President Trump and top White House officials are ramping up pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates after two surprisingly strong economic reports. Data released by the Labor Department on Friday showed inflation falling below economist expectations in January, two days after the January jobs report showed a surprising surge in hiring last...
The cancellation of the official House delegation to the annual Munich Security Conference has drawn pushback from Democrats who still plan to attend, even as it’s upended a decades-long tradition of robust bipartisan participation in the high-profile global policy forum. A House leadership aide told The Hill that cancelling congressional delegations (CODEL) is standard operating...
House GOP campaign chair scoffs at Democrats' move to expand their midterm battleground map to 44 House districts in this year's battle for the House majority
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ran out at midnight, marking the third — but smallest — government shutdown of President Trump's second term as Democrats demand reforms to immigration enforcement practices. The shutdown is likely to last longer than the four-day partial shutdown that ended last week, as the White House, Republicans...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in early March, a spokesperson for the committee's chair, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), confirmed to The Hill on Monday. Noem is expected to testify on March 3, according to Grassley's office, for one round of questioning, and senators will each be allotted...
A federal appeals court on Monday declined to reimpose restrictions on federal agents at protests in Minnesota, refusing the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) plea to do so following this weekend’s fatal shooting. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with the Trump administration, ruling that limits imposed by a judge earlier this month were too broad and vague. “A wrong call could end in contempt, yet there is little in the order...
The Trump White House made a rare rhetorical retreat Monday amid public uproar over its initial response to the killing of Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen recently shot dead by federal law enforcement agents working in Minneapolis as part of the administration’s deportation efforts. A nation that was already simmering after Renee Good’s death...
President Trump on Monday said he was increasing tariffs on South Korea while slamming the country's Legislature for not living up to a $350 billion deal. “South Korea's Legislature is not living up to its Deal with the United States. President Lee and I reached a Great Deal for both Countries on July 30, 2025,...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story American Academy of Pediatrics breaks from Kennedy’s vaccine policy again The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its 2026 recommended immunization schedule for children and adolescents, notably keeping vaccinations against the diseases that were dropped by the federal government earlier this...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday slammed the White House's response to the killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse who was protesting the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Senior Trump administration officials including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly labelled Pretti a "domestic terrorist,"...
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has sent letters to the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to testify before his committee amid growing public controversy over immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and other communities. Paul informed the leaders of...
The Republican Party’s determined defense of President Trump’s deportation efforts is cracking in the wake of the fatal shooting of a second civilian protester in Minneapolis over the weekend. For the past year, GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been virtually united in supporting Trump’s immigrant crackdown, saying the deployment of federal law enforcement officers...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), a frequent independent voice among Senate Democrats, condemned the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota but said he is unwilling to force a government shutdown over funding disputes involving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement Monday, the Pennsylvania Democrat called for the federal operation to end as he mourned...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) pushed for the retraining of every federal immigration officer in the wake of two shooting deaths this month at the hands of federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis. “Well, the first thing we have to do is demand that they pull these officers out of all of our cities and that...
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday evening for the lone survivor of the U.S. military’s strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, an operation during which two suspected “narco-terrorists” were killed on impact. The Coast Guard ended its effort at 7:46 p.m. PST after 56 hours of searching,...
Former NBA player Chris Dudley on Monday announced his bid to unseat incumbent Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) by vying for the Republican nomination. Marion County Commissioner Danielle Bethell is also competing in the GOP primary. Dudley launched a gubernatorial campaign in 2010, after playing 16 seasons of professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, New...
