With the partial government shutdown resolved, both the House and Senate turn to negotiations on the Department of Homeland Security, and specifically debate over potential limits on immigration officers, before its funding runs out again on Feb. 13. Border czar Tom Homan will address the Trump administration's immigration efforts in Minneapolis at a Wednesday morning...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he does not support President Trump’s proposal for Republicans to “take over” voting procedures in more than a dozen states and “nationalize” the midterm elections, declaring Trump’s call to action as blatantly unconstitutional. “That’s not what the Constitution says about elections,” Paul said in an interview Tuesday with MS NOW’s...
A federal judge in Oregon temporarily limited federal agents’ use of nonlethal munitions against protesters outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Ore. ICE officers deployed tear gas, shot pepper balls and rubber bullets and set off flash bang-grenades at an anti-immigration enforcement protest in the city earlier this week, The...
Ten years after the North Korea Sanctions Policy Enhancement Act was passed, Congress needs to reassert its authority on North Korea policy and demand full enforcement of the law, while also pursuing creative diplomacy to make progress towards disarming the Kim regime.
President Trump’s lawyers are back in Manhattan this morning, vying to finally convince a 92-year-old federal judge that he should take the reins on Trump’s criminal conviction and toss it. Fresh off hearing deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s not guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein will decide if Trump’s case belongs before him or in New York state court, where a jury issued Trump’s sole conviction. Hellerstein has shown reluctance. But Trump has new ammo. He can thank the U.S. Court...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) launched a new initiative on Wednesday that aims to turn out likely Democratic voters in toss-up states and congressional districts who voted in 2020 but sat out the last presidential election. The initiative, called Local Listeners, trains volunteers to engage infrequent voters, aiming to reach more than a million of them ahead of the midterms. A quarter of that engagement will...
Harry Dunn, the former Capitol Police officer who became a household name in the wake of the 2021 Capitol attack, is teeing up his second House bid in Maryland, launching his campaign for retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) seat. “A loss did not deter me from wanting to fight and from wanting to serve,” Dunn told The Hill...
The Trump administration jumped in on a viral TikTok trend on Tuesday, posting a video of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dancing with rapper Nicki Minaj to promote new investment accounts for children, known as Trump accounts. The trend features two people standing back-to-back and lip-syncing to a mashup of Minaj’s 2012 hit “Beez in the...
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran has resigned as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. Miran had been on unpaid leave from the White House since last fall, when President Trump nominated him to fill the remaining four months of a vacant Fed board term that expired on Jan....
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checked himself into the hospital on Monday evening for flu-like symptoms, his office confirmed Tuesday. A spokesperson for McConnell’s office said the 83-year-old senator began experiencing symptoms this weekend and went to a local hospital “out of an abundance of caution.” “His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the...
