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• Ben & Jerry's co-founder removed from RFK Jr. hearing for protesting

  15-05-2025 03:01 via thehill.com
  
  Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was removed from a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing featuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for protesting.About 15 minutes into the Wednesday hearing, protestors began to shout, and people were forced out of the room. Amid the chaos, Cohen is seen standing up in the seating area behind Kennedy and shouting, “Congress pays for bombs.”Shortly after, Cohen was taken
  
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• Adm. Bradley open to broader release of Sept. 2 boat strikes video

  18-12-2025 00:38 via thehill.com
  
  Navy Adm. Frank Bradley told lawmakers Wednesday he was open to the broader release of the video of the U.S. military’s early September lethal strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, apparently bucking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said a day earlier that the Pentagon would not release the full video of the mission to...
  
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• House passes GOP health care bill without ObamaCare subsidy extension

  18-12-2025 00:28 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans on Wednesday passed a partisan package of health care policies designed to provide a conservative alternative to extending the expiring ObamaCare subsidies.The legislation has little chance of passing through the Senate, however, and it does not address the cost cliff that’s expected to hit 22 million Americans when the enhanced Affordable Care...
  
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• House defeats resolutions to reel in Trump on Venezuela, Caribbean boat strikes  

  18-12-2025 00:11 via thehill.com
  
  The House shot down a pair of Democratic-led resolutions Wednesday designed to curtail President Trump’s strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the administration’s “hostilities within or against Venezuela.” The first resolution, brought by House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), aims to end the boat strikes by directing the president to stop “hostilities...
  
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• Energy Department inspector general to probe billions in canceled climate grants mostly impacting blue states

  17-12-2025 23:56 via thehill.com
  
  An internal government watchdog says it will probe a Trump administration move to cancel nearly $8 billion in climate and energy funding that primarily impacted blue states. The Energy Department’s inspector general’s office will probe the cancellations, acting Inspector General Sarah Nelson told Democrats, who requested the investigation. “The Office of Inspector General recently announced an audit...
  
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• Judge blocks DHS policy limiting lawmaker access to detention facilities

  17-12-2025 23:04 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge has blocked a move by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to limit lawmakers' access to immigration detention facilities Lawmakers have a right to make unannounced visits to detention centers, but DHS in July sought to curb visits with a new policy requiring lawmakers give a week’s notice before any visit.U.S. District Court...
  
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• Congressional Democrats' approval lowest since 2009: Survey

  17-12-2025 23:02 via thehill.com
  
  Just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday, while 73 percent disapprove. That approval rating marks a new low since Quinnipiac began asking the question in 2009, surpassing the 19 percent of voters who approved of Democrats in July.The results come just...
  
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• Live updates: House set to vote on health care plan, as 4 GOP reps back Dems' ObamaCare effort

  17-12-2025 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Just ahead of a House procedural vote Wednesday on a narrow, GOP-crafted health care bill, four Republican members defied their own leadership and joined a Democratic discharge petition that would force a vote on the House floor on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Rob Bresnahan (Pa.) and...
  
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• Nebraska to become first state to implement Medicaid work requirements

  17-12-2025 22:43 via thehill.com
  
  Nebraska will become the first state to implement Medicaid work requirements as outlined in Republicans' summer tax bill.“We’re not here to take everybody to the curb,” the state's Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press, noting that the requirements will take effect in on May 1.He said the...
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez highlights poll showing her beating Vance in 2028

  17-12-2025 22:42 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who is increasingly seen as a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2028, on Wednesday highlighted a poll showing her beating Vice President Vance in a hypothetical match-up. The poll from The Argument/Verasight asked respondents what their voting preference would be if Vance and Ocasio-Cortez were the candidates in the 2028...
  
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• Lawler: Trump's national address has to 'focus on the affordability agenda'

  17-12-2025 22:29 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s national address has to focus on affordability as Americans grapple with rising prices. “Look, I'm sure he's going to highlight the work that the administration and Congress have done throughout the course of this year. But the focus has to be on affordability from housing, where...
  
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• Trump on Bongino leaving FBI: 'I think he wants to go back to his show'

  17-12-2025 22:26 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday indicated Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino would leave his post at the bureau and return to his role as a conservative commentator. "Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” Trump said of Bongino. Trump did not provide a timeline for when Bongino, who...
  
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• Isaacman approved to lead NASA after roller-coaster confirmation 

  17-12-2025 21:33 via thehill.com
  
  The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jason Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), bringing the roller-coaster road for approving a full-time head of the agency to an end. Senators voted 67 to 30 on Isaacman, who was nominated for a second time to the post in early November — after his nomination to the...
  
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• 57 percent say Trump more responsible for economy than Biden: Poll

  17-12-2025 21:23 via thehill.com
  
  A new poll from Quinnipiac University found that a majority of respondents believe President Trump is more responsible for the state of the economy than former President Biden. The poll, released Wednesday, found that 57 percent of respondents put the state of the economy at Trump’s feet, while 34 percent said Biden is more responsible...
  
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• What to know about Venezuela's 'dark fleet' of oil tankers amid US blockade

  17-12-2025 21:22 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela on Tuesday, continuing his escalations against the Latin American country and its leader, Nicolás Maduro. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the president said Maduro’s “illegitimate” regime is using oil to “finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and...
  
