More than 900 former Justice Department attorneys are urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove for a lifetime judicial appointment. Bove, who previously served on President Trump’s criminal defense team, is now in the No. 3 role at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and has been nominated for a judgeship…
A number of prominent political figures made news at the inaugural Hill Nation Summit on Wednesday, weighing in on the Federal Reserve, Democratic primaries, legislation moving through Congress, foreign policy and more. Lawmakers, Trump administration officials and advocates spoke with journalists from The Hill and NewsNation over the course of a day. Here are seven…
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are still feuding, with Gaetz telling McCarthy to “get help” after McCarthy joked that his life is better now that Gaetz is no longer in his life.
Republican lawmakers are split over whether President Trump should fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, with some pushing him to nix the central bank head and others encouraging him to be patient. Trump indicated to some lawmakers that he plans to fire Powell during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday evening, a White official and a…
A group of 10 GOP senators penned a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Wednesday condemning a pause in funding for after-school and summer activities that has thrown schools and programs into chaos. The Republicans urged OMB Director Russell Vought to resume the $6 billion in funding, saying…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Wednesday he is “not on social media at all” after New York magazine reported in May that a former aide had said social platform X was often a focus of the senator. “I’m actually not on — I’m not on social media at all,” Fetterman said at a Wednesday event…
Wednesday’s Hill Nation Summit was packed with lawmakers and major figures on both sides of the aisle, and made clear that President Trump has an iron grip on the Republican Party. Republican speakers were notably deferential to and confident in Trump, while Democrats struggling to coalesce around a strategy to come back from their crushing…
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) was hospitalized Wednesday, likely putting Democrats down a vote during the vote-a-rama on the rescissions package that is expected to last into the evening. Smith’s staff revealed on social media that the 67-year-old senator felt unwell while at the Capitol earlier Wednesday and subsequently went to George Washington University Hospital for treatment and…
Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired on Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), according to multiple news outlets. Maurene Comey worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that have troubled the…
President Trump said the Coca-Cola Company has agreed to use real cane sugar, at his request, in the American version of their flagship drink. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to thank all of those…
