Category: The Hill

Billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates criticized Elon Musk for advising the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash the budget of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children.” In an interview with the Financial Times, Gates suggested DOGE’s cuts were too abrupt and left lifesaving […]

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to revoke temporary legal status granted by the Biden administration to hundreds of thousands of migrants.  Lower courts rejected the attempt to end the two-year parole given to 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, saying President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

Democratic strategist James Carville went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday, saying people like her are “more trouble than they’re worth.” Carville, speaking at an event in London, shot back at comments made by Omar seven years ago to Al Jazeera, in which she said the U.S. “should be more fearful of white men […]

President Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost after he was elected as the new pope, making him the first American to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. “Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American […]

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is set to announce a plan Thursday afternoon to address air traffic control shortages and issues that led to the recent chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport near New York City. Delays and cancellations upended operations at the Newark airport earlier this week after the Federal Aviation Administration said some air […]

Amid all the talk of tariffs, trade wars, and tax cuts, the media missed the news that President Trump is fundamentally transforming the federal workforce for the better. In April, his administration began implementing its plan to make top civil servants politically accountable. This move would benefit presidents of both parties and millions of federal workers. Most […]

A freshman Democrat has introduced legislation to protect land-grant universities in an effort to block some of the White House’s steps to reduce federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.  Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) on Thursday introduced the Land-Grant Institution Parity Act, which would prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture or any other federal […]

President Trump on Thursday touted how a trade agreement with the United Kingdom would benefit the British car industry, particularly luxury brands like Rolls-Royce and Bentley. As part of a trade deal announced in the Oval Office, the U.S. agreed to lower tariffs on British car imports from 25 percent to 10 percent. “We took […]

Most California voters say Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has focused more on a potential bid for the White House than his work in the governor’s mansion, according to a new poll.  In Wednesday’s poll from the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley, 54 percent of respondents said that amid Newsom’s […]

House Republicans on Thursday approved a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” the first step in codifying one of the executive orders President Trump signed on Inauguration Day. The chamber cleared the legislation — titled the “Gulf of America Act” — in a 211-206 vote, sending it to the Senate for […]

President Trump will announce a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning, the first bargain struck since he announced his reciprocal tariff scheme last month. The president, in a post on Truth Social, described the forthcoming agreement as “full and comprehensive,” and signaled it would be the first of many deals to come with foreign […]

The Department of Justice is charging a 20-year-old with hate crimes after he allegedly assaulted Jewish individuals with connections to Columbia University during protests both this year and in 2024 against the war between Israel and Hamas. Tarek Bazrouk was arrested and charged with three counts of hate crimes on Wednesday after the government says […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday declined to say whether former President Biden should have withdrawn from the 2024 election sooner, saying the Democratic Party’s larger problems have “nothing to do” with that decision. “Bret, I’m not going back a year,” Sanders told Fox News’s Bret Baier in an interview on “Special Report” when asked […]

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday morning on the Trump administration’s budget request for fiscal 2026. The hearing comes as Noem grapples with questions over the REAL ID deadline as well as her vow to shutter most of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). President Trump earlier […]

President Trump on Thursday morning will announce a ‘major’ trade deal with the United Kingdom, the first agreement since he hit most trading partners with sweeping tariffs last month. In an early post on Truth Social, Trump described the deal as “full and comprehensive,” and signaled it would be the first of many, as his […]

President Trump’s savaging of the judiciary goes back far and deep. This despicable approach starts with his mentor in legal evil, Roy Cohn. When an associate reported to Cohn that the law was against their client, Cohn famously retorted, “F— the law, who’s the judge? Cohn saw judges not as prelates of a logical system […]

A pilot project from a team of oil industry veterans could save one of California’s key clean energy resources from terminal decline. On Thursday, energy company Greenfire announced that they had restored new life to a defunct well in The Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal power station — and one that has been in a […]

At a time when Americans are divided on so many issues, President Trump issued a directive in March that commands rare consensus: Make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful again.   It’s a goal every American should support. After all, our nation’s capital is not just home to more than 700,000 Americans and more […]

President Trump tore into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell early Thursday, a day after the central bank opted to hold interest rates steady — bucking calls from the president to lower borrowing costs. “‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell is a FOOL, who doesn’t have a clue,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Other than that, […]