Vice President JD Vance will use a deeply personal speech to reflect on the legacy of late friend Charlie Kirk, the joys of fatherhood and the future he hopes America can provide.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Trump administration is tapping Venezuela's 300 billion barrels of oil reserves to expand supply and cut prices.
Caught between the debt and their tax base, Republicans are considering some novel ways to account for the cost of their legislative agenda as disagreements over budget cuts look set to hamstring early moves on their tax bill. Known as working from the “current policy baseline,” the nonstandard accounting method would let Republicans sweep nearly...
A Gallup poll released Wednesday found satisfaction with public education is at a record low as the Trump administration eyes shuttering the Department of Education. The annual Mood of the Nation survey found 24 percent are satisfied with public education while 73 percent are dissatisfied, the lowest since the poll began back in 2001....
House Republicans are scrambling to find a solution to internal disagreements over their plan to pass President Trump’s sprawling agenda, an effort that kicked into high gear after leadership was forced to punt a key vote this week — and as the Senate inches closer to moving ahead with its alternative plan. During a late-night...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids could sweep up “innocent citizens.” “If you’re not out looking for criminals based on crimes committed, but undocumented immigrants based on their looks, you’re going to sweep up a lot of innocent people, including innocent citizens,” said the Maryland Democrat, according to...
Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), co-chair of the Border Security Caucus, said on Tuesday the United States “could” use drones against the cartels if it meant saving American lives. NewsNation reported this weekend that cartels have authorized the use of weaponized drone explosives against border patrol agents and other U.S. law enforcement at the southern border....
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he’s eyeing next week for a final committee vote on Kash Patel’s nomination to lead the FBI, rejecting Senate Democrats’ request for a second formal hearing with the nominee. “Further hearings on his nomination are unnecessary,” Grassley said in a statement Tuesday. Grassley said Patel already testified...
Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are being placed on administrative leave with pay "until further notice," according to letters reviewed by The Hill. Employees must be available by phone and email during business hours, according to the notice, which provides an email for them to contact "to end that." The letters...
President Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his proposal for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip and announced that the U.S. will take over the tiny territory in a joint press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The press conference culminated after a day of remarks by Trump on the future of Gaza, which...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair Netanyahu. “So grateful to spend time with these two geniuses,” Yair Netanyahu captioned a Tuesday Instagram post featuring a photo of his father and Musk. The White House hosted the Israeli prime minister on Tuesday. During a press conference later...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is set to meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, an official told The Hill. The governor will be the first Democrat to go to the White House to have a sit-down with Trump since the inauguration. They were recently together in California when the president traveled...
The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Pam Bondi as the next attorney general, giving her control of a Justice Department embroiled in controversy. The vote was 54-46. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joined all Republicans in voting in support of Bondi. Bondi, a two-term attorney general in Florida, has been lauded for her prosecutorial experience...
Multiple airport workers have been arrested over a leaked video of the crash last week between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane near Reagan Washington National Airport, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA). The workers, both from Maryland, received a Computer Trespass charge at the end of last week...
Senate panels on Tuesday advanced the nominations of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Both votes were strictly along party lines, but they likely pave the way for two of President Trump's most controversial nominees to be confirmed. Israeli Prime...
President Trump on Tuesday suggested Palestinians should be permanently relocated out of Gaza, questioning why they would want to return after swaths of the territory was reduced to rubble after more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas. Trump, who was alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a White House visit, doubled down...
