The Trump administration’s recent arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro marks the ousting of an authoritarian whose rule triggered a mass exodus of his own people to the United States. With Maduro sitting in a federal prison in New York, the fate of the country remains uncertain. On Monday, Maduro’s second-in-command, Delcy Rodríguez, was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president. Rodríguez claimed that she plans to work with the United States in the coming months. President Donald Trump, however, has said that the United States is “in charge” of Venezuela and that elections would be held “at the right time.”   (Photo by Jose Zamora/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) If Trump can get a democratically-elected government in place in Venezuela that is more willing to work with the United States, it could both boost his mass deportation effort and thwart the possibility of a surge in mass migration, experts told The Daily Wire. “A lot of these people were given parole into the U.S. because of the conditions in Venezuela … well, that’s no longer going to be necessary, so a lot more people can be sent back. And they’ll have lesser claims to say, ‘If I go back, I’ll be tortured’ … assuming another government is in place,” former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Jonathan Fahey said. “Lots of people are going to be going home, and quickly, and there will not be pushback from whoever’s in charge of Venezuela,” Fahey said. Venezuelan departures from the United States “will accelerate some” if and when the country sees stability, according to Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, who said it’s “only going to happen if the Trump administration succeeds in being able to end TPS [Temporary Protected Status] and people’s asylum claims don’t succeed.” Following Maduro’s capture, the Trump administration has encouraged the roughly 500,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status it revoked to leave the United States on their own. Andrés Martínez-Fernández, senior policy analyst for Latin America at The Heritage Foundation, warned that it could potentially take years to get to a point where there is a significant change in migration patterns. “We may have more cooperation as far as repatriation, but as far as people voluntarily going back, which I think many people would under the right circumstances, we’re pretty far away still from those circumstances,” Martínez-Fernández said. “We still have all of the elements really of the regime in place, the repressive apparatus, the economic crisis, and I think many will be rightfully concerned that not enough has changed to really at all change the situation on the ground for people,” he said. If elections were held and resulted in “the full transition out of this regime,” it could be “a trigger event for a lot of people to return,” Martínez-Fernández said. Vaughan also pointed to the possibility of better information sharing with Venezuela if there is a more American-aligned government in place. The Maduro regime refused to share any information on the criminal histories of its citizens who were crossing the border under the Biden administration. As a result, border agents were left to release them en masse without knowing who they really were. One of those Venezuelan border jumpers was Jose Ibarra, who went on to brutally murder Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February 2024 while she was out for a run. “If we can again have a functioning relationship with the government of Venezuela, that enables us to share information and do some appropriate vetting on people who are coming in,” she said. Martínez-Fernández, however, said that the next leader of Venezuela would have to create criminal databases from scratch since previous regimes, like Maduro’s, likely didn’t even keep such records. “It’s very unlikely that the Venezuelan government has that in any substantial way,” he said. “That would have to be something that they build up, which I think would be a monumental task for this skeletal regime,” he added. With Maduro out of power, the Trump administration also hasn’t stopped deportations to the South American country, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire Monday. That will likely roll on at an even greater pace if and when there is a new leader. “I fully expect Venezuela will be very cooperative with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the U.S. government, considering how things went with Maduro, so I actually expect it to be a lot smoother … or more voluminous than it was before,” Fahey said.

