House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP congressional leaders will give remarks Wednesday morning as the government shutdown starts its second week. The Senate is expected to once again take votes on dueling stopgap funding bills. Republicans have pressed their Democratic colleagues to pass the GOP-led “clean” continuing resolution that would fund the government at…
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The game of chicken between congressional Republicans and Democrats has resulted in a partial government shutdown, with none of the 12 regular-order appropriations bills enacted into law. The last federal government shutdown lasted 35 days in late 2018, during President Trump’s first term, when his battle with Congress over his southern border wall could not be resolved. What both…
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President Trump on Wednesday called for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) to be jailed as the two leaders push back on the Trump administration’s crime crackdown and immigration enforcement raids on the Windy City. “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]…
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The “Tonight Show” host put in his two cents on the proposed Trump money.
Congress has — as Trump wanted — eliminated $1.1 billion for public broadcasting, leaving hundreds of PBS and NPR stations to find alternative funding sources.
The party once dominated British politics but is struggling to remain a force after being ousted in 2024.
President Trump’s aggressive use of the National Guard in American cities is opening new legal battlegrounds over his push to deploy the military on U.S. soil. The fight started in Los Angeles before shifting to Washington, D.C., where courts are still weighing Trump’s National Guard deployments. But in recent days, the president has called hundreds…
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Former FBI Director James Comey will appear in a Virginia federal courtroom on Wednesday morning for an arraignment on two felony charges stemming from a 2020 congressional hearing and investigation. The 10 a.m. court session is just the start of what is bound to be one of the Justice Department’s highest profile cases. The government…
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The first U.S. pope has been ramping up his criticism of the Trump administration in recent weeks.
Congress on Wednesday enters the eighth day of the federal shutdown with neither party giving an inch and the path to a resolution nowhere in sight. But something will have to give if lawmakers hope to reopen the government in any timely fashion, and that movement will likely be the result of external forces exerting…
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The president’s son echoed his dad’s recent rhetoric against the network, whose hosts more often than not express their support for him.
The comments come as the president faces growing questions about his health.
The attorney general’s glowing description of the Trump White House press secretary raised eyebrows.
“You never want to be on Air Force One on a trip” with Trump, the CNN anchor cited a source as telling her.
The late night host said it’s clear that Trump doesn’t want Americans to see what’s in the Epstein files.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that she has faced more pressure over a petition to trigger a House vote compelling the release of files linked to Jeffrey Epstein than any other issue. “My signature is on that discharge petition, and there has not been another issue where I have ever received more pressure…
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“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.