With just over a week until the U.S. potentially goes into default, the down-to-the-wire negotiations to raise the debt ceiling will likely dominate the Sunday talk show circuit once again. The White House and Republican lawmakers had yet to announce a deal as of Saturday afternoon, but both sides suggested on Friday night that they were nearing...
Without deliberate efforts to shift the bill’s underlying principles favoring industrial agriculture, this year’s Farm Bill will likely fail both families and farmers.
This latest UNEP analysis largely ignores the single most effective solution to ending the plastic crisis: investing in systems designed to eliminate the demand for non-essential plastics.
The Texas House is set to vote Saturday on articles of impeachment against state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on 20 charges of misconduct in office. The vote comes after months of an investigation from the House’s Republican-led General Investigating Committee into the allegations against Paxton, who has been under criminal indictment since shortly after...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Saturday that Congress will meet the deadline to raise the debt ceiling, acknowledging that no deal has been made but vowing an agreement will be reached in time to prevent a government default. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raised the stakes in the marathon negotiations on Friday, when she provided...
The Dignity Act, spanning nearly 500 pages, tackles various aspects of the immigration system that have long needed reform,
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has joined debt ceiling negotiations to try to help the sides reach an agreement on permitting reform, people familiar with the matter told Axios Saturday. Both Republicans and Democrats have expressed support for the idea of permitting reform, or efforts to speed up the approval process for energy or other infrastructure...
In this perverse market, the least objectionable brand may prevail when the beer guy comes around at the ballpark.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoed several bills on Friday that were passed by the state’s GOP-controlled legislature that she argued would have undermined election integrity and introduced burdensome regulations that would have made Arizona's electoral process more complicated and difficult. One of the most significant bills she vetoed would have pulled the state from...
A top Republican negotiating with the White House on a debt-ceiling deal said Saturday that “a narrow set” of sticking points have prevented the sides from reaching an agreement, and it’s unclear if those issues will be resolved quickly or require talks to continue through the holiday weekend. Heading into the Speaker’s office in the...
If you open a new credit card to pay off what you owe on an old credit card, are you really “paying” for that old spending, or are you avoiding repayment? That's what the government is doing when it raises its debt ceiling.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) called on the board that oversees the state's public colleges and universities to prohibit drag shows on campus and remove references to pronouns that do not match a person’s gender assigned at birth in school materials. Noem said in a letter to the South Dakota Board of Regents on...
The U.S. is on credit watch as high-stakes negotiations over the debt limit take center stage in Washington. Credit agencies are warning that the nation's stellar credit rating could be downgraded as the U.S. inches closer to running out of cash and defaulting on its roughly $31.4 trillion debt. Capitol Hill is getting nervous. “Most...
Two climate change protesters are facing federal charges after they smeared paint on the display case containing a famous sculpture by Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., last month. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a release that 53-year-olds Timothy Martin of North Carolina and...
The negotiations between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on raising the debt limit has put the Senate in the backseat, fueling anxiety among the upper chamber's conservatives that the deal will be a major disappointment. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is threatening to use every procedural tool available to slow down the legislation,...
If the White House and House Republicans fail to raise the debt ceiling and the U.S. defaults on its national debt for the first time ever, the economic consequences for Americans will be wide-ranging and long-lasting. Social Security checks could be held up, government salaries and contracts could be frozen, Medicare reimbursements to doctors and...
Conservative radio host Larry Elder, who has previously been a strong supporter of former President Trump, railed against the former president's ability to attract swing voters going into the 2024 presidential election. Elder, who announced his own GOP bid for the 2024 presidential election last month, said in an interview on Fox News on Friday...
Top Democrats and Republicans sent strong signals Friday night that they’re nearing an elusive agreement on a debt-ceiling increase to prevent an economy-rattling government default. While negotiators said it was too soon to announce a deal, both sides voiced confidence that they were within striking distance of a compromise to lift the government’s borrowing cap...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a bill into law on Friday that restricts lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools from kindergarten through sixth grade. Reynolds announced her signature on the bill and a few others relating to education in a release, calling education the “great equalizer” and saying that everyone involved...
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) canceled a planned trip to officiate a wedding in Italy to remain available for a possible vote to raise the debt ceiling in the coming days. Dingell said Friday in an interview with The Hill on NewsNation that the situation where Congress even needs to vote to raise the debt ceiling...
The FBI detailed a threat to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during a visit that she and her husband, Prince Philip, made to the United States in the 1980s in newly release documents. The 102-page document from the FBI’s online records vault shows that a member of the San Francisco Police Department learned from a source...
The White House on Friday dug in with its opposition to Republican calls for stronger work requirements to be included in any budget agreement that would be paired with a debt ceiling increase. “House Republicans are threatening to trigger an unprecedented recession and cost the American people over 8 million jobs unless they can take...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Progress and a later deadline, but no debt deal The White House and House GOP negotiators may be making progress toward a deal to avert a devastating default on the national debt. © Tierney L. Cross...
Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Tens of thousands of people are losing Medicaid coverage Tens of thousands of low-income Americans lost Medicaid coverage in the past month as states rushed ahead with dismantling the massive safety net enacted during the height of the pandemic. ...
Disney pushed back on Thursday on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) request that the federal judge in its First Amendment case against the governor be disqualified over several previous remarks made in court. The company — which is suing DeSantis over what it describes as a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” for speaking out against...
