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U.S. stocks opened this month with little movement, continuing the teeter-totter trend seen in recent weeks as investors digested a mix of upbeat earnings reports and lingering anxiety over trade tensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq were all hovering near the flatline an hour into the session, showing little momentum after […]

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday discouraging criminal enforcement against those who violate regulations don’t know exist, the White House confirmed to The Daily Signal. The order prioritizes prosecutions only for those who knowingly violate regulations and cause significant harm. The order is the product of the president’s belief that the United States is drastically over regulated. As a result, the Trump administration is taking action to protect Americans from unjust criminalization, the White House says. Trump requires each agency to provide to the Office of Management and Budget a list of all enforceable criminal regulatory offenses, the range of potential criminal penalties, and applicable state of mind required for liability. Agencies must post these reports publicly and update them annually. Under the order, criminal enforcement of offenses not publicly posted will be strongly discouraged. Attorney General Pam Bondi must consider the amount of public notice provided regarding an offense before pursuing investigations or charges. The order does not apply to immigration law enforcement or national security functions. The order is one of many Trump administration efforts to cut bureaucracy, slash regulations, and “drain the swamp.” Other examples include the establishment of the “Department of Government Efficiency,” buyout programs to encourage federal employees to leave voluntarily, and the 10-to-1 deregulation initiative, which ensures every “new rule, regulation or guidance an agency implements requires them to identify at least 10 to be repealed.” On Friday, May 9, Trump will also sign orders unleashing commercial fishing in the Atlantic and rescinding water pressure standards. The post Trump to Sign Order Preventing Americans From Getting Prosecuted for Crimes They Didn’t Know Existed appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Trump administration is in “constant communication and dialogue” with friends in Israel about getting remaining hostages out of Gaza, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday. Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, visited the White House Thursday to meet with the Trump administration about the situation in Gaza. “The president and his entire national security team have made it very clear we want to see the hostages released from Gaza,” Leavitt said. “That is a priority for this administration.” Leavitt declined to elaborate on details as to what has been proposed. “But I can emphasize what the president holds closest in his heart right now,” Leavitt said, “and that’s the release of all of the hostages in Gaza.” Trump said that 21 hostages are believed to be alive in Gaza. “As of today, it’s 21, three have died,” Trump said Tuesday of the hostages being held by Hamas. He added that until recently, 24 people were thought to be still alive.  One American, Edan Alexander, has been one of the 24 hostages believed to be alive. Hamas had agreed in March to a deal that included the release of Alexander, but he has yet to be freed. Hamas holds the bodies of several other Americans. The post Trump in ‘Constant Communication’ with Israel About Freeing Gaza Hostages, Leavitt Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Somewhere between 10 million and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration. As far as logistics go, former President Joe Biden could not flee Afghanistan without getting 13 Marines killed and abandoning to the terrorist Taliban $50 billion in munitions, a billion-dollar embassy, and a $300 million retrofitted huge airbase. But Biden and his handlers proved far more logistically capable when their target was fellow Americans. After all, they somehow managed to stop the congressionally approved continuance of the border wall, to subvert federal immigration law, to emasculate the border patrol, and to ensure that millions of people around the world could simply walk into the U.S. illegally, unaudited and with impunity.But why did Biden or his puppeteers do something so anarchic, so injurious to their fellow Americans?Why cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars in massive new entitlements? Why swamp the social services of our own poor citizens?Why turn loose half a million criminal aliens and gang members to prey on our own weak and defenseless?Was the idea to alter the demography in one fell swoop? To grow the dependent class, thereby expanding government? Was it pure spite born of hatred of half the country? Was it to ensure future constituencies, given that the Democratic agenda no longer appeals to most Americans? Was it a globalist gambit to demonstrate borders are anachronistic? Was it to fast-track new voters under the laxity of post-2020 early- and mail-in voting protocols? Those who perpetrated the greatest ruse in American presidential history by staging the Biden presidency will never tell us what their ultimate agenda was. They knowingly fixed the 2020 primaries to ensure a non-compos-Biden would be nominated. Under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdowns, they kept him in his basement while operatives radically altered the voting laws in the key swing states. For the next four years, they put their waxen effigy in a hermetically sealed cocoon—one of avoidance of the press, three-day workweeks, and four-hour workdays. Yet Biden could still not read huge-font, teleprompted scripts. He could not finish a simple call for unity without snarling, screaming, and damning his opposition as “semi-fascists,” “ultra-MAGA,” and “garbage.” Was the point to salvage the Democratic Party for one last hurrah before the Squad, and the Bernie Sanders socialists inevitably took over and destroyed it? Was that the idea behind clearing the primary field and anointing a decrepit “good ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” veneer? Or was it more sinister still in the sense that a debilitated Biden facade