President Trump late Tuesday disputed reports that he wants to temporarily extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies for two years, but left the door open to compromising on extension to get a deal that eventually replaces them.
Republican Sens. John Curtis (Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) backed fellow Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), amid a Pentagon probe into “serious allegations of misconduct” against the senator after he and five other Democratic lawmakers told service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration. Curtis said Tuesday afternoon on the social platform X that...
Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) said on Sunday that “everything is on” Republicans as the government shutdown drags on. “On the one hand, Democrats want credit for shutting the government down in order to get health insurance subsidies that you talk about that are obviously important and consequential, but on the other hand, they say it's...
The FBI is investigating a hunting stand that was found in the sight line of Air Force One on Friday. FBI Director Kash Patel told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company, that the Secret Service “discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone” prior to...
President Trump rejected the idea that he's acting like a monarch in an interview that took place the same day as the nation's massive "No Kings" protests. “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo recorded on Saturday, prior to the demonstrations. ...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Sunday that the scandal involving Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones and his unearthed violent text messages will not cause trouble for former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) in her race for governor as the two are both on the ballot next month. “Senator, very quickly, do you worry that...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday announced there had been another U.S. strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat days prior. “On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was...
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.) said Sunday that President Trump's commuting the sentence of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was “the wrong decision." “I do not agree with the commutation. I think it was a wrong decision, primarily because this is somebody who stole [hundreds of thousands] of dollars from his donors,” Malliotakis said on...
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Sunday that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s resurfaced comments are not “disqualifying.” “I don't think they're disqualifying, but certainly they're not right. And I'm glad that he apologized for them. They're indefensible, they're hurtful and they're offensive,” Martin told Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union."...
Moderate Democrats running for governor in Virginia and New Jersey are promoting a message of tackling affordability, fixing health care, and expanding opportunity, and if they win, they could launch state-level Service Corps to provide citizens with the same benefits as soldiers, such as affordable housing, debt-free education and access to quality health care.
The scene outside the ICE facility took a darker turn as federal agents deployed tear gas on the crowd around 4:30 p.m. and detained at least one person over the course of the next hour.
After his sentence was commuted by President Trump, former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said Sunday he does not expect to run for office in the next decade. “I can tell you this, not that I can see of in the next decade. I’m all politicked out,” Santos told CNN’s Dana Bash on "State of the...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that recent strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea “go against all our tradition.” “President Trump has authorized military strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. As you know, so far more than 20 people, senator, have been killed in six different strikes. Do you believe...
Republican Sen. Katie Britt (Ala.) said Sunday she is "open" to conversations on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies amid the government shutdown. “I'm absolutely open to having [a] conversation, but we're not going to extend a program that is wrought with fraud, waste and abuse,” Britt told Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the...
