The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced on Monday the conclusion of its emergency mission. The humanitarian group, which received significant financial backing from the U.S. and support from President Donald Trump, delivered 187 million meals to the people of Gaza since its launch at the end of May. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is leaving its aid mission in the hands of the recently established Civil-Military Coordination Center, headquartered in Israel, and other humanitarian groups. “From the outset, [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s] goal was to meet an urgent need, prove that a new approach could succeed where others had failed, and ultimately hand off that success to the broader international community. With the creation of the Civil-Military Coordination Center and a rejuvenated engagement of the international humanitarian community, GHF believes that moment has now arrived,” John Acree, executive director of the organization, said in a statement Monday.   The organization stood up operations in Gaza following growing reports of Hamas terrorists looting aid trucks. The aid group ran four main distribution sites in Gaza built on a model of using local people to help staff the sites and focused on security, disciplined operations, and delivering food directly to civilians to prevent Hamas interference.   During its operation, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation came under intense scrutiny from the U.N. and criticism from world leaders following multiple violent incidents near its distribution sites, some of which resulted in civilian deaths.  U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “inherently unsafe,” and even claimed the group was “killing people.”  Despite the criticism, and the security risks to its own team, the group continued its work in Gaza until the ceasefire went into effect in October following Hamas and Israel agreeing to a peace plan based on Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war and release the remaining hostages.   “We have faced enormous challenges. Our workers have been attacked and killed. Our integrity has been unfairly questioned. We have operated without the resources and recognition given to others. But we have not stopped,” Rev. Johnnie Moore, the group’s executive chairman, told The Daily Signal during an interview over the summer.   During its roughly five months of operations, the group delivered more than 5,600 metric tons of potatoes and supplied over a million packs of ready-to-use supplementary food for malnourished children. Additionally, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation partnered with the Christian humanitarian group Samaritan’s Purse to provide medical care mothers and infants at its sites, and created dedicated distribution lanes that prioritized women, children, and the elderly.  Women receive food at an aid site in Gaza operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. (GHF) “What our team will miss the most are the friendships and camaraderie developed with thousands of Gazans, especially the women and children we served,” Acree said. “In early July, as the food security situation in Gaza improved, our operations stabilized and we experienced a major shift in winning over the trust of aid seekers to the point where our aid sites became local hangout spots for women and children interacting with our team on a daily basis. We will miss them dearly.”   The group is maintaining its NGO status and will remain prepared to step up and help again should the need arise in Gaza, according to the group.   The post After 187 Million Meals Delivered, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Announces End to Mission  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

After urging members of the military to refuse “illegal orders” from the Trump administration, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., admitted she is not aware of any such orders. “Do you believe President [Donald] Trump has issued any illegal orders?” ABC’s Martha Raddatz asked her. “To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal—but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela,” Slotkin said. In a video posted on X, Slotkin said that “threats to the Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but right here at home.” Slotkin and five other Democrat members of Congress shared a video on X Tuesday, telling the military and intelligence community, the “American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.”   “Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home,” the six Democrats say in the video message. “Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. … You must refuse illegal orders.”   Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., also appears in the video alongside Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, and Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire. All six Democrats formerly served in the U.S. military or in the intelligence community.   “No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution,” the elected leaders say. “We know this is hard and that it’s a difficult time to be a public servant. But whether you’re serving in the CIA, the Army, our Navy, the Air Force—your vigilance is critical, and know that we have your back because now, more than ever, the American people need you.”   The video earned over five million views on X in less than 24 hours and drew criticism from the White House.   “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection,” Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, wrote on X.   Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called the Democrats’ video “Stage 4 [Trump Derangement Syndrome].”   The post Sen. Elissa Slotkin Admits She’s ‘Not Aware’ of Any Illegal Military Orders appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Disapproval of the state of the economy is widespread today, despite many indicators improving since the start of the year. The reality is that most Americans’ financial situation deteriorated so much under the Joe Biden administration that there’s a long way to go before this affordability crisis is resolved. Fortunately, there are ways to speed up the process. Perhaps the best illustration of where most Americans are economically today, and where they’ve been, is to look at real, meaning inflation-adjusted, average weekly earnings. This tells us not only how much the average American makes each week, but what those weekly paychecks can actually buy. In the first eight months of the Donald Trump administration, real average weekly earnings rose about 1%—a modest improvement, to be sure, but clearly a step in the right direction. People’s incomes rose faster than prices, so they could afford a higher standard of living. But we need some perspective to understand why people are still so deeply dissatisfied with the economy. In the four years before Trump returned to the White House, real average weekly earnings fell 4% because inflation during the Biden administration far outpaced wage growth. That means the good progress made thus far