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The move adds to Trump’s efforts to preserve monuments that honor Confederate leaders.

96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security <!–   The Big Story  Pentagon moves to fire civilian workers with ‘speed and conviction’ The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian personnel, directing managers to move with “speed and conviction” to fire underperforming workers, according…
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The moment happened during a discussion about Trump and his supporters repeatedly floating the idea of him serving a third term.

Sarah Matthews called the president a “narcissist” who needs to “grow up” while talking about what she’d do if she were in the Democratic Party.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered praise for President Trump and his energy and manufacturing policies Tuesday, even borrowing the president’s signature phrase and thanking the crowd at Nvidia’s conference in Washington for “making America great again.”  Huang brought the chipmaker’s GTC conference, sometimes referred to as the “Super Bowl” of artificial intelligence (AI), to Washington,…
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The Pentagon has pulled key protections for its civilian personnel, directing managers to move with “speed and conviction” to fire underperforming workers, according to a memo issued one day before the U.S. government shut down. “Supervisors and human resources (HR) professionals are directed to act with speed and conviction to facilitate the separation from Federal…
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The journalist shared a truly illuminating anecdote on “The View” about his early-morning phone call with President Donald Trump after the 2024 election.

Harrison Fields blamed Democrats for putting millions of Americans at risk of losing food stamps, despite the fact that he supported previous GOP cuts to the program.

The administration is trying to get rid of 4,000 federal employees as a way to squeeze Democrats who are standing their ground.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urged donors Tuesday to stop giving money to the state’s redistricting measure on the ballot this election. An email from Newsom to donors obtained by The Hill notes that the governor’s team has “hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50.” “You can…
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Almost two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s White House ballroom plan, according to a poll. In the Yahoo/YouGov poll, 61 percent of respondents said they did not support Trump’s plan to add a ballroom, while 25 percent backed the move. The demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make space for…
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An American studies professor breaks down what the president’s repeated attack says about him.

One in 8 Americans rely on food stamps, but the USDA says “the well has run dry.” Here’s what you can do.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, this week expressed opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to boost Argentine beef imports. Smith, in a Southeast Missourian op-ed published Monday, said he told President Trump in a recent conversation that “purchasing beef tariff-free from Argentina would be devastating to America’s…
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The governor of California slammed the president for fixating on White House renovations as millions of Americans are set to lose food assistance.

The attorney general is all in on one of the dumber conspiracy theories out there.

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Trump’s efforts to lay off thousands of federal employees amid the government shutdown.    U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, an appointee of former President Clinton, sided with government employee unions that asked her to bar the administration from carrying out the reductions in force (RIFs) as the lawsuit moves forward. More…
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The White House provided multiple media outlets with an official list last week of all the companies and individuals contributing to Trump’s $300 million ballroom.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told President Trump’s nominee for inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that his professional history has raised “serious doubt” about his ability to be an “impartial investigator” for the agency. In a letter provided first to The Hill, Warren addressed Thomas March Bell, Trump’s nominee for…
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In an ominous address, the president told American troops in Japan that “we can do as we want to do.”

For years, Donald Trump built his brand on an “America First” trade agenda: protecting U.S. workers, punishing foreign competitors, and pulling supply chains back home.   That was the promise. But now, in a scramble to drive down grocery prices, his administration is turning to Argentina for beef — quadrupling imports to 80,000 metric tons. That’s…
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Lawrence O’Donnell also called CNN CEO Mark Thompson “an Englishman who thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent.”

Former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday said women need to stand up against those who might seek to silence them. In an interview with People magazine, Obama reflected on her life and explained how she embraced entering her 60s. She talked about how her father raised her to be proud of her height. “I’m…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Monday flyer urging people to join the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) team with a graphic modeled after the Halo video game. “Destroy the flood. Join.ICE.gov,” reads text overlaid on the graphic, shared on the social platform X, which features two Halo characters driving a vehicle through…
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The 2025 Virginia attorney general race is slated to be the most expensive state attorney general race on record, according to the ad tracking company AdImpact.  A total of $36.8 million has been spent in the race so far, with Republicans spending $21.9 million and Democrats spending $14.9 million.  Last year’s attorney general race in…
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