Entries by The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Gov’t Awarded Sensitive Research Grants To Scientists In Chinese Communist Party Talent Programs

U.S. government agencies have awarded sensitive scientific, military and energy grants to dozens of researchers participating in Chinese government programs linked to economic espionage, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. The DCNF identified 50 federally-funded researchers currently working in U.S. universities and/or national laboratories who are listed as experts of Chinese government talent recruitment […]

Mike Johnson’s Broken Promises On CR May Have Just Cost Him The Speakership

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is facing serious blowback from those in his own party for trying to push through a continuing resolution filled with unnecessary spending. Sources on Capitol Hill, including both lawmakers and their staff, told the Caller Johnson may have cost himself the Speaker’s job with the poorly-received gambit right before […]

ROOKE: House Speaker Gives Tone Deaf Speech Defending The Swamp’s Last Funding Stunt Before Trump Comes Home

House Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting a pork-filled spending resolution that would give Congress more power and waste billions of taxpayer dollars, making this the coal in Americans’ Christmas stockings. Johnson promised members (and voters) under his leadership that massive spending bills would be an open process led by committee chairs. He also said that members would […]

The Craziest Things Congress Snuck Into Its Pork-Packed Christmas Spending Spree

House Republicans are currently debating a continuing resolution that would keep the government running through March 14, however many are heavily criticizing leadership for trying to push through unnecessary provisions negotiated behind closed doors. The over 1,500-page spending measure will receive votes from both Democrats and Republicans and is being pushed by Speaker of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: KIA, TJ Maxx Listed As Corporate Sponsors Of ‘Rainbow Library’ Pushing Trans Books To Kids

Retailer T.J. Maxx and automaker KIA are listed as co-sponsors of a program that distributes LGBTQ-themed books to K-12 schools across the U.S., according to a Wednesday report from conservative nonprofit Consumers’ Research obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The initiative, titled the Rainbow Library, is run by national LGBTQ+ activist organization the Gay, Lesbian […]

Deep State Officials Opposing Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Have Close Ties To Defense Contractors, Censorship Tools

Numerous officials that signed a letter opposing Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) are tied to groups targeting “election misinformation,” left-wing organizations, intelligence agencies and defense contractors. Certain members of Foreign Policy for America, the group behind the letter, are linked to entities from Lockheed Martin to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Nearly 100 […]

Trump Reportedly Looks To Privatize U.S. Postal Service

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), three people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post in a report published Sunday. Trump has made known his desire to detach the USPS from the federal government in conversations at his Mar-a-Lago estate, sources informed the outlet, including with Howard Lutnick, […]

DOJ Inspector General’s Findings Reportedly Show FBI Surveilled Trump Nominee Kash Patel

A Department of Justice (DOJ) watchdog revealed Tuesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on President-elect Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, according to reports. The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a report on the DOJ seeking records through a “compulsory process” of members of Congress, the news media and […]

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Humorless Pronoun Robots’! Tucker Carlson Gives Corporate America, Zyn ‘A Middle Finger’ Through ALp Launch

Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson was joined by friends and supporters Thursday evening outside of Nashville, Tennessee at the launch of his new nicotine pouch line, ALP, where he explained how Zyn’s attack on him led to the creation of his rival product. Carlson announced the launch of his joint project with Turning […]

Biden Commutes Sentences Of Cartel Leaders, Crack Dealers And ‘Notorious’ Fraudsters In Massive Clemency Push

Drug traffickers, crack dealers, cartel leaders and fraudsters appear on President Joe Biden’s list of nearly 1,500 individuals who he granted clemency Thursday, court records reveal. As part of his record-setting clemency grant, Biden announced Thursday he would commute sentences for individuals “who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated […]

House Approves New Judges For Federal Courts, Biden Considers Veto

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday to add new judges to federal courts across the nation. The bill, which passed with a 236-173 vote, now faces opposition from outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden, who has indicated a potential veto, according to Reuters. This legislation proposes the addition of 66 judges to 25 federal district […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emails, Phone Logs Reveal How Botched Pete Hegseth West Point Story Imploded

After a West Point spokesperson falsely claimed that Pete Hegseth had not even applied to the institution, much less been accepted, journalism outfit ProPublica reached out to Hegseth’s lawyer, asserting that the Secretary of Defense nominee had lied and gave him a one hour deadline to respond. Hegseth posted on Wednesday morning a photo of his acceptance […]

U.S. Treasury Turns Frozen Russian Assets Into $20 Billion Loan For Ukraine

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday executed the transfer of its $20 billion share of a massive $50 billion G7 loan to Ukraine. The funds, routed through a World Bank intermediary called the Facilitation of Resources to Invest in Strengthening Ukraine Financial Intermediary Fund (FORTIS Ukraine FIF), aim to bolster Ukraine’s economic stability amid its […]

‘Broad New Precedent’: Biden Issuing Preemptive Pardons To Trump Opponents Would Be Big Expansion Of Power

President Joe Biden is reportedly considering issuing preemptive pardons to Trump opponents, which would set new precedent as a vast expansion of presidential pardon power. While there is not a full list, the president and senior aides are mulling pardons for allies like Democratic California Senator Adam Schiff, former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and […]

Inside Team Trump’s Big Bet On Election Integrity — And How It Paid Off

If the 2020 election taught the Republican National Committee anything, it was that in a new world of drop-boxes and ballot harvesting, they needed to rethink how they play the game. And if the 2024 election proved anything, it was that going big on election integrity and working with third-party groups to turn out votes […]