Democrats’ House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser has led to a political firestorm across social media.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) said Saturday she believes the ongoing legal battle over the Kennedy Center could stand in the way of President Trump tearing down the building, after his administration raised demolition as a possibility earlier this week. Beatty, an ex officio member of the center’s board who has successfully challenged Trump’s proposed changes...
Republicans are nearing the final stretch of the midterm election cycle with an increasingly unstable political landscape, as races for traditionally safe red seats grow competitive amid tensions over President Trump’s economic agenda. Democrats are looking to flip a handful of key battleground states to regain a Congressional majority come November. Senate races in Texas,...
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin is set to introduce a resolution to party members this month that moves to limit corporate and dark money spending in primaries, according to a draft obtained by The Hill on Tuesday. The resolution states that the “only way” to solve the “problem” of the flow of unlimited corporate...
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott accused President Trump of promoting "racist viewpoints" after Trump suggested expanding his crime crackdown to other major US cities with Black mayors, while Scott noted that these cities have seen historic lows in violent crime.
National Guard troops began arriving in Washington on Tuesday morning, a day after President Trump deployed some 800 members to the nation’s capital to combat what he called out-of-control violent crime. The troops were seen arriving at the D.C. Armory, the National Guard’s headquarters in the city, and are expected to be on the ground...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and aligned advocacy groups are planning Saturday protests against GOP redistricting efforts in Texas. Nearly 50 events condemning a vote proposed by Republicans in the Lone Star State will take place across 20 states nationwide. The demonstrations are dubbed "Fight the Trump Takeover.” “From Texas to California to Illinois, the...
President Trump on Tuesday threatened to allow a lawsuit against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell related to renovations of the central bank's headquarters. Trump provided no details on the nature of the lawsuit or who would bring it, but he blasted Powell in a Truth Social post and blamed his former Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin,...
President Trump reoriented the full force of the federal government to focus on fighting crime and beautifying Washington, D.C., putting the city on edge as it waits to see how that plays out and putting other Democratic cities on notice. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called his actions "unprecedented." “We have other cities also that are...
Former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington to help curb crime rates, suggesting that he is trying to “goad Democrats." “He thinks the nation‘s capital should represent the best of America. But I think he‘s also doing something that Trump is very good...
Consumer prices rose 0.2 in July, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as the economy braces for the full imposition of President Trump's tariffs. The latest reading of the consumer price index (CPI) showed monthly and annual inflation plateauing as declining gasoline prices wiped out increases in the costs...
President Trump’s decision to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy 800 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., is already making a visible difference. Having spent most of Monday walking the streets, I saw and felt something the city has been missing for years — relief. Seniors who had been afraid to sit on their front...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Monday evening that President Trump’s unusual agreement with major chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to share some of their revenue from chip sales in China is “not a good deal.” “We've got to realize we're in an intellectual war, a technology war with China, and we're in an AI [artificial intelligence]...
President Trump’s effort to lessen crime in Washington, D.C., and launch a “beautification” effort is clashing with a long tradition of Republicans criticizing and outright writing off the nation’s cities. Republicans and conservatives for years — decades, even — had amplified the failures in cities as being the result of Democratic policies and flaunted migration...
