March 7, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump's revised ban on travel from terrorism-prone nations is drawing both plaudits and cautions. Josh Siegel talks with national security experts, while Hans von Spakovsky pronounces the policy sound. Conservatives hope Trump will listen to their preferences on repealing Obamacare and killing the Export-Import Bank, as Rachel del Guidice and Melissa Quinn report. Plus: Fred Lucas on the "wiretapping" fracas and Sen. Mike Lee on taming the bureaucracy. Please pass the milk: It's Cereal Day.
The revisions President Trump has made, which clarify that the executive order does not apply to any foreigners who already hold visas to enter the U.S., will make it tougher for activist judges to justify any injunction orders they might be inclined to issue against it.
March 16 is the debt limit deadline and Congress either must balance the budget or raise the debt limit, and on April 28, the continuing resolution adopted in December to fund the government will expire.
"President Trump is onto something," says Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton. "The Obama-connected wiretapping and illegal leaks of classified material concerning President Trump and General Flynn are a scandal."
With President Trump in the White House, conservative lawmakers may have a chance to shutter the bank for good, or at least keep it operating with limited authority.
"This revision … makes clear that the focus of the order is on dealing with the emerging threat of ... foreign fighters coming out of the region to the U.S. rather than punishing or ostracizing Muslim peoples," says Heritage's James Carafano.
Three pieces of legislation would go a long way toward reinvigorating the separation of powers at the heart of our constitutional system, writes Sen. Mike Lee.
The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation.
