Democrats criticize Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service and his approach to climate change after at least 59 people died in major Texas floods that occurred over the July 4th holiday.
Senate Republicans including Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) say a new proposal to create a $15 billion relief fund for rural hospitals is not adequate to make up for tens of billions of dollars in federal Medicaid funding cuts included in the Senate megabill to enact President Trump’s agenda. Collins told reporters Wednesday that the $15...
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly remade federal vaccine advisory panel will examine the cumulative effect of the childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule, the panel’s chair said Wednesday. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will also weigh recommendations for vaccines that have long been on the market, including those...
Half of registered voters say they think U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program would make Americans less safe, according to a new Quinnipiac University survey conducted in the days after President Trump bombed the Middle Eastern country. The poll, released Wednesday, phrases the question as a hypothetical, asking respondents whether “U.S. military strikes targeting...
Greg Abbott directed two agencies to assemble a response team to combat the New World screwworm, which poses a serious threat to Texas livestock and wildlife.
President Trump's views of the G-7 summit as an economic forum rather than a beacon of democracy and his failure to understand the importance of international law and the sovereignty of other nations harms the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the case on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s strikes against Iran were a clear success in part because they “wiped out” a nuclear conversion facility that is critical to building a weapon. “Here’s a fact: The conversion facility, which you can’t do a nuclear weapon without a conversion facility,...
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is set to testify Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the White House's request to claw back roughly $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The package is the first to codify cuts made by President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency. The...
A revised plan from Senate Republicans would sell off as much as 1.2 million acres of publicly owned lands, according to legislative text obtained by The Hill. The updated text would require the sales of between 0.25 and 0.5 percent of the 245 million acres currently owned by the Bureau of Land Management, or between...
The Trump administration is considering deregulation of electric utilities to increase competition and supply, but deregulation has failed to bring online enough new electric generation and has led to overcharging customers and subsidies for older power plants.
More than two dozen members of the entertainment industry issued an open letter to members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to reject sweeping cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid in the GOP's "big, beautiful" spending bill. The open letter, released by Feeding America, was signed by 31 people, including high-profile...
Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has unveiled a plan to override Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) proposal to fund border security and immigration enforcement activities at roughly half the amount favored by Senate and House Republican leaders. Paul created an uproar two weeks ago when he unveiled his portion of the...
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges she assaulted and interfered with immigration officers at a New Jersey detention center during a congressional oversight visit with two other lawmakers. The New Jersey Democrat was charged in a criminal complaint by Alina Habba, interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and Trump’s former...
