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• Scott Walker on Wisconsin race: Trump voters 'don't vote in spring elections'

  02-04-2025 15:30 via thehill.com
  
  Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) brushed off the results from Tuesday’s state Supreme Court race, saying that Trump voters often “don’t vote in spring elections.”“I‘ve said this for months. I thought, one, the turnout model was always going to be at the disadvantage of [Brad] Schimel over [Susan] Crawford because there‘s about 200,000 voters that voted for Donald Trump last November who just historically don‘t vote in spring elections,&rdquo
  
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• Democrat running for competitive Colorado House seat raises over $1M

  07-04-2025 14:44 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic candidate Manny Rutinel, who’s running for a competitive House seat in Colorado, has raised more than $1.1 million in the first quarter of fundraising of this year.Rutinel, a state representative, raised more than $1.1 million between January and March of this year, according to figures first shared with The Hill. The average donation for his campaign was $32 and he received contributions from more than 27,000 unique donors.Within the first day of his campaign, he raked in more
  
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• China accuses US of bullying with tariffs

  07-04-2025 14:39 via thehill.com
  
  China is accusing the U.S. of bullying with tariffs imposed by President Trump and said Washington is pursuing the wrong approach in dealing with Beijing.The tariffs are "typical unilateral and protectionist bullying,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters Monday at a press conference, the Economic Times reported.Lin argued putting “America First” before international trade rules harms global production and will impair the world’s economic recov
  
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• Trump: Tariffs sparking investment in US

  07-04-2025 13:39 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump late Sunday defended his tariff plan amid recession fears, saying they are sparking investment in the United States.Trump spoke aboard Air Force One, where he said he was elected because of the tariffs.“This was one of the biggest reasons I got elected, was exactly because of this,” Trump said.“We’re going to put tariffs — we already put them on. It’s not a question if we will. We will put them on,” he continued. “And those tariffs
  
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• Judicial blocks on Trump spark battle over nationwide injunctions

  07-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration’s repeated losses in courts have sparked Republican efforts to limit the reach of the judiciary, something Democrats argue is designed to hamstring reviews of lawless orders.Congressional Republicans have rolled out two legislative vehicles that would curb nationwide injunctions, arguing this will restore order to the judiciary and put district court judges in their place.“These rogue judge rulings are a new resistance to the Trump administration and the only
  
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• Johnson faces fraught week as House takes up Trump budget blueprint

  07-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is walking into a storm this week as he looks to rally House Republicans around the Senate-passed framework to unlock President Trump’s legislative agenda.
  A handful of conservatives have explicitly said they plan to vote against the Senate’s budget resolution, which sets up Trump's legislative agenda of tax cuts, border funding and energy policy. Scores of others in the conference — including the House’s top Budget writer — have al
  
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• How Kennedy’s cuts to HHS could curb 'MAHA' agenda

  07-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Government Efficiency are reshaping the U.S. health care system, starting with deep cuts to the agencies Kennedy now leads. Kennedy and his allies argue such moves are needed to change federal culture and improve efficiency in the name of long-term health improvements. But critics question how Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again,” or MAHA, movement can be successful with a weakened fede
  
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• Sanders on law firms making deals with Trump: 'Absolute cowardice'

  07-04-2025 05:23 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders slammed law firms coming to deals with President Trump in an interview that aired Sunday.“What do you make of the law firms cutting deals?” CBS News’s Robert Costa asked Sanders on “CBS News Sunday Morning.”“Absolute cowardice,” Sanders responded.Sanders later added that the firms are “going to sell out their souls to Donald Trump, in order to continue to be able to make money here in Washington.” Multiple law firms h
  
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• Live updates: Trump defends tariffs; Billionaire Trump endorser calls for trade war time-out

  07-04-2025 02:39 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.Markets took a nosedive Thursday following Trump’s announcement of a general 10 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S., along with other targeted tariffs on various U.S. trading partners. The financial environment was not much better Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points and the S&P 500 lost
  
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• Trump defends tariffs as markets plunge: 'I don't want anything to go down'

  07-04-2025 02:27 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Sunday defended his sweeping tariffs amid plunging markets, saying he did not “want anything to go down.”“When you look at the trade deficit we have with certain countries, with China it’s a trillion dollars," Trump told reporters traveling with him on Air Force One as he returned from Florida to Washington, D.C. on Sunday evening.
  “And we have to solve our trade deficit with China…. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China
  
