penned a story headlined “Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy.” Three Catholic cardinals—Blase Cupich of Chicago, Joseph Tobin of Newark, and Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C.—put out a statement critical of President Donald Trump’s international policies.

“Our country’s moral role in confronting evil around the world, sustaining the right to life and human dignity, and supporting religious liberty are all under examination,” the cardinals contended. “And the building of just and sustainable peace, so crucial to humanity’s well-being now and in the future, is being reduced to partisan categories that encourage polarization and destructive policies.”

The line about “partisan categories” is amusing, since the Times and Rachel Maddow and the rest are delighting in how this statement fits their category. It’s puzzling to argue that Trump messing with tyrants in Venezuela and Iran is somehow not taking on “evil.”

Opposition to any military action is at the forefront of their message, and religious liberty and the right to life are subordinated.

The Times never used words like “liberal” or “leftist” or “progressive” to describe these three prelates, or for Pope Leo, whom they cite as their inspiration. But go back four years, and Ruth Graham and the Times took an entirely different approach.

On June 20, 2021, the labels were flying. The headline was “In Rift With Biden, a Dramatic Show of Force by a Conservative Catholic Movement.” Graham and her colleague Elizabeth Dias began by asserting, “Pope Francis and President Biden, both liberals, are the two most high-profile Roman Catholics in the world.”

But forget the pope, it’s “now a conservative movement that decides how the Catholic Church asserts its power in America.”

Including headlines, the word “conservative” appeared 15 times. In this story, they mourned their heroes Cardinal Cupich and Cardinal Tobin—“leading U.S. allies of Pope Francis”—were “ultimately drowned out” as the bishops voted to draft a policy that could restrain the offering of the Eucharist to Catholic politicians like Joe Biden, who energetically opposed church teaching on abortion and other moral issues.

This was lamented as “polarizing the Catholic faithful,” something the Times did not say about the Trump-bashing statement.

On Inauguration Day 2021, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, put out a welcoming statement to Biden, but underlined “our new President has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity, most seriously in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender.”

At the time, the Catholic News Agency reported Cardinal Cupich wanted “a more supportive, clearly pro-Biden statement, and that he spent most of Wednesday trying to get the support of other bishops to come up with an alternative statement.” In other words, he was “polarizing the Catholic faithful” on Biden’s behalf.

Cardinal Cupich put out a four-tweet attack on Gomez for an “ill-considered statement” that didn’t seek enough “collegial consultation,” leading to “internal institutional failures” when the bishops should “take up the work of healing our nation in this moment of crisis.”

In other words, it’s impolite and divisive to confront a pro-abortion, pro-transgender Catholic president, but years later, church leaders can attack non-Catholic President Trump while claiming they’re against “partisan categories.” This is blatantly partisan advocacy, which is why the leftist media applaud it so enthusiastically.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith couldn’t answer how much in tax dollars went to confidential sources in his nearly two-year investigation of President Donald Trump. 

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pushed Smith on the topic during the committee hearing on Thursday. Jordan noted that at least $20,000 went to a single source to review video and photos of the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol, as part of Smith’s investigation into the incident.

Smith answered that he couldn’t remember if there were more such expenses.

“What I want to know is how much of that $35 million of taxpayer money did you give to confidential human sources?” Jodan asked. “We know you gave $20,000 to someone.”

Smith said the $20,000 was a payment from the FBI to a confidential source, that he approved.

“My recollection regarding the $20,000, which is not a payment from me, I was approving a payment by the FBI to a confidential human source, who was reviewing video and photography,” Smith said.  

Jordan asked the identity of the source, but Smith said he did not know.

President Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed Smith as special counsel to investigate Donald Trump over his challenge to the results of the 2020 election and his potentially unlawful possession of classified information. 

Smith ultimately secured indictments against Trump in both investigations.

Republican lawmakers grilled Smith on Thursday over his securing warrants to review congressional phone records without telling judges whom he was investigating.

Jordan asked Smith how many payments went to confidential sources, to which Smith responded that he did not know.

Jordan noted that Smith had information from multiple government agencies, the Republican National Committee, and members of Congress. 

“Why did you have to pay people for information?” Jordan asked.

“My recollection and understanding is the payment, the $20,000 that I approved, was for a confidential human source to assist in the review of video and photographic evidence showing people who were attacking the Capitol,” Smith said. 

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The Daily Signal’s Virginia Correspondent Joe Thomas is out with a new podcast breaking down Virginia Democrats’ effort to redistrict the commonwealth. 

Now that Democrats are fully in control of the commonwealth, they are moving forward with a plan that could add four Democrat seats and ultimately determine the balance of power in Washington after the 2026 midterms. 