was a godsend for the left? Did his pseudo-centrist cover ensure that his handlers—the Obama crowd, the diversity, equity, and inclusion chauvinists, and the Sanders socialists—could enact from the shadows the most radical agenda since 1933? Will anyone ever tell us why they endangered and nearly ruined the country with a zombie president? Why did the Left break every prior pretense of legality and of fair play in trying to wreck an entire legal system just to destroy Donald Trump? Why did the so-called stewards of jurisprudence coordinate four local, state, and federal prosecutions to cook up 93 indictments—the vast majority of them ridiculous contortions that will never be charged against any other American? What was behind the disastrous effort to de-ballot Trump in most of the blue states? To “save” democracy by destroying it? Why did they twice impeach a president and then try him as a private citizen? Why did SWAT teams swarm an ex-president’s home to carry off over 10,000 documents in order to find 102 classified files? Why did the FBI bring their own pre-prepared classification labels? Why scatter photo files on the floor? Had Trump destroyed subpoenaed evidence like Hillary Clinton’s emails? Had Trump stored the files, Biden-style, at four different locations? Had Trump earlier just flunked rather than aced the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, would special counsel Jack Smith—as did Robert Hur in the Biden file case—have dropped all the charges against Trump on the grounds he was “an elderly man with a poor memory?” So, what was behind the four years of trying to blow up and discredit our legal and law enforcement system just to destroy Trump? Was their goad his accent, his bombast, or his tan that so drove the elite Left into insanity? Were they convinced they could never beat him in another election? Did they hate him because, in his first term, he had secured the border, grown the economy, and had no wars abroad? Or was it an unstoppable fixation, a destructive addiction? In sum, the more he mocked them, the more they sought to destroy him—and all the more they ensured he would be president again. (C)2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Chip Roy is taking on Medicaid expansion, introducing a bill Friday that he says will prevent “able-bodied adults” from taking advantage of Obamacare expansion. The Texas lawmaker’s bill comes as his fellow Republicans are debating how they will reach an $880 billion cut over 10 years in their budget markup for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction on Medicaid. “Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion perpetuates a scam in which states get seven times as much money from the federal government for able-bodied adults than the traditional Medicaid population, including pregnant women, children, disabled people, and the elderly,” said Roy in a statement to The Daily Signal. Roy claims that his bill “would achieve $250 billion in savings while having minimal disruption in coverage.” The “Ending Medicaid Discrimination Against the Most Vulnerable Act” has a twofold function, he said.  First, it permits “states to reduce Medicaid expansion eligibility from 138% to 100% of the federal poverty level. Individuals above 100% FPL would become eligible for ACA exchange coverage with generous premium tax credits.” That means fewer people who are not technically living in poverty by federal standards would have Medicaid eligibility. Second, it would phase down the rate at which the federal government matches state Medicaid payments. The technical term for this rate is the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). The law would “gradually phase down the 90% federal reimbursement rate over eight years for ACA Medicaid expansion enrollees,” Roy’s press release says. In other words, the feds would stop picking up almost the entire tab for Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid to enrollees who are neither parents, nor disabled, nor below the poverty line. “The federal match would decline by uniform percentage points—5 points annually in higher-income states and 2 points annually in lower-income states—until it aligns with each state’s regular FMAP,” Roy’s statement says. The bill additionally would end “the additional 5-percentage-point FMAP bonus for late expansion states included in the American Rescue Plan Act.” Some in Congress need to start doing math. If you refuse to cut spending, especially low hanging Biden/Obama programs, you can’t reduce the deficit. Managing socialism is not conservative. pic.twitter.com/LuPmrmYpya— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) April 30, 2025 Roy appears to view post-Obamacare federal reimbursement of Medicaid expansion as unfair to taxpayers in Texas, which has resisted expansion. “Texans have to pay for a program that is being abused by Democratic strongholds to fund Medicaid expansion for illegal aliens and the able-bodied while racking up trillions in federal debt,” he said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “The federal government should not further penalize the 10 states, including Texas, that have held the line and not expanded Medicaid.” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., who is leading the House in its sprint to pass a budget before Independence Day, has previously ruled out scaling back federal reimbursement of Medicaid. “I think we’re ruling that out,” Johnson said last Thursday when asked by reporters. Roy, who argues Republicans should use the budget process to scale back liberal legislation such as the Affordable Care Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, has not wavered. Well – I haven’t ruled it out. It’s necessary to stop robbing from the vulnerable to fund the able-bodied. https://t.co/I5FXPy7fAk— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) May 6, 2025 “Well—I haven’t ruled it out. It’s necessary to stop robbing from the vulnerable to fund the able-bodied,” he said on X in response to Johnson. Roy has previously stated that, without cutting mandatory spending to pay for tax cuts and scaling back Medicaid and environmental subsidies, it will be “impossible for [him] to support a final [budget] reconciliation product.” The post Texas Lawmaker Targets Medicaid Expansion appeared first on The Daily Signal.