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• Trump says he hopes Sununu runs for Senate in New Hampshire

  07-04-2025 02:10 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump said Sunday that he met with former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) about a potential Senate bid and that he hopes Sununu launches a campaign."He came to my office, came to the Oval Office, and met with Chris Sununu, and I support him fully. I hope he runs," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "He's been very nice to me over the last year or so, but no, I hope he runs. I think he'll win that seat." Sununu has been a regular Trump critic, and the former governor en
  
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• Live updates: Billionaire Trump endorses calls for trade war time-out; CNBC host warns of 'Black Monday'

  07-04-2025 01:14 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.Markets took a nosedive Thursday following Trump’s announcement of a general 10 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S., along with other targeted tariffs on various U.S. trading partners. The financial environment was not much better Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points and the S&P 500 lost
  
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• Bill Ackman warns Trump to call a timeout on trade war: 'This is not what we voted for'

  07-04-2025 01:10 via thehill.com
  
  Billionaire hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who endorsed President Trump last year, is offering a stark warning about the risks of the White House’s tariff plans, arguing they could cause the economy to collapse while hurting Trump supporters the most.“Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-i
  
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• Bill Ackman warns Trump to call a time-out on trade war: ‘This is not what we voted for’

  07-04-2025 01:10 via thehill.com
  
  Billionaire hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who endorsed President Trump last year, is offering a stark warning about the risks of the White House’s tariff plans, arguing it could cause the economy to collapse while hurting Trump supporters the most.“Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-inc
  
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• Live updates: Judge slams Trump; Officials defend tariffs; CNBC host warns of 'Black Monday'

  07-04-2025 00:40 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.Markets took a nosedive Thursday following Trump’s announcement of a general 10 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S., along with other targeted tariffs on various U.S. trading partners. The financial environment was not much better Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points and the S&P 500 lost
  
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• Stock futures drop sharply; Jim Cramer warns of new 'Black Monday'

  07-04-2025 00:36 via thehill.com
  
  U.S. stock futures dropped sharply on Sunday evening as markets continued to signal a sell-off in the wake of President Trump’s massive reciprocal tariffs on trading partners.Dow Jones futures were down more than 1,700 points on Sunday evening at 6 p.m., pointing to what could be a disastrous day on Wall Street when markets open Monday morning at 9:30 a.m.The Dow and other markets have already suffered through a brutal Thursday and Friday as they took in Trump’s tariff regime, and th
  
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• Bessent: 'More than 50 countries' approached administration to lower tariffs, trade barriers and halt 'currency manipulation'

  06-04-2025 23:51 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed Sunday that “more than 50 countries” have approached the Trump administration to bring down “non-tariff trade barriers,” reduce tariffs, and halt “currency manipulation” on their side.“More than 50 countries have approached … the administration about lowering their non-tariff trade barriers, lowering their tariffs, stopping currency manipulation,” Bessent said on NBC’s “Meet the Press&rdqu
  
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• Live updates: Judge slams Trump; Officials defend tariffs after markets plunge

  06-04-2025 23:22 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.Markets took a nosedive Thursday following Trump’s announcement of a general 10 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S., along with other targeted tariffs on various U.S. trading partners. The financial environment was not much better Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points and the S&P 500 lost
  
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• Trump officials defend tariffs amid market, conservative unrest

  06-04-2025 23:01 via thehill.com
  
  Trump administration officials fanned out across the media talk shows on Sunday to defend tariffs imposed by the president on just about every country on Earth.The reciprocal tariffs were long promised by President Trump, who feels the U.S. has been ripped off by trading practices of friends and foes that have run trade deficits with the United States.But the size and scope of the tariffs caught many by surprise, and led to a dramatic sell-off on Wall Street that saw trillions in wealth wiped ou
  
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• FAFSA had been struggling for years. Then Trump cut the Education Department in half

  06-04-2025 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Families and students are growing nervous about the fate of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) amid President Trump's massive cuts to the Department of Education and his plans to do away with it entirely.  FAFSA has had a rough few years, starting with a clumsy rollout of revamped forms during the Biden administration that led to a drop in the college aid applications.But even amid a need to rebuild trust with parents and applicants, the Trump administration has halved the
  
