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1 week ago | 
readlion.com | Hudson Crozier |Elizabeth Mitchell |Thérèse Boudreaux |Fred Lucas
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Trump administration announced it is closing an agency that funded and participated in “censorship” of disfavored viewpoints online. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) is shutting down almost a decade after its creation due to “free speech” concerns, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Wednesday press release.
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1 week ago | 
readlion.com | Elizabeth Mitchell |Thérèse Boudreaux |Fred Lucas |Katelynn Richardson
(The Daily Signal) – A $25 million program that offered taxpayer funds to promote LGBTQ ideology abroad has been removed from the State Department website by the Trump administration. The Biden administration State Department’s Global Equality Fund posted its final grant application solicitation on Jan.
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1 week ago | 
readlion.com | Audrey Streb |Fred Lucas |Tom Joyce |Tyler O’Neil
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Trump administration has indicated a willingness to promote domestic nuclear energy production, though several industry experts say there are a number of obstacles that must be cleared first. Immediately after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on “unleashing American energy,” aiming to bolster domestic fossil fuel production, which the U.S. primarily relies on, and cut “undue burdens” on the nuclear energy sector.
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3 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Tom Joyce |George Caldwell |Fred Lucas |John Ransom
At least one Middle Eastern country wants freer trade with the United States. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed a directive Tuesday removing all tariffs on American imports. The move came one day before what President Donald Trump called “Liberation Day,” when reciprocal tariffs on many American trade partners took effect. Smotrich said he wants to maintain positive relations with the United States, Israel’s largest trading partner.
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3 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Audrey Streb |Tyler O’Neil |Virginia Allen |Fred Lucas
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – America’s top corporations wasted no time in cutting green energy buzzwords out of their vocabularies during earnings calls, a shift experts say points to the exorbitant and unsustainable nature of the renewable energy industry as a whole.
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3 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Fred Lucas |Mariane Angela |Elyse Apel |John Ransom
(The Daily Signal) – A House panel heard Tuesday from experts about curbing the ability of district court judges to impose nationwide injunctions, which have been a thorny problem for President Donald Trump’s agenda. “This is not new, but it is not old. For 180 years of our nation, there were no such injunctions,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, during the hearing.
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3 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Morgan Sweeney |Fred Lucas |Tom Joyce |Tyler O’Neil
(The Center Square) – A Monday executive order from President Donald Trump seeks to establish a new government office to assist companies looking to invest more than $1 billion in growing their business in the U.S. Burdensome government regulations impede both domestic and foreign business expansion, according to the order, and the office, designated the “United States Investment Accelerator,” is meant to help with that.
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4 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Elizabeth Mitchell |Fred Lucas |Lawrence Wilson |Benjamin Yount
(The Daily Signal) – The Trump administration has assured a conservative senator who raised concerns about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s positions on transgenderism that the nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have changed, The Daily Signal has learned. Hawley, R-Mo., wrote Oz a series of questions on March 18 about Oz’s past statements expressing support of transgender medical interventions for minors and ambivalence on abortion.
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4 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | John Ransom |Fred Lucas |Tom Joyce |Tyler O’Neil
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday to tighten election security, targeting years of weakened enforcement under the Biden administration. It also moves election safeguards to the forefront without waiting on Republicans in Congress to put forward proposals.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | John Ransom |Fred Lucas |Josh Mann
A remarkably public meeting of Trump’s Cabinet Monday went a long way to underscore – and defend – Elon Musk’s DOGE effort to cut waste, fraud and abuse in government. The cohesive meeting with reporters present comes two weeks after the New York Times alleged there was discord among Musk and several Cabinet members over the depth of the cuts. The latest meeting started with Trump talking about a “record number” of businesses that are returning to the U.S. because of “the election on Nov.
