Category: The Hill

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) is set to host town halls in Detroit this weekend focused on the impeachment of President Trump, his office announced. Thanedar last week announced he had filed seven articles of impeachment against the president, a longshot move unlikely to get through the GOP-led House, related to issues including his  tariff agenda, […]

House Republicans have yet to strike a deal on how to address the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, a lingering hang up that has emerged as one of the biggest sticking points in the party’s bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities. Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) and Young Kim (R-Calif.) — co-chairs of the […]

House Republicans voted Wednesday to adopt a provision in their budget reconciliation package that would allow for the sale of public land in Nevada and Utah.  GOP Reps. Mark Amodei (Nev.) and Celeste Maloy (Utah) funneled the provision through a House Natural Resources Committee markup that seeks to boost fossil fuel production and mining on […]

President Trump’s popularity is still underwater in recent polls, but polling trackers at Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) noted Wednesday that the president’s average ratings for the past week saw modest net gains. According to DDHQ’s favorability tracker, Trump is averaging a 51.7 percent unfavorable rating compared to a 44.4 percent favorable rating since he took […]

Black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel after Cardinals held the first vote to select a new pope on the first day of the conclave, signaling that deliberations will continue. The black smoke was visible just after 9 p.m. local time in Rome, indicating that no one received the two-thirds majority vote needed to […]

Denmark has said it will summon the  acting U.S. ambassador after it was reported that U.S. intelligence agencies have been ordered to increase spying on Greenland.  Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters on Wednesday that he was going to call in the ambassador “for a discussion at the foreign ministry to see if […]

Few non-homeowners expect to buy a home within the next five years, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the new Gallup poll, 25 percent of non-homeowners said they believe they “will buy a home” within five years. Five percent said the same about purchasing a home within a year, 23 percent said the same […]

Fiscal hawks warned House GOP leadership on Wednesday that a major bill being crafted in Congress to advance President Trump’s tax agenda and cut federal spending “must not add to the deficit.” More than 30 Republicans signed onto a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) reaffirming that their support […]

India and Pakistan are on the brink of war. A terrorist attack killed 26 in the beautiful hill station of Pahalgam, Kashmir, on April 22. India blamed Pakistani-trained militants. Early on the morning of May 7, India launched missile attacks on nine sites in Pakistan, calling the strikes “measured, responsible and designed to be non-escalatory […]

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday slammed a recent GOP push to bring stablecoin legislation to the floor, accusing Republicans of attempting to force a vote before finishing negotiations with Democrats.  “You can’t throw us in the corner,” he said in an interview with MeidasTouch. “You can’t try to f‑‑‑ us and then say like, […]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) mocked Kristi Noem ahead of her Wednesday visit to his state, telling “all pet owners” to watch out for the Homeland Security secretary, who famously detailed shooting a hunting dog and a goat in a memoir. “Despite the Trump Administration being in office for more than 100 days and falsely […]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is slated to give remarks Tuesday afternoon after the latest announcement on interest rates, as the U.S. faces economic uncertainty sparked by President Trump’s trade agenda. The Fed’s interest rate committee was set to keep rates where they are despite criticism from Trump and price pressures mounting from his latest […]

President Trump is slated to give remarks from the Oval Office Tuesday during a swear-in ceremony for former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), who will serve as U.S. ambassador to China. His remarks come as economic turmoil mounts over how his sweeping tariffs could impact U.S. consumers. While Trump has largely changed his tune on how […]

C-SPAN is asking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to allow its cameras into the courtroom during oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case brought by President Trump. In a letter to Roberts dated April 23, the network said the case holds “profound national significance” and its cameras should be allowed to cover the proceedings […]

Cameron Hamilton, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday afternoon on oversight of the agency. The hearing comes as Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Kristi Noem has vowed to shutter much of the agency, citing President Trump’s wish for states to have more control over emergency […]

FBI Director Kash Patel will face questioning Tuesday by a House Appropriations Committee panel on oversight and the fiscal 2026 budget for the intelligence agency, just more than 100 days since President Trump returned to the White House. His testimony comes as the FBI has faced scrutiny over layoffs amid the administration’s overhaul of the […]

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at boosting passengers’ safety and privacy when in the vehicles of ride-sharing service drivers. The measure, titled the Safe and Private Rides Act, would require transportation network companies to alert passengers if their driver is using a video recording device in the […]

North Carolina Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin (R) has conceded defeat in a contested race for a seat on the state Supreme Court, bringing to an end a saga that has lasted six months.  Griffin’s concession to incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs (D) came after a ruling from a federal judge for the […]

Americans are growing less optimistic about race relations across the nation, with only 51 percent saying Black Americans will “eventually” have the same rights as white Americans, according to a new survey.  The Pew Research Center examined Americans’ views on race, policing and Black Lives Matter five years after the murder of George Floyd found that a […]

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