This past year, the Left crossed a Rubicon in normalizing political violence. The year opened with many on the Left praising a man who allegedly murdered a health care CEO, and it ended with Virginia Democrats overwhelmingly voting for a man who fantasized about shooting his political opponent and wished death on his opponent’s children. Jay Jones, now Virginia’s attorney general-elect, made the most bloodcurdling endorsement of political violence I have ever seen from an elected official, and he justified it with this sentence: “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones apologized for the remarks, but he remained in the race, and he even shared a stage with none other than former President Barack Obama. I had hoped my fellow Virginians would reject this message in November, but Jones won the election—setting a horrifying precedent for American politics. Jones’ election victory highlights the negative partisanship in America, and it comes at the end of a truly horrifying year of left-wing violence. Here are 10 incidents of threats or violence aligning with the Left’s attacks on Trump and his party. 1. Targeting ‘Nazi’ Pete Hegseth On Jan. 28, Capitol Police arrested Riley Jane English, 24, after she told officers she was carrying a folding knife and two Molotov cocktails. English traveled to Washington, D.C., intending to kill War Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom she referred to as a “Nazi,” or House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to a police affidavit. She also reportedly mentioned wanting to burn down The Heritage Foundation. This attack followed media reports claiming that Hegseth had a tattoo “associated with white supremacist groups,” when the tattoo merely features the Jerusalem Cross. It also followed a year of false claims about Project 2025, a policy project The Heritage Foundation led. 2. Tesla Vandalism As the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, cut wasteful and ideological spending in the early months of this year, vandals targeted Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations. Agitators burned vehicles to the ground, and protesters marched with a banner reading, “Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy.” Some agitators even published a map claiming to plot the location of every Tesla owner across the U.S., suggesting users should attack them. 3. New Mexico GOP Vandalized In April, the Justice Department charged Jamison Wagner, 40, for two attacks: an arson attack on two Tesla vehicles in February featuring swastikas and the graffiti “Die Elon”; and an arson attack on the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters, featuring the graffiti “ICE=KKK.” “Hurling firebombs is not political protest,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at the time. 4. National Jewish Museum In May, a gunman yelling, “Free Palestine,” shot and killed a Jewish couple—Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—outside the National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Elias Rodriguez, 31, faces local and federal murder charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty. Rodriguez had previously been associated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, though the party said he has not been involved with the group since 2017. 5. Boulder Molotov Cocktail Attack Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, faces 12 hate crime charges for allegedly using Molotov cocktails on June 1 to attack people who marched in solidarity with the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. He shouted, “Free Palestine!” during the attack, and reportedly described Israel as a “cancer entity.” Soliman allegedly wounded 12 victims, one of whom died from her injuries the next day. 6. Apparent Revenge for Hortman In June, Vance Boelter, 57, allegedly murdered former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and shot state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, both of whom survived. Boelter appears to have been motivated by opposition to abortion, and he targeted Democrats. The Center for Strategic and International Studies categorized the attack as right-wing. A few days after the assassination, a Democratic Party lobbyist reportedly sent text messages to a former friend of an opposing political viewpoint. The lobbyist wrote, “Excited to have my gun at the capitol and blow somebody’s f—ing face off.” The Minnesota State Patrol reported in October that it has investigated 50 threats against Minnesota state commissioners, lawmakers, and the governor’s office, more than double the 19 from last year. These threats targeted Republicans, as well as Democrats. 7. Alvarado ICE Attack On July 4, 10-12 people wearing black clothing started shooting fireworks at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, spray painting “Ice pig” and “F— you pigs,” on cars and structures, according to prosecutors. When Alvarado police arrived at the scene, one of the agitators allegedly shot one of them in the neck. About 18 people face federal and state charges for the attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Four defendants pleaded not guilty in December. Joshua Jahn, 29, killed two ICE detainees at a Dallas detention center before taking his own life in a September shooting. In November, the Department of Homeland Security reported that ICE and Customs and Border Protection have faced nearly 100 vehicular attacks this year, more than double the amount for 2024. Attacks on federal law enforcement follow years of leftist demonization, comparing ICE to the KKK and the Nazi Gestapo. 