President-elect Trump on Thursday celebrated the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) from the election interference case against him, arguing it should be the end of the prosecution over his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. "The case has to be thrown out because it was started corruptly by an incompetent...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) dismissed President-elect Trump’s demand to increase the debt ceiling, saying he was a “hard pass” on the idea. “GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check,” Jeffries posted to Bluesky. “Hard pass.” On Wednesday,...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday supported President-elect Trump’s pressure on lawmakers to eliminate the debt ceiling. “I agree with President-elect Trump that Congress should terminate the debt limit and never again govern by hostage taking,” Warren said in a post on social platform X. Trump said Thursday that he would back getting rid of...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday over his handling of a continuing resolution to keep the government open. Johnson's bill was faulted by a number of House Republicans as well as key figures in President-elect Trump's orbit for including too many provisions backed by Democrats. Johnson needed Democrats...
Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s declared “border czar,” says he would need at least 100,000 detention beds and a significant increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to successfully undertake the president-elect's plans. Trump has pledged the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, but how he will pay for his plans has been an open...
Having wrested the federal government away from big government advocates, DOGE should harness the bureaucracy it retains to enforce reform, not simply peremptorily discard it.
Neil Cavuto, a staple of Fox News and Fox Business programming for years, is leaving the network after nearly three decades. Fox News confirmed Cavuto's departure; his last day on air will be Thursday. Cavuto's contract with the network is up next week. A source familiar told The Hill the network offered a new deal,...
A majority of Americans disagree with President-elect Trump’s plans to use the military for mass deportations and his efforts to issue pardons to Jan. 6 rioters, a new survey found. According to the survey, conducted by the Washington Post and the University of Maryland, more than half of Americans oppose several of Trump’s recent statements....
Sheldon Gilbert will be the next president and CEO of The Federalist Society on Jan. 2, 2025, succeeding Eugene B. Meyer and becoming only the second president of the influential conservative and libertarian legal organization in its 40-year history. Gilbert is currently senior lead counsel for strategic initiatives at Walmart and was previously vice president...