In a Good Friday address, President Donald Trump claimed religion is growing again in the U.S. for the first time in decades as Holy Week and Easter are celebrated.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), the ranking member on the Senate’s Aviation Subcommittee, is calling for an investigation into the government’s use of high-energy lasers in anti-drone technology following two incidents in Texas last month that led to airspace closures. Duckworth asked the inspectors general for the departments of Transportation, Defense and Homeland Security in a...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Senate committee finds Medicare Advantage overpayments cost seniors billions A report by the Senate Joint Economic Committee (JEC) found that overpayments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans caused Medicare Part B premiums to rise for all beneficiaries, including those on Traditional Medicare (TM). AP According...
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) on Thursday filed a resolution to censure Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) over several of his anti-Muslim posts on the social platform X, including one referring to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D). "Ogles, a Congressman long known for his racist rhetoric, recently tweeted, 'Muslims don't belong in American society,' 'Pluralism is...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Judge quashes grand jury subpoenas of Fed, Powell A federal judge ruled that Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, may not be enforced, according to court filings unsealed Friday. ...
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully took the position last year that it couldn’t request more funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered the agency’s acting director, Russ Vought, to continue requesting the necessary funds from the Federal Reserve to carry out the CFPB’s obligations. It’s a legal loss for top Trump administration officials as they look to curtail the consumer watchdog agency. Created in the wake of the...
Ric Grenell is leaving his role as head of the Kennedy Center, a source close to the Trump Kennedy Center confirmed to The Hill on Friday. President Trump announced in a Truth Social post that Matt Floca, the current vice president of operations, would succeed Grenell as CEO and executive director, pending approval from the...
The White House is looking at intervening to help farmers facing high fertilizer prices as a result of the U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Friday the White House was looking at "every potential avenue to keep" these prices down. She said she was having conversations with lawmakers to seek...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is urging Democratic colleagues to “give someone a chance” and consider backing Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) nomination for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary. Fetterman reaffirmed on Thursday that he would vote to confirm Mullin, who is set to appear before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on...
A top Iranian official condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s comparison of Iranian leaders to “rats” on Friday. “Iran’s leadership is in no better shape, desperate and hiding, they’ve gone underground. That’s what rats do,” Hegseth said during a Friday morning press conference. Ali Larijani, the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, criticized Hegseth’s...
At least one Republican senator is criticizing the Trump administration’s moves to lift restrictions on Russian oil amid a gasoline price hike spurred by the conflict in Iran. Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) wrote in a post on the social platform X, “Temporarily removing sanctions 4 Russian oil is [the] wrong move.” He added that money...
Michigan state Rep. Samantha Steckloff (D) said the attack on a synagogue in the Detroit suburbs on Thursday felt “bound to happen” amid a nationwide rise in antisemitism and threats against Jewish institutions. An armed Lebanese man, later identified as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, rammed his car into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., causing...
The Trump administration proposed Friday to loosen rules surrounding emissions of a cancer-causing gas from sterilizer plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule to loosen requirements for sterilizer plants that emit a gas known as ethylene oxide. The EPA says that ethylene oxide can cause lymphoma, myeloma, and lymphocytic leukemia, as well as breast...
A progressive voter contact group is spending $44 million on midterm engagement efforts this cycle, with a focus on key battleground states as Democrats look to retake the House majority and make inroads in the GOP-controlled Senate this November. The Progressive Turnout Project is spending $44.1 million on five different initiatives aimed at turning out voters ahead...
