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• Watch: Trump and Netanyahu meet at White House

  07-04-2025 18:00 via thehill.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his second visit to the White House this year for a meeting with President Trump.The meeting took place just days after Trump announced a 17 percent tariff on imported goods from the Middle Eastern country. Netanyahu will be the first international leader to visit the White House after the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement against U.S. trading partners. The prime minister’s office said the two l
  
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• Trump, Musk, RFK Jr., Lutnick make Time's 'most influential' list

  16-04-2025 19:26 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump and five members of his administration — Vice President Vance, senior adviser Elon Musk, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought — have been named to Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People of 2025."The six officials are the largest representation bloc from a presidential administration since Time's 2009 list at the start of former Presiden
  
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• Homan rips Van Hollen for trip to El Salvador prison holding Abrego Garcia: ‘Disgusting’

  16-04-2025 19:05 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump's border czar Tom Homan criticized Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) for flying to the El Salvador prison where a wrongfully deported man is being held, calling the trip “disgusting.”Homan joined Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, as Van Hollen landed in El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wellbeing and to “hold constructive conversations with government officials around his release.”“Rather than taking care of the constituents in h
  
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• GOP's legal threats sink Democrats' billboard attacks over Medicaid

  16-04-2025 18:19 via thehill.com
  
  The House GOP’s campaign arm in recent weeks has successfully pressed three advertising companies to pull down Democratic billboard displays bashing vulnerable Republicans over Medicaid — a setback to Democratic campaigners hoping to make health care a liability for battleground Republicans around the country. In a series of cease-and-desist letters, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) said the imposing roadside ads — sponsored by a splinter group of the top
  
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• GOP finds early success battling Democrats' Medicaid message with legal threats

  16-04-2025 18:19 via thehill.com
  
  The House GOP’s campaign arm in recent weeks has successfully pressed three advertising companies to pull down Democratic billboard displays bashing vulnerable Republicans over Medicaid — a setback to Democratic campaigners hoping to make health care a liability for battleground Republicans around the country. In a series of cease-and-desist letters, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) said the imposing roadside ads — sponsored by a splinter group of the top
  
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• Harvard medical professor says federal funding cuts ‘will cost lives’

  16-04-2025 18:14 via thehill.com
  
  David Walt, a Harvard University medial professor, argued the Trump administration’s cut to the university's funding is going to “cost lives.”Walt, a laureate professor working on early diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), joined CNN on Wednesday as the legal battle between Harvard and the Trump administration continues and $200 billion in funding was cut from the school.“Cancellation of funding to researchers across the U.S. will delay medical progress and w
  
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• Grassley pressed on wrongly deported man in heated exchange at town hall

  16-04-2025 18:03 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was pressed on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, during a heated exchange at a town hall he held on Tuesday. Grassley discussed numerous topics during the Iowa event, including farmers, tariffs and congressional Republicans’ planned reconciliation bill that would seek to cut spending, extend President Trump’s tax cuts and provide money for border se
  
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• Unions launch 'Rise Up' legal defense network for federal workers fired under Trump

  16-04-2025 17:43 via thehill.com
  
  A network of federal employee unions and legal groups are launching a legal defense group to provide counsel to thousands of government workers recently fired by the Trump administration.Deemed Rise Up, the program will recruit lawyers to provide pro bono legal help to scores of federal workers.“Federal workers’ unions and allied organizations are already fighting back in court, but thousands of federal workers still need individual legal advice and representation. Rise Up: Fede
  
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• WTO warns of global trade decline amid Trump tariff war

  16-04-2025 17:31 via thehill.com
  
  The World Trade Organization (WTO) is calling the trade war unleashed by President Trump a "crisis" and is warning things could get worse if "the situation deteriorates."WTO economists on Wednesday updated their projections for 2025, noting a "substantial downgrade" to the forecast for merchandise trade and a smaller reduction in their outlook for services trade.
  Much of the change was driven by new estimates for North America, which is now is projected to see a 12.6 percent decline in exports a
  
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• Newsom says California will sue over Trump tariffs

  16-04-2025 16:41 via thehill.com
  
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced plans to sue the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging President Trump's authority to enact tariffs they claim will cause “immediate and irreparable harm” to the Golden State.In the lawsuit, expected to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, they argue the president lacks the power to impose steep import taxes through the International Economic Emergency Powers Ac
  
