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Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday that he does not think President Trump has defied any court orders in the case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but the senator said he would “call him out on it” if he does. “Yes,” Kennedy said, when asked on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” whether he thinks Trump...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday he does not think the law would allow President Trump to send United States citizens convicted of violent crimes to Salvadoran prisons, despite the president’s suggestion that he might be open to that possibility. “No, ma'am. Nor should it be considered appropriate or moral,” Kennedy told NBC News’s...

Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) announced that she will travel to El Salvador to demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national who was mistakenly deported from the U.S., be released from prison in the country.  “A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a...

President Trump argued that he was elected in November to “take bad people out of” the country, sharing a photo of what he says is proof of a mistakenly deported man's gang ties. The president posted a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand on Friday, showing various tattoos on his knuckles, including a marijuana leaf,...

A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated its order is intended to provide “sufficient opportunity” for the court to consider the government’s appeal...

Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city. Lee won the nonpartisan ranked-choice election over a field of more than a half dozen candidates, with...

A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a detention center in Louisiana to Vermont no later than at the start of next month. District Judge William Sessions ruled Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has until May 1 to move Ozturk,...

President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are “getting too low." Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.” “You can have all...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump budget proposes cutting heating assistance The Trump administration is considering cutting a program that helps low-income people heat and cool their homes. © Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A draft budget request document reviewed by The Hill calls for the elimination of the Low...

Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected. The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. Instead, they received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story SCOTUS to hear ObamaCare free care case Ever since ObamaCare became law, Americans have been guaranteed certain preventive care will be free, no matter what insurance they have. © Getty Experts say a Supreme Court case set for...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court on Friday to immediately intervene to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants being held in Texas to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. The ACLU’s emergency application says many migrants are already on buses, “presumably headed to the airport” to...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was completely in the dark about his family’s battle to secure his release and the intense political debate over his future when the Maryland Democrat met with the mistakenly deported man in El Salvador this week. “When I told him that his wife and family...

House Republican committee chairs are denying Democrats’ requests to travel to El Salvador and visit its CECOT prison facility as scrutiny builds on the Trump administration’s handling of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) this week denied...

The U.S. military is withdrawing hundreds of troops from Syria, a shift the Pentagon is framing as a “consolidation” that reflects the changing security environment in the country. “Recognizing the success the United States has had against ISIS, including its 2019 territorial defeat under President Trump, today the Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (R-Md.) on Friday tried to debunk conspiracy theories that he was having a margarita with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, saying government officials there placed glasses down on their table to make it look like they had been drinking. Van Hollen also criticized the Salvadoran government for trying to glorify...

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Potential chip tariffs spook tech industry President Trump's threats to tariff semiconductors are stoking alarm within the tech sector as companies brace for ripple effects across the industry. © Ted Shaffey, Associated Press The Trump administration launched an investigation this week into the effects on national security of...

President Trump’s administration is cutting nearly 90 percent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) employees in a push to significantly downsize the watchdog agency formed to shield U.S. consumers from financial fraud and abuse. Around 1,500 of the agency's workers are scheduled to be cut, multiple outlets reported Thursday. That would leave some 200...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was deported to the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, on Thursday with the approval of the country’s authorities. The lawmaker’s interaction with Abrego Garcia comes after he was twice denied the chance to speak with him in person and...

An American citizen was held in a Florida jail at the request of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite the county judge being able to see a U.S. birth certificate in court. Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, who was born in the United States, was detained Wednesday in Florida by the state’s highway patrol and...

Luigi Mangione was indicted on four charges by a New York grand jury in the December killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Mangione, 26, was hit Thursday with a four-charge indictment, which included two counts of stalking, firearms offense and murder through the use of a firearm. The charges would make...

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Another Pentagon official out Former top Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot is resigning from the Defense Department at the end of this week, marking another shake-up in the building. © AP Ullyot was the acting assistant to...

President Trump said former President Carter died “happy” during a Thursday presser in the Oval Office. Carter died in December of 2024, earning the title of the longest living president in United States history. The former president from Plains, Ga., was revered by politicians on both sides of the aisles and earned a Nobel Peace...