At least one person in Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) orbit recently joked that his office should send the Trump administration a gift basket when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon would open a misconduct review into the Arizona Democrat. The investigation,
Senate Democrats are warning President Trump not to move unilaterally on striking Iran with military force, predicting the strikes might backfire and wind up strengthening the repressive regime that has reportedly killed thousands of protesters in recent days. The big exception
Conservative demands for a second GOP-only tax and spending bill are running into the political challenges of a tiny House GOP majority, a time crunch and the electoral pressures in a midterm year. At issue is whether congressional Republicans can craft and pass a second
The child care industry has been thrown into choppy waters as the Trump administration seeks to cut federal funding to multiple states amid fraud allegations in Minnesota. A judge has temporarily halted President Trump's funding freeze to five blue states, but programs
Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s (R-N.C.) comeback House bid in Florida is being met with skepticism from some Republicans, who doubt he will be able to win. The 30-year-old Cawthorn, once seen as a rising star after winning a House seat in North Carolina, saw his reputation in
Donald Trump is going all in on the lunacy that the Minneapolis shooting should prompt a crackdown on the left . He unleashed ugly tirades on this, claiming the protests are “fake” and that officials are investigating their financial backers. He also lied uncontrollably about
It's not clear a Homeland Security funding bill can get done, but furious negotiations are underway.
The Secret Service has placed an agent on administrative leave after an undercover video showed him discussing sensitive parts of his duties, NewsNation’s Kevin Bohn reported Tuesday. The Secret Service also suspended the agent's security clearance, who served on Vice President
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly not investigating the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer as a civil rights case. “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN
President Trump said Tuesday that Renee Good’s actions prior to a federal immigration officer fatally shooting her “were pretty tough.” “I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person. But her actions were pretty tough,” the president
Democrats were projected to win a Connecticut state House special election on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ. Democratic candidate Larry Pemberton defeated Republican Brandon Sabbag for Connecticut state House District 139. Pemberton, who serves as treasurer for the
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Republican Norman Crow is projected to defeat Democrat Judith Taylor in the special election for Alabama State House District 63, according to Decision Desk HQ. Crow, a Tuscaloosa City Council member, defeated Judith Taylor, a retired college professor and chair of the
President Trump criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell amid a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the central bank’s ongoing renovations. “He’s either corrupt or incompetent,” Trump told CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil, referring to the price tag and time frame of the
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Centrist Dem group plots path ahead on health Potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates have only just started initial jockeying to position themselves for a primary fight. On
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) on Tuesday suggested Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should resign to avoid indictment. “If you're the attorney for Jay Powell and you want to avoid an indictment, how about you go to Jeanine Pirro and say, ‘I'll make a deal. I'll step down today,
Democrats have won two special elections to fill a pair of open seats in Virginia’s General Assembly, according to Decision Desk HQ. The Tuesday contests are part of a series of special elections prompted when Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D), who was elected governor last
Republican centrists and populists in the House on Tuesday blocked a series of GOP labor bills on the chamber floor, marking the latest blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team, who are increasingly losing their grip on the restive Republican conference.
