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President Trump weighed in on whether the U.S. will enter a recession, saying during an interview that “anything can happen,” but argued country’s economic state will be “OK” in the long-term.  Trump, during an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press” that will air in full on Sunday, first dismissed concerns about the nation entering a […]

96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } {beacon} Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security <!–   The Big Story  Trump’s budget is here; GOP defense hawks aren’t happy Prominent defense hawks on Capitol Hill on Friday […]

Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted Germany’s government for labeling the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as an “extremist” political group.  “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second […]

96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!– The Big Story  The programs on Trump’s chopping block President Trump’s budget request proposed eliminating or zeroing out funding for dozens of […]

A federal judge ruled on Friday evening that President Trump’s March executive order targeting Perkins Coie is unconstitutional and ordered the government to abstain from enforcing the action. U.S. District Beryl Howell blocked the order against the elite law firm, arguing the president’s measure was in breach of several provisions of the Constitution.  “No American […]

96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } {beacon} Technology Technology <!–   The Big Story  The evolution of Musk’s White House role  Elon Musk’s first 100 days in the White House were filled with twists and turns as the world’s richest person became one of the […]

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Friday that the state has reached a settlement with the Trump administration after the federal government took away funding to Maine’s schools over its transgender athlete policies.   “It’s unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its […]

Most Americans are supportive of several forms of foreign aid, but there’s less backing for supplying military aid or giving funds for cultural activities in other countries, according a survey released on Thursday.  The new Pew Research Center poll found that most U.S. adults support the government providing medicine and medical supplies, 83 percent, and […]

Nearly half of Americans said the current condition of the U.S. economy is President Trump’s responsibility rather than his predecessor former President Biden, according to a new survey that was published on Friday.  The Gallup poll found that 46 percent of adults said that Trump is responsible for the current state of the nation’s economy, […]

In a country as polarized as the U.S., independents are a sort of electoral holy grail. Pundits, practitioners, and certainly candidates know that they can decide elections. It is therefore puzzling that so much of the recent 100-days’ coverage of the Trump administration focuses on President Trump’s topline numbers in national public opinion polls. It […]

Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra decried the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” request unveiled on Friday, lambasting it as not a budget proposal but a “demolition plan.” In the proposal, President Trump called for cutting $33.3 billion or 26.2 percent of HHS’s discretionary funding. These requested cuts included a $3.6 billion reduction […]

96 <!– Presented by Clean Fuels Alliance America {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment <!–   The Big Story  Trump’s pump claims fall flat President Trump says gas prices have fallen below $2 a gallon as he marked his 100th day in office, but experts and evidence say his numbers aren’t adding up.  © AP […]

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to let the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access millions of Americans’ personal data stored by the Social Security Administration (SSA) while it appeals an order that iced the advisory group out.  The emergency application asks the justices to lift a Maryland federal judge’s injunction blocking DOGE from […]

Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Evening Report newsletter Subscribe 96 <!– {beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP SENT the first budget request of his second term to Republican appropriators in Congress on Friday, exposing new GOP divisions on […]

More than 70 House Democrats are requesting the Smithsonian inspector general to kickstart an investigation into President Trump’s executive order targeting Smithsonian museums, arguing the president’s action is encroaching on the institution’s independence.  Seventy-one House Democrats, led by Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) are criticizing Trump’s March 27 executive order, which says […]

(NEXSTAR) – The latest measles update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a total of 935 confirmed measles cases across dozens of states. That number is now officially more than triple the confirmed cases reported in all of 2024 (285 total), per the CDC. The CDC’s latest update, published Friday, also […]

The attorneys for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, filed a Thursday motion seeking to dismiss state charges against him.  Lead lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, argued that dueling federal charges would amount to double jeopardy for her client.  If the charges aren’t dropped, Friedman Agnifilo has asked a judge to […]

The Justice Department said Friday that a “settlement in principle” has been reached with rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family to resolve a lawsuit they filed over her death during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. At an emergency hearing Friday afternoon, DOJ lawyer Joseph Gonzalez and Robert Sticht, a lawyer for Babbitt’s husband, Aaron, acknowledged the […]

Tennessee State Police have released bodycam footage from a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March and is being held in prison there, despite a Supreme Court order instructing the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return. President Trump and key members of his […]

President Trump’s budget proposes eliminating a number of development and international affairs agencies beyond the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — ending support for a number of programs that fight poverty, promote democracy and expand U.S. presence overseas. The budget moves to formally eliminate the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the U.S. Institute for […]