The Senate voted late Tuesday to terminate the emergency powers that President Trump used to impose tariffs on goods from Brazil, a major coffee producer and South American trading partner.
The food stamp program, which once served just a small fraction of U.S. families, has grown massively in recent years, putting it at the center of a spending stalemate that threatens to cut off millions of people from federally funded grocery money beginning Saturday.
A federal judge put an indefinite hold on the White House's new reductions in the federal workforce, saying Tuesday that President Trump's team appeared to be violating the law.
Vice President J.D. Vance said Tuesday that the administration has found enough money to fund another paycheck for active duty military troops amid the ongoing government shutdown.
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon moves to fire civilian workers with ‘speed and conviction’ The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian personnel, directing managers to move with “speed and conviction” to fire underperforming workers, according to a memo...
The White House on Tuesday fired the members of the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency that advises on architectural developments in Washington, D.C. "We are preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump's America First Policies," a White House official said in a...
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) said Monday that he does not “begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical” about him as Election Day nears. “I don’t begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical, because they’ve also lived through tens of millions of dollars of commercials telling them to fear me,” Mamdani told host Jon...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story 5 GOP senators help pass bill to strike Trump's Brazil tariffs The Senate voted 52 to 48 to pass the resolution sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to terminate President Trump’s 50-percent...
Five Senate Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday night to pass a resolution terminating President Trump’s emergency authority to impose steep tariffs on Brazil, one of the biggest exporters of coffee to the United States. The Senate voted 52 to 48 to pass the resolution sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.)...
