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Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare — Ohio has requested the Trump administration reinstate a work requirement for Medicaid expansion beneficiaries in the state. {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Ohio asks feds to approve Medicaid waiver Ohio has requested the Trump administration reinstate a work requirement for Medicaid expansion...

Three transgender people incarcerated in federal custody sued the Trump administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Friday in a class action lawsuit over new policies restricting their access to gender-affirming care. The complaint, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenges one of President Trump’s executive orders and...

Hundreds of people gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday afternoon to protest President Trump’s recent cuts to government spending on research institutions.   The Trump administration has taken steps to disrupt operations at the country’s top federal research institutions since late January, freezing grants issued by the National Institutes of Health...

Explosive details about a Cabinet meeting confrontation between Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were revealed by The New York Times on Friday. The exchange, in which Musk and Rubio apparently went back and forth heatedly over cuts to the State Department, puts a spotlight on larger questions about President Trump’s more politically...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story  Washington becomes center of crypto action The cryptocurrency industry flocked to Washington on Friday for the White House’s first-ever crypto summit, where President Trump and his Cabinet declared the end of what they termed the "war on crypto" in D.C. © Pool via...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story  Trump threatens reciprocal tariffs on Canada President Trump threatened reciprocal tariffs on Canada for dairy products and lumber amid a mounting trade war between the two nations. © Greg Nash  “They make it impossible for us to...

CEOs of leading American steel companies sent a letter to President Trump on Friday, urging him not to provide any exceptions or exclusions to the planned steel tariffs set to go into effect on March 12. The letter, obtained by NewsNation, has been signed by the CEOs of companies such as US Steel Corp., Cleveland-Cliffs...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized leaders at Columbia University for allegedly allowing antisemitic rhetoric to spread throughout campus, which has resulted in the institution being stripped of $400 million in federal grants. “Columbia let antisemitism run amok to cater to lunatic fringe and paid provocateurs. Leadership allowed those assholes to take over the campus and...

The Pentagon has marked thousands of photos and online posts for deletion as part of an anti-DEI initiative, including photos of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola Gay bomber, and trailblazing women in the military.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s address to Congress in an interview on CNN, referring to the speech as “reality TV.” “Look, it was what I expected, it was reality TV, it was for consumption for those, you know, the folks who are going to line up there, the Republican senators...

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) said during an interview that her “This is not normal” sign she held up near President Trump right before his Tuesday night speech to Congress was an “SOS to the world.” Stansbury said it is “really important” not to “normalize” what Trump and his administration are doing “because the things that...

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk met with House Republicans Wednesday night to update them on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as the newly created group takes significant steps to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. The conversation followed a decision made by House Republicans — led by Speaker Mike...

Trump drew laughs during his congressional address Tuesday when he alleged that the Social Security Administration (SSA) had millions of beneficiaries listed at 140 years of age and older. But is it actually the shocking example of government waste he presented it to be?

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) said Wednesday he’s holding a town hall despite House Republicans being recently pushed to avoid in-person town halls and do phone or livestreamed ones instead. “I'm having a town hall next week, right there in Asheville, North Carolina, first of all, because my constituents have asked for it,” Edwards told NewsNation’s...

{beacon} Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Major VA job cuts planned under Trump The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to cut approximately 72,000 jobs, roughly 15 percent of its current workforce, VA Secretary Doug Collins confirmed Wednesday. © Greg Nash...

Producers of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” are canceling plans to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington next year, pointing to President Trump’s “takeover” of the Washington, D.C., institution and drawing pushback from the new interim executive director.  Lead producer Jeffrey Seller called the Kennedy Center a “sacred” setting that should be “protected from politics.” ...

President Trump on Wednesday told Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser that she must clean homeless encampments in the city. “We have notified the Mayor of Washington, D.C., that she must clean up all of the unsightly homeless encampments in the City, specifically including the ones outside of the State Department, and near the White House,”...

House Republicans are pressing on with plans for a clean six-month stopgap to keep the government funded beyond next week’s shutdown deadline in the face of staunch resistance from Democrats. House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters on Wednesday that Republicans are “running the full-year CR, period,” next week, referring to the party’s...

A majority of Americans in a new poll said that the U.S. and not other countries will feel the brunt of President Trump’s tariffs. When asked about “the cost of tariffs on foreign products imported into the U.S.,” 54 percent of the respondents in The Economist/YouGov poll said they believe “mostly companies and people in...

A federal appeals court Wednesday agreed to the Trump administration’s request to greenlight the president’s firing of U.S. special counsel Hampton Dellinger until the court resolves a legal challenge.  The order from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily lifts a judge’s ruling that found Dellinger’s termination unlawful and returned him to his post as the head...

President Trump on Wednesday urged Republicans to campaign on how Democratic lawmakers conducted themselves during his joint address to Congress a night earlier, when several lawmakers walked out in protest and refused to applaud. "The Democrats should lose the Midterms based on their behavior at last night’s Joint Address to Congress," Trump posted on Truth...

Staffers for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were shut out of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) headquarters in D.C. on Wednesday, amid an escalating fight over leadership of the agency. Several DOGE workers tried to enter the agency’s office in Washington on Wednesday but were “unable to access” it, the USADF confirmed to...

Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare — Senators on Wednesday pressed Trump’s pick to head the National Institutes of Health about his stances on vaccines and recent firings at the agency.   {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump pick for NIH faces senators Senators pressed Trump’s pick to head...

President Trump eased his newest tariffs on Wednesday after two days during which those levies roiled financial markets. But the latest tweak only adds to the uncertainty over what Trump’s longer-term policy will be. The shadows of doubt — and the belief even among many conservatives that sweeping tariffs will raise prices for American consumers...