Month: October 2025

President Trump late Friday suggested that former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former Attorney General Merrick Garland and other Biden administration officials “should be prosecuted” over their involvement in the investigation into the president’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. In a Truth Social post published just prior to departing for his Asia trip,…
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President Trump is considering naming the new White House ballroom after himself following days of controversy over his administration’s pricey East Wing project. The new space is expected to be 90,000 square feet and referred to as “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom,” according to a report from ABC News. Earlier in the week, when…
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HuffPost reached out to the White House to confirm the ballroom’s name, but no one immediately responded.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) questioned the Trump administration’s strikes on Venezuelan vessels without the approval of Congress. “The administration needs to give insight into Congress. That’s part of it. If this was happening with this level of insight under the Biden administration, I’d be apoplectic,” Lankford said during a Thursday appearance on C-SPAN’s new “Ceasefire”…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called Dr. May Lau a “radical doctor” and sued her last year for providing gender-affirming care to minors.

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  Inflation hits 3 percent as food, energy prices rise Prices rose slightly less than Wall Street expected, but…
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The White House website launched a “Major Events Timeline” Thursday featuring four entries targeting Democrats with whom President Donald Trump has feuded.

Food insecurity experts say this is the first government shutdown in which SNAP benefits have been at such severe risk.

President Trump’s favorability among Hispanic voters has dropped by 19 percentage points over the past 10 months as the White House charts an aggressive approach to immigration enforcement and economic reform, according to a poll.  Twenty-seven percent of Hispanic voters said they approve of the way Trump is handling his job while 73 percent disapproved,…
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Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) criticized the Trump administration’s recent plan to quadruple the tariff-rate quota for imported beef from Argentina, saying the country’s beef wasn’t “that great.” “I stand behind our beef producers here,” Alford told anchor Oscar Jimenez in a Friday appearance on CNN. “We do not need more imports from Argentina.” “By the…
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The Department of Defense (DOD) received an anonymous $130 million donation Thursday that the Pentagon will use to help pay troops as the federal government shutdown drags on.  “On October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of $130 million under its general gift acceptance authority. The donation was made on the…
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Two Planned Parenthood affiliates have moved to challenge the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) from prohibiting their participation in Medicaid. Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region requested an administrative hearing to challenge the state agency’s decision to block them from participating in the federal health insurance program.  According to a…
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday the anti-tariffs advertisement featuring former President Reagan, which angered President Trump, will air during the World Series before being paused Monday. The ad led to Trump calling off trade negotiations between Canada and the United States. “Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that…
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“That is how Donald Trump’s administration is hurting everyday Americans, most of whom voted for him,” Jessica Tarlov said Thursday.

President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for a new ballroom this week built into a full-blown controversy for the White House. Images of the East Wing abruptly being turned into a pile of rubble caused a visceral reaction for Trump critics, who saw it as a symbol of the ways the president has…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) will send election monitors to vote centers in California and New Jersey during the two states’ off-year elections next month. DOJ officials will monitor six counties between the two states. They will be in Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno counties, and they will be in Passaic County in…
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday vowed to back his colleague in the lower chamber, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), throughout a contentious primary challenge in their home state.  Last week, President Trump endorsed Ed Gallrein to unseat Massie in Kentucky’s 2026 GOP primary after Massie initiated a bipartisan resolution to unseal files tied to convicted…
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“WRONG ROAD! Please reconsider. Don’t kick our American ranchers in the balls,” Tomi Lahren wrote.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he was tired of always being the Republican Party’s “whipping boy” and of his colleagues wanting him “to do their job for them.” In a Friday episode of Politico’s “The Conversation with Dasha Burns,” the Republican senator said his colleagues have asked him to tell President Trump that they won’t…
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Ontario premier Doug Ford, whose province had sponsored the ad, said it would be taken down.

Dozens of people have died since the U.S. began targeted strikes on what military officials claim are drug-carrying vessels.

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani blasted President Trump on Thursday for “coming after” New York Attorney General Letitia James. “Donald Trump is coming after her because she did the right thing,” Mamdani said at a Thursday night rally in lower Manhattan. “She held him to account. She showed that no man and…
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The president made CNN’s Kaitlan Collins one of his targets for the day.

Inflation is rising again, hiring is slowing, and voter confidence in the economy has dropped to one of its lowest points in years. Federal data shows annual inflation hitting 3 percent for the first time since the Biden administration — a full point above the Fed’s target — driven largely by higher energy and food…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday lambasted the Trump administration’s bailout of Argentina, calling it “one of the grossest things” she’s “ever seen.” Greene made the comments as a guest on Tucker Carlson’s show on YouTube, where she defended her record supporting President Trump and his agenda. However, Greene expressed frustration over “a revolving…
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