President Trump appeared to flip off a Ford worker in Michigan in an incident Tuesday caught on video obtained by TMZ. Trump was in the state to give an address on his economic agenda and tour Ford's River Rouge complex in Dearborn. During his walk-through, TMZ reported a
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a federal judge he is unable to locate the more than 100 Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador, arguing against further hearings with the men as it would jeopardize "extraordinarily delicate” discussions
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin is denying news reports that his department will no longer consider the cost to human life incurred from two pollutants when making regulatory decisions. New York Times reporter Maxine Joselow, citing internal
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has teamed up with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to introduce a bill to block President Trump from taking over Greenland. The legislation, the NATO Unity Protection
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) accused his Republican colleagues of not caring about people killed in U.S. military strikes on boats that the Trump administration accused of smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. In an interview released Tuesday on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Paul said GOP
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Microsoft tackles data center impact on energy bills Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith laid out a plan Tuesday to reduce the tech giant’s impact on electricity bills and water resources amid growing local opposition
More than half of surveyed American voters are against the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is enforcing immigration laws, according to a new poll released Tuesday. In the Quinnipiac University poll, 57 percent of respondents said they are against how the agency
President Trump declared inflation “defeated” during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday despite a report earlier that day showing annual price growth of 2.7 percent, putting pressure on the White House and congressional Republicans to respond to affordability more
Two of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's top staffers have reportedly been placed on leave amid an internal investigation into allegations that taxpayers footed the bill for personal trips with family and friends. Chavez-DeRemer's chief of staff, Jihun Han, and his deputy,
Top Justice Department officials Tuesday tore into a Trump-appointed federal judge who dared to ask why Lindsey Halligan is still calling herself a U.S. attorney. In an 11-page filing , Halligan—fully backed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and deputy Attorney General Todd
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story As MAHA grows, so do efforts to protect pesticides The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement’s crusade against pesticides is creating divisions in the Republican Party, as some members back the industry
The Trump administration has designated three chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, which it says threaten U.S. interests, as terrorist organizations in an attempt to curtail their financial support. The State Department announced Tuesday that the label was given to the Lebanese,
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Will US strike Iran? All eyes on Washington as Trump mulls options Concerns that the U.S. may strike Iran hit a new peak Tuesday after President
The Supreme Court appears likely to uphold laws in Idaho and West Virginia that forbid some transgender students from participating in school sports, but the court’s conservative members seemed divided on how comprehensive the defeat for transgender rights would be. During oral
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell could result in increased inflation and interest rates. Speaking to reporters on the call for his company’s fourth-quarter results, Dimon said “anything that chips
Some House Republicans have joined in criticizing the Department of Justice’s probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, arguing it could undermine the regulator’s independence. Those GOP members join a chorus of Democrats and some Republican senators who have criticized
The timeline is slipping for a bipartisan group of senators to release a compromise to revive the expired enhanced ObamaCare subsidies, according to one of the lead negotiators. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told reporters Tuesday that lawmakers are looking at a deadline of the
Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist top prosecutor hand-picked by President Trump in the Eastern District of Virginia, told a federal judge Tuesday she's entitled to continue calling herself the U.S. attorney after different judge found she was unlawfully installed to the post. The
GOP Rep. Don Bacon (R) joined House Democrats to introduce legislation seeking to preemptively block President Trump from using military force to acquire Greenland — a prospect the president has declined to rule out amid renewed interest in the Danish territory. The No Funds
A new Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent of respondents support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with 43 percent opposed to getting rid of the agency. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 35 percent of respondents strongly support eliminating
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised Tuesday to allow states to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. The court heard oral arguments for two cases from Idaho and West Virginia in which lawyers for the trans teens argued
Iran on Tuesday allowed citizens to call internationally after days of phone and internet outages amid violent protests. More than 2,000 Iranians have been killed amid antigovernment protests, activists told The Associated Press. Some in Tehran told the newswire they were able
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday said his people "choose Denmark" and "choose NATO" instead of the United States, amid President Trump's calls for the island territory to be annexed into the union. “If we have to choose between the United States and
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Democrats are seeking a major upset in a reliably red state House district in Alabama on Tuesday night. Democrat Judith Taylor is challenging Republican Norman Crow in the 63rd district special election. President Trump won the district by nearly 20 points in 2024, but former
A woman in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and arrested by ICE agents on Tuesday after informing agents the street they were blocking to conduct a raid was blocking her route to her doctor’s office. The woman could be seen arguing with masked agents while they tell her
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said Tuesday that it’s launching a seven-figure voter registration initiative aimed at young people without a college education ahead of this year's midterms. The DNC plans to train more than 100 young Democrats on helping register young
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said Tuesday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has seemingly “sold his soul” and is influencing President Trump on foreign policy. “When I was there, you had people like Gen. [John] Kelly, Gen. [James] Mattis, Nikki Haley, other people who
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) showed support for holding former President Clinton in contempt of Congress and moving such a resolution on the House floor over his refusal to appear for a deposition. “I think by definition, if you defy a subpoena of Congress, it is contempt,”
Seconds before Jonathan Ross killed Renee Nicole Good, the veteran ICE officer turned his camera phone on her wife, recording her, before aiming the lens at Renee. He fired, shooting her in her face. Then he steadied his phone, still pointed in the direction of Renee’s silence,
