Congress unveils a nearly $80 billion funding package, but a government shutdown looms as Democrats threaten to block DHS funding over the Minneapolis ICE incident.
More than 100,000 visas have been revoked under the Trump administration in less than a year, as the State Department steps up enforcement tied to crime, overstays and public safety threats.
Marco Rubio emerges as Trump's most influential foreign policy figure, reportedly holding three key roles in the administration's leadership structure.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell faces criminal investigation over testimony regarding Fed headquarters renovation as President Donald Trump seeks replacement.
President Trump on Thursday said the United States will soon strike drug cartels on land. "We are going to start now hitting land with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico," Trump said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity,” without providing further details about the plans. His comments follow a monthslong U.S....
President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in a interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas. “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told the The New York Times Wednesday night when asked...
Two people were hospitalized on Thursday after a shooting involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in Portland, Ore., according to officials. Local police said they responded to a call from one of the people wounded at around 2:24 p.m. local time. “Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel. The patients were transported to the...
President Trump on Thursday said his counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping, would have to determine himself if he will use military force against Taiwan. The president told The New York Times regarding a potential operation led by Beijing that Xi considers Taiwan "to be a part of China and that's up to him what he's...
White House officials have weighed possibly giving lump sum payments to Greenlanders in an attempt to sway them into seceding from Denmark, as the Trump administration brings back its calls to have Greenland join the U.S., Reuters reported. Government officials, including White House aides, have discussed different figures, from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, sources...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Senate wins symbolic victory to block Trump from using military in Venezuela Five Senate Republicans voted Thursday to advance a bipartisan resolution on the War Powers Act to block President Trump from using military force against...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Thursday slammed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for not casting a vote to check President Trump’s war powers two months ago after she helped advance a bipartisan resolution Thursday to block Trump from using military force against Venezuela. “Susan Collins had the chance to stand up to Donald Trump and...
Economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday said there's no wealth to be gained after President Trump said that U.S. oil companies would take control of Venezuela's oil production following the ousting of the country's president, Nicolás Maduro. "Donald Trump’s Venezuela venture is a very different story," Krugman wrote on his Substack. "During his triumphalist press conference after the...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) authorized his state’s National Guard to be “staged and ready” Thursday, amid protests after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. Citing “potential capacity concerns from local leaders” in response to demonstrations against the shooting and the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the city,...
More than a dozen House Republicans joined Democrats in voting for a three-year extension of just-lapsed ObamaCare tax subsidies Thursday. The 17 GOP members voting in favor marked an uptick in support for the extension compared with the previous day, when nine Republicans supported a procedural vote to advance the bill — a vote seen...
