ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump on Tuesday said he would prefer not to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, but he acknowledged it may be necessary to reach an agreement on health care legislation. Trump, in response to a
For many GOP members, an expansion of abortion restrictions in Obamacare is a must-have in any tentative health care plan.
Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray (R) announced on Tuesday that the chamber would be reconvening in December to make a “final decision” on potential House redistricting proposals as Republicans in the state Legislature's upper chamber have received increased
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story House panel prepares to take up kids' online safety bills The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning to consider a slate of 19 bills related to kids’ online safety and privacy next week amid a new push to pass protections
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Questions hang over Ukraine peace talks President Trump touted significant progress in his peace push after Ukraine agreed to a trimmed-down version
Democratic officials in 20 states and Washington, D.C., sued the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday, alleging that its recent changes to the Continuum of Care (COC) housing program have thrown it into “chaos.” The complaint, filed in U.S. District
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care The Big Story Trump's floated health plan puts GOP in bind President Trump’s leaked proposal to extend ObamaCare subsidies has created new headaches for GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, The Hill’s Mike Lillis reports. ©
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Navy to complete by early next month a review of the Department of Defense's (DOD) complaint against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) over his recent remarks alongside other lawmakers. Hegseth referred the allegations against Kelly, a
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. This week brings two
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning to consider a slate of 19 bills related to kids online safety and privacy next week amid a new push to pass protections for young users. The panel will hold a hearing Dec. 2 to consider the legislation, including a new
A former Louisiana health official who ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations was quietly appointed as the top deputy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Ralph Abraham’s appointment was not announced by the Department
Among the changes are more fee-free days.
Redistricting wars are inundating the Supreme Court. A decision could come as soon as this week on Texas’s bid to revive its GOP-friendly congressional map that set off a mid-decade redistricting blitz. Texas’s emergency appeal landed as the court mulls its next steps on
The House voted nearly unanimously on Nov. 18 to force the Department of Justice to release “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials” related to the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. In the days before and after the bill
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA asks court to vacate tighter soot rule The Trump administration has asked a federal court to overturn a Biden-era rule limiting deadly soot pollution. © Greg Nash In a court filing, the Environmental
Former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Tuesday the Trump administration's peace proposal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia amounted to "a surrender plan." "We need to stop calling these things peace plans," Rhodes told anchor Nicolle Wallace on MS
An infant has died from whooping cough in Kentucky, the third such instance in the past 12 months, state health officials said Monday. The infant and their mother were not vaccinated against the illness, officials from the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) noted in
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has filed a suit against the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), arguing its leader abused his authority in forwarding a criminal referral regarding the lawmaker’s mortgage. The suit is the first of its kind after FHFA Director Bill Pulte has
The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal court to overturn a Biden-era rule limiting deadly soot pollution. In a court filing, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) argued that the Biden-era rule tightening limits was procedurally flawed and therefore should be
Democratic strategist James Carville on Tuesday said there is no leader of the Democratic Party and suggested that it will take a few years for one to rise. "No one represents the party," Carville said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" with co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin. "The only person
Nearly 40 attorneys general across the country sent a Tuesday letter to congressional leaders urging them to reject a ban on states' ability to enact artificial intelligence laws. “While AI promises to be a transformative technology in numerous fields, it also poses significant
The Trump administration is withdrawing a proposal to require cosmetic companies to test their talc-containing products for asbestos, according to a public notice Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it was withdrawing the Biden-era proposal in a new notice in
MAGA is furious at U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice over the entirely “avoidable” botched indictments of President Donald Trump’s political enemies. A federal judge on Monday dropped the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New
After a tumultuous year in which her city became ground zero for President Donald Trump’s draconian military crackdown on crime and immigration, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced that she will not seek a second term. “It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve had to do to walk
An AI advocacy group said Tuesday it is launching a $10 million campaign urging Congress to pass a “uniform national approach” to AI regulation. Build American AI, the advocacy arm of pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, announced an “omnichannel” advertising effort across
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is traveling to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday to meet with his counterpart and Dominican President Luis Abinader as the U.S. has amassed a stunning amount of warships and forces in the Caribbean Sea. Hegseth will meet with
Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell is suing the Trump official who referred him to the Department of Justice alleging mortgage and tax fraud. Swallwell sued Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the Trump administration is siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin with the rollout of its 28-point plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine, a plan that the senator said is throwing the Ukrainian people "under the bus."
