President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age policies that preceded the implementation of a modern federal income tax.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) said flight reductions will be lowered from 6 percent to 3 percent on Saturday as plane operations recover from the longest shutdown in the country’s history. “The decision reflects improvements in air traffic controller staffing levels and a continued decline in staffing-trigger events across the...
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer received a 15-year prison sentence for allowing smugglers to transport vehicles filled with drugs across the southern border, according to a Thursday release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). The former officer, Diego Bonillo, was charged with conspiracy to import controlled substances and importation of controlled...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday cutting tariffs on scores of products in a bid to lower some grocery prices following frustration from voters over exceedingly higher costs. The products that are no longer subject to tariffs, include coffee, tea, beef, bananas, tropical fruit, wood and iron. The removal of this batch of tariffs marks...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new military and surveillance campaign in the Western Hemisphere on Thursday, dubbed “Operation Southern Spear,” to pummel “narco-terrorists.” The Pentagon chief said the operation will be led by a new counternarcotics joint task force, which was formed in October, and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to protect the U.S., quash “narco-terrorists from...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Senate Republicans unsure of next steps on health Senate Republicans successfully ended the longest government shutdown in American history without giving Democrats their main demand to extend tax subsidies meant to lower health premiums. They’re deeply divided on...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz penned a Friday op-ed lauding President Trump’s proposal for an international "Board of Peace" to reconstruct Gaza. “The Board of Peace is the only path to a secure Gaza in which Palestinians can determine their own destiny, free from either terrorist rule or occupation,” he wrote in...
The federal government has begun releasing files related to the aviator Amelia Earhart after President Trump ordered their release in September. The files include newly declassified material related to Earhart’s infamous final flight across the Pacific Ocean. According to a press release, the documents include reports, maps, messages and other materials tracing Earhart’s flight and...
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the Trump administration to “immediately” release funds aimed at helping low-income Americans heat and cool their homes. In a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 31 senators pressed for the release of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funds. Most of...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due to alleged fraud. The secretary said after receiving data on SNAP recipients from 29 red states that "186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving...
An attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell denied that her client is seeking a commutation of her sentence and said prison staffers have been fired after leaking her emails to congressional Democrats. The statement comes after House Judiciary Committee Democrats released an email Maxwell sent to her lawyer with the subject line “commutation application.” Provided by a whistleblower, the...
A last-minute amendment slipped into the bill that ended the government shutdown has thrown the hemp industry and its consumers into a panic as popular products stand to be banned in a year’s time. The amendment, which is set to go in effect in a year, bans the sale of hemp products with over 0.4...
