“They’re so bad for our country, their policy is so bad for our country,” Trump said of Democrats.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday touted a 55-year low in Border Patrol apprehensions. “Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced preliminary enforcement numbers for September 2025, closing out Fiscal Year 2025 with the lowest U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions since 1970,” CBP said in a…
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“The View” panel discussed Trump’s use of the U.S. military to police states he views as high in crime.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday he thinks it was a “terrible decision” for the NFL to tap Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Bad Bunny to headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February. “I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was, but it sounds like a terrible decision, in my view,” Johnson told a reporter, when…
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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 Trump threatens worker backpay in shutdown fight The White House is wielding the new threat of no back…
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The White House said Tuesday it will use money from tariff revenue to fund a supplemental nutrition program facing a funding shortage amid the ongoing government shutdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on the social platform X that President Trump and the White House had identified the “creative solution” to shift tariff funds…
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Tuesday called the government shutdown “a bad idea,” but also said he didn’t know if previous shutdowns impacted the economy or market “in a real way.” “I don’t like shutdowns, I think it’s just a bad idea. And I don’t care what the Democrats, Republicans say, it’s a bad…
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In a scathing attack, Bondi implied that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) should be more concerned about his own link to the late disgraced financier.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee let the attorney general run all over lawmakers.
The Chicago News Guild on Monday joined other news organizations that have sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in connection with allegations of excessive force used on journalists at recent protests in the area. “As a labor union, we fight to protect the health and safety of our…
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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said Democrats are taking Republicans “hostage” with their demands to extend ObamaCare tax credits, but he conceded that winning the public relations battle over the issue was “very challenging.” Speaking Tuesday at The Hill’s “Health Next Summit,” Marshall, a medical doctor, said he did not believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the formation of a new “barracks task force” to improve living conditions for U.S. service members during his Tuesday speech to new military recruits at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. Hegseth said the Department of Defense (DOD) task force will be in charge of developing a “department-wide” barracks…
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A lawsuit filed Monday alleges that Miami Dade College violated Florida law in gifting land in downtown Miami for President Trump’s library. The suit, filed by historian Dr. Marvin Dunn in the 11th Judicial Court of Florida and obtained by The Hill, says the board of the community college violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine…
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The Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday said the Trump administration is “assaulting American citizens” amid President Trump’s increasing federal crackdowns on blue cities and states. “And here we are on the eve of what happened in Israel, October 7, and we’re dealing with what’s going on in Gaza,” Sharpton told MSNBC’s Ari Melber on “The…
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The Democrat emphasized to the people in the audience ― many of whom were creators — that “we are living history right now.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Tuesday that the president does not get to decide whether furloughed federal workers are entitled to back pay. “It’s not up to the president,” Kennedy told reporters, when asked at the Capitol about the Trump administration “not necessarily committing to back pay” for the federal workers. “I mean, his…
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris did not hold back in blasting the Trump administration while at a writers’ summit in Los Angeles on Monday. At the “Day of Unreasonable Conversation” event held at The Getty Center, Harris talked about the political moment within the broader scale of history. “We are living history right now, and…
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Sanders said it was savvy for Trump to try to blame the shutdown on Democrats, but he still has to face the reality of America’s health care crisis.
The post, which included a reference to cops as “cocky motherf**kers,” ruffled the feathers of prominent Trump supporters.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) on Tuesday called the expected National Guard deployment in his city “illegal, unconstitutional,” and “dangerous,” as local officials await the arrival of federalized troops. In a press conference, the Democratic mayor told reporters that the Trump administration has not shared with his team any details about President Trump’s plans to…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Monday that President Trump could “literally collapse” the American health care system as a partisan battle rages amid the government shutdown. “I don’t mean to be overly repetitive, we have a broken health care system, everybody knows that. And Trump is not wrong, when he says the system is not…
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Sen Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Tuesday described the choice to have Bad Bunny perform during the NFL’s upcoming Super Bowl LX halftime show as political. “Why else would you pick, you know, some second-rate musician to play in our greatest sporting event?” Moreno told independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy. “It makes no sense whatsoever. I thought…
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) slammed President Trump for signaling Monday that he could “take a look” at issuing a pardon for convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. “I just want to add just how outrageous it was for Donald Trump, in today’s White House interview that he had with the press, to even, somehow, lean into…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has accused Trump of using troops as “political props” and “pawns.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) touted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, as he doubled down on his opposition to funding the government without addressing the expiring tax credits. In remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Democratic leader read aloud from part of a social media…
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