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• Mahmoud Khalil speaks out on 'abduction,' calls on students to take action

  06-04-2025 22:27 via thehill.com
  
  Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested in March by immigration authorities, spoke out about his “abduction” in a Friday opinion piece.Khalil, a former lead negotiator for Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian encampment, said in his Columbia Daily Spectator opinion piece that the school “laid the groundwork for my abduction” and pushed for the school’s students to “not abdicate their responsibility to resist repression.”“
  
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• Johnson strikes deal with Luna on parental proxy voting

  06-04-2025 22:13 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has reached a deal with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) over her push to allow new parents to vote by proxy, a development that is set to unlock the House floor after the explosive issue — and the GOP rebellions it sparked — brought the chamber to a standstill.Under the agreement being worked out, the House would formalize “vote pairing,” two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.The procedure allows a memb
  
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• Trump posts video of himself golfing on Truth Social

  06-04-2025 22:07 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump posted a video of himself golfing Sunday on Truth Social.
  It wasn't immediately clear if the video was from Sunday. Trump is an avid golfer and often spending time on the golf course in his fee time.The White House on Saturday told the press pool that Trump had won "his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”Trump has come under some criticism for his time on the golf course in recent days.
  
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• Trump's Colorado portrait artist says career in jeopardy

  06-04-2025 21:33 via thehill.com
  
  The artist behind a portrait of President Trump that hung at the Colorado Capitol for six years says the president's comments are "negatively impacting" her business.The portrait of Trump by Colorado Springs artist Sarah Boardman was removed last month after the president trashed the painting as "truly the worst" in a social media post and suggested it was intentionally distorted to make him look bad."(Boardman) must have lost her talent as she got older," he said on Truth Social.Boardman said i
  
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• Federal judge in scathing decision calls Trump's deportation of Salvadoran man 'wholly lawless'

  06-04-2025 21:20 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge in a scathing decision on Sunday said the Trump administration had no legal grounds to arrest, detain and deport a Salvadoran national from the United States to a prison in his home country, saying the decision was “wholly lawless.”U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a 22-page decision ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Kristi Noem to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.“Neither the United States nor El Salvador h
  
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• Federal judge in scathing decision calls Trump deportation of El Salvador man ‘wholly lawless’

  06-04-2025 21:20 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge in a scathing decision on Sunday said the Trump administration had no legal grounds to arrest, detain and deport an El Salvador national from the United States to a prison in his home country, saying the decision was “wholly lawless.”U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a 22-page decision ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Sec. Kristi Noem to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.“Neither the United States nor El Salvador have told
  
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• Live updates: Lutnick explains Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands; Senate GOP advances Trump agenda

  06-04-2025 20:41 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.Markets took a nosedive Thursday following Trump’s announcement of a general 10 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S., along with other targeted tariffs on various U.S. trading partners. The financial environment was not much better Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points and the S&P 500 lost
  
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• GOP rep says Russia and China are 'laughing at us' after NSA director firing

  06-04-2025 20:31 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a moderate Republican, slammed President Trump’s decision to fire the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and his top deputy after demands from far-right influencer Laura Loomer, saying Sunday that China and Russia are “laughing at us” after that decision.“I will tell you, this puts us back. It hurts us,” Bacon said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”“Russia and China today are laughing at us b
  
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• Schiff criticizes Democrats for ‘not thinking big’ or ‘acting big’

  06-04-2025 20:20 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday urged Democrats to be bolder in their approach to winning over voters, saying in an interview that his party has been guilty of not “thinking big” or “acting big.”In an interview on NBC News's "Meet the Press," moderator Kristen Welker asked Schiff about a moment from Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) historic marathon Senate floor speech when he said his own party "has made terrible mistakes and gave a lane to this demagogue," referring to
  
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• Russia’s foothold in Syria presents conundrum for Trump

  06-04-2025 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration is torn over how to respond to Russia’s military presence in Syria and whether to ask the new transitional government to oust Russian forces from a naval and air base in the country.U.S. sanctions on Syria provide Washington with enormous leverage to influence the new government headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former U.S.-designated terrorist who led the overthrow of longtime dictator Bashar Assad.Last month, Trump officials provided al-Sharaa’s representatives
  
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