Ukraine’s supporters in Congress are urging quick passage of a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill authored by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as a way to honor him. Graham announced a breakthrough on the legislation shortly before his shocking death late Saturday night, saying that lawmakers had reached a deal with the White House to move forward on the long-stalled Russia sanctions package. #russia #ukraine #war #congress #trump #senate #lindseygraham
Two Supreme Court justices appeared before Congress on Tuesday to testify on the high court’s annual budget request, a showing that was rare for several reasons. Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, a liberal and conservative appointed by presidents of different political parties, sat side by side in back-to-back hearings as they defended the court’s roughly $228 million ask for fiscal year 2027. Read More: https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-gavel/5968759-supreme-court-testify-congress-budget/ #scotus #law #trump
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President Trump participates in a roundtable at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit on Wednesday afternoon. The event comes as the Pentagon has ramped up its military operation against Iran in recent days after a temporary ceasefire with the Islamic Republic fell apart. Tit-for-tat strikes in the Strait of Hormuz and the reinstatement of the U.S. naval blockade on the critical oil shipping lane are likely to drive energy costs back up. Trump, in an interview with Fox News late Tuesday, signaled he is uninterested in continued talks at this time. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to attend alongside the president.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will join with survivors of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to voice their opposition to President Trump's nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to serve full-time as the nation's top federal prosecutor. Blanche was grilled by senators earlier Wednesday about the Justice Department's handle on the files related to Epstein, Trump's recent IRS settlement, the now defunct "anti-weaponization" fund and more during a confirmation hearing.
Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration "mishandled" last year's release of the Epstein files during an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience." Why it matters: Vance's comments are among the clearest public acknowledgments yet from the Trump administration that the Epstein files release became a major political liability . - Many noted at the time that the Epstein files release was done alongside clumsy messaging and puzzling redactions — fueling sustained political pressure on President Trump and his administration. Driving the news: "If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it — especially the communications of it," Vance told Rogan on the episode that premiered…
Map: Axios Visuals Johan Sebastián Guerrero, who was shot to death in Maine, is the latest in a string of people killed by federal immigration authorities since President Trump launched a nationwide immigration crackdown in his second term. The big picture: Federal officers have been involved in a string of violent encounters with motorists , protestors and bystanders as Trump's harsh immigration tactics collide with public backlash . Driving the news: Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston were killed by federal immigration officers just days apart. - Both men were in their cars when they were killed, as were at least three others killed by federal agents. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero ICE was observing the last…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche declined Wednesday to explicitly rule out deploying federal agents to polling places, saying only that he would "follow the law." Why it matters: Lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's use of federal agents near polling places are setting up a legal fight over whether those deployments violate federal protections against voter intimidation . What they're saying: When Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked whether Blanche would "commit to following clear federal law" by not deploying armed federal agents to polling places, Blanche replied that he would "commit to following the law … no matter what it includes." - Klobuchar also asked if he understood why federal agents are a concern to voters,…
A measure to prevent any State Department funding from going to Israel failed by a decisive margin in a House vote on Wednesday. Why it matters: The vote exposed deep divisions among House Democrats, with even the party's top two leaders taking divergent positions. - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and 97 other Democrats voted against the amendment, along with 215 Republicans. - But Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) — along with 102 other Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), the measure's sponsor — voted for it. By the numbers: The amendment to the State Department funding bill ultimately failed in a 104-314 vote, with 10 members voting "present." Catch up quick: At issue for many Democrats was that the…