Thomas called the move, which could change the Virginia congressional delegation from six Democrats and five Republicans to 10 Democrats and just one Republican “reactionary.” 

The Democrat redistricting proposal would allow the Democrat-controlled government to redraw their districts if a red state decides to redistrict. “If another state changed their districts, Virginia could invoke this constitutional amendment to recreate theirs.” 

?“Now, what’s happened in Virginia is that they’ve pulled some rabbits out of the hat,” Thomas said. 

“In Virginia, the law says that in order to amend the Virginia Constitution, you have to pass the amendment through both the House and Senate,” Thomas explained. The governor is not involved in that process, though Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has said she backs the effort. 

But, to amend the constitution, the Virginia legislature has to wait until after an election cycle, and the amendment “has to pass another general assembly session and then be brought to the voters,” Thomas continued. 

In a special session late last year, however, “Virginia budget Speaker Don Scott used the parliamentary procedure to convene another meeting of that same special session in December to pass the constitutional amendment for a second time, just days before the culmination of Virginia’s 2025 election cycle.” 

If voters approve of the proposed amendment to the constitution, it would “?overturn an election that went down 65% in favor of a non-partisan redistricting commission that each 10 years would redraw Virginia’s districts based on population shifts,” Thomas said.  

The Democrats’ proposed 10-1 map look to stretch districts such as VA-1, VA-10, and VA-11. 

“They’re all along what is called the Blue Crescent in Virginia, that [go] from the  Washington, D.C. suburbs all the way down to the Hampton Roads,” Thomas said of these districts. 

But stretching these districts to the west and south is not without risk, Thomas claimed. 

“What they’re going to do with these districts is they’re going to take these 20% and 40% Democrat districts by election results, stretch them to the point of breaking,” Thomas said. The 10-1 map would “stretch them to the point where they’re going to be right at the edge of being maybe 52%, maybe 53% Democrats by election results, historically.” 

“And that’s the peril in this,” Thomas added. “They’re putting themselves in a position of taking all of those safe districts along the Blue Crescent from Northern Virginia” and “stretching them to the point of them being perilously close to a 50-50 split.” 

A Republican with a good ground game in these new districts could prove redistricting was more trouble than Virginia Democrats bargained for. 

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Virginia Democrats have proposed a bill to permanently embed and test “inclusive history,” including racial and LGBTQ+ topics, in children’s classrooms across the state.

The state House bill was introduced on Jan. 13 and would require all public elementary and secondary schools to adjust history and social science classes to include “the contributions, perspectives, and experiences of historically marginalized communities, including racial and ethnic minorities; immigrants and refugees; women; individuals with disabilities; individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+),” and others.

The bill states this is necessary “in order to affirm such communities and promote a more holistic understanding of history” and “to ensure comprehensive, accurate, and inclusive education.”

If enacted, Virginia’s Board of Education must “adopt and enforce policies” requiring schools in the state to adopt textbooks and instructional materials that include “comprehensive, accurate, and affirming coverage of the histories and contributions of the communities” listed.

The board must also consult with “subject matter experts who represent marginalized communities” regularly.

The state Department of Education also “shall develop, curate, or identify supplemental instructional resources that support the teaching of inclusive history,” including “materials for observances such as Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Disability History and Awareness Month, LGBTQ+ History Month, and other recognitions as determined by the Board.”

It is suggested the department “partner with cultural institutions, historical societies, and community organizations to develop or curate these materials.”

State education standards would be updated as soon as March 1, 2027 “to explicitly include the political, economic, social, and cultural contributions of the communities described,” the bill states.

The “inclusive history” resources created by the education department should be fully integrated “across curricula” and must not be isolated “to a single month or observance.”

Teachers will then be equipped with “culturally responsive strategies for teaching inclusive history and for addressing complex or difficult historical topics” as part of their required professional development credit, the bill says.

State assessments by the 2028–2029 school year must then include questions relating to the inclusive history lessons, including about the “contributions and experiences of the communities” listed.

Virginia Democrats immediately began flooding the legislature with bill proposals as soon as Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger was sworn in on Jan. 17.

Some of their suggestions include reducing the severity of some robbery offenses and increasing parole eligibility, removing mandatory minimum sentences for rape and the production and distribution of child porn, and banning ballots from being counted by hand if they are readable by a machine.

The governor has also rescinded an order requiring state law enforcement to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation.

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New York likely has to draw a new congressional map thanks to a Democrat-appointed judge’s ruling—drawing Democrat applause and Republican outrage over the possibility of Empire State conservatives losing representation in Washington.

