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The Democrats made Trump look more presidential than ever

PITTSBURGH — By the end of President Donald Trump‘s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, Democrats decided not to applaud a child battling brain cancer, the mother of a woman who was murdered by a 26-year-old Venezuelan man who entered the United States illegally, the passage of a sports bill that would have kept […]

GOP lawmaker holding town hall despite advice to avoid them: ‘I trust my constituents’

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) said Wednesday he’s holding a town hall despite House Republicans being recently pushed to avoid in-person town halls and do phone or livestreamed ones instead. “I'm having a town hall next week, right there in Asheville, North Carolina, first of all, because my constituents have asked for it,” Edwards told NewsNation’s...

Major VA job cuts planned under Trump

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Major VA job cuts planned under Trump The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to cut approximately 72,000 jobs, roughly 15 percent of its current workforce, VA Secretary Doug Collins confirmed Wednesday. © Greg Nash...

Hamilton cancels Kennedy Center run; Grenell fires back

Producers of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” are canceling plans to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington next year, pointing to President Trump’s “takeover” of the Washington, D.C., institution and drawing pushback from the new interim executive director.  Lead producer Jeffrey Seller called the Kennedy Center a “sacred” setting that should be “protected from politics.” ...

Trump tells DC mayor she must clean homeless encampments in the city

President Trump on Wednesday told Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser that she must clean homeless encampments in the city. “We have notified the Mayor of Washington, D.C., that she must clean up all of the unsightly homeless encampments in the City, specifically including the ones outside of the State Department, and near the White House,”...

GOP plows forward with government funding plan despite Democratic opposition

House Republicans are pressing on with plans for a clean six-month stopgap to keep the government funded beyond next week’s shutdown deadline in the face of staunch resistance from Democrats. House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters on Wednesday that Republicans are “running the full-year CR, period,” next week, referring to the party’s...

Majority say US, not other countries, will feel brunt of Trump tariffs: Poll

A majority of Americans in a new poll said that the U.S. and not other countries will feel the brunt of President Trump’s tariffs. When asked about “the cost of tariffs on foreign products imported into the U.S.,” 54 percent of the respondents in The Economist/YouGov poll said they believe “mostly companies and people in...

Appeals court temporarily greenlights Trump’s firing of whistleblower office head

A federal appeals court Wednesday agreed to the Trump administration’s request to greenlight the president’s firing of U.S. special counsel Hampton Dellinger until the court resolves a legal challenge.  The order from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily lifts a judge’s ruling that found Dellinger’s termination unlawful and returned him to his post as the head...

Trump says GOP should campaign on Democratic response to his speech

President Trump on Wednesday urged Republicans to campaign on how Democratic lawmakers conducted themselves during his joint address to Congress a night earlier, when several lawmakers walked out in protest and refused to applaud. "The Democrats should lose the Midterms based on their behavior at last night’s Joint Address to Congress," Trump posted on Truth...

DOGE team shut out of US African development agency

Staffers for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were shut out of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) headquarters in D.C. on Wednesday, amid an escalating fight over leadership of the agency. Several DOGE workers tried to enter the agency’s office in Washington on Wednesday but were “unable to access” it, the USADF confirmed to...

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