Category: The Hill

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday pushed back on a suggestion from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) to change how Democrats are talking about President Trump and his administration, saying “the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are.” Sanders was pressed in a TV interview about a recent critique from Slotkin, […]

Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the recent meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave him the “first sliver of hope I’ve had in a while.” “You saw that meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky, very public images, very remarkable images really. But what does that signal to you?” […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday he doesn’t know whether President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have recently discussed tariffs or have begun informal negotiations on trade. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Martha Raddatz asked the Treasury secretary about apparently conflicting statements from Trump, who has indicated he has talked […]

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) are voicing their opposition to a “reckless” Republican budget by holding a sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps on Sunday morning. The lawmakers began their sit-in just after 6 a.m. and addressed people online about the Trump administration’s proposed budget, which they say will […]

Republicans on Capitol Hill rolled the dice earlier this month when they pushed off decisions on a host of details for their package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities. Now, lawmakers must face the music.  With the House aiming to pass the “one big, beautiful bill” by the end of May, and the Senate looking […]

A suspect was arrested in the theft last weekend of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse at a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C, law enforcement officials said Sunday. The purse included some major belongings, including $3,000 in cash, Noem’s DHS access badge, her passport, her driver’s license, blank checks and her keys. […]

A majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance ahead of his 100th day in office this term, according to a new poll. Fifty-five percent of Americans in an NBC News Stay Tuned Poll released Sunday said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of his first few months back in office, including 42 percent who […]

For decades, Taiwan operated under the assumption that if China invaded, the U.S. would intervene. However, that confidence is now waning. Under President Trump, Washington’s commitment to Taiwan has grown increasingly unpredictable. The once-unthinkable question is now being openly debated in Taipei: Is Taiwan still indispensable to U.S. strategy, or is it becoming expendable? Taiwan’s […]

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday that people from “all sides” of the political spectrum are “livid” at President Trump’s “handling of the economy.” “I think that …  the Arizonans I’ve talked to, I’m seeing people from all sides of the political spectrum absolutely livid at Trump’s handling of the economy, the tariff issue […]

Border czar Tom Homan highlighted the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and said having United States-born children does not make people “immune” from deportation. “Having a U.S. citizen child doesn’t make you immune from our laws of the country,” Homan said Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “American families get separated every day by law […]

President Trump just drew a hard line against blue state climate activism — and not a moment too soon. His April 8 executive order, Protecting American Energy From State Overreach, takes direct aim at states like California, New York and Hawaii that are trying to sue American energy companies into submission. These lawsuits, funded by taxpayers, […]

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called for bipartisan support for secondary sanctions on Russian goods as President Vladimir Putin “drags his feet.” “I think we ought to take up the Graham legislation, and we ought to pass it through both houses and put those secondary sanctions on Russia,” Shaheen said of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (S.C.) […]

House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) on Sunday said that President Trump “does not want” the “one big, beautiful bill” encompassing his agenda “to be a health care bill.” “Medicaid … all falls underneath the Energy and Commerce Committee, not Ways and Means,” Smith said when asked about cuts to Medicaid via the […]

The United States continues to facilitate peace negotiation discussions between Russia and Ukraine, but top U.S. officials, including President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role.  Trump contended that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin might not want to achieve peace in Eastern Europe after all, following a series […]

Gary Cohn, a former Trump administration economic advisor, said the president’s tariffs will be “highly regressive” and hurt the lower class the most. Cohn joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning, just after President Trump posted online that once tariffs cut in, many people who make less than $200,000 annually will see their […]

For sophisticated criminals, high-end artworks are more than just pretty pictures. Latin American cartels, a major Hezbollah financier and powerful Russian oligarchs have all exploited the luxury art world to evade sanctions and launder potentially billions of dollars globally each year. The U.S. is by far the world’s largest art market, but it is also […]

Rahm Emanuel has ramped up speculation in recent weeks that he’s plotting a 2028 presidential run, adding a prominent name in Democratic circles to an already crowded list of possible candidates. The former Chicago mayor has been making the media rounds over the past month and hasn’t ruled out several options for his political future, […]

In the late 1990s, acclaimed Cuban mystery writer Leonardo Padura captured the poignant resignation of those who chose to stay on the island, enduring hardships following both the Cuban Revolution and the Soviet Union’s collapse. Padura’s main character, Mario Conde, is a hard-boiled police detective who disdains ideology (despite majoring in “dialectical materialism” at university), […]

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said a price drop for eggs has already hit some parts of the country, but for others, it is “coming” soon. Rollins joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where she highlighted a major economic indicator: the price of eggs. Egg prices rose to a record high in March at […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that Democrats do not have “a vision for the future.” “You have Democrats appropriately, and I’m working with them, talking about Trump’s movement toward authoritarianism, vigorously opposing the so-called reconciliation bill to give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the 1 percent and make massive cuts […]