Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) blew up at fellow Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) in a heated back-and-forth on the Senate floor Tuesday, accusing members of his party of being “willing to be complicit” with President Trump. “This, to me, is a problem with Democrats in America right now, is we’re...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) accused President Trump and the Republican Party of trying to “rig” elections in the state with their plan to conduct a middecade redistricting to increase the number of GOP-held seats. Talarico told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill” on Tuesday that his focus has been on the special legislative...
The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the pandemic-era lockdowns that briefly closed parks to humans in 2020, large animals at most sites continued to avoid human-built roadways and facilities,...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Poll: Support for Israeli military action in Gaza hits new low in U.S. A new Gallup poll measures Americans’ approval of Israel’s military action in Gaza at 32 percent, the lowest point recorded since the question was...
A gambling tax provision in President Trump’s megabill that passed Congress earlier this month is ruffling feathers on both sides of the aisle. Tucked into the approximately 1,000-page tax and spending cuts plan is a measure that experts say will make it more expensive for gamblers to lose, and that some Republicans say they weren’t even...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), putting a longtime government scientist at the helm of an agency being upended by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Monarez, 50, is President Trump’s second pick for the job. She was confirmed on a...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC director poised for confirmation Susan Monarez was poised to be confirmed to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, putting a longtime government scientist at the helm of an agency being upended by Health...
Senate Republicans are moving swiftly to clear key hurdles in their effort to pass a set of spending bills before the August recess and get the ball moving toward avoiding a government shutdown in two months. Appropriators are crafting a three-bill package that covers full-year funding for the departments of Agriculture (USDA), Veterans Affairs (VA),...
President Trump on Tuesday claimed that the Wall Street Journal wants to settle the defamation lawsuit he filed after the outlet reported on a letter Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein. “It's in the lawyer's hands. I've been treated very unfairly by The Wall Street Journal,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, when asked...
India has overtaken China as the leading exporter of smartphones to the U.S., as Apple continues to shift production in the face of the Trump administration’s tariffs, according to new research released Monday. Canalys, a global tech market analyst firm, found that 44 percent of U.S. smartphones were manufactured in India in the second quarter...
A new analysis on the Trump administration’s tariff policies found several industries could face cost increases of up to 4.5 percent. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth found prices rising from 2 to 4.5 percent, with particular vulnerability to the manufacturing sector and the repair and maintenance industries, including auto repair shops. Researcher Christopher Bangert-Downs...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday announced that she would not run for Georgia governor in 2026, throwing cold water on speculation that had been swirling for months. In a lengthy post on the social media platform X, Greene decried "constant rumors" about her political ambitions, including chatter that she might launch a campaign...
More than 20 states filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Health and Human Services, challenging a provision in President Trump’s enormous tax and spending package that bars certain health care nonprofits from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) includes a provision that bars health care nonprofits that provide...
Democrats on the Senate Health Committee launched an investigation on Tuesday into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s firing of all members of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory panel. Led by ranking member Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with Democrats, the lawmakers asked for detailed information...
