Month: August 2025

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said Monday that President Trump sending the National Guard to his city would “only serve to destabilize” it. “From my first day in office, public safety has been my top priority. In just two years we have made historic progress, driving down homicides by more than 30% and reducing shootings…
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96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!–   The Big Story  High costs after tariffs pose threat to Trump and GOP The cost of living in America is projected…
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Some people in the bud biz are cautiously optimistic about cannabis reform, but others think he’s “pandering to people on an issue everyone agrees on.”

President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps Monday toward federalizing Washington, D.C.

President Trump announced Monday that he was taking control of the District of Columbia’s police and deploying the National Guard. Trump portrayed the moves, which will involve around 800 National Guard troops, as a response to high crime rates in the nation’s capital. He said it was an attempt to “rescue” the District from “bloodshed,…
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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) campaigned with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, slamming both President Trump and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  “New York has always stood up to bullies and defended what’s right, even when it’s difficult, which is why we were so shocked to learn that Andrew Cuomo called…
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“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” said Muriel Bowser, who refrained from attacking Trump for infringing on her role.

“You are playing with fire,” the California governor told the president.

President Trump on Monday announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National Guard in the city in an attempt to fight crime. “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to…
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The Illinois governor, seen as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, has clashed with the president repeatedly in recent months.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called President Trump’s sweeping crimefighting takeover in the District on Monday “unsettling and unprecedented,” but said she wasn’t surprised. “I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster. Let me put it that way,” she told reporters Monday afternoon — just hours after Trump announced the…
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The Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” will make the poorest Americans even poorer, while padding the wallets of the highest earners the most, according to an analysis released Monday by Congress’s budget arm. The assessment, conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) at the request of top Democrats, found that the top 10 percent of earners in…
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The official White House portrait of former President Obama has been moved from its prominent position in the entryway to the top of the residence’s Grand Staircase, far from the view of visitors who pass through on official tours. A White House official told The Hill that Obama’s portrait is now located at the top…
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Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Evening Report newsletter Subscribe 96 <!– Newsom urges Trump to end redistricting wars {beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP took extraordinary measures Monday to implement a federal crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C.,…
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He once again blamed Ukraine for getting invaded and also twice confusingly referred to Alaska as part of Russia.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a recent podcast episode that Vice President Vance is “very smart” but “not a very principled person.” “Trump said this week that JD Vance is his most likely heir apparent. You played JD Vance in debate prep with Tim Walz. What are your impressions of him and his…
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) is scheduled Monday to discuss President Trump’s takeover of the District’s police force and activation of the National Guard in an effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital. “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,…
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) accused President Trump of a “raw authoritarian power grab” after the president moved to federalize the District of Columbia’s police department and call the National Guard to the District’s streets. “He’s playing dictator in our nation’s capital as a dress rehearsal as he pushes democracy to the brink,” Van Hollen…
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The president offered misleading statements about crime trends in the nation’s capital.

Some people wondered if the president was actually announcing he plans to give Alaska back to Russia during Friday’s upcoming meeting.

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) denounced the Trump administration’s move to federalize the city’s police force as “unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.”  Schwalb said Monday in a post on social platform X, after President Trump’s announcement in the morning, a “crime emergency” doesn’t exist in the District, noting that violent crime reached a 30-year…
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) slammed President Trump’s sweeping crime crackdown Monday as “an historic assault” on D.C.’s autonomy and justification for her decades-long push for statehood. “President Trump’s decision to federalize MPD and activate the D.C. National Guard to address crime is an historic assault on D.C. home rule, is a counterproductive, escalatory seizure…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday hammered President Trump’s move to take control of law enforcement in Washington, D.C., saying the president has no justification for taking such a drastic step given falling crime rates in the nation’s capital.  “Violent crime in Washington, D.C. is at a thirty-year low,” Jeffries posted on social…
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CNN anchor Dana Bash rebuked President Trump on Monday after the president announced he was taking control of the Washington, D.C., police department and would deploy the National Guard to crack down on crime in the District. “Just before we take a break, I want to note that the most violent moment in recent history…
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The civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department has hit a new low in manipulating federal law enforcement to further the president’s political schemes. On July 7, the department wrote the Texas governor a letter, pressuring him to re-gerrymander Texas’s already discriminatory congressional map. Texas obliged, triggering a potential nationwide race to the bottom…
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