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• Bondi says mistakenly deported man 'not coming back to our country'

  16-04-2025 16:22 via thehill.com
  
  Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Trump administration failed to take “one extra step of paperwork” before it mistakenly deported a Maryland man, adding that nonetheless Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “not coming back to our country.”The comments were the latest example of officials under President Trump digging in despite a Supreme Court order requiring them to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.Bondi also repeated numerous claims about Abrego Ga
  
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• Bondi on Shapiro arson attack: Federal government assisting with investigation

  16-04-2025 16:21 via thehill.com
  
  Federal authorities are assisting with the state investigation into the arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) official residence, and Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Wednesday she wants the person responsible to end up "behind bars as long as possible.""It is absolutely horrific what happened to (Shapiro)," Bondi said, noting that she has known the governor for years.
  "Those photos — it was horrible. I firmly believe that they wanted to kill him," she added.But she
  
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• Chicago mayor: Trump acting like 'terrorist' for withholding federal funding

  16-04-2025 16:12 via thehill.com
  
  Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) compared President Trump to a terrorist after the president threatened to withhold federal funding for sanctuary cities. “Trying to hold people hostage and manipulating them to succumb to his will, and then hold up our tax dollars, that is how terrorists behave,” Johnson said on Tuesday. “Look, he's not going to hold the people of Chicago ransom.”Since starting his second term, Trump has set his sights on sanctuary cities, or jurisdi
  
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• Vance to visit leaders of Italy, India

  16-04-2025 15:58 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Vance will travel next week to Italy and India to meet with leaders there and visit cultural sites.Vance will be joined by second lady Usha Vance and their children for the trip, which will begin Friday with a trip to Italy. The vice president will meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, which will come on the heels of Meloni’s visit to the White House on Thursday.Vance will also meet with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is the Vatican secretary of state. Vance
  
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• Melinda French Gates on DOGE cuts: Good managers don't ‘immediately cut something off'

  16-04-2025 15:55 via thehill.com
  
  American philanthropist Melinda French Gates knocked fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s approach at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying a “good manager” would be more careful before cutting off programs.In a CNN interview that aired Tuesday, French Gates discussed her concerns about cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and was asked whether she thinks Musk, who’s been the public face of many of these cuts, “understands the val
  
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• Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back billions in Biden-era climate grants 

  16-04-2025 15:55 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge on Wednesday indefinitely blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from clawing back billions of dollars in Biden-era climate grants. U.S. District Tanya Chutkan said the EPA may not suspend or terminate the green grant awards nor limit access to those funds while a lawsuit challenging the effort to recoup the money moves forward.  She also ordered Citibank, which received the funds but refused to disburse them at the government’s request, to unfreeze the
  
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• Senate Democrat asks government watchdog to audit Trump foreign assistance cuts

  16-04-2025 15:24 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oreg.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is asking an independent government watchdog to analyze the consequences of President Trump’s foreign aid cuts. The request, to the Government Accountability Office, demonstrates one avenue the minority party is using to exercise accountability over Trump’s actions. The GAO is an independent, non-partisan agency that works for Congress. The
  
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• Moderate Republicans draw red line on Medicaid cuts in Trump agenda bill

  16-04-2025 15:17 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable and moderate House Republicans are warning House GOP leaders that they will not support the “one big beautiful bill” encompassing President Trump’s legislative agenda if it includes cuts to Medicaid benefits.Twelve House Republicans in competitive districts — more than enough in the House GOP's razor-thin majority to keep the bill from passing — sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Majority Whip
  
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• Nevada Democrats target Lombardo over Trump's tariffs in new ad

  16-04-2025 15:14 via thehill.com
  
  The Nevada Democratic Party is targeting Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) over President Trump’s latest tariffs in a new ad released exclusively to The Hill on Wednesday. The spot repeatedly features Lombardo saying, “I think we maybe need to feel a little pain,” when asked in an interview what his response to the tariffs is. The line is played through the roughly one-minute-long ad, which also includes news coverage about how the sweeping import taxes will impact the great
  
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• Trump calls Harvard ‘a joke’ while threatening funds

  16-04-2025 15:11 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump called Harvard University “a joke” amid their feud and his threats to revoke funding from the school.“Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should not longer receive Federal Funds,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social early Wednesday.Harvard was the first university on Monday to openly reject the Trump administration’s demands to change its policies. The federal government then paused $2 billion in contracts, and Trump has threatened i
  
