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Senate Republicans have had a productive month confirming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to enact his MAGA agenda, and Trump has just three Cabinet nominees remaining to be confirmed: the secretaries of labor, commerce, and education.
Read moreInformation about the appalling waste of American taxpayers’ money continues to pour out like pus from a lanced boil. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team were tasked by the Trump administration with cleaning up the federal government, exposing and ending waste, fraud and outright theft. Right on cue, those whose livelihoods depend upon the unintended largesse of taxpayers filed lawsuits, getting multiple federal judges to issue arguably unconstitutional injunctions, in an effort to prevent that exposure and keep the money flowing.
Read more[ Anthony Kim is a research fellow in economic freedom, editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, and manager of global engagement in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.]
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Legislation that would reduce the amount of state regulation imposed on Oklahomans has cleared its first legislative hurdle, receiving bipartisan support to advance out of the House Administrative Rules Committee.
Read moreI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We have enough turnpikes.
Read more[ Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.” Send an email to Jarrett] The legacy media’s new freak-out–after they got finished with the “Elon Musk makes Nazi salutes” cycle–is that the new administration is bringing in too many young people.
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I have been appointed by the House speaker to serve as a member of The Energy Council. This national, bi-partisan legislative group is made up of members from 14 states as far ranging as Alaska and West Virginia and many southern states. Oklahoma was one of the five founding member states when the council formed in 1975. As chair of the House Utilities Committee and a member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Oversight, I’m honored to get to serve in this role – to learn from other states and to share Oklahoma’s energy successes and challenges.
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