William Schneiderman is a name you’ve probably never heard before. But due to recent events — in particular, the election of a Ugandan socialist to serve as the mayor of the nerve center of American capitalism — William Schneiderman is suddenly very relevant again. In the 1920s, Schneiderman became a naturalized citizen of the United States after immigrating here from Russia. Just a few years later, Schneiderman pulled a Zohran Mamdani. He decided to run for political office as an avowed communist. Specifically, he wanted to become the governor of Minnesota so that he could undermine American capitalism and destroy the state. In that regard, he was a bit ahead of his time. But the federal government of the United States, under FDR, wasn’t amused by Schneiderman’s ambitions. They immediately began proceedings to denaturalize and deport him, on the grounds that he had violated the Naturalization Act of 1906, which required new citizens to affirm — truthfully — that they were “attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States.” Ultimately, in a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that Schneiderman could keep his citizenship, even though he was a communist. The Supreme Court ruled that “clear, unequivocal, and convincing” evidence was needed to denaturalize an American citizen on the grounds that he had fraudulently obtained citizenship. If the government wants to kick a naturalized citizen out of the country, then the feds need to demonstrate, beyond any doubt whatsoever, that the naturalized citizen is not, in fact, “attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States.” It’s not enough for a foreigner to call himself a communist, according to the Supreme Court. The foreign communist also has to really, really commit to the bit. He has to do everything imaginable to demonstrate that he wants to destroy this country and the rule of law, as well as every foundational principle of our government. He has to be cartoonishly, overtly anti-American in every imaginable respect. That is, admittedly, a high bar to clear. But Zohran Mamdani, the newly inaugurated socialist mayor of New York City who became a naturalized citizen in 2018, has just cleared it. Mamdani — through his political affiliations, his public remarks, and most recently, his political appointments — has provided “clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence” that he should be denaturalized, loaded on the first available aircraft, and deported to Uganda. He has demonstrated that we made a grave mistake by awarding him citizenship and that he defrauded us to obtain that citizenship. By now, everyone is familiar with Mamdani’s dystopian endorsement of “the warmth of collectivism,” and his past statements about creating state-run grocery stores, defunding the police, nationalizing public transport, and rental properties. But Mamdani isn’t just delivering speeches anymore. He’s getting his agenda started in earnest. And this is the part where, with all due respect to the 20% of eligible New York voters who cast their ballots for Mamdani, the adults need to step in and remove him from power, and from this country. In a moment, I’ll go through the evidence that justifies Mamdani’s immediate denaturalization under the law of the United States and existing Supreme Court precedent. But first, it needs to be emphasized that, in 2026, what I’m saying isn’t unthinkable. It’s not remotely implausible. Especially after the attack on Venezuela over the weekend, conservatives are finally realizing that, indeed, we can just do things. Even things that, ten years ago, would’ve seemed insane or impractical. We can just do them. No, we shouldn’t ignore the Constitution, or concoct phony prosecutions to jail our political opponents, or commit political violence. We shouldn’t adopt the Left’s approach, in other words. At the same time, when the law is clearly on our side, and when morality is on our side, and when our interests would be served by decisive action, we should take that decisive action — quickly, and without apology. And now, more than ever, it seems our government understands that. Therefore, Mamdani should be detained and hauled before the most Right-wing immigration court in the country to explain why exactly he appointed a woman named Cea Weaver to lead the mayor’s new “Office to Protect Tenants.” This is an office in Mamdani’s Cabinet that, according to the city website, “will serve as a central coordinating body to defend tenants’ rights, stand up to landlords, and ensure city agencies act swiftly on behalf of renters facing unsafe or illegal conditions.” Cea Weaver is not merely a communist and a deeply unpleasant HR-sounding harpy, although she’s both of those things. Weaver also openly wants to suspend the U.S. Constitution and all private property rights in our largest city. Weaver has been very clear about her goals, for many years, in various settings. And in her new role, she has the capacity to accomplish these goals. Mamdani knows all of this. He knows that she subscribes to a totalitarian ideology that’s bent on the destruction of the United States, and in particular, the destruction of white property owners. That’s why he picked her. That said, it’s important to note that, after Mamdani appointed her to his Cabinet, Weaver did attempt to cover her tracks to the extent that she could. She deleted her account on X, for example, because she knew that reporters would go looking through her old posts. Unfortunately for Weaver, a few months ago, acting on a hunch, a writer named Michelle Tandler decided to archive Weaver’s social media posts. And the other day, Tandler posted many of Weaver’s writings. Let’s go through some of them. This is from August 21st of 2019, when Weaver was working as an activist for so-called “Housing Justice.” Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com “Private property including — and kind of ESPECIALLY — homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.” Yes, she wrote “kind of especially.” That’s not a typo. That’s how she talks. She believes that private property, and “kind of especially homeownership,” are “weapons of white supremacy.” They don’t actually build wealth, she says. Now, hearing that, you might observe that, because we have private property rights, we’re doing an awful lot better — in every conceivable way — than countries that don’t recognize the legitimacy of private property, like North Korea or Cuba. You might recognize that, in this country, white people aren’t the only ones with homes. You also might ask yourself — wait a minute, if she doesn’t want us to own homes, where exactly does she want us to live? Soviet-style apartment blocks run by the local commissar? If that’s the case, what happens when the commissar doesn’t approve of our politics, or our opinion of Dear Leader? Weaver has never answered those questions. But she has been very consistent about the fact that, when she assumes power, she intends to end private property rights and to seize Americans’ homes using the power of the state. Watch: “We’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good.” In resurfaced videos, Cea Weaver, a cabinet member of mayor Mamdani’s admin, says it is her goal to end private property ownership & that whites will deal with the impact.pic.twitter.com/ZfXLSblzyU — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 5, 2026 Credit: @MrAndyNgo/X.com The frazzled appearance, the uptalking, the passive-aggressive HR language (“you’ll have a different relationship with property”). It’s everything you expect from a soulless communist psychopath. She’ll seize your property, give your home to a homeless black crackhead in the name of equity, throw your family out on the street to freeze to death — and she’ll keep up this sanitized, sing-songy corporate-sounding tone the whole time. Make no mistake. This woman is a stone-cold killer. She would gut you like a pig, but her facial expression and tone wouldn’t change. She’d sound like she was delivering a lecture about the employee handbook the whole time. This is one of the few notable exports of the feminist movement. You get joyless, mostly childless women who throw themselves into their meaningless and civilization-destroying careers — and through it all, they use the same tone and demeanor they’d use if they were speaking to their three-year-old child, only they’re talking to adults. They take that familiar, patronizing maternal tone, and they use it to sell ideas that might make sense on a playground — only in this case, they’re trying to bend the economy of the largest city in the country to their will. Instead of telling Little Bobby that she’s going to take his bicycle away if he doesn’t behave, which is all the authority a woman like this should ever have, she’s telling millions of Americans — people who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into their homes — that she’s just going to have to snatch that away, real quick, because they’ve been naughty. But don’t worry. She’s not taking your home. She’s just giving you a different relationship to your property. Specifically, the relationship is that it’s not your property anymore. So on the one hand, she’s talking about the government arbitrarily seizing the property that Americans have worked their whole lives to own — which, in addition to being economic and civilizational suicide, is an explicitly un-American, communist position that stands in direct opposition to the Federalist Papers, the Bill of Rights, and every founding principle of this country. She’s saying, without a lot of ambiguity, that she’s going to take your home away from you. And at the same time, she’s being awfully corporate about it. But in her other social media posts, to be fair, she’s a little more direct. Here’s a particularly interesting one. Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com “Impoverish the *white* middle class. Homeownership is racist/ failed public policy.” As Matt Taibbi pointed out, this is a noteworthy post because, in the first sentence, she drops the whole pretense about “equity” and “justice.” Her goal is explicitly to “impoverish the white middle class.” She’s not saying that we need to build up “people of color,” and therefore white people need to “pay their fair share,” or anything like that. She’s not using any of the euphemisms that communists usually employ to mask what they’re interested in doing. Instead, she’s admitting, outright, that her goal is to destroy white people, particularly whites in the “middle class” (which, we can assume, excludes this woman, at least in her mind). In other words, she wants to destroy the “bad” white people — the ones who aren’t members of the communist party. In that sense, Weaver is echoing the words of Mamdani’s director of appointments, who wrote, “It’s important that white people feel defeated.” In other posts, Weaver has doubled down on this messaging. She’s primarily interested in destruction — not building anything. Here’s one from December of 2021 — not too long ago. Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com Credit: ceaweaver/X.com Here’s what she wrote. “I think ‘pass really strong rent control’ is a more effective way to shrink the value of real estate than reducing rezoning applications.” To be clear, in this post, she’s saying that her goal is to “shrink the value of real estate.” And she’s telling someone that rent control is a great way to accomplish that goal. Yes, a senior appointee in charge of housing issues in Zohran Mamdani’s Cabinet is a middle-aged woman who explicitly wants to reduce the value of real estate in New York City. She doesn’t want to make it easier for people to obtain loans. She doesn’t want to raise the standard of living or attract high-paying jobs so that more New Yorkers can afford rent payments. Instead, she wants to tank the property values. Imagine being a potential homeowner or a big commercial real estate investor and hearing something like this. Why would you invest a single dollar in a property anywhere in New York? Why would you maintain the properties you already have? The government wants you to lose money on your investment. They want to bankrupt you so that they can create as many slums as possible. Why not give them what they want? Increasingly, that’s exactly what’s happening. But Mamdani is pretending to be shocked by it. The other day, Mamdani visited some apartments owned by Pinnacle Realty, which is going bankrupt. Watch: ?? BREAKING — Mayor Mamdani Inspects Capitalist Slums of NYC on 1st Day. pic.twitter.com/jjusFrdqA7 — ★★★★★ Pamphlets ★★★★★ (@PamphletsY) January 2, 2026 Credit: @PamphletsY/X.com What’s not mentioned in this report is that, according to Fox, Mamdani staged his big photo-op at 85 Clarkson Ave., which is a rent-controlled building. So, because of city policy, the landlord wasn’t able to raise rents in line with the market. And then, as maintenance costs grew over time, they didn’t have the money to make the repairs. In fact, they ran out of money entirely. And in response, according to Mamdani and the “tenant’s union” — which is apparently a real thing — we’re supposed to blame the evil landlord for all of this. It would be like passing a law requiring that airlines charge only $5 for all of their tickets, and then blaming the airlines when a plane eventually blows up because they couldn’t afford to inspect the engines anymore. It’s complete insanity. It’s economically illiterate. And it’s going to lead to the destruction of what’s left of New York. But it’s also how Mamdani’s administration plans to stage a large-scale seizure of private property. Take a look at this interview with Weaver, where she lays it all out. Watch: “We can say, hey, um — you know — you are not maintaining this building, and we are the City of New York. We have an interest in making sure that housing is well maintained, and — and we’re gonna take this building away from you.” – Cea Weaver pic.twitter.com/NdKObOV4bV — Michelle Tandler (@michelletandler) January 6, 2026 Credit: @michelletandler/X.com See how this works? The city prevents landlords, by law, from raising rents, so they can’t afford to maintain the properties. Then they hit the landlord with code violations. And then, after enough of those, they simply take over the entire building. That’s the strategy. They’ve laid out the whole plan. And now they’re going to execute it. There’s a councilwoman — Vickie Paladino — who made the point that, whenever communists complain about housing in New York, in interviews like this one, they never mention the projects. They never talk about government housing. And that’s a strange omission, because without exception, government housing is poorly maintained and extremely dangerous throughout the entire city. You’d think that, if these communists truly cared about poor people in New York, their top priority would be fixing the slums that the government owns and operates. After all, those slums are already under the direct control of the government. But the communists don’t actually care about the poor people or their housing. They simply want to invent pretexts to seize private property. I could go through some more tweets from this deranged woman that Mamdani appointed, to underscore how committed she is to this dystopian future — and how unstable she is, as a person. Here are a few examples: Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com Here, she says that Delta Airlines should “kick all white people in Christmas outfits off planes.” That was posted on Christmas Eve in 2016, which we can assume was not a very merry time for this particular woman. Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com A few years later, in 2021, she offered this pearl of economic wisdom. She wrote that, “Rent control … is a perfect solution to everything.” Yes, everything. All you have to do is allow the government to set the price for everything, and you’ve solved all problems, everywhere, for all time, as the Soviet Union clearly proved beyond any doubt. And then she posted this all-timer, back in 2019. Credit: @ceaweaver/X.com “I wish I believed in god so I could believe that all men who take credit for women’s work and all white men who take credit for the work of women of color would one day burn.” And on and on. The point is, this is a woman who obviously hates this country, and now she’s in a position of power where she can act on her hatred. She’ll have free rein to neutralize the Constitution in New York City. In fact, she’s openly stated that, in her view, public schools should be used as defensive positions against ICE when they attempt to enforce immigration law. So she