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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said discussions over how to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda will continue through the weekend — including Super Bowl Sunday — as lawmakers race to complete the final details of the sprawling package as the Senate threatens to move on its contrasting strategy. Leaving the Capitol just before midnight on Thursday after a...

Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Whatley said during an interview there may be ramifications for Republican lawmakers if they do not support President Trump’s legislative agenda.  “Well, I certainly think that the American people certainly expect that Congress is going to work with the president to hammer out this agenda,” Whatley said during his...

A group of Congressional Democrats said they were denied entry to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after attempting to meet with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials and the agency’s administrator, former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.). Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), tried to enter EPA’s headquarters...

President Trump dismissed Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub from service on Friday following in his series of firings from various government agencies. “Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of @FEC. There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it,” Weintraub wrote in a Thursday post...

Lawmakers rallied around the HALT Fentanyl Act on Thursday, successfully passing legislation in the House to classify the opioid as a Schedule I controlled substance in an effort to solidify harsher punishments for using or selling the drug. Republicans asserted their majority to usher in the new bill with a 312-108 vote, earning significant support...

Public colleges in North Carolina must remove all course credit requirements linked to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) following President Trump’s executive order signed last month. The UNC System Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel Andrew Tripp wrote in a Wednesday memo to all 17 chancellors across the state that “all general...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed a federal judge's order indefinitely blocking President Trump's executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship. In a short notice Thursday night, the government said it would appeal the nationwide preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge John Coughenour granted earlier Thursday at the request of four Democratic state attorneys general...

Unions representing government employees sued the Trump administration Thursday evening to block efforts to shut down the government’s independent foreign assistance agency. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) launched a full-scale assault on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) over the weekend, shutting staff out of internal systems and placing thousands on administrative...

Senate Republicans on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Budget and Management (OMB), in the face of mounting Democratic attacks over his ties to Project 2025 and the president’s efforts targeting funding already approved by Congress. The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines to confirm Vought on Thursday night....

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, President Trump's envoy for special missions Richard Grenell and other federal and state officials joined Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) in their visit to the Palisades to evaluate fire recovery and debris removal efforts.  The EPA, as part of the debris removal process, has been removing hazardous...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Lawmakers take aim at DeepSeek A bipartisan pair of lawmakers are introducing a measure to ban Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from government devices, arguing it “compromises American users’ sensitive data.” © Adobe Stock The measure, called “No DeepSeek on Government Devices...

Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) lauded the creation of the Congressional Jewish Caucus in a Thursday press release outlining an official forum for Jewish lawmakers. “In response to unprecedented rising antisemitism in the United States and the challenges the American Jewish community has faced in the wake of the horrific terrorist...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} View Online Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story  Judge halts Trump federal worker buyouts plan A federal judge has just extended the deadline for federal workers to accept the Trump administration’s sweeping buyout offer. © The Associated Press Workers will now have until...

The government's foremost foreign aid agency is being gutted. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workforce is being slashed from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 300, according to reports published in Wired, Reuters, The New York Times and NPR. The State Department declined to comment. Neither USAID nor the White House immediately...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday doubled down on her opposition to the presidential immunity decision last summer and expressed concern about public confidence in the high court. In her first public remarks since President Trump took office about two weeks ago, Sotomayor said she worried that the Supreme Court has departed too far...

House Republicans are scrambling to find a solution to internal disagreements over their plan to pass President Trump’s sprawling agenda, an effort that kicked into high gear after leadership was forced to punt a key vote this week — and as the Senate inches closer to moving ahead with its alternative plan. During a late-night...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids could sweep up “innocent citizens.” “If you’re not out looking for criminals based on crimes committed, but undocumented immigrants based on their looks, you’re going to sweep up a lot of innocent people, including innocent citizens,” said the Maryland Democrat, according to...

Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), co-chair of the Border Security Caucus, said on Tuesday the United States “could” use drones against the cartels if it meant saving American lives. NewsNation reported this weekend that cartels have authorized the use of weaponized drone explosives against border patrol agents and other U.S. law enforcement at the southern border....

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he’s eyeing next week for a final committee vote on Kash Patel’s nomination to lead the FBI, rejecting Senate Democrats’ request for a second formal hearing with the nominee. “Further hearings on his nomination are unnecessary,” Grassley said in a statement Tuesday. Grassley said Patel already testified...

President Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his proposal for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip and announced that the U.S. will take over the tiny territory in a joint press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The press conference culminated after a day of remarks by Trump on the future of Gaza, which...

Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are being placed on administrative leave with pay "until further notice," according to letters reviewed by The Hill. Employees must be available by phone and email during business hours, according to the notice, which provides an email for them to contact "to end that." The letters...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair Netanyahu. “So grateful to spend time with these two geniuses,” Yair Netanyahu captioned a Tuesday Instagram post featuring a photo of his father and Musk. The White House hosted the Israeli prime minister on Tuesday. During a press conference later...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is set to meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, an official told The Hill.  The governor will be the first Democrat to go to the White House to have a sit-down with Trump since the inauguration. They were recently together in California when the president traveled...

The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Pam Bondi as the next attorney general, giving her control of a Justice Department embroiled in controversy. The vote was 54-46. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joined all Republicans in voting in support of Bondi. Bondi, a two-term attorney general in Florida, has been lauded for her prosecutorial experience...