Unions representing government employees sued the Trump administration Thursday evening to block efforts to shut down the government’s independent foreign assistance agency. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) launched a full-scale assault on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) over the weekend, shutting staff out of internal systems and placing thousands on administrative...

Senate Republicans on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Budget and Management (OMB), in the face of mounting Democratic attacks over his ties to Project 2025 and the president’s efforts targeting funding already approved by Congress. The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines to confirm Vought on Thursday night....

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, President Trump's envoy for special missions Richard Grenell and other federal and state officials joined Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) in their visit to the Palisades to evaluate fire recovery and debris removal efforts.  The EPA, as part of the debris removal process, has been removing hazardous...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Lawmakers take aim at DeepSeek A bipartisan pair of lawmakers are introducing a measure to ban Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from government devices, arguing it “compromises American users’ sensitive data.” © Adobe Stock The measure, called “No DeepSeek on Government Devices...

Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) lauded the creation of the Congressional Jewish Caucus in a Thursday press release outlining an official forum for Jewish lawmakers. “In response to unprecedented rising antisemitism in the United States and the challenges the American Jewish community has faced in the wake of the horrific terrorist...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} View Online Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  Judge halts Trump federal worker buyouts plan A federal judge has just extended the deadline for federal workers to accept the Trump administration’s sweeping buyout offer. © The Associated Press Workers will now have until...

The government's foremost foreign aid agency is being gutted. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workforce is being slashed from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 300, according to reports published in Wired, Reuters, The New York Times and NPR. The State Department declined to comment. Neither USAID nor the White House immediately...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday doubled down on her opposition to the presidential immunity decision last summer and expressed concern about public confidence in the high court. In her first public remarks since President Trump took office about two weeks ago, Sotomayor said she worried that the Supreme Court has departed too far...

President Trump revealed picks for big jobs, including ambassadors to the Czech Republic, Poland, Costa Rica and Norway and his pick for director of the U.S. Marshals Service.

A new Congress and a new presidential administration places both parties back at square one – and Republicans have an abundantly clear upper hand.