8. Annunciation Church Shooting On Aug. 27, a man who legally changed his name to affirm a transgender identity shot and killed two children and injured thirty others at a school mass at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis. Other offenders who identified as transgender have also targeted Christians for threats and shootings. 9. Kirk Assassination On Sept. 10, a man in a relationship with another man who identifies as transgender allegedly murdered Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The shooting came a few months after the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for comparing mainstream conservative and Christian groups to the KKK by putting them on a “hate map,” added Turning Point USA to that map. Many on the Left celebrated Kirk’s death. 10. Arson Attempt The Kirk assassination sparked more violence. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota filed charges against a man who allegedly made violent threats in retaliation for Kirk’s death. On Sept. 17, police in El Paso, Texas, arrested 35-year-old Marynka Marquez and charged her with arson against a place of worship, specifically Beth El Bible Church. According to police, Marquez “had gone to the church, placed a large bag against the outside wall of the church, set it on fire, and then fled the scene.” The pastor had been leaving the church, so he spotted the fire and put it out. On Sept. 18, the day after the attack, Beth El Bible Church held a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk. Many Kirk memorials also faced vandalism. Political Violence Neither the Left nor the Right has a monopoly on political violence, as this list demonstrates. Both conservatives and liberals need to condemn these violent attacks. That said, the normalization of political violence seems particularly worrying on the Left. A YouGov poll conducted in October found that self-identified Democrats are more likely to have a favorable view of Antifa (+15%) than they did in September 2022 (-5%) or even in March 2025 (-7%). The Proud Boys, a right-leaning group that has engaged in street brawls with Antifa, finds no such popularity among self-identified Republicans (-20%), though it is, of course, even less favorable among Democrats (-59%). While conservatives must remain vigilant to threats from the Right, the Left cannot merely dismiss political violence as a “far-right” or even a “both sides” problem. The post 10 Major Incidents of Left-Wing Violence and Threats in 2025 appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, Republican candidate running to unseat New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, announced she is pulling out of the race and will not seek reelection for her congressional seat, in which she is now serving her sixth term. It’s been a rough couple years for Stefanik.  After President Donald Trump’s reelection, she was named to be the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. However, this never happened because she returned to the House to alleviate the thin Republican majority to get the One Big Beautiful Bill passed Last month she announced her bid for the governorship, thinking she would be the Republican nominee. Now a local county Republican official has entered the race, necessitating a primary.  Stefanik decided to call it quits.  She says she’s decided what is critical in her life now is to spend time with her family and raising her young son. “I believe being a parent is life’s greatest gift and greatest responsibility,” she said. Some jaded cynics may see this as an excuse for giving up. I don’t. Stefanik is anything but a shrinking violet. Winning her congressional seat at age 30 made her the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress. She entered the national spotlight with her incisive and persistent questioning of the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania in House hearings on antisemitism. The ordeal they went through with Stefanik led both to step down from their positions.  Contrary to the dour view of those who live secular lives, whose struggles take place in a backdrop of meaninglessness, those of faith know each critical node to which we arrive is not random. Even the great physicist Albert Einstein noted, “God does not play dice with the universe.” The challenges we face, those critical forks in the road to which we arrive, cause us to take stock and get our priorities clear. The model that Stefanik now sets could influence our country far more than she ever might as a congressional leader or U.N. ambassador. Erika Kirk, taking over as CEO of Turning Point USA, assuming the leadership of her late husband Charlie, has noted her interest in bringing the Christian values of marriage and family to young women as her husband did with young men. Our country is experiencing both a marriage crisis and a children crisis. At a recent press briefing at the White House, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called our declining fertility rate a “national security threat.” The fertility rate—the number of births per woman—is now 1.6. To maintain the population at its existing level requires a rate of 2.1. Kennedy noted that when his uncle John F. Kennedy was president, the rate was 3.5. The Washington Post reports that the number of women between 25 and 44 that have never given birth has risen from 18.2% in 1976 to 34.6% in 2022. And, per Pew Research, the percent of 40-year-old Americans who have never married has risen from 6% in 1980 to 25% in 2021. It’s worse with women than men. Per Pew Research, in 1993, 83% of 12th grade girls said they were likely to get married. By 2023, this was down to 61%. Among 12th grade boys, 76% in 1993 and 74% in 2023 said they were likely to get married.  Why materialism and secularism have taken a greater toll among young women is open to speculation. But RFK Jr. is right. This is a national security threat. So now let’s use the awe of Christmas to recall and celebrate that our scripture tells us to “choose life.” And let’s pray that our examples of transforming the isolation of pain into the joy of meaning and giving and creating will touch our troubled nation. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Common Faith of Elise Stefanik and Erika Kirk appeared first on The Daily Signal.

