President Trump released his budget request for fiscal 2027 on Friday morning, including a whopping $1.5 trillion ask for the Pentagon. This year’s defense budget request is a $441 billion increase from the $1 trillion approved by Congress last year. The request includes $1.1 trillion in “base discretionary” spending and $350 billion for “critical Administration...
The opioid crisis has resulted in over 700,000 overdose deaths since its beginning, and in response, pharmaceutical companies and distributors have agreed to roughly $57 billion in national opioid settlements, but a report has raised concerns about how some jurisdictions are using these funds, suggesting that transparency and accountability are needed to ensure the money is used to save lives and strengthen recovery.
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) on Thursday said he will “immediately” look into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent decision to fire Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George. “That would be very surprising to me,” McCormick told Newsmax's Ed Henry, seemingly perplexed by the news. “I would look into it immediately because those are people I...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Thursday denied a claim that Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired for leaking information to him about a decade-old investigation into his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. “The attorney general did not tip us off. No one in her orbit tipped us off,” Swalwell said in an interview on MS...
The White House on Friday is expected to send its 2027 budget proposal to Congress. It is expected to include a major boost to defense spending, as much as $1.5 trillion, with about $350 billion funded via reconciliation, an official with the Office of Management and Budget tells The Hill. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth carried...
The U.S. job market accelerated in March, adding far more jobs than expected after a major February decline. U.S. employment grew by 178,000 jobs last month, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The March job boost came in far higher than the gain of roughly 60,000 jobs expected by economists, according to...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that Pam Bondi's ouster from the Justice Department was not related to the Trump administration's release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I have never heard President Trump say anything that the attorney general was, that anything that happened to her had anything to do...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] I’m not aware of any Justice Department in any administration that wasn’t accused of political corruption and that, to at...
President Trump issued a warning to Iran to make a peace deal on Thursday evening, saying the U.S. military has not begun “destroying” the Middle East nation and reupping his vow to “finish the job." “Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in...
