The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Top Headlines

Trump signs order to freeze federal hiring in order to reduce bureaucracies. (Government Executive)

Trump advancing Keystone, Dakota Oil pipelines today. (Bloomberg)

A look at four of the GOP’s ObamaCare replacement plans. (The Daily Signal)

Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as CIA director. (The Washington Post)

Senate committee approves Tillerson for State. Now to the full Senate… (Associated Press)

DNC Chair candidates bash white people in racially charged forum. (News Grabien)

Hillary Clinton plots her next move. How about retirement? (Politico)

President Trump restores ban on international abortion funding. (Alliance Defending Freedom)

Obama quietly sent $221M to Palestinians in final hours as exec. (Fox News)

Israel approves huge expansion of West Bank settlements. (The Washington Post)

Satire — or is it? Survey says 100% of the people marching on the nation’s capital for abortion rights as part of the “Women’s March on Washington” were found to have not been aborted. (The Babylon Bee)

Policy: Jeff Sessions can help stop the “American carnage.” (Real Clear Policy)

Policy: What science really says about sodium and hypertension. (Competitive Enterprise Institute)