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Description:On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:  After the second must-pass bill to fund the government failed in the House of Representatives Thursday night, Republicans spent much of Friday seeking agreement on a path forward. The federal government would officially shut down at midnight otherwise.  Religious liberty law firm Alliance Defending Freedom will meet with The Walt Disney Company in early January to question its collusion with a now-defunct advertising giant known to censor news outlets and personalities.  There’s a new caucus on Capitol Hill dedicated to making America healthy again. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., says the new caucus will focus on nutrition, access to affordable, high-quality-nutritious foods, improving primary care, and addressing the root causes of chronic diseases.  Additional headlines:   A man drove into a crowded Christmas market in Germany today, resulting in several deaths and injuries. The individual was arrested at the scene.  Party City is going out of business after 40 years, closing down all of its stores. Meanwhile, retailer Big Lots is planning to close its 963 stores.  College Football fans finally get their wish with a newly expanded playoff format that kicks off Friday night with a first-round matchup.   Keep Up With The Daily Signal  Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email     Subscribe to our other shows:   The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast  Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women  The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown    Follow The Daily Signal:   X: https://x.com/DailySignal  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/  Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal  Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal    Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:   Some suggest it’s time for a new House speaker. Donald Trump and JD Vance weigh in on the spending bill fight.  A Georgia appeals court on Thursday disqualified Fani Willis. Luigi Mangione waived his right to an extradition hearing.  Neil Cavuto is leaving Fox News after almost 30 years.  Legacy media outlets give Trump cabinet picks overwhelmingly negative coverage. Links From Today’s Show:Keep Up With The Daily SignalSign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email   Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:   The House Ethics Committee has decided to release the Matt Gaetz report. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a case aimed at challenging a law that might ban TikTok.  The Committee on House Administration held a hearing today on Prohibiting Foreign Interference in U.S. elections.   Links From Today’s Show:https://washingtonstand.com/news/christian-school-shooter-manifesto-documents-family-breakdown Keep Up With The Daily SignalSign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email   Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:   Republicans say they’ve made a new government funding deal.  Former Rep. Liz Cheney is accused of witness tampering during the Democrat-led investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The Biden administration is said to be pushing abortion on a West African country with pro-life values.  Far-left congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s bid to lead the House Oversight Committee has failed.  President Joe Biden commutes the sentence of the woman behind the largest municipal embezzlement scandal in U.S. history The Texas lieutenant governor says he would buy and store border wall materials until Trump’s inauguration.  Links From Today’s Show:Keep Up With The Daily SignalSign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email   Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:   At least three people are dead following a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin this morning.  According to the president-elect, the U.S. government might know more about the mysterious drones than is being shared with the public.  The Japanese tech-investing firm SoftBank Group is investing $100 billion dollars into projects in the U.S. over the next four years. The aim is for the investment to generate 100,000 jobs in the U.S. economy.   Links From Today’s Show:Keep Up With The Daily SignalSign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email   Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 1,402-acre ranch in Texas may become ground zero for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a Republican, spearheaded purchase of the ranch, which is located along the border with Mexico in Starr County between Laredo and McAllen, Texas.Now, Buckingham says, Texas may lease the land to the federal government as a site to process illegal aliens for deportation. She figures President-elect Donald Trump may need it.“We just thought we'd write a letter to [Trump] and say, ... if we can help, we have this property,” she says. Deportations of illegal aliens, especially criminal illegal aliens, was a pillar of Trump's presidential campaign, and Buckingham says she and other leaders in Texas recognize that the incoming Trump administration will “probably need a facility to … relieve the strain on the local jails to get the proper processing before these people are deported.” Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming border czar, has indicated he is interested in using the 1,402-acre ranch, a popular crossing point for illegal aliens, as the second Trump administration begins a major effort to secure the border and remove criminals who entered the country illegally. Illegal aliens already have crossed the border into America unlawfully. Generally, "criminal illegal aliens" refers to those who also have been convicted of a crime either in America or in another country.Buckingham joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what will change at the border when Trump returns next month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new documentary from Palladium Pictures and The Wall Street Journal examines how Britain's permanent bureaucracy—nicknamed “The Blob”—played a pivotal role in ending Liz Truss' brief tenure in late 2022 as prime minister.Through interviews with Truss and other key players, director Michael Pack, a former CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, reveals how unelected technocrats and civil servants—Britain's equivalent of the American deep state—pushed back against her economic reforms, ultimately leading to her resignation after just 44 days in office.Pack spoke with The Daily Signal about the growing power of Britain's administrative state—and lessons President-elect Donald Trump should glean from the episode as he assumes power in the United States."The Blob is a lot stronger than you think," Pack told The Daily Signal. "A lot of people on the Republican side seem to be pretty confident that they'll be able to radically reform the departments and organizations that they're nominated to head. But I think the Liz Truss story suggests 'the Blob' has a lot of power to fight back."Watch the full documentary: https://youtu.be/c3q9gGhRrjAThis is Pack's second documentary with The Wall Street Journal. His first film of the series, "'Get the Jew': The Crown Heights Riot Revisited," debuted in October. It tells the story of the America's worst antisemitic riot, which took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991."The idea of the series was to cover events or things that happened in the past that were either misreported, ignored, or just sent down the memory hole," Pack explained.Pack's most notable film, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words," tells the remarkable story of the legendary U.S. Supreme Court justice.With his latest documentary, Pack hopes to educate Americans about the fights facing the incoming Trump administration as it seeks to reform Washington. From his time at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Pack has firsthand experience with America's version of "the Blob.""In my own little world, I did see what it was like to face the administrative state," Pack said of his seven months as CEO. "Most of us, myself included, tend to think of the administrative state as an American problem, and the Liz Truss documentary makes clear that it is a problem of the West," he added. "These bureaucrats are the same in London, Paris, New York, D.C. They go to the same colleges, they're taught the same ideas."Watch the full documentary below. Learn more about Palladium Pictures' incubator fellowship for America's future storytellers: https://palladiumpictures.com/incubator/The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://www.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:   For days now, citizens in New Jersey have been watching drones fly over their communities. Vice President-elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to attend the Army vs. Navy game as his guest.  California Congresswoman and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the hospital in Luxembourg. Keep Up With The Daily SignalSign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email   Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 On today’s Top News in 10, we cover  President-elect Donald Trump made a historic visit to the New York Stock Exchange, ringing the opening bell while celebrating his selection as TIME's Person of the Year for the second time. Accompanied by his wife Melania, Trump received an enthusiastic welcome from the Wall Street crowd.  Former Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has been tapped to lead Voice of America in the incoming Trump administration. Trump also announced several diplomatic appointments, including new ambassadors to Colombia, Argentina, and the Organization of American States.  President Joe Biden granted clemency to 1,500 individuals in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. This comes just days after his controversial pardon of his son Hunter Biden. The Heritage Foundation's John Malcolm discusses the implications of these pardons and the possibility of future preemptive pardons.  Additional headlines:   DOJ inspector general reveals new details about FBI informants on Jan. 6, 2021.  Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema block key NLRB appointment in surprise vote.  Conservative historian Lee Edwards dies at 92.   Keep Up With The Daily Signal  Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email  Subscribe to our other shows:  The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal:  X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Former colleagues of Pete Hegseth shed light on smears against Trump’s defense secretary pick.  The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee hears from Antony Blinken about the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal. The United Kingdom bans puberty blockers for minors indefinitely. FBI Director Christoper Wray announces he will resign.  The House of Representatives will vote to approve the annual defense policy bill.  The nation’s capital is ready for federal employees to return to in-person work. Relevant Linkshttps://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/11/pete-hegseth-former-colleagues-against-media-smears/Keep Up With The Daily SignalSign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email   Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown  Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal  Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices