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• WATCH: College football trophy comes apart in Vance's hands at White House

  14-04-2025 23:49 via thehill.com
  
  The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy came apart during a White House visit by the Ohio State Buckeyes football team Monday as Vice President Vance tried to pick it up.
  As President Trump posed for pictures with the team, Vance, an Ohio State alumnus, walked over to a table where the trophy was sitting and picked it up with the help of others. As he lifted the trophy, its black base separated from its metallic top.“I didn’t want anyone after Ohio State to get the
  
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• Agriculture secretary fires back at NY Democrat over food programs

  14-04-2025 23:17 via thehill.com
  Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) are at odds over threats to funding for crucial food assistance programs as the Trump administration slashes federal spending.Rollins, who became head of the Department of Agriculture in February, called the concerns Ryan previously raised about canceled shipments for food banks in his district "fake news," as she acknowledged the USDA "pulled back" funds she described as "Covid-era" and unspent, when asked about it during an appear
  
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• Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi arrested by DHS agents during naturalization interview

  14-04-2025 23:06 via thehill.com
  
  Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by federal agents Monday while he was in a naturalization interview at an immigration office in Vermont.  Mahdawi, a Palestinian student and green-card holder, was arrested by agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Colchester, Vt., according to a court filing.Mahdawi was a leader in the pro-Palestinian protests last spring, making him the latest such activist targeted by the Trump administration. The first and most pr
  
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• Memo says Trump would cut State budget by 50 percent: WaPo

  14-04-2025 22:17 via thehill.com
  
  An internal White House memo proposes cutting the budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by nearly half in fiscal 2026, according to new reporting from The Washington Post.The early proposal for the fiscal 2026 budget would allocate $28.4 billion for State and USAID — down $27 billion, or approximately 48 percent, from the $54.4 billion in the 2025 budget, according to the Post.The Trump administration has moved to formally end USAID, merging
  
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• Trump official who led efforts to dismantle USAID exits State Department

  14-04-2025 22:12 via thehill.com
  
  Peter Marocco, an official who oversaw the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has exited the State Department, according to the Trump administration.“Pete was brought to State with a big mission — to conduct an exhaustive review of every dollar spent on foreign assistance. He conducted that historic task and exposed egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars. We all expect big things are in store for Pete on his next mission,” a State Department sp
  
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• White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID

  14-04-2025 22:07 via thehill.com
  
  The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved funding through cuts to public broadcasting, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and agencies President Trump has sought to eliminate.A White House official confirmed to The Hill that the package will be sent to Congress when lawmakers return from Easter recess on April 28. The package requests to eliminate $9.3 billion in spending, the official said.That
  
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• Whitmer jokes about Oval Office photo, says she regrets shielding face with folder

  14-04-2025 21:36 via thehill.com
  
  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Monday joked about the now-viral photo of her in the Oval Office holding folders in front of her face during a meeting with President Trump last week in Washington. Whitmer was asked about the photo and her meeting with Trump on Monday at the Detroit Economic Club, where she jokingly shielded herself with a photo on stage, eliciting laughs from the audience. “Someone asked me what was going through your mind at that moment and it was 'I don&
  
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• Harvard rejects Trump demands for funding

  14-04-2025 19:57 via thehill.com
  
  Harvard University is rejecting demands from the Trump administration, which is threatening the school's federal funding as part of a broader clampdown on higher education.
  In a message to the Harvard community from its leadership — and in a corresponding letter from the school's attorneys to the federal government — the university said that while it is and will continue to engage in reforms, those changes should not be dictated.“No government — regardless of which party
  
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• Biden's economic adviser: Trump should 'declare victory' in trade war

  14-04-2025 19:57 via thehill.com
  
  Jared Bernstein, the chief White House economist in the Biden administration, said he would advise President Trump to “declare victory” in the trade war and let the economy recover from the period of uncertainty.“My advice to the president would be to go out there and declare victory — because that's what he does,” Bernstein said on “CNN News Central,” when asked what his advice would be for Trump at this moment.Bernstein urged Trump to say, “I won
  
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• Detained American missionary released in Tunisia after 13 months

  14-04-2025 19:35 via thehill.com
  
  A Trump administration official said that an American missionary was released Sunday after 13 months of detainment in Tunisia, Reuters reported.Adam Boehler, a U.S. special envoy, said that Robert Vieira’s release was secured Sunday, according to Reuters.
  Amid missionary work 13 months ago in Tunisia, Vieira was apprehended, and Tunisian authorities suspected he was involved in espionage, Boehler said."We appreciate the government of Tunisia’s decision to resolve this case and allow
  
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• Trump administration sued after taking down public spending tracker

  14-04-2025 19:16 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration was accused of breaking the law in a recent lawsuit after taking down a website meant to show the public how federal funding is disbursed to agencies. A new lawsuit filed in federal court in D.C. accused the Trump administration of violating federal law last month when the online database overseen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) “went dark, without explanation.”“Congress mandated prompt transparency for apportionments to prevent abuses
  
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• Trump looking at tariff exemptions 'to help some of the car companies'

  14-04-2025 19:08 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump indicated Monday he is considering tariff exemptions to give relief to car companies as they work to reconfigure their supply chains, marking the latest potential adjustment to his tariff policies.“I’m looking at something to help some of the car companies where they’re switching to parts that were made in Canada, Mexico and other places," Trump said when asked in the Oval Office about "short-lived" tariff exemptions. "And they need a little bit of time. Because
  
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• Trump: Suspect in fire at Shapiro's home 'probably just a whack job'

  14-04-2025 19:04 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Monday said the attacker who set fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) residence over the weekend "wasn't a fan of anybody" and was “probably just a whack job.”"The attacker was not a fan of Trump, I understand, just from what I read and from what I've been told. The attacker basically wasn’t a fan of anybody, he was probably just a whack job," Trump said during remarks to the press when asked about the FBI investigation into the incident."And ce
  
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• Biden to deliver first public address since leaving White House

  14-04-2025 19:02 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Biden is set to deliver his first public address since leaving the White House at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) in Chicago on Tuesday, according to a release from the organization.Biden will headline the event, which is set to focus on rallying bipartisan support for Social Security. “We are deeply honored President Biden is making his first public appearance at ACRD’s sold-out conference,” sai
  
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• Trump says he's open to sending violent criminals who are US citizens to El Salvador prison

  14-04-2025 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Monday indicated he would be open to sending American citizens who are violent criminals to El Salvador to be held in a notorious prison there, telling reporters his administration is studying law on the matter."If they’re criminals, and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head that happen to be 90 years old, if they rape 87-year-old women in Coney Island, Brooklyn, yeah. Yeah that includes them," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "Why, do you think the
  
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• Trump, Bukele say they won't return mistakenly deported man to US

  14-04-2025 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he has no plans to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in his country, telling reporters, “Of course I’m not going to do it.”Bukele’s Oval Office meeting with President Trump was the first since the Supreme Court ruled last week that the U.S. must “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.However, both Trump and Bukele suggested they don’t have the power to return the Maryland man
  
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• Carville: Trump 'has broken the cardinal rule in American politics'

  14-04-2025 18:29 via thehill.com
  
  Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said in a Monday opinion piece that President Trump “has broken the cardinal rule in American politics” amid economic anxiety about the president’s tariffs.“In what will certainly be recorded as one of the most ignorant acts of political leadership in American history, the president of the United States has now willfully damaged the global economy with his tariff chaos,” Carville said in The New York Times op-ed.“N
  
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• O'Leary knocks mixed messages on Trump tariffs: 'That’s got to get cleaned up'

  14-04-2025 18:12 via thehill.com
  
  “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary urged the Trump administration to articulate a clear position on its tariff policy, saying the mixed messages from the White House have been “chaotic.”“It’s a little chaotic from the point of view that you don’t get a consistent message out of the administration. I admit that’s a problem,” O’Leary told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney in an interview Monday, which was highlighted&
  
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• Zelensky accuses Vance of 'somehow justifying Putin’s actions'

  14-04-2025 17:32 via thehill.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Vice President Vance of “somehow justifying Putin's actions” in an interview that aired Sunday.“First and foremost, we did not launch an attack to start the war. It seems to me that the vice president is somehow justifying Putin's actions,” Zelensky told CBS’s Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” in a translation from the outlet.Zelensky’s relationship with the Trump administration in its first few months has
  
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• Lawmakers push to meet with Salvadoran president to plead case of mistakenly deported man

  14-04-2025 17:32 via thehill.com
  
  Lawmakers are pushing to meet with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele while he’s in Washington amid broader efforts to secure the return of a Maryland man mistakenly sent to a prison in the Central American nation.Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) sent a letter to El Salvador’s ambassador to the U.S. seeking to arrange a meeting with Bukele, floating plans to visit the prison directly if Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not shortly returned.“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia never should have bee
  
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• State found no evidence of antisemitism, terrorism against Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk: Report

  14-04-2025 17:11 via thehill.com
  
  A State Department memo obtained by The Washington Post showed the federal government could not find any links to antisemitism or terrorism in its case against Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk. The memo issued in March, described to The Post, said there was not enough evidence for Secretary of State Marco Rubio to order her removal based on an immigration law that says the secretary can order the deportation of a noncitizen that threatens the foreign policy of the United States. 
  
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• Trump blames Zelensky for Ukraine war after '60 Minutes' interview

  14-04-2025 17:06 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Monday sought to distance himself from the war between Russia and Ukraine as his promise to end the conflict quickly has proven difficult to accomplish."The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s war, not mine. I just got here, and for four years during my term, had no problem in preventing it from happening," Trump posted on Truth Social. "President Putin, and everyone else, respected your President!"Trump also blamed President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr
  
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• Japan prime minister cautions against major concessions in US trade talks

  14-04-2025 16:55 via thehill.com
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday his country does not intend to make major concessions in its trade talks with the United States later this week."I'm not of the view that we should make big concessions for the sake of wrapping up negotiations quickly," Ishiba told a session of Parliament, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo News.The United States earlier this month announced a 10 percent baseline tariff and additional higher tariffs on imports from scores of nations, includ
  
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• McCarthy says Trump 'having to be' House Speaker and president

  14-04-2025 16:39 via thehill.com
  
  Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump is “having to be” both Speaker and president.“Last week, the so-called fiscal hawks said they’d never vote for what they just voted for,” Fox News’s Trey Gowdy said on his show, referencing the recent adoption of the Senate’s framework that will be used to enact important portions of Trump’s legislative agenda by House Republicans.“How do you manage a group that r
  
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• China's Xi on Trump's tariffs: 'Protectionism will lead nowhere'

  14-04-2025 15:31 via thehill.com
  
  Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at President Trump and his ongoing tariff fight as he traveled to Southeast Asia this week to build China's partnerships with fellow communist country Vietnam."Trade war and tariff war will produce no winner, and protectionism will lead nowhere," Xi wrote in a signed letter published by Chinese and Vietnamese state media outlets as he arrived in Hanoi for a diplomatic visit Monday.
  "Our two countries should resolutely safeguard the multilateral tradi
  
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• Trump calls Russian attack on Ukrainian city of Sumy 'terrible': 'They made a mistake'

  14-04-2025 15:18 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump late Sunday called a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian city that left dozens dead a "horrible thing" and said he had been told that Russia "made a mistake.""I think it was terrible. And I was told they made a mistake. But I think it’s a horrible thing," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.Asked what he meant when he said it was a "mistake," Trump demurred and blamed the Biden administration for allowing the war between Russia and Ukraine to start.“They made
  
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• Trump praises Rory McIlroy for ‘tremendous courage’ in Masters win

  14-04-2025 14:54 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump congratulated Rory Mcllroy on his Masters win, saying it took “tremendous courage” for him to win the prestigious golf tournament after the Northern Ireland player lost the lead and was forced into a playoff.“Well, I have to congratulate Rory. That showed tremendous courage. He was, he was having a hard time, but it showed great guts and stamina and courage,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday.“People have no idea how tough that is, and
  
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• Helicopter company in New York crash is shutting down: FAA

  14-04-2025 14:32 via thehill.com
  
  The company that operated the helicopter that crashed in the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people aboard, will be shutting down “immediately,” The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Sunday night.
  “New York Helicopter Tours — the company involved in the deadly crash on the Hudson earlier this week — is shutting down their operations immediately,” the FAA said in a statement on X.The FAA said it will launch “an immediate review of the t
  
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• Trump says CBS should lose license after '60 Minutes' segments on Ukraine, Greenland

  14-04-2025 14:21 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast him in a negative light.“Almost every week, 60 Minutes… mentions the name ‘TRUMP’ in a derogatory and defamatory way, but this Weekend’s ‘BROADCAST’ tops them all,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after watching Sunday’s “60 Minute
  
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• Trump pharma tariff threat raises specter of shortages, price hikes

  14-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The pharmaceutical industry is bracing for chaos if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose "a major tariff" on prescription drug imports.  Tariffs would disrupt international supply chains, force companies to decide whether to pass increased costs on to patients and exacerbate existing drug shortages. The administration wants more drug companies to onshore their manufacturing, but experts said such a process would take years, while the pain from tariffs could be much m
  
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• Spotlight shifts to Medicaid, a make-or-break issue for Trump

  14-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The adoption of the Republicans’ budget bill has thrown a spotlight onto the hot-button issue that could make or break President Trump’s domestic agenda: Medicaid. The massive government health care program is at the heart of the GOP’s plan to slash federal spending in order to trim deficits and make budget space for Trump’s new tax cuts. But the topic is dividing Republicans both within and between the chambers of Congress, where conservatives favor steep cuts to Me
  
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• Trump has vowed to bring down housing costs. What is his administration doing?

  14-04-2025 11:55 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump returned to the White House with pledges to address the housing shortage and affordability crisis. But his moves to crack down on trade policy, immigration and the size of the federal government threaten to compound the strain on homeowners he has vowed to ease.Though the Trump administration has stressed home ownership as “a ticket to the American dream” as it attempts to herald in “the golden age of America,” housing has appeared to take somewhat o
  
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• Trump: Semiconductor tariffs coming, but ‘You have to show a certain flexibility’

  14-04-2025 05:08 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said Sunday that he would be announcing tariffs on semiconductors soon, though he suggested there could be exceptions for certain products.“The tariffs will be in place in the not distant future. Because, as you know, like we did with steel, like we did with automobiles, like we did with aluminum, which are now fully on, we'll be doing that with semiconductors, with chips and numerous other things,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
  “And that'll take pl
  
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• Vance responds to fire at Shapiro's residence: 'Really disgusting violence'

  14-04-2025 05:02 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President JD Vance on Sunday responded to a fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) residence, calling it “really disgusting violence.”“Thanks be to God that Governor Shapiro and his family were unharmed in this attack," Vance said in a post on X."Really disgusting violence, and I hope whoever did it is brought swiftly to justice,” he added.
  Officials said Sunday that 38-year-old Cody Balmer was in custody over the suspected arson at the governor’s r
  
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• Vance reacts to fire at Shapiro's residence: 'Really disgusting violence'

  14-04-2025 05:02 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Vance on Sunday issued a response to a fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) residence, calling it “really disgusting violence.”“Thanks be to God that Governor Shapiro and his family were unharmed in this attack," Vance wrote in a post on the social platform X."Really disgusting violence, and I hope whoever did it is brought swiftly to justice,” he added.
  Officials said Sunday that 38-year-old Cody Balmer was in custody over the suspected arson
  
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• Trump defends tariff exemptions for electronics: Nobody getting 'off the hook'

  14-04-2025 00:38 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump defended his move on Friday to exempt some electronics from the escalating tariff war with China.He denied the announcement amounted to an "exception," arguing instead the products were moved to a different tariff "bucket," and suggested his administration could still impose separate tariffs for the semiconductor industry and broader electronics supply chain.
  “There was no Tariff ‘exception’ announced on Friday,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunda
  
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• Rubio says another 10 people have been sent to El Salvador

  14-04-2025 00:14 via thehill.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that another 10 people have been sent to El Salvador amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.“Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador. The alliance between @POTUS and President @nayibbukele has become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere,” Rubio said in a post on the social platform X.El Salvador’s President Nayib B
  
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