Kristi Noem’s ouster isn’t moving Democrats off their Homeland Security funding demands
“The rot is deep” inside the agency, said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“The rot is deep” inside the agency, said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday welcomed the ouster of Kristi Noem from atop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but warned that the leadership shakeup won’t soften the Democrats’ demands for reforms at the agency. “A change in personnel is
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The fact that this even has to be clarified tells you something about the political climate we’re in.
The prediction market Kalshi is facing pushback over its handling of more than $54 million in trades on the ouster of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after he was killed in U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on the country last weekend. The platform, which has
Yes, the media is going to ask the secretary of War to justify American soldiers losing their lives.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country’s military is “waiting” for the U.S. to send troops into the country, a possibility the Trump administration has refused to rule out. “We are confident that we can confront them, and it will be a big
Just before announcing her replacement in a major shake-up of his Cabinet, President Trump said he did not recall giving his blessing to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for a $220 million ad campaign at the border, a comment that comes after Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.)
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), spurning pressure from Republicans who argued the conflict with Iran has heightened the need to end the agency shutdown. Senators voted 51-45 on the measure that would have funded DHS
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Thursday ripped into Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby over his “gross” and “disingenuous” testimony during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. Turner, who had asked Colby if the Trump administration applies NATO’s Article 5 to all of the
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the alliance is not looking to trigger Article 5 on Thursday after Iran fired a missile that entered Turkey's airspace. “Nobody’s talking about Article 5,” Rutte told Reuters. “The most important thing is that our adversaries have seen
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is giving previously scheduled remarks in Nashville, Tenn., shortly after President Trump announced he was removing her from Department of Homeland Security leadership. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said he will replace her at the
Postmaster General David Steiner has failed to turn around the USPS's unsustainable business model, resulting in a $1.3 billion loss in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, and has instead prioritized revenue and customer service over cost-cutting measures.
Kristi Noem has officially been ousted as Homeland Security secretary after her disastrous display defending her months-long mismanagement of the agency overseeing Donald Trump’s horrific deportation scheme. Trump announced Thursday that Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin would
President Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) in the first major shake-up of his Cabinet in his second term. Trump said in a Truth Social post Noem had served her role well
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Wednesday defined President Trump's "America First" policy as meaning that the U.S. will be an "unmatched power in the world." "The president has made clear that he believes America's awesome military might should be used to
On Sunday, gas was below $3 a gall in 39 states. As of Thursday, only 17 states are below that mark.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday launched a new partnership with more than 50 medical schools across the country on teaching nutrition education. “Together, with the Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, I’m pleased to
The National Angel Family Day Proclamation was established to honor the thousands of Angel Families in the US who have lost loved ones to dangerous criminal illegal immigrants, but the families are left to grieve the loss of their loved ones due to preventable policy failures.
The call comes a day after Gonzales admitted having affair with staffer and the opening of a House Ethics probe.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested Thursday that he would be open to dropping out of the hotly contested Texas Senate primary against Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) if Senate Republicans met several conditions. Paxton said on Thursday he would consider exiting the
House Republican leaders called on Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-La.) to end his bid for reelection Thursday over an affair that the Texas congressman admitted he had with a staffer in his office who later died by suicide. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve
Democratic-led states on Thursday sued President Trump over his new tariffs, asserting they are illegal like his previous ones, which were recently struck down by the Supreme Court. Following the high court’s 6-3 blockbuster ruling that Trump can’t invoke a 1977 emergency law
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) rebuked the Trump administration’s rollout of joint military strikes with Israel on Iran in a Fox News opinion piece published Thursday. Paul cited Congress’s constitutional authority to declare war, saying the decision to go to war “should be a
This is not a marginal humanitarian concern. It is the most direct measure of whether Russia intends to honor any future settlement at all.