The ruling could spell trouble for Republican control of seven New York House seats, and be decisive in handing Democrats control of the House.

On Wednesday, New York Supreme Court justice Jeffrey Pearlman ordered the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to redraw its U.S. House districts due to “Black and Latino votes… being diluted” in the state’s Republican 11th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis. 

New York’s constitution requires that district boundaries not dilute the votes of “racial or minority language groups,” and details a process for petitioners to request a redrawing of the state’s congressional map.

The Case

Pearlman, an appointee of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul who was her chief of staff when she was lieutenant governor, cites “racial appeals in Staten Island politics” as being “meaningful” for the question of whether the district’s boundaries dilute minority votes. 

Pearlman also cites the fact that “minority-preferred candidates ‘usually’ lose” as evidence of “racially polarized voting” in the district, one of his justifications for ordering a new map.

The case’s petitioners are all New York electors.

Pearlman also cites expert witness Dr. Thomas J. Sugrue’s testimony claiming Staten Island “has a long history of racial segregation, discrimination, and disparate treatment against Blacks and Latinos.”

Pearlman writes in his ruling that “time is of the essence to fix congressional lines in this case,” and that the redistricting commission must redraw lines by Feb. 6.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was quick to applaud the ruling, calling it “the first step toward ensuring communities of interest remain intact from Staten Island to Lower Manhattan” on Wednesday.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., who represents much of the Bronx, told The Daily Signal on Thursday that he was generally supportive of redrawing maps.

“If there’s a congressional district that violates civil rights law, or either the federal or the state constitution, then, yes, it should be redrawn in accordance with our laws,” said Torres.

Republican Backlash

But Republicans denounced the ruling as a Democrat attempt to seize control of a House seat.

“Democrats can’t beat me on merit, policy and debate. So what do they do? They file a meritless lawsuit claiming our district disenfranchises minorities to take out the first minority to represent the district and steal our seat,” Malliotakis, who is of Cuban descent, wrote on X.

Malliotakis vowed to “use every legal option at our disposal, including an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court” to counter the decision.

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., who represents the lower Hudson Valley, also denounced the decision when speaking to The Daily Signal on Thursday.

“I think what you’ve seen is Hakeem Jeffries and Kathy Hochul have corrupted the New York court system for political purposes. This is the third attempt at redistricting in New York because they don’t want free and fair elections,” Lawler said.

Lawler added, “They don’t want competitive congressional seats. They want it handed to them. They claim in this lawsuit that Hispanic voters are disenfranchised, yet Nicole Malliotakis is Cuban. So it’s not about disenfranchising voters, it’s about the fact that she’s a Republican and not a Democrat.”

Lawler called for the decision to be reversed.

“This decision reeks of politics,” he told The Daily Signal. “It should be overturned at the appellate division. And as far as I’m concerned, it should be elevated to federal court.”

At a Thursday press conference, Jeffries provided The Daily Signal response to Lawler’s remarks of him corrupting the New York courts, sarcastically quipping, “I didn’t know I had that much power.”

Hochul’s office did not immediately respond to a request for a response to Lawler.

The National Democrat Redistricting Push

But Jeffries also told The Daily Signal he welcomes a new map shifting representation in Democrats favor, saying, “what you should continue to expect is that Democrats are going to fight for a fair national congressional map.”

“Republicans started this gerrymandering fight. Democrats are going to end it,” Jeffries continued.

“I’m looking forward to my meeting later on today with Gov. Wes Moore [of Maryland]. The people of Virginia are going to have an opportunity to vote on a fair map in the Commonwealth in the next few months.”

In Maryland, a commission assembled by Moore has drafted a map to boot the state’s sole Republican Rep. Andy Harris from Congress. Maryland redistricting efforts have been repeatedly stymied by court rulings.

In Virginia, Senate president pro tempore Louise Lucas has also repeatedly called for redistricting to reduce the state’s Republican U.S. House delegation from five members to one.

Democrat redistricting efforts pose a grave threat to Republicans, since an Indiana pro-Republican redistricting attempt failed in December, and Kansas’ state House Republican leaders have indicated redistricting may not be politically feasible.

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Republican officials believe President Donald Trump is close to “freeing the people of Cuba,” as whistleblowers claimed the Trump administration eyes regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026.

The administration has allegedly been in search of Cuban insiders who can help execute a regime change on the island, the Wall Street Journal recently reported.

“All signs point to that [end to the communist regime],” Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told The Daily Signal.

“Cuba is at its lowest point in 65 years,” Gimenez, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and House Committee on Armed Services, continued. “Cuba is collapsing under its own incompetence, under its own weight.”

