Category: The Hill

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday during a meeting with President Trump that Canada is “not for sale,” plainly rebuffing Trump’s repeated suggestions that Canada could become the 51st state. Trump doubled down on his suggestion that Canada would benefit from becoming the 51st state, even as Carney was adamant it would not happen. […]

Whatever troubles President Trump is having right now with his sinking poll numbers, the Democratic Party is still a listing ship — rudderless, leaking, with some crew members trying to patch the hull with explosives. Losing the White House and both houses of Congress was always going to be a disorienting blow. But the Democrats […]

President Trump said Tuesday that the Houthis have informed his administration they want to stop fighting, announcing that strikes on the rebel group have been called off. “We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced … or they announced to us at least that they don’t want to fight anymore. They […]

President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will hold a bilateral meeting at the White House on Tuesday. Carney’s visit comes as tensions have emerged between the two trading partners due to Trump’s sweeping tariffs — including 25 percent import taxes on Ottawa — and his proposal for Canada to merge with the U.S.  Fresh off his election victory last […]

President Trump is attempting to use executive orders and directives to reshape America. His position gives him the authority to take such actions, with many of them representing his aspirational “wish list” for America. However, he is now facing headwinds in advancing his agenda, as the courts set legal roadblocks, often challenging the constitutionality of […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a new interview that resisting President Trump is “not good enough” and that Democrats have failed to present the American people with a clear alternative in recent years. “The American people, I think, not only want resistance to Trump, but I think they want what the Democratic Party in […]

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a key vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he will not support Ed Martin’s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, citing his concerns over Martin’s advocacy for people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Tillis’s opposition is a serious blow as Martin […]

Most registered voters in Georgia disapprove of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in government and cuts carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a new poll. In the poll from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 56.1 percent of the respondents said that they either “strongly disapprove” or “somewhat disapprove” of “Elon Musk playing […]

Watching Hollywood films and TV shows, you might notice something missing: Chinese bad guys. Even though China is widely acknowledged as the U.S.’s main strategic rival, we rarely see Chinese villains in our contemporary stories. Instead, we are treated to the same old nefarious Russians, Islamic terrorists, trans-national criminals and occasionally a dodgy character from […]

President Trump has just carried out the first of what may be a series of Cabinet changes, especially in the national security area. He removed Michael Waltz from his position as national security adviser, nominated him as ambassador to the United Nations, and placed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as interim national security advisor. Trump […]

The conservative group American Action Network rolled out a $7 million ad buy on Tuesday hitting back against Democrats attacking Republicans over potential cuts to Medicaid.  The broadcast, cable, and digital campaign will air in 30 Republican and Democratic congressional districts through the first week of June.    The American Action Network is connected to the […]

House Republican leaders will brief reporters Tuesday morning amid a push to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda before Memorial Day. Key policy hang-ups — primarily around tax cuts and Medicaid funding — have threatened to upend Speaker Mike Johnson’s roadmap to advancing the package. Their comments also come days after the White House unveiled Trump’s […]

Political commentator and former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said Monday that President Trump has “no strategy” with his recent talk about the price of dolls amid growing economic uncertainty. “There is no strategy. Donald Trump is not a calculated speaker,” O’Reilly told NewsNation’s Leland Vittert. “He doesn’t sit around with his advisers saying, ‘What […]

Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, will visit the White House on Tuesday for his first visit with President Trump, who continues to advocate for America’s neighbor to the north to become its 51st state. Trump and his allies have steadily claimed Canada is kept afloat by the U.S., with the president saying in an […]

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will testify Tuesday morning before the House Appropriations Committee on DHS oversight, as the administration leans into President Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda. The hearing comes as the White House faces backlash over the case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, deportation […]

President Trump bashed Colorado attorney general Philip Weiser for the prosecution of former election clerk Tina Peters, who was found guilty of tampering with voting machines in 2020 when the president lost to former President Biden. “Radical Left Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser ignores Illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Murder in his State […]

As a liberal, I have had countless conversations where I try to talk about how to fix an inept Congress, only to have someone bring up former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) stock-trading activity. It is natural to get defensive and try to discount those attacks as whataboutism. But when you attack the Republicans as […]

Return-to-office mandates are increasingly proving to be a catalyst for brain drain within major corporations, especially among top-tier firms in the tech and financial sectors. New research led by Dr. Mark Ma at the University of Pittsburgh, utilizing data from over 3 million LinkedIn profiles, offers a striking analysis of how such policies affect employee turnover, hiring, and the overall […]

Ask Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg why Democratic lawmakers are heading toward the exits.  It is because people like him want to widen the generational and ideological rifts growing within their party.  Their goal is to remake the Democratic Party in their own narrow, extremist image — even if it means driving everyone else out […]

President Trump is at it again, accusing his political opponents of fraud and corruption. This time, he is targeting ActBlue, a major fundraising platform for Democratic candidates at the local, state and national levels. Since 2004, when it was established, ActBlue has collected almost $17 billion for Democrats and affiliated causes. In the 2024 election […]