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Senate GOP rams through blueprint to bankroll ICE, Border Patrol through end of Trump era

Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution funding ICE and Border Patrol for President Donald Trump's full term, advancing the reconciliation process to fund immigration enforcement.

Four GOP senators vote against adding Save America Act to budget package

Four Republican senators voted against an amendment sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to instruct the Senate Rules Committee to find a way to add the core elements of the SAVE America Act to a budget reconciliation package that could pass next month with a simple-majority vote. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Thom...

5 takeaways from first major California governor’s debate after Swalwell exit

Six candidates running for California governor squared off on the debate stage Wednesday, yet the forum may have created more questions than answers for politcal observers, as Democrats struggle to coalesce around a candidate ahead of the June primary The debate came just weeks after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who was seen as a Democratic frontrunner in the race, dropped out and resigned from...

Three GOP senators break with leaders over addressing insurance companies’ denial of medical care

Three Republican senators broke with the rest of the Senate GOP conference Wednesday night to vote in support of an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) to address insurance companies delaying or denying necessary medical care. Vulnerable Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) joined conservative Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in voting with...

Karen Bass meets with Trump at White House to push for LA wildfire relief after months of clashes

LA Mayor Karen Bass met with President Trump at the White House to advocate for FEMA wildfire funding amid ongoing LA recovery and rebuilding challenges.

NYU closes Abu Dhabi campus amid Iranian strike threats

New York University (NYU) has temporarily closed its campus in Abu Dhabi after Iran said U.S. universities in the Middle East were “legitimate targets” amid ongoing military operations in the region.  NYU had already moved classes completely online in early March, following the launch of joint military operations by the U.S. and Israel on Iran...

Israel support takes center stage in New Jersey House candidate debate 

Democrat Analilia Mejia and Republican Joe Hathaway battled it out in a heated debate for New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D) former U.S. House seat, with support for Israel being a notable flash point between the candidates. During the Wednesday debate, Mejia was asked if she believed that Israel’s actions in its war in Gaza...

Trump economic approval tanks

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Trump approval on economy drops to new low: Poll A new CNN/SSRS poll found just 31 percent of respondents approved of President Trump’s handling of the economy, a new low relative to the outlet’s previous surveys....

Mark Warner slams Trump’s NATO threat 

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) pushed back on President Trump’s statement that he might pull the U.S. out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Trump told The Telegraph in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.’s membership in the military alliance is “beyond reconsideration.” “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were...

NATO’s Rutte schedules Washington trip as Trump reevaluates alliance

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will meet with President Trump in Washington next week as Trump publicly weighs pulling the U.S. out of the alliance over the war in Iran.  A White House official confirmed the development to The Hill after The Wall Street Journal first reported on Rutte’s visit. NATO spokesperson Allison Hart told the...

Iranian president leaves door open to diplomacy in open letter to US

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian released a letter addressed to “the people of the United States of America” on Wednesday, hours before President Trump is scheduled to address the nation about the U.S. military’s ongoing operations against Iran. "Today, the world stands at a crossroads,” Pezeshkian wrote in a letter posted on the social platform X. ...

New heart health guidelines at odds with MAHA food pyramid: Which should you follow?

(NEXSTAR) – New guidance released by the American Heart Association this week outlines nine key tenets of a heart-healthy diet, several of which contradict the federal nutrition guidelines released by the Trump administration earlier this year. In January, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled an upside-down food pyramid that emphasized the importance of protein,...

FDA’s Makary touts ‘healing’ following DOGE cuts

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story FDA commissioner credits himself with ‘healing’ agency after DOGE cuts Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary commemorated one year as head of the country’s drug regulatory authority on Wednesday, saying he helped bring “healing” to the agency following cuts...

Trump says Iran exit could be soon

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump says U.S. could exit Iran 'pretty quickly' President Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. will be “out of Iran pretty quickly” after nearly five weeks of airstrikes on the Middle Eastern country but warned that it could come back for some “spot hits.” © AP Photo/Alex...

Gorsuch asks Sauer if Native Americans are birthright citizens 

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question came during two hours of arguments at the Supreme Court in a case challenging President Trump's 2025 executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship. “I...

What to know about the Artemis II launch

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story What to know about Artemis II launch NASA’s Artemis II test flight is set for Wednesday, a trip that will mark the first crewed mission to head toward the moon in more than five decades. © P Photo/John Raoux The launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt...

Here are the very rare exceptions to birthright citizenship in the US

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case involving President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, putting the 14th Amendment back in the legal spotlight. The amendment, ratified in 1868 amid Reconstruction, states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United...

Trump: US only country ‘stupid enough’ to allow birthright citizenship

President Trump fired off a short TruthSocial post shortly after oral arguments wrapped up for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, slamming the challenge to one of his Day 1 executive orders. "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow 'Birthright' Citizenship!" he wrote. It was the only time...

DeSantis signs Florida version of SAVE Act into law

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday signed a statewide version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act into law that requires residents in the Sunshine State to show proof of citizenship before voting in elections.  DeSantis said he’s “not anticipating” that the federal version of the legislation, which President Trump has been pushing...

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