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• Greene casts blame on Dems for ‘selfish’ town hall disruption

  16-04-2025 15:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (D-Ga.) blamed Democrats for the town hall disruption on Tuesday, calling the incident “selfish” and saying those opinions should be expressed “at the voting booth.”“I’m not intimidated by the Democrats who tried to shut down my town hall tonight,” Greene wrote in a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday.“I refused to tolerate their selfish attempts to disrupt an event that was for all of my constituents, not jus
  
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• Trump defends sweeping immigration agenda, invoking Biden amid deportation battle

  16-04-2025 14:46 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump lashed out a former President Biden early Wednesday, invoking the previous administration's border policies while touting his own.“Sleepy Joe Biden, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, has allowed millions and millions of Criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers, and people released from prisons and mental institutions from all around the world, to enter our Country through it’s very dangerous and ill conceived Open Border,” Trump pos
  
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• Vance defends Trump administration's move to deport Abrego Garcia

  16-04-2025 13:57 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Vance defended the Trump administration’s move to deport Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, criticizing legal efforts to secure his return to the U.S.In a lengthy post on the social platform X on Tuesday, Vance argued that former President Biden allowed approximately 20 million undocumented immigrants into the country, which he said has placed “extraordinary burdens” on U.S. schools, hospitals and housing.“The American people elected the Trump administratio
  
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• Democrats fear chances of bringing home mistakenly deported man slipping away

  16-04-2025 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Congressional Democrats are growing concerned that their hopes of bringing home a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador may be slipping away, even as they struggle with how to push for his return.Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele declared during his Monday visit to the U.S. that the country would not release Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.This has left the minority party fretting about where to go from here, according to multiple Democratic sourc
  
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• Commerce refires probationary employees as court order lifts

  16-04-2025 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  The Commerce Department and its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are already refiring probationary employees after a temporary court restraining order was lifted.The Trump administration first attempted to get rid of the employees, who were recently hired or promoted, en masse earlier this year, but it was halted by a temporary court restraining order, and employees were brought back to the government on administrative leave. That restraining order 
  
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• On the road with President Trump: 3 takeaways

  16-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  It was just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, and bleary-eyed reporters aboard Air Force One were halfway through a roughly 30-minute flight from Miami to Palm Beach, Fla.That’s when members of the traveling press pool got word that President Trump was going to pop by the press cabin of the plane to say hello and take a few questions. The update was both exciting and a bit surprising.After all, it was past 2 in the morning, and the plane would be landing momentarily. But it was typical Trump: Willin
  
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• At least 6 protestors removed from Greene town hall

  16-04-2025 03:47 via thehill.com
  
  At least six protestors were removed during Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) town hall in Cobb County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Three people were arrested -- two of them required stun guns to be used in the process -- according to the Acworth Police Department. “While attempting to remove the subjects from the event, officers were threatened, physically resisted, and harmed in the process. One of those arrested provided identification that placed them outside of Congresswom
  
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• At least 6 protesters removed from Greene town hall

  16-04-2025 03:47 via thehill.com
  
  At least six protesters were removed during Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) town hall in Cobb County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Three people were arrested — two of them required stun guns to be used in the process — according to the Acworth Police Department. “While attempting to remove the subjects from the event, officers were threatened, physically resisted, and harmed in the process. One of those arrested provided identification that placed them outside of C
  
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• Biden says Trump's admin has 'done so much damage’ since taking office

  16-04-2025 02:08 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Biden said the Trump administration has “done so much damage and so much destruction” since taking office, accusing the White House of having "taken a hatchet" to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and “breaking things” as he delivered his first remarks since leaving the Oval Office earlier this year. “Fewer than 100 days, this new administration has made so much - done so much damage and so much destruction. It’s kind of breathtaki
  
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• Biden says Trump administration has 'done so much damage' since taking office

  16-04-2025 02:08 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Biden said the Trump administration has “done so much damage and so much destruction” since taking office, accusing the White House of having "taken a hatchet" to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and “breaking things” as he delivered his first remarks since leaving the Oval Office earlier this year. “Fewer than 100 days, this new administration has made so much — done so much damage and so much destruction. It’s kind of bre
  
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