Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...
Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...
Tulsi Gabbard's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee has led Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to believe that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, despite intelligence suggesting otherwise.
In today’s issue: Denials, deflections and calls for resignation have dominated the headlines in Washington this week, as the Trump White House reels from the revelation that top national security officials discussed military plans in a commercial chat app group that inadvertently included a journalist. President Trump and several Cabinet officials — including CIA Director...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under close scrutiny as Republican lawmakers criticize his handling of sensitive military information in a group chat with other administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist. Republican lawmakers have stopped short of calling on Hegseth to resign, but they’re warning that his decision to share sensitive details about a...
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin will campaign in Florida’s sixth congressional district this weekend ahead of next week’s special House election. Martin will hit the campaign trail with Democratic candidate Josh Weil in St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. Martin will also take part in a roundtable with Latino leaders in Orlando, which is located...
Significant differences between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) are leaving plans for a new House GOP probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack in limbo more than two months after it was announced, as the sides collide over a new select subcommittee’s scope and authority. Loudermilk, who is supposed to chair the new panel that would be housed under the House...
The Social Security Administration said Wednesday it would modify it’s proposed new policy by foregoing an in person requirement to verify the identity of account holders with Disability Insurance, Medicare and SSI Applications. “We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others, and we are updating our policy to provide better customer service to...
Fox News’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin said she surveyed current and former defense officials on Wednesday who said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared “classified” information via the Signal group chat with President Trump’s cabinet members and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was mistakenly added to the message thread. “What Hegseth shared...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told a Sky News reporter on Wednesday to "go back to your country" as she tried to ask about the recent controversy behind a Signal chat with military plans among the Trump administration's national security officials that included a journalist. "We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting....
The German news outlet, Der Spiegel, reportedly found private contact information for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who were involved in the Signal group chat security breach. The news site's report said each individual's email address and phone number were readily available on the...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney fired back at President Trump's newly-announced 25 percent tariff on foreign-made car imports, describing it as a "direct attack" on Canada's workers and vowed that U.S.'s northern neighbor will eventually "emerge stronger." “This is a direct attack, to be clear, a direct attack on the very workers that I stood...
Fox News’ political commentator Brit Hume scolded President Trump’s administration for “making a mess” in response to the Signal group chat revelation where top national security officials were discussing the plan to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. Hume said there are a “couple” of “iron” rules when responding to a “scandal.” “One: get the facts...
The Department of Health and Human Services is canceling tens of billions of dollars in federal grants that state and local health departments were using to track infectious diseases, health disparities, vaccinations, mental health services, and other health issues. The stop-work notices began arriving late Monday night or early Tuesday morning and were effective immediately,...
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is concerned about the Trump administration’s recent cuts to research grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “I’m worried on a lot of fronts,” Sebelius said during The Hill’s "Health Next Summit." “The kinds of cuts that were just announced are devastating and will set...
