Those who promote or engage in violence against the United States and its allies and interests should be denied entry into our country. That should be obvious. The Trump administration’s decision on Monday to revoke a visa granted to the Bob Vylan band was appropriate and demonstrates a commitment to this evidently good policy. Performing […]
President Trump spoke on the phone with a handful of Republican lawmakers blocking his “big, beautiful bill” in the early hours of Thursday morning, The Hill has learned, as GOP leaders race to coalesce the conference around the sprawling package. The phone call — which took place around 1 a.m. as holdouts huddled in a...
The GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” hit a wall late Wednesday night when a group of hardline conservatives and moderate Republicans combined forces to stall the sprawling package. Lawmakers returned to the House chamber at 9:30 p.m. — after an hours-long delay — to hold a procedural vote that would open up debate on the megabill and tee...
President Donald Trump early Thursday called out Republicans who were still refusing to get behind a House procedural vote on the "Big Beautiful Bill."
Mary Trump, the president’s niece, slammed right-wing attacks on Zohran Mamdani, the winner of New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, calling them “extraordinarily dangerous” on SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah’s Friday show. “It is not going to stop here. It’s going to get worse,” Mary Trump said in response to a question about comments by President...
Former President Biden and Vice President Harris attended the Saturday funeral of slain Minnesota lawmaker, state Rep. Melissa Hortman, in Minneapolis. A man impersonating a police officer shot and killed Hortman, her husband Mark and their golden retriever in an attack officials describes as “politically motivated.” State Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife Yvetter...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) told Democratic senators Saturday that he will force the clerks to read the 1,000-page Republican megabill on the Senate floor once Republicans vote to proceed to the legislation, a procedural act of defiance that will take an estimated 12 hours and delay final passage of President Trump’s agenda by...
There are the countless other small-business owners who just keep their fingers crossed and hope against hope that nothing bad will happen. That's no way to run a business
An updated draft of the Senate’s megabill text slashes tax incentives for wind and solar energy – and adds a new tax on future wind and solar projects. The initial draft released by Senate Republicans earlier this month cut the credit for any wind and solar projects that did not “begin construction” by certain dates, while the latest...
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley offered her first praise for President Trump in several months in a Monday op-ed in Israel Hayom, an Israeli right-wing newspaper. She congratulated his decision to strike three Iranian nuclear sites but warned of further retaliation from Iran. “Those in America that worry about why these...
A majority of Americans say they support sanctions on Russia and its allies over the ongoing war with Ukraine, according to a poll released Friday by YouGov. The survey found that 44 percent of U.S. citizens said the country should increase sanctions on Moscow, compared to 19 percent who say the set sanctions should remain....
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), two key holdouts, said Saturday that they will vote to advance the Senate’s version of President Trump’s "big, beautiful bill," citing changes made to the text unveiled by GOP leaders on Friday. Collins said she will vote for the motion to proceed to the legislation out of...
Donald Trump's recent decision to order strikes against Iran has seen him adopting the neoconservative vision of reshaping the Middle East through military power, and he must now see this vision through to achieve meaningful change in the region.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Friday slammed Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) for “endangering her own constituents’ lives, health, and jobs” by supporting President Trump’s megabill. The social media squabble comes just a day after The Hill reported that Stefanik is preparing to officially launch her campaign for governor. Hochul claimed the GOP “One,...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) reportedly requested the Trump administration to unfreeze Biden-era climate funding in support of a car manufacturing plant in her southeastern district, which covers much of the Palmetto State's lowcountry region. In a Tuesday letter obtained by The Washington Post, Mace asked the Department of Energy (DOE) to release the funds for...
Rules on everything from firearm bump stocks to environmental permitting are being invalidated or reopened, but Congress has taken no meaningful steps to review or update those laws and is now actively undermining its ability to do so in the future.
The Senate on Saturday is expected to take up a procedural vote to advance President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after internal squabbles and parliamentarian rulings continue to cast doubt on its passage ahead of the self-imposed July 4 deadline. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Friday still noted that the schedule could be subject...