this year only reversed about one-quarter of the losses from the prior four years. The average American is still worse off than he or she was before Trump left office. Housing is another valuable illustration of the affordability crisis plaguing families, particularly those who don’t already own a home. Under the Biden administration, the monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced home more than doubled in less than four years. This fact alone bifurcated America into a kind of two-tiered society, separating us into those who are lucky enough to buy a home before costs exploded, and those who may be forced to rent for the rest of their lives.In short, the American Dream steadily turned into a nightmare of unaffordability as the price of necessities like housing hit stratospheric levels. None of this diminishes the strides the Trump administration has made to slow inflation and even lower some prices on consumer staples, like eggs or gasoline. But just because the economy is moving in the right direction doesn’t mean years’ worth of damage has all been undone. It took a while to get into this mess, and it’ll take a while to fix everything. While this is valuable context for understanding the current political situation, it doesn’t help struggling families put food on the table, gas in the tank, or pay the rent. But the good news is that much more can be done to quickly provide relief and end this affordability crisis. The Trump administration is already rolling back overregulation, and those efforts should be accelerated. Just as imposing excessive regulation adds costs for American workers, consumers, and businesses, so too will rolling back that overreach provide relief in the form of lower costs. Regulatory costs are often “hidden,” meaning consumers have no way of identifying what percentage of a product’s or service’s cost is from regulatory burdens. But those costs are nonetheless quite large, estimated at over $2 trillion annually. Repealing just some of this burden would quickly provide billions of dollars in relief to families. Likewise, the Trump administration could tailor its tariffs more finely to avoid consumer goods or industrial inputs that cannot feasibly be made here, like he did earlier this week for coffee and bananas. Those tariffs are more likely to be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, so reducing or eliminating them reduces prices instead. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the Department of Government Efficiency needs to be put on steroids so that it can make drastic cuts to the federal budget. In just a few months, DOGE managed to find billions of dollars in abuse, corruption, fraud, and waste throughout the federal budget—despite being blocked at every turn by bureaucrats and rogue judges. If the DOGE team were truly given carte blanche, they would undoubtedly save taxpayers billions of dollars more each year. That’s important because these savings would reduce government spending and therefore borrowing. With the government borrowing less money, there’s less upward pressure on interest rates. Lower interest rates would reduce financing costs for millions of Americans on mortgages, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, and more—providing much-needed relief. The Biden administration left a full-blown affordability crisis for Trump, and he has been working to douse the flames. But the fire isn’t out yet—only contained. It’ll take a herculean effort to extinguish the inferno, but it can be done. Originally published by The Washington Times. The post How We Can Finally Overcome the Affordability Crisis appeared first on The Daily Signal.

While many health care associations support the experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender affirming care” for minors, most doctors in Florida agree with the public to support laws protecting kids from these “treatments,” a new study finds. “We see that a strong majority of doctors believe sex-change interventions should be prohibited for minors,” Ian Kingsbury, director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, told The Daily Signal. The study, provided to The Daily Signal, shows that most doctors in the Sunshine State also reject racial preferences in admissions and the theory of racial concordance—that patients receive the best care from a doctor or nurse of their own race. Opposition to racial preferences and “gender-affirming care” contradict the positions of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Endocrine Society—medical groups that ostensibly represent doctors. Yet the doctors’ positions align with the general public in Florida, according to another survey Do No Harm commissioned as part of the report. “This overlap in opinion is no coincidence, but a clear call to re-center medicine around common sense and sound science,” Kingsbury said. “We cannot allow harmful ideologies pushed by woke activists to sully the integrity of medicine any longer. Instead, we must reinstitute excellence and integrity within our medical organizations, schools, and hospital systems.” Do No Harm advocates for removing contested ideologies, such as transgender ideology and critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist and requires fundamental change to root out racism), from medicine in order to focus on quality. ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ When a doctor diagnoses a minor with gender dysphoria (the painful and persistent identification with the gender opposite the child’s sex), “treatment” first consists of “social transition,” encouraging peers to treat a boy as a girl or vice versa; then to drugs to delay puberty, which in other contexts are used for chemical castration of sex offenders; then to cross-sex hormones to make males appear female or vice-versa; and finally to surgeries to remove healthy sex organs and replace them with facsimiles of the opposite sex’s organs. Documented side-effects of cross-sex hormones include higher risks of cancer, blood clots, and death. Even advocates for gender-affirming care have written—in applications to receive federal funding for research—that there is no definitive proof that these grotesque interventions have positive outcomes for young patients. The Department of Health and Human Services reviewed the evidence for these interventions and found “extremely weak evidence” for benefits to counter the downsides. The Results While the health associations mentioned above oppose laws to protect minors from transgender interventions, both rank-and-file doctors and the general public in Florida supported them. The survey asked doctors and the general public: “Florida has passed legislation that prohibits medical professionals from providing sex change interventions, such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery, to individuals under 18. To what extend to you support or oppose that law?” Most doctors (66%) said they “strongly support” (55%) or “somewhat support” (11%) such laws, while only 11% said they “somewhat oppose” them, and less than a quarter (23%) said they “strongly oppose” them. This support echoes that of the general public, 60% of