Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have discussed a proposal to further boost security for lawmakers with their Republican counterparts, a senior Democratic committee aide told The Hill Monday evening. The aide said that Morelle and Jeffries “have regularly discussed innovative solutions...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that she recommended a “full travel ban” to President Trump during a Monday meeting. “I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,” Noem said Monday on the social platform...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth in hot water amid fallout from boat strike Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing pressure over a Washington Post report that he ordered the military to “kill everybody” in a boat strike in the...
President Trump late Friday suggested that former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former Attorney General Merrick Garland and other Biden administration officials "should be prosecuted" over their involvement in the investigation into the president's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. In a Truth Social post published just prior to departing for his Asia trip,...
President Trump is considering naming the new White House ballroom after himself following days of controversy over his administration’s pricey East Wing project. The new space is expected to be 90,000 square feet and referred to as "The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom," according to a report from ABC News. Earlier in the week, when...
Top House Democrats tore into the Trump administration on Friday night for withholding available food aid for millions of low-income Americans, saying the decision is both callous and illegal. “It is a disgusting dereliction of duty that the Trump administration would knowingly rip food out of the mouths of 42 million children, seniors and veterans,”...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) questioned the Trump administration’s strikes on Venezuelan vessels without the approval of Congress. “The administration needs to give insight into Congress. That's part of it. If this was happening with this level of insight under the Biden administration, I'd be apoplectic,” Lankford said during a Thursday appearance on C-SPAN’s new “Ceasefire”...
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) was scammed Thursday by a group claiming to be a cleaning crew, according to authorities. Multiple people claiming to be HVAC workers reportedly visited the delegate's home and managed to charge her credit card. The case is being investigated as felony fraud, local outlets reported. Norton paid the individuals $4,362 in...
Leading Intelligence Committee Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of leaving them in the dark on strikes in the Caribbean that have killed more than 40 people, demanding information about the intelligence community’s role. The letter requests the legal justifications for the strikes, which has targeted a series of boats the Trump administration has claimed...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions. Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan — wrote the dissent in response to the conservative majority’s Thursday decision to decline a stay of execution for...
A new poll shows growing concerns among citizens over the potential environmental effects caused by artificial intelligence. The Associated Press-NORC Center poll, released Thursday, found about 4 in 10 U.S. adults said they are either “extremely” or “very” concerned about AI’s environmental impact. Comparatively, 30 percent said they are “somewhat” concerned and 27 percent were...
President Trump’s favorability among Hispanic voters has dropped by 19 percentage points over the past 10 months as the White House charts an aggressive approach to immigration enforcement and economic reform, according to a poll. Twenty-seven percent of Hispanic voters said they approve of the way Trump is handling his job while 73 percent disapproved,...
