Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocked her state's governor during a weekend appearance, referring to the wheelchair-bound Greg Abbott as "Gov. Hot Wheels" while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles.

A Senate panel on Tuesday advanced Dr. Mehmet Oz as President Trump's pick to oversee Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs.

President Trump has signed two executive orders that aim to better protect the money that the government is spending by using electronic payments over checks and centralizing payments in the U.S. Treasury.

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Social Security Administration faced questions Tuesday at his confirmation hearing about efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to close field offices and cut back on phone service at the beleaguered agency.

Florida will hold a pair of special elections on April 1 to replace the vacancies left by former Reps. Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz. Both elections are in traditionally Republican districts, as Waltz won his seat by 33 points and Gaetz won his by 32 points. In spite of Gaetz’s large margin of victory, he […]

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Signal thrown into spotlight amid group chat breach Top Trump national security officials' use of messaging app Signal is raising new questions about the platform and how the administration is transmitting sensitive government info. © Kiichiro Sato, Associated Press Cybersecurity experts said they were surprised to learn conversations containing...

The Supreme Court appears poised to keep at least some Clean Air Act disputes in federal courts outside of DC — preventing what at least one justice described as “home court advantage” for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The justices heard a pair of cases on Tuesday about whether certain Clean Air Act disputes should...

A closed-door meeting between members of a House subcommittee and officials from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was cut short on Tuesday after the top two lawmakers on the panel clashed over the terms of the gathering. The disagreement was confirmed to The Hill by the two lawmakers involved, Reps. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and...

Leland Dudek, acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration (SSA), said as of Monday the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) no longer has access to the agency’s systems in an effort to comply with court orders. Dudek submitted a declaration confirming that DOGE employees' access to systems containing personally identifiable information (PII) or systems of...

Presented by National Council on Aging — Plus: Putin gifts Trump portrait {beacon} White House digs in as furor grows over breach PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SIGNALING the White House will stand by its national security team as the furor grows in Washington over a journalist being added to a group chat discussion about a Yemen...