Update: President Trump announced Wednesday that he is nominating Senator Markwayne Mullin as the next DHS secretary. Donald Trump is upset enough with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that he’s reportedly considering Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma or Senator Steve
Two investors sued President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday over the administration's approval of a deal that saw TikTok spun off into a separate American-owned entity in order to continue operating in the U.S. Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a shareholder in Google’s
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Thursday that Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) has a chance of winning if Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) becomes the GOP nominee. “[Democrats] haven’t won a Senate race here since 1988, they haven’t won a statewide race since 1994,
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. 🍩 Plus: RFK Jr.’s war on Dunkin’, Starbucks {beacon} It’s Thursday. Have you heard that the FBI is taking over the Reagan Building in Washington? That means the National Children’s Museum will be forced out. I’m so
Operation Renewed Hope is a global victim identification operation aimed at finding the 57,000 children whose images of sexual abuse are in the hands of law enforcement, and the Renewed Hope Act of 2026 would create and equip a dedicated workforce of 200 analysts, investigators
A poll published Thursday found that Americans have lost trust in federal health institutions and are more likely to say they trust independent, professional medical organizations when it comes to advice on topics like vaccination. The February survey by the Annenberg Public
President Trump said Thursday that he must be personally involved in the process of selecting a new leader in Iran. In an interview with Axios published Thursday, Trump said the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, is most likely to succeed his father, but
The State Department said Thursday that nearly 20,000 Americans have returned home from the Middle East since the U.S. military’s launch of strikes against Iran on Saturday. Assistant Secretary of State Dylan Johnson said in a press release that this figure omits Americans who
President Trump warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday that it would be "bad for him" not to drop out of the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff if the president decides to back incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Trump was responding to a question during an
President Trump has declared that he wants to essentially handpick Iran’s next leader, an extremely bleak yet unsurprising development in this regime-change war. “They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Wednesday warned ahead of a vote on a war powers resolution that the U.S. airstrikes on Iran "will radicalize new generations of terrorists." Massie, the only GOP sponsor of the House measure, pointed to the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in
Seriously, what is it with Republicans and their Nazi-loving group chats? A group chat started by Abel Carvajal, the secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party, for conservative college students at Florida International University quickly devolved into a breeding ground
House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (Mich.) and other top Republicans will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains in limbo nearly three weeks after appropriations lapsed. Republicans have revamped
If we’re serious about the planet, accountability must start at the top — not at the bottom of a milkshake.
Officials in Azerbaijan said Thursday it would retaliate against Iranian drone strikes on its territory as tensions in the Middle East escalate. Its foreign ministry said Tehran targeted portions of land within the exclave of Nakhchivan and successfully struck the Nakhchivan
Despite expressing frustration over Donald Trump’s war with Iran, some Democrats are still considering voting to boost military spending by billions of dollars. At least four Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee haven’t ruled out additional funding for the
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) appealed to the First Amendment to block the "censure" levied against him by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon agreed, freezing the censure action pending the outcome of an appeal.
House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) on Thursday went after Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby for not keeping Congress in the loop on force posture changes in Europe. In a hearing on the National Defense Strategy, Rogers accused the Trump administration
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for comparing Israel to an “apartheid state.” “That's a talking point of the fringe of my party, and that's profoundly disappointing. I mean, I was shocked,” Fetterman told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins defended herself following a spat with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday over media coverage of the deaths of six U.S. service members as part of President Trump's ongoing military operations in Iran. "Needless to say, our
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday called for the U.S.-Israeli military operations in Iran to de-escalate while agreeing that Iran must not acquire a nuclear weapon. The two leaders met in the Australian capital
there are many outside the school system, including some prominent California political candidates and national media, who oppose the protesters — and blame teachers.
The Trump administration is panicking over oil pricing spikes caused by the war it started on Iran. An anonymous energy industry executive told Politico that Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a team led by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and other top energy advisers on Trump’s
The income necessary to be considered among the middle class varies across the country, a new study shows.
The House Agriculture Committee voted to advance this year’s farm bill early Thursday morning after more than 20 hours of deliberation. The legislation will now proceed to the House floor for a full vote. The Republican-backed legislation passed 34-17 with the support of seven