As with most tax-the-rich plans, Mamdani’s $5 million cutoff couldn't raise enough cash, so he decided that the somewhat prosperous are also failing to chip in their “fair share.
President Trump took aim at the press, Democrats and some of his celebrity critics in a speech that received a lukewarm reception at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s (WHCA) dinner on Friday evening. Trump took the stage just months after a gunman allegedly attempted an attack on his life at the association’s annual event in...
The Senate late Wednesday night in a 47-50-1 vote opted not to rebuke the Trump administration a second time over its military conflict in Iran, as leaders convinced some Republican swing votes that doing so would harm the negotiations to end the war. The resolution would have been Congress’ way to reassert its power to...
A massive data center project in Box Elder County, Utah helped bring down the Beehive State’s Senate President, who lost his GOP primary on Tuesday after his support for the controversial development fueled voter backlash. Stuart Adams, one of Utah’s most powerful politicians and the longest-serving president of the state Senate in its history, lost to challenger...
President Trump stuck to script when he kicked off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall on Wednesday as a part of the country’s 250th anniversary. “Tonight, as we stand on the edge of our 250th year of independence, I am thrilled to declare that America is back,” Trump told a crowd of...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) received a briefing about the Iran conflict from Vice President JD Vance and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff at the White House Wednesday afternoon after the senator clashed heatedly with President Trump at a meeting earlier in the day. “I want to thank Vice President Vance and Special Envoy Witkoff for the...
Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service will no longer deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to provide sensitive voter data to the federal government, in line with a proposed rule from the Trump administration. Steiner defended the measure at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing,...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story The Iran supplemental has dropped The White House on Wednesday officially asked Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding to pay for the Iran war, among other asks. It faces an uphill battle to its passage....
The race for mayor of Sioux Falls, S.D., is headed for a recount after two candidates were separated by a two-vote difference in Tuesday’s election. When ballots were tallied that evening, former state legislator Christine Erickson (R) pulled ahead of state Sen. Jamie Smith (D) by just two votes, in a city of more than...
Michigan is not obligated to hand over sensitive voter data to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court decided on Wednesday. A divided three-judge panel for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Title III of the 1960 Civil Rights Act does not authorize the Justice Department to compel the state to provide its unredacted voter...
President Trump on Wednesday went into greater detail about how he believes vandals were the cause of the damage to the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and nearby grass. The president has repeatedly claimed that vandalism resulted in the bottom layer of the pool peeling, algae growth and destruction of grass on the National...
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to explain the tarp covering the Kennedy Center by next month as lawmakers question the plans for the world renowned performing arts venue amid a pending lawsuit. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the Trump administration to file a joint status report within 7 days of a...
The White House on Wednesday officially asked Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding to pay for the Iran war, curtail the ongoing Ebola outbreak and provide aid to U.S. farmers, among other requests, according to a copy obtained by The Hill. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), White House Office of...