“They [Cuban regime] should be sleeping with their pajamas on,” Kevin Cooper, Chairman of the largest Republican County in the country, the Miami-Dade GOP, told The Daily Signal. “It is time to bring freedom to the people of Cuba. I think it’s expected to happen at this time. People want it to happen.”

The news of the potential fall of the Cuban regime comes after Operation Absolute Resolve, which captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro was a key ally of the Cuban regime, and some say the operation should serve as a warning to the Cuban regime.

Unlike Obama administration officials who described that overthrowing the Cuban regime was “tougher than cracking a nut,” and President Robert F. Kennedy, who failed to topple Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion, Republican leaders remain optimistic that Trump’s administration could finally get the job done.

“President Trump is the President of peace, and if anyone can do it, it is him,” Cooper said.  

Full Support from the Cuban-American Community

A majority of the 2.4 million Cuban-Americans in the United States oppose the island’s communist regime and want to see an end to nearly seven decades of dictatorship.

Florida state Rep. David Borrero, a prominent voice against communism, said he “absolutely supports the Trump Administration in toppling the regime, which has been accused of egregious human rights violations.”

Last year, Borrero’s Victims of Communism Law, which mandates schools to teach Florida students about the horrors of communism, was signed into Florida law.

Gimenez, an immigrant from Cuba, told The Daily Signal that he’s been looking forward to the fall of the Cuban regime. “I’ve been looking forward to that day for a very long time. I came over when I was seven years old. The Cuban people also look forward to that day,” Gimenez said.

Cooper said for many Cuban-Americans, it’s very personal.

“I’ve met people with one eye, one arm, who have spent time in Cuban gulags, and trust me, there is nothing good about communism,” Cooper said. “Those who don’t think communism kills can come to South Florida, and I’d be happy to introduce them to some people.”

Could Cuba-US Relations Improve?

Cuba’s regime has historically been receptive of American adversaries, such as China and Russia.

A new regime in Cuba, these GOP officials claim, would be friendlier to the United States.

“We can convert Cuba from an adversary to a friend of the United States, and it will happen,” Gimenez added. “This hemisphere will be a hemisphere of Democracy and of freedom, and not a hemisphere of dictators, narco-terrorists, and communist.

Borrero said that Cuba “has tremendous strategic importance from the national security perspective. With Cuba being only 100 miles away from Florida, it’s a key strategic position.”

“If the U.S. were to have an ally in the next leadership in Cuba, it would certainly make us safer,” Borrero added.

Could Cuba Have a Bright Economic Future?

The fall of the Cuban regime could have a positive impact on the U.S. and Cuban economies, these GOP officials suggest, which might serve as an incentive for Trump to act.

Cuba “has tremendous potential for having a very thriving economy, and with that, by extension, trade with the United States,” Borrero said. “I’m sure the hardworking Cuban spirit would turn the country into a thriving economy again, and allow us to trade with them, and both of our countries will prosper from it.”

Before communism took hold of Cuba in 1959, the island was home to a thriving economy with dominance in key agricultural industries such as sugar and coffee. In contrast, the Cuban people now earn less than eight dollars a month.

“The Cuban people are some of the most entrepreneurial in terms of creativity and development. The opportunities really are endless, for both us and for them,” Cooper added. “If that were to happen, the Western Hemisphere would freely do business with each other for the first time in history.”

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“Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.”

That was Treasury Secretary Steve Bessent at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, delivering a remarkably on point put down of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

And the put down was warranted given that Newsom was hopping from camera to camera at the conference, painting himself as the leader of the American resistance against the American president, and generally acting the fool.

I always thought Newsom looked like how the Devil’s lawyer would be portratyed in a movie, but a mix of the main villain from “American Psycho” and Barbie’s boyfriend certainly seems spot on.

Aside from Bessent’s barb, Newsom’s presence at Davos—where world leaders and the global elite generally gather to out-smug each other—didn’t do him any favors.

Somehow, in an environment that seems perfectly suited to his persona, Newsom flamed out. And that flameout wasn’t just because his speech, which was clearly intended to be in the style of a post-State of the Union address partisan rebuttal, got canceled.

No, I think the reason is that his newest schtick of being the American lefty memelord who is totally not running for president ran into the larger political forces at play. Newsom clearly wanted to present himself as the champion of the great global “liberal international order” empire fighting those mean nationalistic bullies like Russia and the United States.

But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered what was almost certainly the best address representing that view. And while Carney’s speech was wrong on much of its substance—Trump certainly had some harsh and apt criticism—it was at least serious and credible.

Not so with Newsom, who just seemed eager to please cameras while making strange analogies and telling crude inside jokes about how world leaders are “selling out” to Trump, which didn’t land.

