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12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. It’s Tuesday. What a gross, dreary day it is in the DMV. If you’re getting snow instead of this cold rain, please send me your photos so I can live vicariously through you. 😉 In today’s issue: 🎤 IN THE WHITE HOUSE It’s the Pete Hegseth…
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Pop musician Sabrina Carpenter on Tuesday blasted the White House for using one of her songs in a video showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents making arrests. Shared on the social media platform X, the video features Carpenter’s 2024 song “Juno,” with the lyric “have you ever tried this one?” running on a repeat…

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Tuesday chided the Trump administration for pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández after an American jury convicted him on drug trafficking charges. “That pardon suggests that President Trump has been pardoning people left and right for all sorts of reasons that don‘t serve America‘s core interests,” Coons said during…

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Tuesday that he would “be very surprised” if Navy Adm. Frank Bradley ordered a second strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean “on his own.” “This incident that was just covered by The Washington Post in recent days suggests that a war crime may have been committed,…

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal is calling for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to testify under oath about the second strike the U.S. military conducted that killed survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean. “The charge of deliberately killing the defenseless is serious enough to warrant…

Conservative activist Laura Loomer on Monday accused the office of Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll of trying to oust Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an alleged “coup.” Hegseth’s leadership has been repeatedly questioned after several scandals including texting about war plans in a Signal group chat and allegedly ordering illegal strikes on boats in the Caribbean….

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused a lawyer for the Pentagon of being “evasive” in answering questions about a second strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean in September, saying the attorney did not share everything with lawmakers. “He came and briefed us several weeks ago about this specific strike,” Kelly…

The “Last Word” host slammed President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a lengthy monologue.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said Monday that it is “very clear” the Trump administration is “throwing” Navy Adm. Frank Bradley “under the bus” amid the scandal surrounding strikes on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean. “What’s very clear is they’re throwing the admiral under the bus. That’s exactly what’s going on,” Moulton told…

President Trump is hosting a Cabinet meeting at the White House Tuesday morning as the administration responds to war crime allegations against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth related to strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. The meeting comes after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday that Hegseth authorized strikes on an alleged drug trafficking boat…

Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell on Tuesday unveiled plans to donate $6.25 billion to investment accounts for 25 million children. The couple’s donation, one of the largest direct philanthropic investments in Americans, will put $250 in investment accounts for children ages 10 and younger, an expansion of the “Trump accounts” established in the One Big…

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday rejected Navy Adm. Frank Bradley’s reasoning for launching a second strike on a vessel in the Caribbean as two wounded survivors clung on to the boat. “Under normal circumstances, it’d be court-martialed. He’d be relieved of his duties, and he’d be court-martialed,” Kendall, who served as secretary…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) press office mocked President Trump’s “perfectly normal” MRI results Monday with a fake memo signed by “Dr. Dolittle” about the Golden State governor’s health. In a memo addressed to “The Media,” the “Physician to the Governor” from the “California Department of Peak Excellence” said advanced imaging was conducted on Newsom’s…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling for the resignation of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, accusing her and President Trump of a full-fledged “assault on public education” in an USA Today op-ed on Monday.  “When the secretary is working to make class sizes bigger, take away aides for kids with special needs, leave college students at…

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández was released from prison Monday after President Trump pardoned him of charges related to assisting drug traffickers. “After nearly four years of pain, waiting, and difficult trials, my husband Juan Orlando Hernández RETURNED to being a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump,” former…

Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell failed to hold Trump accountable for his actions, allowing him to serve a second term as president and leaving the country in a state of turmoil.

House Democratic leaders will give remarks Tuesday morning as the Trump administration is facing heat over strikes the Defense Department ordered on vessels in the Caribbean allegedly carrying narcotics. Democrats, after reporting surfaced about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s role in the strikes, accused the administration of possible war crimes. The Washington Post reported last week…

Torture Memos author John Yoo on Monday condemned the Trump administration’s strikes on a boat in the Caribbean, accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of violating the United States’s law of war manual. “If you look at the U.S. law of war manual, which is the definitive interpretation of the way we fight, the laws of…

The Trump administration plans to take a $150 million stake in xLight, a startup developing laser technology to advance semiconductor manufacturing.  The Commerce Department said Monday that it has signed a nonbinding preliminary letter of intent to provide federal incentives to the startup under the CHIPS and Science Act in exchange for equity.  The company xLight, which counts former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger…

Hernández was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for taking bribes from drug traffickers so they could safely move some 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said the Trump administration is investigating claims that tax money from Minnesota went to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, which is based in Somalia. Bessent, in a post on social platform X, said he ordered the probe after finding the North Star State’s tax funds went to Al-Shabaab “under the…

House Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as questions rise around the Pentagon’s strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders. The Trump administration has argued, as tensions rise with Venezuela, that it does not need congressional approval to conduct the military operations. The moves have sparked…

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President Trump will convene his Cabinet on Tuesday morning, amid controversy over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s role in authorizing in a Caribbean strike that killed two survivors of an initial hit on their boat. Hegseth, who reportedly directed for the mission to “kill everybody,” on Monday night posted his support for the admiral in charge…

The “Tonight Show” host had a zinger of an idea about how the White House could spice up its decor this holiday season.