If President-elect Donald Trump wants to put trillions of dollars in federal spending on the chopping block, he'll find plenty to cut, ranging from billions doled out to states and wealthy corporations, to funding studies teaching monkeys how to gamble.
Voters in seven Illinois counties approved last week the Illinois Separation Referendum, a measure directing county boards to explore the idea of splitting from Cook County by dividing the state in two.
Senate Republicans are demanding the Justice Department and FBI retain and preserve all records related to special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump.
A progressive advocacy group is pressuring Senate Democrats to confirm as many of President Biden's judicial nominees as they can in the next seven weeks before the new Republican majority takes over in January along with President-elect Donald Trump.
Republican senators should immediately kneecap the nominations of former Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and especially Matt Gaetz for top spots in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration. House and Senate Republican leaders likewise should signal that they won’t allow Trump to install these two unfit characters through any backdoor method. Congress should not allow itself to go […]
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Pentagon UFO office gets more than 700 reports The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received 757 reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) from May 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024, a declassified report said just a...
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) said that President-elect Trump choosing Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as attorney general was "very surprising," though he has "trust" in the confirmation hearing process. "As for that particular nomination, look, we have a process under the Constitution where the Senate provides advice and consent. And I trust that...
Pressure is building on the House Ethics Committee to release its findings on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who President-elect Trump said he will nominate to be attorney general. Such a move would be highly unusual, since the committee has no jurisdiction to investigate a former lawmaker, and does not typically release information on investigations...
House Republicans are probing allegations of discrimination by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Florida following the termination of an agency employee who advised a survivor assistance team to skip homes with President-elect Trump campaign signs. The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is calling on FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to brief the panel...