The House will vote this week on a Republican health care package that Speaker Mike Johnson said will provide "clear, responsible alternatives" to Obamacare.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called on Congress to pass legislation addressing expiring subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), regardless of who gets the credit. “Good policy is good politics,” Cassidy told host Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.” “Let’s not have a Republican plan or a Democratic plan, let’s have an American...
President Trump said late Sunday that he has complete confidence in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, even as the commander in chief said he would look into allegations that Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug boat in September. "I don't know anything about it. He said he did not say...
Can you name a federal program responsible for creating or supporting 7 million high-paying jobs, attracting $75 billion in private investment, and generating $14.5 billion in tax revenue in the last four years? Here's one other key detail: The program didn’t cost taxpayers a dime in that period. All of these benefits are byproducts of...
Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Health care crunch time ▪ Hottest Senate races ▪ Trump’s sinking polls ▪ Honduran presidential election Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing bipartisan scrutiny over his reported order to strike a boat in the Caribbean a second time, killing two survivors who were clinging to the ship’s wreckage...
Republican senators are panning President Trump's latest proposals to help Americans cope with high prices and a slowing economy, a sign of waning confidence among GOP lawmakers in Trump’s ability to overhaul the nation’s $30 trillion economy. Capitol Hill Republicans are becoming more sensitive to how Trump is responding to higher prices as they face...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is staring down a potential political firestorm in the coming weeks as a few Republican dissenters aim to use a rare procedural mechanism to force legislation on a stock trading ban and Russian sanctions onto the House floor. His colleagues’ attempts to sidestep him on these issues puts Johnson in a...
Widespread post-Thanksgiving flight delays due to winter weather could continue through the beginning of the week, according to officials. There were 11,273 flight delays within, into or out of the United States on Sunday, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, with 831 cancellations within, into or out of the country. The recent delays also follow...
President Trump on Sunday took a swing at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over comments the governor made in which he pressed the president to “release the MRI results.” “Governor Walz asked you to release the MRI records,” a reporter on Air Force One noted to Trump. “Governor Walz? You mean, the incompetent governor? So,...
GOP strategist Karl Rove said Republicans need to have a health care agenda ahead of the midterm elections or they’ll be in “deep trouble” with their voters. In an interview Saturday on Fox News’s “Journal Editorial Report,” Rove said Republicans need to have a health care plan to share with voters next year, along with...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said on Sunday he thinks the White House lacks “moral clarity” on the issue of Ukraine and called on the administration to be a more forceful advocate of the democratic nation amid ongoing peace talks to end the war with Russia. “I would like to see the president be a stronger...
Several lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration for answers after multiple outlets reported Friday that the U.S. conducted a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in September. CNN and The Washington Post reported that on Sept. 2, the U.S. struck a vessel it accused of trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela a second...
National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday touted the market response to a Bloomberg report last week suggesting Hassett is broadly considered the frontrunner among candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president’s top economic adviser, in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” called the Bloomberg report a “rumor”...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) married his fiancée, Alexis Lewis, in two separate ceremonies in his home state and Washington, D.C., the senator said Sunday. “Overflowing with gratitude. We said ‘I do’ in two places that shaped us—Cory’s beloved Newark and Alexis’s hometown of Washington, D.C.—first at the courthouse, then with our families. Hearts full and...
