Category: The Hill

President Trump is scheduled to host the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles at the White House on Monday afternoon. The team’s acceptance of an invitation marks a turnaround  from 2018, when Trump disinvited the team during his first term over its protests of the national anthem Monday’s event, scheduled to begin at 4 p.m., above.

A powerful future earthquake, coupled with climate-driven surges in sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found. These conditions could impact thousands of residents and their properties in Northern California, Oregon and Washington State, according to the study, published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants individuals with certain medical conditions to be disqualified from joining the military, according to a new memo released Monday. “The standards for accession into the U.S. military are high, uncompromising, and clear,” Hegseth writes in the memo, signed Thursday. “Young Americans seeking to serve in the greatest fighting force in history must […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Monday that it will allow gasoline containing a higher percentage of ethanol to be used year-round. The move follows President Trump’s energy emergency declaration, which required the EPA to consider allowing year-round high ethanol gas, known as E15.  This type of gasoline is typically restricted in the summertime due […]

Young Americans are feeling lonelier and more anxious about the future compared to their older compatriots, a new survey found. When asked about the frequency of feeling “lonely or isolated from those around,” 29 percent of the NBC News Stay Tuned Poll respondents aged 18 to 29 said they experience those emotions “all of the […]

In 2011, Melisha Johnson faced a 12-year prison sentence. She had been arrested for writing bad checks before, but this time was different. She faced the possibility of having to spend more than a decade away from her young son, and it felt unbearable. For Melisha, ending up in prison was the ultimate failure. Raised […]

The standard textbook viewpoint implied that the imposition of tariffs by the U.S. would lead to a strengthening of the American dollar against the currencies of its major trading partners. Since tariffs make imports more expensive, they can potentially reduce the volume of imports and thus create less demand for foreign currencies to pay for […]

Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee are launching an investigation into the deals several law firms made with President Trump to avoid being targeted by executive orders.   The committee’s top Democrat on Monday requested documents and information from several law firms who cut deals with the president to provide millions of dollars in free legal work […]

Democrats are embroiled in a debate over using the term “oligarchy” to describe the Trump administration — not if they think the description applies, but whether Americans are familiar enough with the word to understand its drastic meaning. Background: First-term Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) recently discussed her “game plan” for getting the Democratic Party back […]

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is moving closer toward an official run for Georgia governor after she filed paperwork on Monday that would allow her to receive campaign contributions for a gubernatorial bid. “I am honored and humbled by the encouragement I have received as I have considered running for Governor,” Bottoms said in a statement. […]

After meetings in London with some of the usual and unusual suspects, one subject dominated the conversations. Unsurprisingly, the subject was President Trump, and the recurring questions were about whether conditions in America are that bad and if and when we will recover.    A talk I gave at the Pilgrim’s Society, a United Kingdom-U.S. group […]

House Republicans released legislation Sunday that would increase Pentagon spending by $150 billion, pushing the total defense budget for fiscal 2025 to more than $1 trillion if passed. The bill, developed by the House and Senate Armed Services committees, includes nearly $25 billion earmarked for President Trump’s long-discussed Golden Dome missile defense initiative, a shield […]

More Americans are now critical of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration than were earlier this year, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. When asked if they “approve or disapprove of the way Elon Musk is handling his job in the Trump administration,” 57 percent said they disapproved “somewhat” or “strongly.” That […]

As April ends, so do the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency. We who watch from the sidelines will conduct our obligatory analyses of how he and the country are doing.  The analyses could fill several books, surely. Trump has been very busy following the Project 2025 playbook and Steve Bannon’s advice to […]

President Trump tore into a number of leading news organizations over polling conducted in recent days showing his favorability with voters dipping. “These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD,” Trump wrote, mentioning polling from The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC and Fox News in a post on his Truth Social website. “They […]

President Trump on Monday will sign an executive order that will direct his administration provide to draw up a list of sanctuary cities that are not complying with federal immigration laws in an effort to crack down on local governments not cooperating with his actions. The order will direct Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland […]

I’m not the most likely defender of Cornell University. For the last 20 years, first as a student activist, and then during a decade as mayor of Ithaca, New York, I have been one of Cornell’s biggest critics. As a former local official, I firmly believe that universities should pay property taxes. When I was […]

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, a new poll finds the Vietnam War remains the least supported conflict of the major American wars of the past century. The Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media poll showed that sentiment is felt even more strongly among those who fought in the war than the general public, with 46 […]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday called for mass protests against the Trump administration and blasted the “do-nothing Democrats” who have failed to mount a stronger opposition to the Republicans in control of the federal government. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am […]

Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently referred to artificial intelligence as “A-One,” as if talking about the steak sauce. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins proposed that Americans combat high egg prices by raising chickens in their backyards. Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, is said to have shared classified military action plans on unsecured internet platforms. Incompetence in the Trump Administration is all […]