The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Tex., for interrupting President Trump's Joint Address to Congress – but some of his colleagues think they should go further.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Monday to protect the identities of healthcare providers prescribing abortion medication days. The move comes days after a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a patient living in Louisiana. Under the new law, providers prescribing abortion medication can request...
President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have moved to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which spend some $30 billion last year on humanitarian, development and security aid to more than 100 countries. Musk said Trump agreed with him that USAID should be shut down after the president said his...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified Congress on Monday that there is a potential reorganization of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as the separate agency appears to have already been subsumed by the State Department. President Trump appointed Rubio as the acting administrator for USAID on Monday, and the secretary said in a...
Click for the latest from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’ More than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were notified last week that they may be subject to immediate firing, according to an email obtained by...
President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to a pause in implementing tariffs for at least a month, just hours after Trump agreed to delay tariffs on Mexico. The announced delay on the 25 percent tariffs — set to start Tuesday — came after Trump and Trudeau’s second conversation on Monday. Trump said...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Monday that she will support Tulsi Gabbard to become director of national intelligence (DNI), giving her a key boost in her confirmation push. Collins was considered a crucial swing vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is set to meet Tuesday afternoon to potentially advance Gabbard toward a floor vote....
Registration of Tesla's electric vehicles (EVs) in California plummeted by 11.6 percent in 2024, a new report has found. The company's market share also dropped 7.6 percent last year, now holding just 52.5 percent of the state's zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market for 2024, according to the report published by the California New Car Dealers Association. "Things...
Former NBC news political pundit and moderator of "Meet The Press" Chuck Todd is railing against Elon Musk and his recent efforts to trim spending and make major alterations to large swaths of the federal government. “If democracy is a quote-unquote ‘left-wing ideology’ to Elon Musk, I mean, this man is un-American as far as...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with fellow Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), will offer warnings about the reported efforts by Elon Musk and his allies at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access the federal government's payment system, among other actions, in a press conference...
Elon Musk's SpaceX has significant ties to U.S. defense officials, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest and national security vulnerabilities, particularly given Musk's business ties with China.
President Trump on Monday reiterated his desire to see Canada become part of the United States as he prepared to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods. "What I'd like to see— Canada become our 51st state,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked what concessions Canada could offer to stave off tariffs. Trump downplayed...
President Trump said Monday that billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk can’t do anything without approval from the White House, suggesting if there’s a conflict of opinion with Musk that he would be blocked from acting. Trump was asked why is it important for Musk to have access to payment systems at the Treasury Department after...
President Trump on Monday directed secretaries to begin a process to create an American sovereign wealth fund, suggesting it could partially own the popular app TikTok. The president signed an executive order in the Oval Office to have Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick create and lead such a fund. “It’s...
