Category: The Hill

Most Texans — including a new majority of Republicans — support the state’s booming renewables industry and oppose the idea of state moves to quash it, a new poll has found. The polling by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation comes out amid a multifront push by suburban Texas Republican legislators to hamstring the growth of wind and […]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been cleared of wrongdoing in a probe focusing on anti-Trump bias, according to a Monday court document. According to a Justice Department email in the document, a FEMA probe investigating bias against Trump-supporting homes allegedly displayed by a Florida-based FEMA employee in the wake of Hurricane Milton and […]

Drug dealers who sell or give out fentanyl that leads to an overdose death could face felony murder charges under new legislation Republicans have proposed in the House and Senate that also would allow anyone convicted of the elevated charge to be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), […]

Erie, Pa. and Hartford, Conn. share much in common — snowy winters, growing technology sectors and, like many other communities across the nation, a pressing need for more affordable homeownership opportunities.  In cities like Erie and Hartford — which we proudly represent in Congress — as well as dozens of other older industrial cities, we’re witnessing […]

President Trump said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos did the right thing after the e-commerce giant pushed back on reports that it was planning to display how much tariffs add to costs. Trump and Bezos spoke on Tuesday morning about the reports of Amazon considering a tariff display, a source familiar told The Hill, and, later […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will host a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to the members of the “Six Triple Eight” battalion — the only Black, all-female unit to serve during World War II. The move comes after a long-running campaign for the group — who was credited with helping to solve a growing mail crisis […]

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced the Equality Act, a landmark civil rights bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes.  The measure, which would amend a federal law that already outlaws discrimination based on race, religion, sex and national origin, faces an uphill battle in a Congress controlled by Republicans, […]

Reaching President Trump 100th day in his second term seems to have taken a lot longer than that since it’s rooted in the past rather than the present. Historians grade presidents on the progress they have made at the start of their administrations. It would be more appropriate to judge the president by the regress […]

As his administration reaches its 100-day mark, President Trump is set to tout his second-term accomplishments with his first rally since his inauguration on Tuesday. The president is sure to celebrate his administration’s work on immigration, tariffs, reducing the size of the federal government and more at the evening event in Macomb County, Mich. The […]

The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday rejected the efforts by some lawmakers in the party to impeach President Trump. Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) did not go so far as to say that Trump has not committed impeachable offenses in his first 100 days back in office. But with Republicans controlling both the […]

President Trump vented his frustration last week with the Supreme Court’s order forbidding the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.   Trump took to Truth Social, claiming, “My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme […]

The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index dropped by 7.9 points in April, marking its lowest reading since May of 2020, largely in response to President Trump’s tariff war. Trump has imposed a baseline 10 percent tariff on most international partners and a 145 percent tariff on China, the world’s second-largest economy. Steep “retaliatory […]

Good statecraft depends on marrying objectives to means. Although this is seemingly obvious, America often fails because presidents adopt the wrong objectives. Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam and George W. Bush in Iraq failed because they did not understand what they were getting into, and the U.S. lacked the means to achieve our objectives at an […]

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg said his organization “Leaders We Deserve” will focus on challenging more than a dozen Democratic incumbents in the next election cycle. He said the group will focus on mobilizing a younger generation of leaders geared towards change amid new policies implemented under the Trump administration. They’ve slated […]

Nearly half of Americans in a new poll think President Trump deserves a failing grade for the first 100 days of his second term in office, as the White House celebrates the benchmark this week. An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll published Tuesday found 45 percent gave Trump an F grade, more than double the 23 percent […]

Prior to President Trump’s first administration, presidents prioritized fostering a constructive relationship between the U.S. and China through engagement, recognizing the importance of aligning mutual interests to maintain stability and avoid conflict.   This strategy of engagement reached its zenith during the George W. Bush administration. Delegations regularly traveled between Washington and Beijing, with high-level […]

Harvard University is revamping its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) amid its ongoing fight with the Trump administration, which it has sued after its funding was cut when it refused to make administration-demanded changes. Those changes included eliminating DEI, among other policy reforms. The office will now be called the Community and Campus Life and […]

The White House on Tuesday bashed Amazon for reportedly planning on displaying how much President Trump’s tariffs added to the cost of an item, calling it an aggressive move by the e-commerce giant. “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the […]

House Democratic leaders are holding a news conference Tuesday morning amid a charged environment as the party wrestles with low approval ratings and as President Trump marks the first 100 days of his second term in the Oval Office. The briefing, led by House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) and Vice Chair Ted Lieu […]

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is set to join President Trump during a Tuesday visit at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in the Great Lakes State, the White House said. The appearance comes just a couple weeks after Whitmer took heat from both sides of the aisle for a White House visit earlier this […]