Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story RFK Jr. hearings begin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the nearly $2 trillion Department of Health and Human Services, will face two congressional panels this week, with senators set to scrutinize his views and various...
Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire that he believes the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” Asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in written questions for the record whether former President Biden won the 2020 election, Vought responded, “I believe that the 2020 election...
The Trump administration’s expansive freeze on federal grants and other executive spending roiled Washington on Tuesday, drawing howls from Democrats — and a few well-placed Republicans — who say the president is abusing his powers at the expense of public services. It is also sparking confusion and fear among a broad group of stakeholders outside...
Presented by American Petroleum Institute — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has halted disbursement of federal aid as part of an order from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to halt loan and grant distribution. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA halts fund disbursement under OMB...
After losing access to a Medicaid federal funding portal after an aid freeze by the Trump administration, states say they're regaining access, but some are reporting that the site isn't functioning "correctly." One day after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo stating agencies must halt “all activities related to obligation or...
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, renewing a policy he first began implementing in 2017 during his first term. The order, which does not immediately ban transgender troops, is an extension of recent efforts to unravel transgender rights and diversity initiatives instituted by...
Leveraging the return-to-work order could facilitate the relocation of tens of thousands of federal workers within months by building on where they already live and work.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said President Trump is addressing everything “but inflation and prices” in his first week in office. Beshear joined CNN on Tuesday, where he weighed in on Trump's mass deportation plan and arrests of migrants taking place in various communities across the country. “What I’ve seen out of his executive orders...
The Trump White House on Tuesday defended a widespread pause on federal grants and loans in the face of confusion among nonprofit groups and outrage from Democrats over the order. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded several questions at her first briefing about the pause, which was announced late Monday and goes into effect Tuesday at...
More than a dozen U.S. and Canadian Jewish groups said Tuesday they will leave the social media platform X, stating it "has become rife with toxic speech" amid Elon Musk's changes to the popular social networking app. "More than a dozen U.S. and Canadian Jewish groups said Tuesday they will leave the social media platform...
Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), said President Trump is aiming to have the Department of Justice (DOJ) return to “pre-1970s days” after the agency fired several prosecutors who handled the president’s criminal investigations. “This is a complete undermining of that system and essentially a return to those pre-1970s days...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) likened President Trump’s onslaught of executive action to a “blitzkrieg” whose ultimate goal is to “collapse our democracy.” “The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence — does everybody not see what’s happening?” Murphy wrote in a post on X on Tuesday. “In a blitzkrieg,...
Social media posts mistakenly identified a law enforcement-themed ice cream truck as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle, leading its owner to fear for his safety.
