Vice President Harris is set to announce a plan to lower housing costs and end the housing shortage through the construction of new units and down payment support to first-time homebuyers, according to Harris-Walz campaign officials. Harris’s “urgent and comprehensive four-year plan” will call for constructing 3 million new housing units, a tax incentive for...
Thursday saw dueling events on the 2024 campaign trail. President Biden and Vice President Harris appeared together for their first fully public event since she supplanted him as the Democratic nominee. Meanwhile, former President Trump sought again to take back the spotlight from Harris by holding a news conference at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club. The Biden-Harris...
Vice President Harris’s campaign hit former President Trump over his remarks Thursday, arguing he lied and wouldn’t defend his agenda. The Harris campaign’s email in response to Trump had the subject line, “Statement on Trump’s…Whatever That Was.” “We aren’t sure what we just watched and neither is America,” it said. During his press conference at...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Negotiated drug prices for Medicare are here The Biden administration on Thursday announced the first results of Medicare’s new power to negotiate drug prices. Democrats and allied groups touted billions of dollars in savings — older Americans will...
Former President Trump on Thursday dismissed calls from allies for him to refocus on policy, saying he was “entitled to personal attacks” against Vice President Harris as polls show her erasing his polling lead. Trump held a press conference at his Bedminster, N.J., property, where he delivered remarks for close to an hour before taking...
The Secret Service has approved a plan to use bulletproof glass to protect former President Trump during outdoor rallies, a senior agency official confirmed to The Hill. The plan, first reported by ABC News, represents a shift in the level of protection normally offered to presidential candidates, as protective glass is typically only used for presidents...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story How Elon Musk is using his wealth, reach to boost Trump Musk is tapping into his wealth and the power of X, the social media platform he owns, to help sway the election toward former President Trump, spurring controversy along the way....
Two Democratic lawmakers sent a letter this week to top Pentagon officials asking them to ensure that the military stays out of the 2024 election, domestic affairs and politics as former President Trump has campaigned on sending federal troops to the southern border and cities struggling with crime. “There is no greater responsibility than the...
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) will appoint George Helmy, his former chief of staff, to Sen. Bob Menendez's (D) seat to serve out the remaining five months in Menendez’s term, according to state Democratic Party Chair LeRoy Jones. Menendez announced in July he would resign from the seat Aug. 20 after a New York...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Wednesday the recent outbreak of mpox a global health emergency, warning that the new, more contagious strain of the virus could spread further internationally. Nearly all of the reported cases and deaths — 96 percent — have so far been in Congo, where the outbreak originated. But cases have...
