In a week where his administration has paused, and then unpaused, immigration raids on farms and agricultural businesses, President Trump indicated on Friday that he would support a system where farms could continue to employ undocumented workers so long as they took "responsibility" for those they hired. “We’re looking at doing something where, in the...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Senate hawks want steeper cuts in Trump tax bill The Senate version of legislation to enact President Trump’s agenda is hitting new turbulence as conservatives led by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike...
President Trump on Friday celebrated a newly announced deal to end the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo but lamented that he may not win a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the deal, or for other international agreements he helped negotiate in office. The State Department announced Wednesday that...
President Trump on Friday floated the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as part of his latest round of intense criticism of the leader of the central bank over its decision not to lower interest rates. Trump, in a lengthy post on Truth Social, railed against Powell, labeling him a "numbskull," "a dumb...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investigating whether an employee at a Michigan hospital system was fired for refusing to use a patient's preferred pronouns and assisting in “sex trait modification” procedures, the agency’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced Friday. The health care worker allegedly requested religious accommodations from certain...
A federal judge said Friday it’s too late to order the recovery of already-deleted Signal messages from key members of President Trump's Cabinet, largely rejecting a request from an oversight group to get involved. But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg did order acting National Archivist and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to ask Attorney...
Iran’s foreign minister told NBC News on Friday that Tehran was not sure it could trust the United States in the wake of numerous Israeli attacks on Iran. The airstrikes from Israel, which have targeted Iranian military and nuclear facilities, came just days before American officials were scheduled to hold nuclear talks mediated by Oman....
Speaking in Los Angeles, Vice President JD Vance accused Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass of effectively declaring “open season on federal law enforcement."