White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller says birthright citizenship is essentially an “illegal” immigration program.   “One point not made enough on immigration: when you have a national program (an illegal suicidal one) of granting ‘birthright’ citizenship to the child of any and every foreigner who sets foot on your soil, you must be infinitely more cautious about who to allow into your country,” Miller wrote on X Tuesday.   The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Construction established birthright citizenship in 1868, stating: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”   “Birthright citizenship also renders so many statistics invalid or absurd,” Miller continued. “If any foreign national comes to the US and has a child, and that child uses welfare, fails a state test, commits a crime, goes to jail, etc. those outcomes are all recorded in the ‘American’ column.”   One point not made enough on immigration: when you have a national program (an illegal suicidal one) of granting “birthright” citizenship to the child of any and every foreigner who sets foot on your soil, you must be infinitely more cautious about who to allow into your country.— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 23, 2025 President Donald Trump thrust the issue into the news on his first day back in office on Jan. 20, when he signed the executive order “Protecting the Value and Meaning of American Citizenship” which aims to end automatic birthright citizenship.  Trump’s executive order focuses on the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” and claims that children born to illegal immigrants are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction and thus are not legal citizens.     Trump’s order further claims that citizenship does not automatically extend to a person whose father is not a citizen or lawful resident and whose mother is in the U.S. lawfully but only temporarily, such as through a visa program.   A coalition of states immediately sued to block Trump’s  order, and on Dec. 5 the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in what is expected to be its biggest case of 2026.  The post Top Trump Official Bashes Birthright Citizenship as ‘Illegal Suicidal’ Immigration Program   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Sasse, 53, resigned from his second term in the Senate in 2023 to become president of the University of Florida. He later left that position in July 2024, citing concerns about the health of his wife, who was diagnosed with epilepsy. “Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die,” Sasse wrote in a lengthy statement posted to social media. “Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.” Friends-This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.…— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) December 23, 2025 “I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers,” Sasse continued. “As one of them put it, ‘Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.’ Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.” Ben and Melissa Sasse are the parents of three children and the former senator highlighted the pain of dying while they are still in the early stages of life. Sasse shared in his post that his eldest daughter joined the Air Force, his second daughter recently graduated from college and his 14-year-old son is learning to drive. “This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad,” added the Nebraska Republican. Sasse served eight years in the Senate after being first elected in 2014. He was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial following the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The Nebraska Republican highlighted his Christian faith in his statement announcing the pancreatic cancer diagnosis. “I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight,” Sasse wrote in the statement. “One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived.” “But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: ‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given’ (Isaiah 9),” Sasse continued. Originally published by the Daily Caller The post Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse Reveals He Has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer, Says He Is ‘Gonna Die’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The military reported its best recruitment numbers in more than 15 years in 2025, according to the Pentagon.   “In 2025, the department exceeded our annual active-duty recruitment accession goals across all five services,” Undersecretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony J. Tata said Monday.  Tata credited President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with the influx of new recruits.   Trump and Hegseth “are focused on our troops and our mission, and on ensuring that we remain the most lethal fighting force on the planet,” Tata said.   In 2025, every active-duty branch of the military met or exceeded its recruitment goal, the Department of War reported:  The Army had a goal of 61,000 recruits and attained 62,050, totaling 101.72% of its goal.   The Navy had a goal of 40,600 recruits and attained 44,096, totaling 108.61% of its goal.   The Air Force had a goal of 30,100 recruits and attained 30,166, totaling 100.22% of its goal.   The Space Force had a goal of 796 recruits and attained 819, totaling 102.89% of its goal.   The Marine Corps had a goal of 26,600 recruits and attained 26,600, totaling 100% of its goal.  