More than a million Americans may unwittingly hold second jobs—because that work is being performed by an illegal alien using their stolen social security number. News of the identity theft can come as a rude shock to citizens like the Minnesota factory worker who had crushing tax bills because of a thrice-deported illegal immigrant in Missouri who was working under his name for years. Or Iowa taxpayers who learned that the superintendent of the Des Moines school system was an illegal immigrant facing a deportation order. More likely, they may never know that their identity was pilfered, perhaps by one of the 70 illegal workers accused last summer of stealing more than 100 identities so they could work at a Nebraska meatpacking plant, or by one of the 18 individuals charged with “aggravated identity theft, misuse of Social Security numbers, and false statements” in March. While the crimes may seem innocuous or something committed more in cyberspace than in everyday life, they are far from victimless law-breaking. Studies show that identity theft can often lead not just to financial pressures, but also emotional and physical stress.  “There are real victims involved in this. When someone gets your or your child’s Social Security number, that is no longer a victimless crime,” said Ron Mortensen, a retired Foreign Service Officer and former human resources director with the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah. A RealClearInvestigations analysis has found that the federal and state governments bear some responsibility for this harm to American citizens because of their failure to address long-acknowledged weaknesses in the primary tool used to limit this identity theft—E-Verify. Established in 1997, the federal E-Verify system allows employers to establish whether the information applicants provide on their Form I-9 is valid. It is not infallible—it confirms information by checking it against various federal records, but doesn’t confirm if that information belongs to the applicants. Still, most experts consider it an effective deterrent.  “E-Verify isn’t foolproof, but it’s actually pretty good for a government program,” according to Mark Kirkorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It doesn’t screen a large part of the illegal immigrants in the country, but you have to commit a felony to fool it.” Nevertheless, while it is mandatory for those working on federal projects or contracts, only nine states also require its use for all larger private employers, according to I-9 Intelligence, an E-Verify compliance company. In most other states, the system, administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, is voluntary. California actively restricts its use; Illinois discourages it.  Although it is against the law to employ those who are ineligible to work in the U.S., the fines are relatively modest, rising to criminal charges only with repeated violations. Consequently, the net that E-Verify might throw over the illegal immigrants seeking employment has rips. In the Iowa incident, the head of the Des Moines school board told the New York Times that it does not use E-Verify to check applicants’ work eligibility.  From time to time, a bill has been floated in Congress—most recently by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley—to mandate E-Verify, but none have approached the 60 Senate votes necessary to pass. Mortensen believes E-Verify could be implemented via an executive order, but acknowledged that, like virtually all steps taken by President Donald Trump, it would be sure to face a legal challenge.  It is unclear how effective that move would be, as there are hiccups in the system. As of Tuesday morning, the government’s E-Verify website was full of broken links regarding “Hiring Sites, FY2025 Cases, and Usage past 365 days by state.” Even without a federal mandate, however, E-Verify usage has increased. In 2011, barely a quarter of a million employers nationwide checked potential hires via E-Verify, but the most recent figure for 2025 shows the number of employers that have entered into what is termed an E-Verify Memorandum of Understanding has topped 1.4 million. As might be expected given the patchwork legal requirements, the figures vary wildly from state to state. E-Verify use is widespread in states that have made it mandatory, such as Florida, with 2.4 million checks in 2025, or South Carolina, where there have been more than half a million. Even in California, there have been more than 2.6 million E-Verify checks this year, according to federal figures. How It Works The E-Verify system is free for employers, although it does require some training, and businesses with many employees often outsource the job. When an employee begins work, they are expected to complete Form I-9, which includes their name, Social Security number, date of birth, and other relevant information. That is the same information entered into the E-Verify system, which then checks it against various federal records.  