ByHeart said Monday that it “cannot rule out” that all of its infant formula was contaminated, less than two weeks after an infant botulism outbreak caused it to recall its products. The company, in a note to parents on its website, said after the Food and Drug Administration
A retired Army general on Tuesday criticized Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and the other Democratic lawmakers who released a video last week urging service members to refuse illegal orders, calling it an “insult to our chain of command.” Maj. Gen. James “Spider” Marks told CNN
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said President Trump’s movement “will dissolve” if he undertakes foreign policy measures to invade Venezuela or bolster the United States’s support for Ukraine. “I actually think Trump is the one who is least likely to want to do these things, but he is
Child trafficking arrests have hit their lowest point in five years since Homeland Security aggressively reoriented its attention toward immigration arrests. Fewer kids have been rescued from exploitation and trafficking this past year than at any point since the pandemic,
Twenty states are suing the Trump administration over cuts made to funding for housing the homeless. A coalition of 19 attorneys general and two governors made the move Tuesday to seek a court order that would block “cuts and illegal new conditions” to the Department of Housing
Six lawmakers with nation security backgrounds are being criticized by the Trump administration for telling troops to disobey illegal orders.
President Trump said Tuesday there were only a "few remaining points of disagreement" in a peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine, adding that he would meet with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine once the deal was finalized. Trump posted on Truth Social that his special
Consumer confidence dropped by nearly 7 points in November, as Americans sour on the economy with the holiday season fast approaching. The Consumer Confidence Index, calculated monthly by the Conference Board, fell from 95.5 in October to 88.7 this month. This marks the lowest
The trials showed an effect on Alzheimer's biomarkers, though Novo did not specify which ones.
Kash Patel’s days as FBI director may be numbered. MS NOW reported Tuesday that President Trump is considering firing the embattled director as his errors pile up. Three anonymous sources told MS NOW that Patel had drawn Trump’s ire for his presumptuous social media posts
Donald Trump is already making light of his administration wrongfully deporting immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Speaking from the newly paved Rose Garden Tuesday, Trump delivered a ghastly joke while he passed out pardons to two turkeys, Gobble and Waddle.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced Tuesday she won't seek reelection next year, teeing up a high-stakes race to lead the nation's capital during the remainder of President Trump's term. "It has been the honor of my life to be your mayor. But today, with a
Voters aren’t reacting to “vibes.” They’re reacting to their bills. And the more they feel squeezed, the more those feelings are showing up in Trump’s poll numbers.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Monday slammed President Trump for “throwing a tantrum” over his response to six lawmakers’ video in which they told members of the armed forces not to follow “illegal orders.” “The president is throwing a tantrum here in making these threats
The FBI has launched an investigation into the six Democratic lawmakers who recently filmed a video telling military members they are not obligated to follow illegal orders. The bureau’s scheduling of interviews with the lawmakers comes after Trump called the group “traitors”
We now know that scores of social media personalities who purport to be America First or MAGA and spread racist and anti-Semitic hate are actually based in Pakistan, India and Nigeria.
Senate Republicans are floating spending cuts for energy and water in an appropriations bill released Monday. The legislation, which funds the Energy Department and various water programs across the government, would represent a 1.1 percent cut overall. It would increase
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) is "clearly the leader of the Democratic Party" following his meeting with President Trump last week. In an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box," Bessent told co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin that
The dismissal of two cases against adversaries of President Trump has left the Department of Justice (DOJ) with narrow and murky paths forward if it plans to continue prosecuting them. A federal judge on Monday threw out the charges against former FBI Director James Comey and
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) looming retirement is a broader representation of embattled GOP lawmakers who could depart under the Trump administration and put the Republican majority at risk. "She’s
Americans are more likely to say they approve of lawmakers telling service members that they are obligated to refuse unlawful orders, according to a Tuesday survey. In the YouGov America poll, conducted Tuesday, 50 percent of surveyed Americans said they approved — including 35
Kash Patel’s FBI is joining the hunt against the so-called “Seditious Six,” signaling the administration’s commitment to taking revenge on the six Democratic members of Congress who dared tell soldiers that they didn’t have to follow illegal orders. The FBI has requested
