President Donald Trump pressured Sens. McConnell, Paul, Collins, and Murkowski in a Truth Social post ahead of an upcoming vote to scuttle his Canadian tariffs.
Small Business Committee chairs Joni Ernst and Roger Williams plan to launch an effort to help bring COVID fraudsters to justice by extending the statute of limitation a decade.
Whether the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sadly withdrew her nomination for the post last week, or another qualified individual, the message from the Trump administration has already been made clear to bureaucrats at the global body that the United States will not be going along with radical […]
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is having a meeting with House Democrats Wednesday over their concerns surrounding the layoffs at the Department of Education, which she and President Trump have been vocal about trying to eliminate entirely. Rep. Mark Takano (Calif.) and at least ten other Democratic members will meet with McMahon at 9:30 a.m....
Five out of seven Colorado River basin states are failing to maximize a critical resource that could help alleviate the region’s longstanding water crisis, a new report found. Across all the states, just 26 percent of treated municipal wastewater is being reused, according to the research, released by the University of California Los Angeles, along...
The SBA was an experiment that never really succeeded. Considering how everything in the federal government is now being scrutinized, now may be the right time to end that experiment.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) has signed an order “to combat the cartels, stop drug smuggling, and secure Arizona’s border,” the governor said in a Tuesday news release. The executive order requires a joint task force named “Operation Desert Guardian” to be set up by the Grand Canyon State’s Department of Public Safety, Department of...
Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News's senior White House correspondent, sharply criticized the White House's decision to take over the press pool from the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), which has governed the press pool for decades. Heinrich, in a post on X, pushed back on press secretary Karoline Leavitt's claim that "we are giving the power...
The White House on Tuesday unveiled the interim administrator at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as Amy Gleason. The disclosure of the interim administrator’s identity came in the wake of consistent reporter questioning and the White House saying that tech billionaire Elon Musk is technically uninvolved with DOGE, despite the fact that Musk has...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) announced he's running for Florida governor on Tuesday, becoming the first major candidate to jump into the race. “I’m here to announce my candidacy as the next governor of the great state of Florida,” Donalds told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “We have a great governor. Ron DeSantis has done a tremendous job...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth visits Gitmo Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday visited Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to see U.S. migrant detention operations up close, amid reports that the Trump administration is struggling with tent structures built there....
Kim Kardashian is facing a lawsuit after she posted a photo of New York resident Ivan Cantu and incorrectly identified him as the death row inmate in Texas bearing the same name. On Feb. 26, 2024, Kardashian posted the photo of the plaintiff to her Instagram story and wrote, in all caps, “The state will...
Farmers and green groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday for an “unlawful purge” of climate data from its website. “This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s unlawful purge of climate-related policies, guides, datasets, and resources from its websites, without any advance notice as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, without engaging...
President Trump on Tuesday signed a memo suspending security clearances for employees at a law firm who assisted with former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the now-president. White House staff secretary Will Scharf said in the Oval Office that the memo targeted Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling, which provided pro bono legal...
The race to prevent a government shutdown next month is colliding with Republican efforts to enact President Trump’s tax and funding priorities. Congressional negotiators have been struggling for weeks to strike a bipartisan deal that would keep the government funded past a mid-March deadline. At the same time, House Republicans are racing to pass a...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reopened applications for the federal scholarship that aids studying agriculture at historically Black universities after it was suspended last week for further review.