whom said they strongly (49%) or somewhat (12%) support such laws. Both groups also supported a policy that would “require that trans athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth.” Three-quarters of doctors said they “strongly” (64%) or “somewhat” (11%) support such a policy. Similarly, most Floridians (76%) agreed, saying they “strongly” (59%) or “somewhat” (17%) support it. Doctors and the general public also agreed that the increase in diagnosis of gender dysphoria among minors should be a source of concern. In asking about this issue, Do No Harm cited two reports: a Reuters report that 15,172 minors (ages 6-17) had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2017 and another survey finding that 42,167 kids had been diagnosed with it in 2021. The survey asked doctors and the general public whether the increase should be “a source of concern,” a “cause for celebration” or neither. Most doctors (64%) said it should be a source of concern, while only 1% said it should be a cause for celebration, and 35% said neither. Almost half of the public (49%) said it should be a concern, while 3% said it should inspire celebration and 47% said neither. Racial Questions The survey asked doctors and the general public whether this statement was true or false: “Patients have better health outcomes when they are of the same racial or ethnic background as the doctors who treat them.” Most doctors (69%) said the statement was false, as did most of the public (78%). The survey also asked about college or university admissions. Most doctors (68%) agreed that “applicants should be admitted solely on the basis of merit, even if that results in few minority students being admitted.” Most of the public (59%) also agreed. The survey was conducted from May 24 to June 2, 2025 and included 736 licensed Florida physicians and 600 Florida voters. The post Rank-and-File Doctors Oppose ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors, Contrary to Medical Associations, New Study Finds appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Breaking news: The sun rose in the east today.  In an equally predictable development, Democrats screamed at Republicans for allegedly doing what Democrats actively perpetrate. This is psychological projection: pinning one’s flaws on others.  Classic example: A morbidly obese man wolfs down his third after-dinner milkshake and screams at a physical trainer nibbling a salad: “Put down the fork, you cow!” That’s how Democrats acted this week after relentlessly bellowing at President Donald Trump about the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein: “OPEN THE EPSTEIN FILES! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, FASCIST? HITLER WOULD HAVE RELEASED THEM BY NOW!!” The Epstein files finally are emerging and, lo and behold, they are clogged with Democrats! Epstein was a generous political donor, overwhelmingly to Democrats. According to OpenSecrets.com’s spreadsheet, between 1990 and 2018, Epstein contributed $200,676 to both parties’ candidates and committees. Republicans scored $18,250 (9.1%), and Democrats received $182,426 (90.9%). Epstein preferred Democrats 10-to-1.  Epstein’s selected beneficiaries included: •Former GOP President George H.W. Bush: $1,000 •Former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, R-N.Y.: $2,000 •Former Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.: $3,000 •Former Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.: $4,000 •Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.: $7,000 •Democratic National Committee: $32,000 •Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: $59,000 Trump’s name is nowhere. Despite Hate Trump, Inc.’s Big Lie that Trump and Epstein were BFFs who prowled junior-high-school campuses for dates, Epstein never funded Trump. “He gave me none. Zero,” Trump said Tuesday. “No money to me.” “I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump added. Despite previously socializing, Trump booted Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago resort in October 2007, reportedly for improper conduct toward a member’s teenage daughter. Trump explained: “I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert—and I guess I turned out to be right.”  Indeed, on June 30, 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to prostituting a girl below age 18. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, although he largely was “confined” to his Palm Beach mansion, worked at his office, and traveled on his private jet. •Speaking of which, Democrat former President Bill Clinton took 17 flights aboard Epstein’s plane, dubbed The Lolita Express, in 2002-03. Epstein also donated $2,000 to Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. •The House’s Democrat leader is embroiled in this scandal. “Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority,” House Government Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ken., announced on the House floor Tuesday afternoon. “So, Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein!” “Hakeem is committed to electing a Democrat majority in 2014 and is encouraging his friends to participate in the DCCC/DSCC [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] fundraising dinner with President Obama this coming Monday night,” Lisa Rossi of Dynamic SRG e-mailed Epstein on May 7, 2013. “Shoot us an e-mail or give us a call at (212) 531-2858 if you would like to get involved with the dinner, or would like to get an opportunity to get to know Hakeem better.” Remember: This was almost five years after Epstein’s pedophilia conviction. •Meanwhile, former Harvard President and Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Larry Summers e-mailed Epstein like crazy. Among other topics, Epstein coached Summers on how to finesse a seemingly difficult extramarital affair. Summers complained about “being the friend without benefits.”  Epstein e-mailed Summers, “you reacted well,” in a March 16, 2019, dust-up with his apparent mistress. Epstein added in a characteristic run-on sentence, “annoyed shows caring, no whining showed strength.” •Non-voting Delegate Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, live-texted with Epstein before she questioned Trump’s disgraced former attorney Michael Cohen during a February 2019 U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing. Apparently, watching on TV, Epstein complimented Plaskett’s attire (“Great outfit”) and informed her that Rhona Graff was Trump’s former executive assistant. Moments later, Plaskett quizzed Cohen about Graff. One minute after she concluded, Epstein texted her: “Good work.” Spokeswoman Angeline Jabbar told CNN that Plaskett feels “disgust over Epstein’s deviant behavior … ” However, in 2016 and 2018, Plaskett curbed her disgust long enough to accept $8,100 of Epstein’s campaign cash. Yet again, the Democrat Party’s incessant psychological projection and infinite hypocrisy are reasons enough for its sun to set in the west. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. This article was originally published Nov. 22 in The Daily Signal. The post Democrats Love Epstein appeared first on The Daily Signal.