Additional factors are contributing to the recruiting surge, such as “courses that help improve overall aptitude among recruits and enhanced medical screening processes,” the Pentagon reported.   Recruitment for fiscal year 2026, which began Oct. 1, is already off to a strong start, according to Tata, who says the War Department “is on track to once again meet our recruiting mission.”  The Pentagon touted the success of its fiscal year recruitment numbers the same day that Trump announced a new class of American battleships.   Trump made the announcement alongside Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Navy Secretary John Phelan at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.   “As commander in chief, it’s my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand-new, very large, largest we’ve ever built, battleships,” Trump said.   The ships, which Trump says will be part of a new “golden fleet” of warships, are currently in the design phase.   The USS Defiant will be the first ship to be constructed, with a goal of completion by the early 2030s, according to the Pentagon.   “The future Trump-class battleship, the USS Defiant, will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,” Phelan said.   The post Military Recruitment Reaches 15-Year High  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Hunter Biden appeared to raise concerns about his father’s immigration policies, saying the U.S. would be better off without “immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources.” “I don’t even know if I’m a Democrat anymore,” the son of former President Joe Biden said Monday in a wide-ranging interview on “The Shawn Kelly Show.” Biden, 55, said America is “addicted to the problem” of immigration and everyone is “talking past each other.” He added that “anybody” running for president will try to fix the “immigration issue.”  “We need immigration,” Biden said. “We need vibrant immigration, but we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and also – and being prioritized above people that are actual, literal heroes, that are coming home, that are still recovering from 21, 20 years of endless war.” Later in the interview, Biden admitted to being $15 million in debt. He also slammed the United States’ botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was ordered by his father. “I think the failure, one of the failures, was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Biden said. “I think it was an obvious f****** failure. Thirteen marines are dead. I think that there was a better way to do it, and I think that–and I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on the people, the way in which we did it, but my dad always knew this also is that the buck stops with him.” Biden thinks withdrawing from Afghanistan was “the right thing to do,” though he disagrees with the method. “I think that in terms of the 20 years of blood that your brothers gave to for an endless war in $8 trillion dollars, is that there is a never-ending lust to continue to sell material, and our blood, sweat, and money to a country that has–that has never been anything but a killing ground for empires,” Biden said. “So regardless, whether you believe that or not, the execution of the withdrawal resulted, I think, in–and by the way you can blame part of it on Trump and that he let all those people out of the prison, the Taliban–but you know what, it stops with the president.” He said his dad now feels the “same way that I do” about the withdrawal and is “crushed” by the thought of the lives lost. “I think that there’s a lot of things that you can’t imagine, the kinds of decisions that you have to make as a president, and that if you have a heart and you care, it just must be so overwhelmingly, beyond comprehension, difficult,” Biden said.  The post ‘I Don’t Even Know If I’m a Democrat Anymore’: Hunter Biden Departs from Dad’s Immigration, Afghanistan Policies appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump said tariffs are the reason that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. In July, August, and September, GDP increased at 4.3%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, even though economists predicted the economy would grow at a 3.2% annual rate due to the second quarter’s 3.8% growth. “The TARIFFS are responsible for the GREAT USA Economic Numbers JUST ANNOUNCED…AND THEY WILL ONLY GET BETTER!” Trump wrote on TruthSocial. “Also, NO INFLATION & GREAT NATIONAL SECURITY. Pray for the U.S. Supreme Court!!!” The Supreme Court is considering a case that would overturn Trump’s tariffs. Due to the recent government shutdown, the Dec. 23 report for the third quarter of 2025 replaces the release of the advance estimate originally scheduled for Oct. 30, as well as the second estimate originally scheduled for Nov. 26. White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai said the report shows that Americans “can count on benefitting from a historic economic boom in 2026.” “Today’s blockbuster, expectation-smashing GDP report is the latest proof that President Trump’s America First trade and economic agenda continues to turn the page on the Biden economic disaster: American consumers are spending, and American exports are surging,” Desai said. “President Trump built the greatest economy in the world in his first term, and he’s in the process of doing it all over again.” The post Trump Says This Economic Policy Is Responsible for ‘Expectation-Smashing’ GDP Report appeared first on The Daily Signal.