You might think a candidate for Congress would focus issues of import, such as runaway federal spending; Americans’ high cost of living; and paying TSA agents so Americans can...
The Senate voted Monday to install one of its own, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, as the new secretary at Homeland Security, giving President Trump a chance to change the narrative of a department many Americans say has crossed lines in its zeal to arrest illegal immigrants.
A coalition of historic preservation and architectural groups sued President Trump and the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees on Monday, seeking to block the planned renovations of the performing arts center set to start in July. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., argues that the project would cause “irreparable harm” to the...
President Trump pitched his vision of a “golden age of America” in record-length remarks to Congress on Tuesday, touting his administration's wins and attacking rival Democrats as he weathers poor approval numbers and frustrations over the economy. The president declared the country “bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before” in a wide-ranging speech that...
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) ripped President Trump over issues around affordability and immigration as she delivered the Democratic response to the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Spanberger, a former CIA officer and House lawmaker elected governor of Old Dominion in November, criticized the president for the administration’s use of the U.S. Immigration...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said Democrats who heckled and shouted at President Trump during the State of the Union "brought shame upon their party and upon themselves." Trump's address was marked by clashes with Democrats over race, crime, immigration and other topics. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) repeatedly yelled back...
President Trump touted the successes of his second administration while lambasting Democrats on a plethora of issues during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. Trump notably broke the record for the longest State of the Union address ever given, clocking in at one hour and forty-seven minutes. He began his addresses by...
President Trump issued several awards during his State of the Union address before Congress on Tuesday evening. The honorees included two military pilots, an Olympic athlete, a Coast Guard petty officer and two National Guard members. The president also noted his continued interest in receiving the Medal of Honor himself. “I’ve always wanted the congressional...
President Trump stormed into the Capitol on Tuesday night to extol the first-year performance of his return to power, bash the Democrats as feckless rivals, and make the case for keeping Republicans in control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. The marathon State of the Union address had all the signature pugnacity of the speech...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) bashed President Trump's immigration policies and accused the administration of seeking to interfere in the next election in the Democrat's Spanish-language rebuttal to the State of the Union address. The speech from California’s first Latino senator was just as focused on threats facing democracy as the immigrant story in shaping America,...
President Trump said Tuesday night that Iran is developing long-range missiles that can reach U.S. territory. “They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America,” the president said during his first State of the Union address of...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Monday lawsuit against New Jersey and its Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D), over a recent executive order that bans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from state property without a judicial warrant. The government wrote that Sherrill is aiming to “intentionally obstruct” federal law enforcement and thwart federal immigration law....
The Pentagon has threatened to cancel Anthropic’s contract by Friday if the company does not agree to the department’s terms for the use of its AI model, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday at the Pentagon amid a dispute over...
