Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., wrote to Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding swift action to shut down OnPoint's overdose prevention centers in Manhattan.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Patterson said he suspects a "highly placed" leaker revealed the story of President Donald Trump's Air Force One swap.
It's official: The federal government will not send out November SNAP benefits if the shutdown continues into the weekend. But what happens to benefits already on EBT cards?
The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian personnel, directing managers to move with “speed and conviction” to fire underperforming workers, according to a memo issued one day before the U.S. government shut down. “Supervisors and human resources (HR) professionals are directed to act with speed and conviction to facilitate the separation from Federal...
Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) during the government shutdown, as the funding lapse threatens payments of benefits if it continues. It comes after the Trump administration earlier in October transferred $300 million in tariff revenue to WIC to prevent...
Starting Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for millions are in jeopardy as the impacts of the weeks-long federal government shutdown expand. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the food stamp program, said last week it will not use more than $5 million in contingency funding that Congress allocated for emergency scenarios....
Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally — to accept Republicans’ “clean” stopgap to reopen the government. It is the latest display of how outside pressure and deadlines have failed to move the parties away from their entrenched positions surrounding Democrats’ demands to negotiate...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urged donors Tuesday to stop giving money to the state's redistricting measure on the ballot this election. An email from Newsom to donors obtained by The Hill notes that the governor's team has "hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50." "You can...
Almost two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s White House ballroom plan, according to a poll. In the Yahoo/YouGov poll, 61 percent of respondents said they did not support Trump's plan to add a ballroom, while 25 percent backed the move. The demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make space for...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is leading incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) in the New York gubernatorial race, according to polling. In a poll released Tuesday, the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, finds Stefanik getting 43 percent support compared to Hochul's 42 percent — a statistical tie that still gives the House Republican...
Vice President Vance told reporters after the Tuesday Senate Republican policy lunch that 1.3 million military service members will get paid at the end of this week, despite the government shutdown that has dragged on for 28 days. “Will the troops get paid on Friday? Yes, we believe that we can continue to pay the...
Police in Virginia say an incident in which is appeared that a group of people wearing Halloween masks terrorized a family during a burglary attempt was, in fact, a prank.
Top House Democrats charged Tuesday that President Trump’s decision to withhold food aid funding during the shutdown is not only callous, but also illegal. The Democrats are pointing to a rolling contingency fund for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), saying Congress created that multibillion dollar pool for emergency situations like the current budget impasse....
Senior U.S. Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino was ordered to appear in federal court on weekdays until Nov. 5 to give a daily update on immigration enforcement operations in Chicago amid scrutiny. U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Bovino to comply with her request in an effort to oversee the reported use of tear...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not providing any plans on a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. "You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not...
