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Trump slipping with Black voters after 2024 gains

President Trump is seeing signs that his approval is slipping with Black voters after notable gains with the demographic in last year’s election. Recent polling suggests African American voters, already more disapproving of Trump than other demographic groups, have been

The “Undeserving Poor” Deserve Medicaid

In 2016, Charles Manson, then serving a life sentence for murdering or conspiring to murder seven people, developed a lesion on his large intestine, or possibly his colon or anus, that caused internal bleeding. The authorities, concluding that this was more than California’s

Tea Party Patriots to push lawmakers on noncitizen voting

A conservative group is launching a summer push behind an animating cause for President Trump and the right: noncitizen voting. Tea Party Patriots Action, a major conservative grassroots organization, intends to press lawmakers during the August recess to attach the SAVE Act,

Senate GOP gears up for test on Trump’s DOGE cuts

Senate Republicans are staring down a mid-July deadline to approve a batch of funding cuts pursued by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), even as some in the GOP express misgivings about the request. The GOP-led Congress has until July 18 to approve

Musk’s third party push puts his companies at risk

Elon Musk’s push to create a third political party is putting his business empire at risk once again, raising questions about how his political ambitions align with the interests of his companies. After the tech billionaire launched his new America Party over the weekend,

Markets sputter after Trump pushes tariff deadline

Financial markets are wobbling this week after President Trump extended his 90-day deadline for big trade deals over the weekend, following the imposition of unilateral tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners back in April. As markets are reacting to changing White House

Jewish Democrats in Congress sound the alarm on Mamdani

Jewish Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising concerns about Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, arguing that his refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” or recognize Israel as a Jewish state could be dangerous

GOP lawmakers dismayed by lack of progress on trade deals

Republicans on Capitol Hill are dismayed that the Trump administration hasn't made more progress in negotiating trade deals and fear the country is heading for another bout of economic turbulence after President Trump announced a new round of steep tariffs on 14 countries.

Trump's CDC nominee set for Senate vote

Presented by Express Scripts Pharmacy Benefit Services {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Senate committee to vote on Monarez as CDC head A Senate committee will vote Wednesday on advancing the nomination of Susan Monarez for director of the Centers for Disease

Senate Democrats press ICE on uniform, mask protocol

A group of Senate Democrats are pressing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the masking of officers not in uniform during its operations. In the letter, sent to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, the group of Democrats argued the masks and lack of uniforms have led to

Trump tees up copper tariffs

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump warns steep tariffs are on the way President Trump said Tuesday that a 50 percent tariff on copper would be imposed, with officials adding later the new

Floods spotlight NWS and disaster cuts

{beacon} View Online Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Floods come as Trump eyes NOAA cuts The deadly Texas floods are drawing renewed scrutiny to the Trump administration's cuts at the nation’s weather and climate research agencies. © Julio Cortez,

Few see falling birth rates as a priority: Survey

Few Americans see falling birth rates as a national priority, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. When asked in the Thursday survey about how large of a problem declining birth rates in the U.S. is, 28 percent of

Cassidy, Kaine propose new funding trust for Social Security

Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) proposed a new method to account for the expected lapse in the Social Security Trust Fund. A June report from the program’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) fund would only be able to cover “100 percent of total scheduled

Graham: Senate will move 'soon' on Russia, China sanctions

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that the Senate will move “soon” on a “tough” Russia sanctions bill that will also penalize the Kremlin’s top energy recipients, China and India. “President @realDonaldTrump is spot on about the games Putin is playing,” Graham said in

California rejects Trump demand to ban trans athletes

California education officials have formally rejected the Trump administration’s demand to bar transgender girls from girls school sports teams, escalating tensions between the Golden State and the White House. The state’s Department of Education on Monday declined to sign a

Trump officials on defense over Epstein findings

⚠️ Plus: Musk's third party draws GOP skepticism {beacon} TRUMP ADMINISTRATION officials are on the defensive over questions about convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following a Department of Justice (DOJ) report that found the disgraced financier did not have a