White House budget chief Russell Vought on Thursday accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of mismanaging the central bank’s budget during renovations, adding to President Trump’s criticism of Powell. Vought, in a letter to Powell, said Trump is “extremely troubled” that he has “plowed ahead with an ostentatious overhaul” of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington,…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Thursday slammed former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for being disliked among Washington’s political elite. “I know people who have worked with them closely, and maybe talk to people closely, those people will tell you that they’re about as popular as male pattern baldness,” Kennedy…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested two alleged members of the MS-13 gang in Omaha, Neb. Rene Saul Escobar Ochoa, 30, is described by ICE in a news release as “a criminal alien, known MS-13 gang member and foreign terrorist also wanted in El Salvador.” “Escobar Ochoa is accused of giving orders to fellow gang…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday it was rescinding a nearly 30-year interpretation of legislation that allowed immigrants without legal status to access certain federal public benefits. HHS said it was officially rescinding a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which allowed immigrants without legal…
The Senate Appropriations Committee sputtered Thursday as its consideration of the annual Justice Department funding bill was cut short due to a dispute over the Trump administration’s plans to relocate FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Senate committee met Thursday morning for its first markup of the fiscal year 2026 funding season to consider three…
President Trump’s about-face on last week’s pause of some weapons shipments to Ukraine has revealed chasms within the administration, with the president claiming several times that he didn’t know who approved the halt. Trump on Monday said he would restart the dispatch of defensive weapons to the country — to include air defense missiles —…
Senate Republicans fear Elon Musk’s beef with President Trump could become a wild-card factor that could cost them seats in 2026 if Musk follows through on his threat to create a new political party to compete with the GOP. GOP lawmakers note that third-party candidates have swung presidential and Senate races in the past and…
A super PAC backing former Rep. Mike Rogers’s (R) Senate bid in Michigan has raised more than $5 million, a sizable haul in a race that represents Republicans’ best chance at flipping a seat in the upper chamber next year. The Great Lakes Conservative Fund (GLCF) shared the fundraising total exclusively with The Hill roughly…
Republicans quietly passed a first-of-its-kind national school choice program in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” but celebration among advocates was tempered after the Senate added a provision giving blue states a way out. The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) was on turbulent waters throughout the process, at one taken out of the bill…
President Trump’s push for a ceasefire in Gaza is testing his bond with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was on full display this week during the Israeli leader’s third visit to Washington this year. Even when Trump and Netanyahu have diverged in private, they have usually remained publicly in lockstep — apart from Trump…
