A U.S. district judge chastised Homeland Security on Tuesday over agents' suppression of anti-ICE protests on the streets of Chicago and put herself in a position to oversee operations, demanding body-worn cameras for all personnel and ordering daily briefings from the commander on the scene.
Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its decision to suspend food benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beginning Saturday.
The trade war between the U.S. and China is turning into an MMA-style cage match. President Donald Trump just announced 100% tariffs on Chinese-made goods, while President Xi Jinping has slapped a near 100% ban on critical minerals from China into the U.S. Xi’s move makes the heart of the conflict clear: The ultimate winner […]
While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer‘s (D-NY) shutdown rolls on, the Senate has finally started to make progress on President Donald Trump‘s judicial nominees, after they broke through the Democrats’ monthslong slow-walking. That means it’s time to encourage more older conservative and libertarian judges to take their well-deserved senior status and open up more vacancies […]
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 issued one day before the U.S. government shut down. “Supervisors and human resources (HR) professionals are directed to act with speed and conviction to facilitate the separation from Federal...
Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) during the government shutdown, as the funding lapse threatens payments of benefits if it continues. It comes after the Trump administration earlier in October transferred $300 million in tariff revenue to WIC to prevent...
Starting Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for millions are in jeopardy as the impacts of the weeks-long federal government shutdown expand. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the food stamp program, said last week it will not use more than $5 million in contingency funding that Congress allocated for emergency scenarios....
Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally — to accept Republicans’ “clean” stopgap to reopen the government. It is the latest display of how outside pressure and deadlines have failed to move the parties away from their entrenched positions surrounding Democrats’ demands to negotiate...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urged donors Tuesday to stop giving money to the state's redistricting measure on the ballot this election. An email from Newsom to donors obtained by The Hill notes that the governor's team has "hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50." "You can...
Almost two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s White House ballroom plan, according to a poll. In the Yahoo/YouGov poll, 61 percent of respondents said they did not support Trump's plan to add a ballroom, while 25 percent backed the move. The demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make space for...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is leading incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) in the New York gubernatorial race, according to polling. In a poll released Tuesday, the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, finds Stefanik getting 43 percent support compared to Hochul's 42 percent — a statistical tie that still gives the House Republican...
Vice President Vance told reporters after the Tuesday Senate Republican policy lunch that 1.3 million military service members will get paid at the end of this week, despite the government shutdown that has dragged on for 28 days. “Will the troops get paid on Friday? Yes, we believe that we can continue to pay the...
