Elon Musk continues criticism of Republican "big, beautiful bill" on X, calling it "insane spending" that increases debt ceiling by $5 trillion and threatening to form a new political party.
Demonstrators arrested at U.S. Capitol while protesting Republican tax bill, carrying coffins representing potential Medicaid and SNAP benefit losses across multiple states.
The dream of home ownership has grown unaffordable and unrealistic for Americans in many major cities. But if you look closely, some pockets of America are still considered affordable to the average family.
Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer and Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) pushed back on a decision by the White House to pull the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator. “A well-placed source tells me Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be the next Administrator of @NASA was set for a final Senate confirmation vote early next week,...
Frustrated Democrats are fighting to counter President Trump’s flood-the-zone approach by adopting a mirror strategy with a simple goal: To flood the zone right back. Democrats have struggled to keep pace with the machine-gun tempo of Trump’s second term, which has featured a blitz of boundary-busting executive orders, mass deportations, federal firings, and broader efforts to...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his claim that there won't be Medicaid cuts in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," despite projections that millions of low-income individuals would lose health insurance as a result of the bill. Johnson, during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," pushed back on independent projections that the bill...
A fourth wave of Big Lots stores will reopen this week, bringing back nearly 80 locations in nine states that were previously shuttered as part of the retailer's bankruptcy filing.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought on Sunday pushed back against the idea that a sizable package of Republican priorities that recently made it through the House is going to raise the deficit. “This bill doesn’t increase the deficit or hurt the debt,” Vought told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the...
Elon Musk offered his opinion on the Trump administration in an interview shortly after he departed from the White House, despite initially saying he only wanted to talk about "spaceships," rather than "presidential policy." In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," the former Trump adviser told CBS Correspondent David Pogue that he only wanted to...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that Americans “aren’t interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king,” referring to President Trump. “Donald Trump has learned an important lesson, the American people aren’t interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king,” Jeffries said on CNN’s “State of the Union” to the outlet’s...
People of good will can differ about whether Harvard and its peer universities have met their legal obligations to Jewish students. But, by any standard, the Trump administration’s response has been grotesquely disproportionate.
Elon Musk exited the White House this week with little to show for his cost-cutting push and a list of frustrations from his time in the Trump administration. The tech billionaire announced his departure Wednesday shortly after voicing concerns about the sweeping tax and spending bill backed by Trump and congressional Republicans, which is expected to add trillions...
The U.S. has sent Iran a nuclear proposal, the White House told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. “President Trump has made it clear that Iran can never obtain a nuclear bomb. Special Envoy Witkoff has sent a detailed and acceptable proposal to the Iranian regime, and it’s in their best interest to accept it,” White...
