President Trump late Tuesday disputed reports that he wants to temporarily extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies for two years, but left the door open to compromising on extension to get a deal that eventually replaces them.
Republican Sens. John Curtis (Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) backed fellow Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), amid a Pentagon probe into “serious allegations of misconduct” against the senator after he and five other Democratic lawmakers told service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration. Curtis said Tuesday afternoon on the social platform X that...
Senate Democrats are asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi to declassify and publicly release the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel’s classified, written opinion outlining the legal basis for the Trump administration's strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Thirteen Senate Democrats, all members of the...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Ron Johnson shoots down tariff checks Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), a leading fiscal hawk in the Senate, says the country “can’t afford” President Trump’s proposal to send out $2,000 tariff “dividend” checks to working-class Americans to...
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order establishing the "Genesis Mission," a new endeavor to expand AI resources for scientific research. The Genesis Mission, which the administration is comparing to the Apollo program that sent Americans to the moon in the late 1960s, seeks to create an integrated AI platform that brings together federal datasets, computing resources and AI tools to boost scientific discovery. “Since the 1990s, America's scientific edge...
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) holds a nine-point edge over Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) in a new poll of likely Democratic primary voters, but over a third are still undecided. Markey, a progressive, garnered support from 34 percent of respondents to November's Bay State Poll, a States of Opinion Project released on Monday by the University...
Abortion is illegal again in North Dakota after the state Supreme Court reversed a decision from a lower court on Friday, allowing a near-total ban to take effect. The law makes it illegal for anyone to perform an abortion, though it exempts individual patients. Violating the ban is considered a class C felony, so physicians...
Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) announced Monday he’s launching a bid for Alabama governor, setting up a likely rematch against a former rival, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), next year. “Because Alabama, you folks in Alabama, deserve a governor who is going to fight for them,” Jones said in a video on the social platform X....
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order that would allow his administration to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. The order directs Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to determine whether any chapters of the organization warrant the designation, which would allow for increased sanctions...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who is running for governor in the Golden State, said Sunday residents of his state want a “get s--- done approach on lowering prices.” “People are telling me they want a fighter, a protector, but also a get s--- done approach on lowering prices. And that's, frankly, why I'm running,” Swalwell...
The United States Naval Academy fired the commandant of midshipmen, Capt. Gilbert Clark Jr., on Monday due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead” the brigade, removing him than his position less than half a year after he assumed the post. Clark, who assumed the role in June, was axed by...
Nearly 20 million people are projected to travel by air this week as officials brace for what some expect to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel week in 15 years. The Department of Transportation on Monday released its 2025 Thanksgiving week flight forecast, showing 19.3 million people projected to take flights in the seven-day period starting...
