Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Thune to force Democrats to vote on troop pay Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) plans to force Democrats to vote next week on legislation to pay more than 1 million military service members during the...
The anti-President Trump opposition is leaning into its biggest moment so far with the “No Kings” protests that are scheduled across the nation Saturday. Organizers say the number of planned events has grown to more than 2,700 and that online RSVPs by people hoping to attend have more than doubled in the past week alone....
President Trump said Friday he granted former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) a sentence commutation months after the ex-lawmaker reported to prison. “George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” the president wrote in a statement on Truth Social. “Therefore, I just signed a Commutation,...
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said Friday the Army Corps of Engineers is pausing $11 billion of funding in projects in four states. Democratic-led cities Baltimore, New York, San Francisco and Boston will be impacted by funding halt. “The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and other GOP lawmakers requested the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate former special counsel Jack Smith on Friday. “Jack Smith was a rogue special counsel on a weaponized witch hunt against Republican Senators,” Blackburn wrote on social platform X. “There must be consequences for this abuse of power.” She sent a...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized Friday for comments suggesting that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco, saying he no longer believes it is necessary. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the...
Reports have found additional controversial social media posts Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner made years before his bid to oust Sen. Susan Collins (R). The Bangor Daily News wrote that Platner — who has already disavowed his previous posts on Reddit — reportedly asked why Black people “don’t tip” in a thread of questions users...
The campaign for Democratic Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones announced he raised $500,000 in less than 24 hours after the attorney general debate Thursday, during which Jones’s texting scandal took center stage. “In last night’s debate, [incumbent] Jason Miyares couldn’t defend the 50 times he’s failed to protect Virginians as Donald Trump has fired...
President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the White House, part of a renewed push to end Russia’s more than three-year war in Ukraine. Trump, feeling victorious after securing a ceasefire in the Middle East, projected optimism about ending the war that he once proclaimed he could resolve in one day. “I’m...
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to let it deploy the National Guard to the Chicago area amid President Trump’s push to send military troops into Democratic-led cities. The Justice Department filed an emergency application at the high court Friday asking the justices to pause a judge’s order blocking Trump from sending hundreds of...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) criticized the Trump administration Friday over the indictment against former national security adviser John Bolton. Bolton was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of transmitting and retaining national defense information, making him the latest President Trump critic to be criminally charged. "It's hard to know what to say about...
New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani (D) ripped the Trump administration’s order to halt work on the city’s bus system, the latest in a series of orders targeting city infrastructure projects. “The Trump administration is once again seeking to meddle with our streets to make buses slower, worsen congestion and pollute our air,” Mamdani...
