A federal judge issued a stern spanking to the Trump administration on Tuesday, telling it to cut out warrantless arrests in the nation's capital unless there is clear evidence the migrant is about to flee.
Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Health care crunch time ▪ Hottest Senate races ▪ Trump’s sinking polls ▪ Honduran presidential election Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing bipartisan scrutiny over his reported order to strike a boat in the Caribbean a second time, killing two survivors who were clinging to the ship’s wreckage...
Republican senators are panning President Trump's latest proposals to help Americans cope with high prices and a slowing economy, a sign of waning confidence among GOP lawmakers in Trump’s ability to overhaul the nation’s $30 trillion economy. Capitol Hill Republicans are becoming more sensitive to how Trump is responding to higher prices as they face...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is staring down a potential political firestorm in the coming weeks as a few Republican dissenters aim to use a rare procedural mechanism to force legislation on a stock trading ban and Russian sanctions onto the House floor. His colleagues’ attempts to sidestep him on these issues puts Johnson in a...
Widespread post-Thanksgiving flight delays due to winter weather could continue through the beginning of the week, according to officials. There were 11,273 flight delays within, into or out of the United States on Sunday, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, with 831 cancellations within, into or out of the country. The recent delays also follow...
President Trump on Sunday took a swing at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over comments the governor made in which he pressed the president to “release the MRI results.” “Governor Walz asked you to release the MRI records,” a reporter on Air Force One noted to Trump. “Governor Walz? You mean, the incompetent governor? So,...
GOP strategist Karl Rove said Republicans need to have a health care agenda ahead of the midterm elections or they’ll be in “deep trouble” with their voters. In an interview Saturday on Fox News’s “Journal Editorial Report,” Rove said Republicans need to have a health care plan to share with voters next year, along with...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said on Sunday he thinks the White House lacks “moral clarity” on the issue of Ukraine and called on the administration to be a more forceful advocate of the democratic nation amid ongoing peace talks to end the war with Russia. “I would like to see the president be a stronger...
Several lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration for answers after multiple outlets reported Friday that the U.S. conducted a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in September. CNN and The Washington Post reported that on Sept. 2, the U.S. struck a vessel it accused of trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela a second...
National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday touted the market response to a Bloomberg report last week suggesting Hassett is broadly considered the frontrunner among candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president’s top economic adviser, in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” called the Bloomberg report a “rumor”...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) married his fiancée, Alexis Lewis, in two separate ceremonies in his home state and Washington, D.C., the senator said Sunday. “Overflowing with gratitude. We said ‘I do’ in two places that shaped us—Cory’s beloved Newark and Alexis’s hometown of Washington, D.C.—first at the courthouse, then with our families. Hearts full and...
For Republicans, it’s crunch time on ObamaCare. GOP leaders return to Capitol Hill this week facing a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies without a unified plan for how — or even whether — to extend the expiring benefits for millions of Americans. The debate is pitting Republicans concerned with delivering on "affordability"...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said on Sunday he plans to refile a war powers resolution requiring congressional approval for any military action taken in Venezuela. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” the senator said he is optimistic that his resolution would get more support from Republicans in Congress this time around, noting...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Sunday that President Trump is “demonizing” Somali migrants in his state. “As far as demonizing our Somali community, maybe, he could help us on some things,” Walz told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Demonizing an entire community, folks who are in the professions, educators, artists, doctors,...