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• Trump attends dignified transfer ceremony for US service members killed in Syria

  17-12-2025 21:20 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday met with the families of U.S. service members who were killed in Syria last weekend and participated in a dignified transfer, a solemn ceremony where the troops’ remains are returned to the U.S.  Trump attended the proceedings at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and Sgt....
  
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• Moderate GOP rebels plot next steps on ObamaCare subsidies with senators

  17-12-2025 21:01 via thehill.com
  
  House GOP moderates on Wednesday privately huddled with a bipartisan group of senators to begin plotting the next steps on extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies. The meeting came after four Republicans broke ranks and signed a Democratic-led discharge petition, pushing it to the 218 signatures required to force a vote on extending the...
  
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• Trump economic numbers hit 2-term low in Marist poll

  17-12-2025 20:54 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is seeing the lowest economic approval ratings of either of his terms, according to a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. The poll found that more than half of American respondents, 57 percent, disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they approve of Trump's handling of the economy, and 8...
  
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• Approval of Trump's economic policy hits 2-term low: Poll

  17-12-2025 20:54 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is seeing the lowest economic approval ratings of either of his terms, according to a new poll.  A new PBS News/NPR/Marist survey found that more than half of Americans, 57 percent, disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy.  Thirty-six percent of respondents approve of his handling of the economy and 8 percent...
  
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• Lawler on discharge petition: 'This is not an indictment' of Johnson

  17-12-2025 20:43 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said that adding his name to a discharge petition to force the House to vote on extending soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies for three years "is not an indictment" of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). "This is not an indictment of him," Lawler told CNN's Dana Bash. "He has a very difficult...
  
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• Woman sues IRS to have pets classified as dependents

  17-12-2025 20:32 via thehill.com
  
  Attorney Amanda Reynolds argues that her golden retriever, Finnegan, relies entirely on her for food and medical care.
  
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• Carr suggests FCC isn't an independent agency at Senate hearing

  17-12-2025 20:10 via thehill.com
  
  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr suggested on Wednesday that the agency is not independent from President Trump's administration after being pressed by senators on Capitol Hill about whom he answers to as chair of the commission. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) repeatedly pressed Carr about his agency's obligation to conduct oversight of major media companies...
  
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• Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, wife to donate to 300,000 Trump accounts

  17-12-2025 19:58 via thehill.com
  
  Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio and his wife, Barbara, are joining a White House initiative to fund new President Trump-branded investment accounts for children, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday. Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, has pledged with his wife to donate $250 each to roughly 300,000 children in their home state of...
  
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• Chip Roy rips Greene's deal with House GOP leadership for vote on anti-trans bill

  17-12-2025 19:50 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Tuesday slammed a deal that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she made with House GOP leadership that resulted in a promise of a Wednesday vote for an anti-transgender bill. “Marjorie was given this vote this week to buy her vote on the National Defense Authorization Act. Everybody knows it....
  
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• Omar on Homan saying she's under investigation: 'They're sick'

  17-12-2025 19:39 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday called White House border czar Tom Homan "sick" after he said the Trump administration is investigating her for alleged immigration fraud. Independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy asked Omar on Capitol Hill if she had a response to recent comments Homan made during a Newsmax interview. Ballasy later inquired why the...
  
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• Fitzpatrick says GOP leaders demanded ‘poison pill’ to sink ObamaCare push

  17-12-2025 19:24 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that GOP leaders tailored the debate around a series of Republican ObamaCare amendments to ensure they would fail. “Fear of a bill getting 218 votes on the floor is not a reason to keep it off,” Fitzpatrick said. “It's a reason to put it on the floor.” Fitzpatrick is...
  
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• Live updates: 4 Republicans join Dems' ObamaCare discharge petition; Senate sends NDAA to Trump's desk

  17-12-2025 19:02 via thehill.com
  
  Just ahead of a House procedural vote Wednesday on a narrow, GOP-crafted health care bill, four Republican members defied their own leadership and joined a Democratic discharge petition that would force a vote on the House floor on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Rob Bresnahan (Pa.) and...
  
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• These 4 rogue Republicans joined Democrats' ObamaCare discharge petition

  17-12-2025 18:45 via thehill.com
  
  Four Republicans joined 214 Democrats in signing a discharge petition to force a vote on extending expiring subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).The petition, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), calls for a floor vote on a three-year extension of the credits, which lapse on Dec. 31. By signing, Reps....
  
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• Putin says Russia will take Ukraine by 'military means' if talks fail

  17-12-2025 18:27 via thehill.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the Kremlin is prepared to use “military means” to achieve its goals in Ukraine if diplomatic efforts with the West fail to satisfy Moscow’s demands. In a speech at an annual meeting of the Defense Ministry Board, Putin said he would prefer to pursue diplomacy but made clear...
  
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• Johnson says he has 'not lost control of the House' after moderates launch major rebellion

  17-12-2025 18:13 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday insisted that he has not lost control of the lower chamber of Congress in the wake of four Republican moderates mounting a major rebellion by joining with Democrats to force a vote on extending expiring ObamaCare subsidies.  “I have not lost control of the House, no,” Johnson said when...
  
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