What made this “selling out” joke even more ridiculous is that Newsom decided it was the right idea to take a minute to pose for a picture with leftist billionaire megadonor Alex Soros while he was there.

Again, not great.

Some may say that Trump often creates a spectacle, that he’s not above trolling, and that Newsom is just acting in response. But Trump is the president and he’s actually getting things done on the world stage. Even the Greenland brouhaha that caused so much angst throughout Europe seems to have ended up as a deal that’s good for the U.S. and our allies.

In other words, there is a purpose to what Trump says in line with the administration’s foreign policy goals.

Newsom isn’t the president and he certainly doesn’t have any power over U.S. foreign policy. He’s just a state governor. Instead of being crowned the head of the global resistance to Trump, he just came off looking like an anti-American punk.

Stephen A. Smith, the sports commentator turned political commentator, likely echoed the sentiments of many when he lambasted Newsom for criticizing Trump and America on foreign soil.

“Our problems are our problems. But we ain’t taking dirty laundry outside,” Smith said on his SiriusXM show. “You don’t go on a world stage to disrespect your own house, which is the United States of America. I don’t like that at all, not even a little bit.”

And the optics issue doesn’t even get to the bigger question about Newsom and Davos. What exactly was a state governor doing there at all?

California seems to be having a lot of problems. Shouldn’t Newsom be at home fixing those? He should at least refrain from delivering a moral lecture to the world about how Trump and his administration are so awful when his own state is so dysfunctional and frequently tyrannical, right?

While the Democrat Party is quite farcically pivoting to the idea that they are all about “affordability,” California is practically the posterchild of a runaway cost of living. In the Golden State, pretty much nothing is affordable thanks to Newsom’s policies. Meanwhile, the California governor is yucking it up with global elites about how proud he is to be giving taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens.

Even some writers at The Atlantic had to concede this week that Newsom’s record on economics is a bad look–and on cultural issues an even worse look–if he ever intends to win over a national audience.

“California’s affordability problems are dire, but Newsom’s greatest vulnerabilities may be cultural issues,” wrote Marc Novicoff and Jonathan Chait. “His tenure has seen the state fall hard for faddish progressive policies on immigration, education, and crime that either didn’t work, violated the intuitions of most Americans, or both.”

Oof.

Now, Newsom could go back to California and start trying to clean up the mess, maybe do a little more to help the Palisades that burned down, or maybe try to curtail homelessness that he promised to fix decades ago, or perhaps even work to ensure that men don’t play in woman’s sports in his state given that he once called it “unfair.”

But as always with Newsom, you shouldn’t take him literally or seriously. Hopefully a few more people learned that after his Davos debacle.

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., has introduced a plan to end the rampant fraud not only in his home state of Minnesota but across the country.

In response to massive amounts of fraud uncovered in Minnesota—most prominently at the hands of the state’s large Somali population—Emmer has introduced the SCAM Act to denaturalize fraudsters, terrorists, and felons throughout the country.  

“If you came to this country to harm and take advantage of the American people, I’ve got news for you: You’re going home,” Emmer said in a press release of the announcement.

Emmer introduced the SCAM Act, or the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation Act, on Tuesday.

“Some naturalized citizens have treated their new citizenship status as a purely administrative benefit they can leverage for their own personal gain,” Emmer told The Daily Signal. “They won’t get away with that anymore,” Emmer added.  

The legislation notes that, according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, during the naturalization process applicants must demonstrate that they are persons of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States. 

The SCAM Act would clarify what good moral character means and allow the government to prove that a person did not meet the requirements. Anyone who has been convicted of government welfare fraud, is affiliated with a transnational criminal organization like a terror group or a drug cartel, or convicted of an aggravated felony within 10 years of naturalization is in jeopardy of being denaturalized.

“The SCAM Act will expand and clarify the grounds for denaturalization, making it easier to denaturalize criminals who commit fraud, an aggravated felony, espionage, or join a terrorist group within ten years of their naturalization,” said Emmer.  

There are about 7 million people in the U.S. who have been naturalized in the past 10 years who would be subject to denaturalization if found guilty of any of the crimes Emmer lists.

The Department of Justice recently launched an investigation into multiple Minnesota state officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, to uncover if there is a connection to the fraud schemes.

The DOJ has charged roughly 100 people in Minnesota with fraud-related charges as of late. A lerge majority of them are of Somalian descent.

The Treasury Department and the IRS have also launched multiple investigations and audits throughout the state related to fraud.  

The Senate is pushing a similar piece of legislation, also called the SCAM Act, introduced by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., the day prior.  

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