wants children to be used as human shields. Watch: ? Mamdani’s Tenant Pick: “Use the Schools” and Tenant Associations as “Sites of Resistance” Mamdani just appointed Cea Weaver to run the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. In an October clip, she says NYC should use public schools, PTAs, and tenant associations as “sites of… pic.twitter.com/nogQ10MpdT — Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) January 5, 2026 Credit: @thestustustudio/X.com It might be tempting to dismiss this woman as a lunatic and tell ourselves that she won’t really seize private property. But up in Canada, our neighbors to the North — as usual — are telling us exactly how this story will end, unless we act now to stop it. Homeowners in Canada are now learning that, in fact, the so-called “indigenous population” has a valid claim to their homes. That’s according to a new court decision. Watch: Credit: Global News/YouTube.com You can guarantee that many of these homeowners, at one point or another, recited a land acknowledgment. They probably apologized for being evil white colonizers. And they probably thought, the whole time, that none of it was really serious. The Indians wouldn’t actually take the land back. And now, here we are. They get a letter one day in the mail. And that letter says that, unfortunately for you, the Indians will probably get to take your home away. But don’t worry — you’ll have some time to get your affairs in order before the local tribe moves into your living room. We cannot allow anything like this — even a sliver of this ideology — to take hold in the United States. We shouldn’t allow it to happen. We aren’t required to “respect the will of the voters” — all 20% of them — and sit back while our most important city and economic hub is converted into a communist hellscape by a foreigner who lied to become a naturalized citizen just a few years ago. There are some developments that we simply can’t allow, regardless of whether an election was held. If 20% of voters want to abolish the Bill of Rights, which is what is happening in New York, they should not be allowed to do it. Even if 90% of voters want that, it shouldn’t be allowed to happen. And we can easily prevent Mamdani from destroying the city. For one thing, he’s not very bright. Exhibit A: He just went on camera and suggested he would somehow make World Cup tickets more affordable. Watch: BREAKING: NY Mayor Mamdani says he is working to ensure World Cup tickets are “available to all” pic.twitter.com/joSgRgemgg — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 5, 2026 Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com There are so many layers of pure, unfiltered stupidity to unpack here. There’s the fact that there will be no World Cup games in New York City at all, so he’s out of his jurisdiction. There’s the fact that he has no authority to dictate the prices of soccer games, in any event. There’s the idea that the World Cup is an entitlement — that it’s not a luxury, but a human right, for everyone to be able to afford to attend a soccer game. So what happens when everyone in the city lines up for free tickets? What happens when they run out of seats? Who knows. Mamdani certainly doesn’t know. Among other things, communists have never understood that the free market is the best way to allocate scarce resources and products. But as the saying goes, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” So, sooner or later, New York will find out the hard way. That is — unless we determine that Zohran Mamdani cannot be allowed to lead New York City, any more than Tim Walz can be allowed to govern Minnesota, or any more than Ilhan Omar can be allowed to represent Minneapolis. He needs to be denaturalized and deported, along with any other illegal alien and naturalized foreigner who espouses his communist ideology. And if you still think that this sounds extreme, imagine what would happen in the reverse scenario. Imagine that an explicitly anti-black avowed fascist — someone who identifies as both things openly — somehow became the mayor of a major American city. Now imagine that he appointed a cabinet full of anti-black racists who have openly declared their intent to take homes away from black people, and impoverish them intentionally, as punishment for their black sins. And imagine that some of them have even fantasized openly and explicitly about seeing black people burn in Hell. What would happen in that scenario? Would the federal government just allow this all to unfold? Would the Left allow it? Would they say, “Well, okay, I guess this city will become a fascist anti-black dictatorship now, it’s what the voters want”? No, of course not. That would not be allowed. And it shouldn’t be allowed, by the way. And if the fascist dictator mayor were a foreigner who came here, say, from Russia with the explicit intent of importing fascism to our country and persecuting black people, then that person would be in prison, or at least deported back to his own country. That’s what would absolutely happen in the reverse scenario, and we all know it. The same should happen here. The alternative is that, on the orders of HR hellspawn like Cea Weaver, white conservatives will lose their homes and life savings. New York will decay until it’s indistinguishable from Caracas. That’s their goal. They’re openly admitting it. We should listen to every word they’re saying. And we should use their words as a legal justification, in a lawful and just immigration proceeding, to eject every single one of them from our country.