But the process involves only the employer and the computer; it doesn’t alert a U.S. citizen whose personal information has been checked in the system. It simply ensures that the pieces of information match those on record for the name of the person entered into the system. The exact number of Americans whose Social Security numbers might be available to fool E-Verify isn’t clear, but authorities agree it’s large. The information is relatively easy to purchase on the dark web, and there have been some huge data breaches. In 2013, a breach at Yahoo may have touched 3 billion people, and last year, a class action lawsuit was filed against a now-defunct company, National Public Data, alleging identity information on some 2.9 billion people had been breached. In FY 2024, the Social Security Administration’s inspector general received 78,588 allegations of misuse of numbers, while between April 1 and Sept. 30, 2025, it got another 26,822. Another indicator of fraud is the rapid growth in the Social Security Administration’s “Earnings Suspense File,” which reflects the amount of taxes paid to the fund that can’t be matched with a U.S. citizen. The fund—which for many years was dominated by women whose maiden names did not match their married names—has skyrocketed in recent years largely because of illegal immigration. Between 1937 and the end of FY2021, the amassed money stood at $1.9 trillion. By the end of FY2023, the latest year for which numbers are available, that total had jumped more than 20%, to $2.3 trillion. Even as identity theft has grown over the years, cracking down on it has become harder as a unanimous Supreme Court has whittled down the ways in which the Justice Department can charge people with aggravated identity theft. In 2009, the court ruled the person using stolen ID information had to have knowledge that the information had been stolen, and a 2023 decision said “aggravated identity theft is violated only when the misuse of another person’s means of identification is at the crux of what makes the underlying offense criminal.” Nevertheless, the dockets of U.S. Attorney’s offices show multiple cases of aggravated identity theft in Florida, Arizona, and elsewhere. RealClearInvestigations asked the Justice Department and several U.S. Attorneys’ offices about the frequency of such cases and how they are trending in terms of time and geography. The Justice Department did not respond, while the different offices declined to comment. Employers not using E-Verify can be easily fooled, according to several experts, as fake documents have become increasingly sophisticated and artificial intelligence is helping criminals, too. “It’s no longer a cottage industry, it’s a mansion industry,” said Bob Griggs, the chief executive and founder of Verify I-9, a company that handles I-9 audits and E-Verify entries for employers.  Eva Velasquez, a former law enforcement officer who is now chief executive of the non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center, says personal information can be captured from lost wallets, stolen mail, online fraud, calls from conmen, and more. Children’s identity is especially attractive to thieves, and because they do not file quarterly reports, the scope of it all remains uncertain. “There are IDs now where it’s almost impossible to detect they’re bogus just by looking,” she told RCI. “The overall figures ebb and flow, but the level of sophistication and variety of ways they are finding to steal identities is increasing exponentially, and the way we use data is increasing exponentially.” Why It Isn’t Used There are ideological reasons behind some states’ refusal to mandate E-Verify, such as left-wing lawmakers in California and Illinois, but opponents also advance economic arguments against it. Employers who prefer a low-wage labor market have never been enthusiastic backers of the system: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposed it until 2021, when the Supreme Court upheld mandated use in Arizona. The Chamber of Commerce declined to comment on the issue to RealClearInvestigations. One argument is that E-Verify raises many false flags, and it does so disproportionately against immigrants. Pro-immigration groups, including the National Immigration Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, cite errors as grounds for opposing the system, although the study most often cited found E-Verify returns a “Tentative Non-Confirmation” in just one of 400 cases. That small fraction is hardly an indictment of E-Verify, according to Mortensen and others who compared it to issues women might have if they choose to change their last name after marriage. California also contends that an E-Verify mandate would have an adverse impact on the state’s unemployment rate and drive already skittish immigrants further underground. Thus, E-Verify could actually hurt the state’s economy, especially in agriculture and other sectors that often rely on a transient workforce. But those negative developments have not occurred in states that do mandate E-Verify. For example, South Carolina mandated E-Verify in 2012 when its gross domestic product was $21.4 billion, and its unemployment rate stood at 9.9%. By 2024, South Carolina had a GDP of $34.3 billion, and its unemployment rate in August was just 4.3%. The same is true in Georgia, where E-Verify has been required for companies with 10 or more employees since 2013. Since it made the move, Georgia’s GDP has doubled, and its August 2025 unemployment rate was 3.4%, according to Federal Reserve Bank figures. Florida, perhaps surprisingly given its long-time Republican majority in Tallahassee and the governor’s mansion, did not mandate E-Verify until 2023, when it became required for all businesses with 25 or more employees. The move came one year after an illegal immigrant using a fake identity to get a construction job wound up killing an off-duty Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy in a heavy machinery accident. The Honduran national in that incident, 35-year-old Juan Ariel Molina-Salles, was sentenced last week. That incident infuriated the community. “This company is employing a bunch of illegals, and they are all out there lying and giving us fake names, fake IDs, a lot of fake IDs out of North Carolina that really frustrated this investigation,” Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at the time.  