Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) is projected to win the Republican primary for Senate in Kentucky, putting him on a glidepath to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), the longest-serving Senate leader in history. Barr defeated former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron in a competitive primary that marked the first race without McConnell on the ballot...
Senate Democrats pressed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday about a cross-country road trip he recently took with his family and filmed for an upcoming reality TV-style series commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary. “It doesn’t smell right,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) told Duffy during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Department of Transportation’s (DOT)...
Democratic attorneys general in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday filed suit against the Education Department over new limits set to go into effect for graduate student loan borrowers. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland, states that the new limits will strain the healthcare workforce by discouraging students from...
Roughly 5 million people could lose coverage from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace this year after the enhanced premium tax credits expired in 2025, according to the latest analysis from KFF. Last year marked four consecutive years of record growth in enrollment from the ACA Marketplace, due in large part to the enhanced premium...
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are planning to move ahead with legislation that would make "springing forward" permanent across the U.S. Matthew VanHyfte, a spokesperson for the committee’s Republicans, told The Hill that the panel plans to notice on Wednesday evening a full markup of the bill that will “list the legislation that includes...
A manager of one of President Trump’s golf courses has served as an unofficial adviser on the renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, an Interior Department spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. David Schutzenhofer helped recruit Greenwater Services for a $1.7 million no-bid contract with the Trump administration to install a permanent purification system in the...
Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones advances to a Georgia GOP gubernatorial runoff against billionaire Rick Jackson after a crowded eight-candidate field.
President Donald Trump finally got his revenge on Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.
The libertarian-leaning iconoclast who has been a hindrance to some of the...
Rep. Andy Barr won Kentucky’s Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, after being boosted in the testy contest by President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
Barr will...
Trump targeted GOP critic Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky's record-breaking $32 million House primary, backing former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to unseat him.
