President Trump's budget director Russell Vought and his border czar Tom Homan told Senate Republicans on Tuesday that the administration is running out of money to carry out the president's border security and immigration enforcement executive orders.
President Donald Trump‘s executive order ending the federal government’s push to transition to paper straws is a good reminder that environmentally-obsessed Democrats regularly botch “The Science.” This is especially true when it comes to their climate policies. Trump’s executive order naturally earned a response from climate groups such as Oceana, whose “plastics campaign director” warned […]
Influenza cases continue to mount with the virus reaching activity levels in the U.S. not seen for the last 15 years, according to the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention.
A group of Democrats on Monday pressed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over plans for tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to “plug in.” In a letter, the Democrats noted recent posts on the social platform X from Musk and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy about DOGE involvement with aviation. “Big News -...
{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} a> Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story No plans to draw down US forces in Europe, for now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said the Trump administration doesn't anticipate cutting U.S. troop levels in Europe any time soon, but that...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug to treat a disorder causing the growth of noncancerous tumors on nerves throughout the body. The federal agency said on Tuesday it greenlighted SpringWorks Therapeutics's drug Gomekli for patients dealing with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) "who have symptomatic plexiform neurofibromas (PN) not amenable to complete resection." ...
Kansas’s Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a proposal to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth for the third consecutive year, setting up another battle with the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature that has previously failed to overrule her on the issue. Kansas’s Senate Bill 63 would broadly prevent health care professionals from providing gender-affirming medical care, including puberty...
Two senior Trump administration officials told Republican senators at a closed-door lunch meeting Tuesday that they’re running out of money to secure the borders and need Congress to immediately pass $175 billion to complete the U.S.-Mexico border wall and hire more law-enforcement agents. Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan and his White House budget director, Russell...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is instructing agencies that they do not have to fire all federal employees still on probation but is encouraging them to remove any low performers. The direction, confirmed by a source familiar, comes after the OPM asked agencies across government to turn over lists of employees hired within the last year...
Click for more from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story SEC backs away from climate disclosure rule The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that it will not defend a Biden-era rule requiring publicly held companies to disclose climate-related risks and in some cases the details of...