RealClearInvestigations reached out repeatedly to officials at economic departments in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona, asking about their experience with E-Verify, but none responded to questions. Improving the System Aside from an elusive federal mandate, perhaps the biggest improvement that could be made to E-Verify would be connecting it with state motor vehicle records. That way, a photo of the person’s driver’s license would provide a visual ID the system currently lacks. In some states, however, illegal immigrants can obtain valid driver’s licenses—there have been high-profile fatalities this year caused by immigrants given valid driver’s licenses—although the duplication would still raise a flag. Another step to buttress E-Verify would be the more aggressive use of “no match letters,” according to Kirkorian. If the Social Security number does not match up on a tax return, the IRS is supposed to notify employers, and those letters, accompanied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids like the one in Nebraska earlier this year, would likely induce more widespread use of E-Verify. “If you take these steps, and an employer does not fire unresolved identities, then there is proof someone is knowingly employing illegals,” Kirkorian said. Installing additional layers of identification is also necessary to combat counterfeiters’ growing skill, according to Griggs. “All of this is more related to industry than geography,” he said. “Somebody has found a counterfeiter and they’ve told their buddies and then you see it in clumps. We recently had a case where there were more than a dozen driver’s licenses in which the people had on the exact same black suit, the same white shirt and the same tie.” Originally published by RealClearInvestigations. The post How Illegal Immigration and Government Failure Fuel Identity Theft appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Congressional Republicans capped off 2025 with one notable accomplishment: overturning a record number of regulations enacted under former President Joe Biden. Republicans undid 22 regulations issued in the final months of Biden’s presidency that restrict fossil fuel production, phase out the sale of gas-powered cars and limit access to credit in the name of capping overdraft fees. The record number of resolutions of disapproval, used to block regulations, signed into law by President Donald Trump is the most of any Congress since the Congressional Review Act (CRA) was enacted in 1996. GOP lawmakers rescinded 14 Obama regulations during Trump’s first term in 2017. The CRA allows Congress to rescind recent administrative rulemakings with a simple majority vote in both chambers, along with the president’s stamp of approval. “By reining in Biden’s heavy-handed bureaucrats, we are saving Americans $180 billion,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso said in a floor speech on Dec. 17. “That pencils out to over $2,000 in savings for each and every family.” 1. Banning New Gas-Powered Cars Congressional Republicans successfully undid a Biden-era waiver in May allowing California and any state that adopts its stringent standards to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The Republican-controlled Congress also rescinded two California vehicle emissions rules requiring the sale of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and effectively banning diesel engines. Republicans—and some Democrats—warned California’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) mandate would undermine consumer choice and devastate Americans employed in the automobile industry. “These job losses will not be confined to California, but they will be spread all across the nation,” Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said in a speech on the Senate floor prior to the upper chamber voting to nix the waiver. Trump frequently called for the repeal of EV mandates during his 2024 presidential campaign. Though the push to rescind the rules hit several procedural roadblocks, Senate Majority Leader John Thune kept his conference united before the window to nix the waivers closed. 2. Ending Coal Leasing in America’s Top Coal Region GOP lawmakers voted in October to repeal a Biden-era rule restricting millions of acres of land in the Powder River Basin—spanning Montana and Wyoming—from future mining. Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines argued the Biden administration’s move to end coal leasing in the resource-rich region following the 2024 election amounted to a “midnight rule” with little political support among the affected states. Daines alongside fellow Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy and Reps. Troy Downing and Ryan Zinke spearheaded the successful effort to nix the heavy-handed resource management plan. “The American people have rejected the left’s radical climate hysteria and removing this harmful rule will help protect our energy dominance and our national security,” Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines told the DCNF prior the resolution of disapproval’s passage in the Senate. Biden sought to restrict coal production and pledged to shut down coal plants “all across America” in 2022. More than 40% of the country’s coal production comes from the Powder River Basin, according to analysis published by the Energy Information Administration in 2019. The Republican-controlled Congress also overturned a Biden plan restricting coal leasing on Wyoming public lands in November. 