For decades, Congress and a parade of presidents couldn’t agree on how to secure the southern border and what to do with the millions of illegal immigrants already here.
President Trump’s out-of-the-blue federal pardons for Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and dozens of others who were part of his effort to stay in power after losing the 2020 election comes alongside the administration’s accelerating prosecution of Obama officials who Trump says tried to keep him from winning in 2016. Maybe that’s a claim of equivalence:...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's insurgent campaign has driven a surge of younger Democratic candidates running for office and provided a roadmap for a new generation of politicians. Since last Tuesday, over 4,000 people inquired about running for office through Run for Something, Ally Boguhn, its senior communications and marketing director, told The Hill....
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has become the target of progressive anger after moderate Democrats struck a deal to reopen the government, raising questions about his future atop the conference even as he distances himself from the agreement. Progressives, both those in the House and those running to join Schumer in the upper chamber,...
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board panned President Trump’s proposal to provide $2,000 tariff rebate checks to most Americans, calling it a “Hail Mary pass.” “President Trump has a big tariff problem: His border taxes are raising prices on tariffed goods, they’re unpopular with voters, and the Supreme Court might rule that his “emergency”...
Come Tuesday, flights across the country will be reduced by 6 percent on orders from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), despite an end to the government shutdown in sight. The FAA first decreased flight capacity at 40 “high-traffic” airports last Friday, with a 4 percent reduction. At 6 a.m. on Tuesday, that will increase to...
A mobile lounge hit a dock at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) Monday afternoon, sending 18 people to the hospital. Crystal Nosal, part of the Metro Washington Airports Authority’s (MWAA) media relations office, told The Hill that at roughly 4:30 p.m., the lounge, while taking passengers to Concourse D, struck a dock at an angle...
President Trump criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y. ) handling of the government shutdown in an interview on Monday, saying Republicans bested him in the process. "I think he made a mistake in going too far,” Trump told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. “He thought he could break the Republicans and the Republicans broke him."...
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), who nearly a decade ago served as Hillary Clinton’s running mate when she lost the presidency to Donald Trump, was the eighth Democratic senator to back a centrist deal the Senate is set to approve Monday that is likely to soon end the longest shutdown in American history. Kaine’s top priority was to...
President Trump on Monday kept a historic meeting with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa behind closed doors, an unusual move for a president who frequently opens up the Oval Office to cameras and reporters when meeting with foreign leaders. It was the first visit by a Syrian leader to the White House, but al-Sharaa did not...
Thanksgiving dinner in the Shaheen household might be a little awkward. Stefany Shaheen, a Democratic candidate for Congress from New Hampshire, said she “cannot support” a deal to end the government shutdown on which the Senate is voting Monday evening. Complicating things is the fact that her mother, Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), supports the...
The Senate on Monday cleared a key procedural hurdle toward greenlighting a package to reopen the government, the first of a series of planned back-to-back votes. Senators voted 60-40 to grease the skids toward final passage of the funding bill Monday night. The eight senators who crossed party lines to vote to advance the funding...