'Epitome of a desperate dirty old man'

'I know, it sounds so crazy to me, too'

'We all pay taxes'

There was no mud-slinging, no demands for spousal support

House Republicans enter 2026 with the challenge of securing conservative legislative wins despite narrow margins. On Tuesday, House Republicans formulated a plan for the second year of the 119th Congress in a retreat with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. The meeting was overshadowed by the death of 65-year-old Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif. “Congress is devastated to learn this morning about the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Doug LaMalfa,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said in a statement Tuesday. “Doug was a lifelong resident of northern California and deeply loved its people.” Razor-Thin Margins LaMalfa’s death further weakens the Republican House majority just a day after Marjorie Taylor Greene’s retirement from the House due to a feud with Trump.  The GOP currently holds a slim 218 to 213 majority in the chamber, with four vacancies. This means that House leadership can only afford to lose two Republican votes while passing a bill.  Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia has scheduled a March 10 election to fill Greene’s seat, and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has 14 days to call a special election for LaMalfa’s seat. Congress is devastated to learn this morning about the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Doug LaMalfa. Doug was a lifelong resident of northern California and deeply loved its people. He was as fierce of a fighter for his state’s vast natural resources and beauty as we… pic.twitter.com/xYJdwcpp8W— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) January 6, 2026 Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., acknowledged the difficulty of the situation in a statement to The Daily Signal, but suggested the way out of partisan gridlock could be picking up Democratic support for Republican-crafted legislation. “House Republicans are committed to commonsense proposals that make a meaningful difference in the lives of the American people,” Murphy told The Daily Signal. “These should be bipartisan issues. Slim margins are difficult to work with in Congress but preserving the American Dream should not be a partisan exercise.” Speaker Johnson had some success dealing with slim margins in 2025, uniting the conference’s often unruly factions behind ambitious legislation such as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Time’s Running Out In less than a year, voters will determine which party controls the House of Representatives. The odds have been stacked against Republicans from the very beginning, as only four midterm elections in the last 164 years have resulted in a net gain of House seats for the party in the White House. Democrat control of the House would likely lead to subpoenas of administration officials, an increased likelihood of impeaching Trump, and two years of gridlock for conservative legislation. Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., a member of the House Freedom Caucus, is urging aggressive action to enact Trump’s agenda. “The American people expect a Republican-led Congress to deliver results. Alongside President Trump, we must leverage our House and Senate majorities to advance a bold agenda fulfilling more of our promises,” Harris told The Daily Signal. The freedom caucus came into the retreat with a list of legislative goals, including requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship, preventing spending increases in the appropriations process, codifying Trump’s border policies, freezing all immigration, and prohibiting federal tax dollars from funding abortions. When the @HouseGOP meets tomorrow to plan our agenda for 2026, the Freedom Caucus Board has a simple plan… Let's do what we promised:??Secure elections by forcing the Senate to pass the SAVE Act, and go even further by requiring voter ID, returning to paper ballots, limiting…— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) January 6, 2026 Harris added that the Senate must be involved in this push as well. “We must act urgently in the first quarter of 2026, using every tool available to compel the Senate to deliver now. The stakes extend beyond the next election—America’s future depends on it,” Harris told The Daily Signal. The House has passed a number of conservative bills which have yet to receive a vote in the Senate, where bills typically require 60 votes for consideration. The bills include the SAVE Act, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, and the No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act. Affordability The issue of affordability was credited as a key part of the message which helped Democrat Zohran Mamdani get elected as mayor of New York City in November. Johnson Teases Another Potential Big, Beautiful Bill in 2026@SpeakerJohnson tells The Daily Signal's @GCaldwell_news that setting up ?health savings accounts as an alternative to the Obamacare premium tax credit is "very much on the table," and that change could be implemented… pic.twitter.com/HeacKMy9w4— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 16, 2025 A spokesperson for Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., told The Daily Signal during the retreat that the congressman “believes that affordability should be a top priority of Congress this year.” Part of this push will likely be include the issues of health care and insurance costs. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., told The Daily Signal in December to expect the House to pass “a long list of things that we know will reduce premiums” and that a party-line budget reconciliation bill could be the vehicle for these provisions. The post House Republicans Navigate Slim Majority, Affordability Concerns at Retreat appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. In the past, I’ve characterized as, Walter Russell Mead, most famously [said], that Trump’s foreign policy is neither interventionist, surely not nation building, nor is it isolationist, as the Left accuses. It was something called Jacksonian. That is, “no better friend, no worse enemy.” “Don’t tread on me.” At various times if people took advantage of the United States’ desire to live in peace, and they started to push their luck, then we would hit them, overwhelmingly. Sort of what we saw with the two Americans that were tragically killed in Syria. Then there was an overwhelming retaliation. But I think there’s a quirk to Jacksonianism, a subset. And I would call the Trump Foreign Policy, the Vise Policy. V-I-S-E. Like a vise, that you clamp down on something. By that, I mean, rather than intervene or even use kinetic force, he has another alternative when he sees a renegade country. Most famously, we saw Iran, that when he came into office, the first thing he did was get back out of the Iran Deal, put back the sanctions, support Israel’s effort to retaliate against Iran. Although he did take out the nuclear facilities, that was an act that he felt he had no choice, because Iran was reaching a point where they’d have a nuclear weapon. But up until then, he had almost bankrupt, again, by squeezing the Iran economy at no cost to the United States. We see that much better with Venezuela and the rogue Maduro government. The illegitimate government, that throughout the last elections, in which [Nicolas] Maduro lost, and has been sending shiploads of narcotics to the United States. It’s using embargoed oil tankers to sell sanctioned oil to Cuba, to China, and, more or less, opened up its jails and mental institutions and sent thousands of people, in spite, to the United States. So, Trump is now reestablishing the Monroe Doctrine. Remember, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Monroe Doctrine was pretty much ossified, calcified. Trump has reinstated it. But with a vise policy. So, sanctions on Maduro. He’s not going to have any income through narco sales. We’re blowing up narco terrorist shipments on the high seas. He uses that money to bribe officers, bribe the media, bribe the opposition, to stay in power illegitimately. And then, in addition to that, he’ll have no oil income. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. So, he has a limitless supply of credit and cash. But not if he can’t get it to somewhere. And, in the Western hemisphere, Trump is showing the world that he just almost automatically reestablished the Monroe Doctrine. What is China going to do? They may say they have a blue-water Navy. They may say they’re catching up. But they’re not there yet. And they have no ability to transmit power, in the Western hemisphere, among our shores. So, Maduro is in a vise. And we’re squeezing it down, at no cost to us. Is Trump going to invade? I doubt it. Is he going to bomb? I doubt it. I think he’s just slowly going to intimidate Maduro so people within the Venezuelan hierarchy, both legitimate opponents and opportunistic supporters, who feel that he’s a bad investment. And they will throw him out. EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this commentary was recorded, President Donald Trump did launch a military operation to seize Nicolas Maduro so he could face criminal charges in the United States. What assistance the U.S. had from “legitimate opponents and opportunistic supporters” within Venezuela has not been made known. The same thing is true of Cuba. We didn’t really know how to deal with Cuba. Since 1959, we’ve had embargoes. Sometimes they’re liquid. Sometimes they’re fluid. They don’t really work. But, more or less, the Castro-ite government in Cuba is an existential enemy of the United States. We have a lot of people who go there and visit. But the country has never worked. It’s impoverished. And it’s dependent wholly on the legacy of Hugo Chavez and now Maduro, to give them cheap oil. If they don’t get cheap oil, and what do I mean by that? If Maduro cannot put embargoed oil on sanctioned tankers and get to Cuba, then Cuba’s going to have no ability to distill gasoline, nor will it have energy. And that’s exactly what is happening. The Cuban economy is in a Trump vise. Are we going to bomb Cuba? No. Are we going to have a Bay of Pigs standoff or invasion? No. Are we going to have a Cuban missile crisis with China? No. We’re going to have a Trump vise. And it’s going to squeeze. Does this work all the time? No. I mean, it doesn’t work in the case of a full-fledged war, like the Ukraine War or the Middle East, sometimes. But with other powers in our vicinity or that we have leverage over, we’re going to start to squeeze them, to bring back legitimate government, pro-American governments, and stability for the entire Western hemisphere. And most importantly, a chance for their citizenry to have a normal life. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy (With a Twist) appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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