3. Blocking Energy Production in Alaska In December, Trump signed into law two resolutions of disapproval overturning Biden-era rules restricting energy production in Alaska. The Biden regulations, finalized after the 2024 election, blocked oil and gas leasing across 13 million acres across Central Yukon in the name of conservation and restricted future energy production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain (ANWR). “When we unlock Alaska, we are strengthening America’s national security and economic posture in this generation and for generations to come,” Republican Alaska Rep. Nick Begich told the DCNF in December. “These bills are not isolated. They are representative of a long-term strategy to rebuild our energy strength, reconstruct our critical mineral inventory, and ensure that America—not China—controls the supply chains that power our economy.” Alaska’s congressional delegation and many tribal communities within the Last Frontier State argued the Biden-era regulations tamping down energy production were economically devastating. “The economy in the North Slope is oil and gas activity,” Begich also told the DCNF. “The building blocks of communities—schools, health care, roads and running water —exist due to the “economic base our early leaders ensured that we had access to.” 4. Instituting Price Controls on Overdraft Fees Republicans voted in spring 2025 to undo a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that limited most bank overdraft fees to $5, far less than the $35 average. The Biden administration approved the controversial rulemaking capping the amount banks can charge their customers when they overdraft their checking accounts in December 2024. GOP lawmakers and the banking industry warned the overdraft fee rule would reduce the amount of credit that banks can provide to low-income customers, who would be forced to turn to payday lenders that typically charge higher interest rates. Opponents of the rule also slammed the agency for overstepping its authority to regulate checking accounts. “The Biden administration’s ill-conceived rule imposing new price controls on overdraft services provided by banks and credit unions harmed the very consumers the CFPB is supposed to protect,” Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott said in May. “The rule would have reduced access to credit and important financial services and resulted in more unbanked Americans.” 5. Driving Up Costs for Commercial Appliances Trump approved two resolutions of disapproval in May canceling Biden regulations that imposed stringent energy efficiency standards on walk-in coolers and freezers and a separate rule targeting commercial refrigerators and freezers. Republicans argued the Biden-era rules imposed a high cost burden on the small businesses who would have to comply with the new standards and limited consumer choice. “This regulation, which had an estimated cost of a billion dollars, would have been crippling for businesses throughout the country, especially in rural areas,” Republican Oklahoma Rep. Stephanie Bice, the sponsor of one of the resolutions of disapproval, said in a statement in March. Republicans also successfully nixed a Biden Department of Energy rule banning some gas water heaters by 2029. Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Republicans Erased Record Number Of Biden Regulations In 2025. Here Are The Worst Ones. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—CNN host Dana Bash admitted Thursday that President Donald Trump had turned around the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border in his first year since returning to the White House. Upon taking office, Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations. Bash put up a series of charts showing the difference on the border between the Joe Biden administration and the Trump administration.  “One of the things that you—many things that you’ve been covering in a very detailed way this year, Zolan, is what’s going on with immigration,” Bash told CNN political analyst Zolan Kanno-Youngs. “And our producer, Tess, put together a fantastic illustration of the difference in what’s happening in the border now versus what happened just in the year beforehand, which was Joe Biden’s presidency. Joe Biden’s presidency is green and Donald Trump’s is the yellow.” “I mean, that tells a story of an accomplishment for the president, one that he definitely ran on,” Bash continued. “He definitely made a promise there, and yet there hasn’t been a lot of focus on that because of what he has been doing in the interior of the country, which he also promised to do, which is apprehend people who are in the United States illegally and deport them.” The Border Patrol encountered millions of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration, according to figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, many of whom were released into the United States. The Trump administration touted in a Dec. 15 release that no illegal immigrants had been released into the United States for seven straight months. The Department of Homeland Security announced that over 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the United States, of which 1.9 million elected to self-deport, in a Dec. 10 release. DHS also noted in a Dec. 19 release summarizing operations for the entire year that it had accounted for over 129,000 unaccompanied minors that the Biden administration had been unable to account for, while also touting operations across the country, including those in the areas of Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post CNN’s Dana Bash Admits Border Is ‘Story of Accomplishment’ For Donald Trump appeared first on The Daily Signal.