Politics

(NewsNation) — A Democratic representative is questioning Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about military medical units being deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., sent Hegseth a letter…

(NewsNation) — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday targeting federal regulations that are unconstitutional, according to a published report. The directive will give federal agencies 60 days to…

Eight House Republicans who are members of the Hispanic conference or represent large Hispanic populations are publicly pressing Speaker Mike Johnson to not slash Medicaid, food assistance and Pell Grants…

Sen. Ted Cruz’s bid for broad subpoena powers as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee is facing consternation even among some Republicans who worry about giving their colleague so much…

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump’s administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have been working to cut the federal workforce by at least 10% since January. In an executive…

President Trump on Wednesday is attending the Future Investment Initiative Forum, an organization run by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund that focuses on social and economic initiatives. Trump has had…

(NewsNation) — The Internal Revenue Service is expecting to terminate more than 3,500 employees who work in the small business/self-employed division. CBS News first reported the expected firings, which were…

(NewsNation) — The State Department on Wednesday designated eight transnational criminal organizations as global terrorist organizations, including five drug cartels. Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels…

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a joint interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Tuesday and defended the administration’s efforts to conduct…

The Trump administration has identified hundreds of “emergency” energy projects whose approvals could be fast-tracked. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has updated its website to put hundreds of new…

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump wants to eliminate income taxes on Social Security benefits, but a new analysis shows that plan comes at a steep cost and would worsen the…

(NewsNation) — More than 1,000 people were cut from the Department of Veterans Affairs Workforce last week. Employees fired included researchers looking into cancer treatments, opioid addiction and burn pit exposure,…

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins told reporters Wednesday afternoon that funding negotiations with Democrats “are not going well” as lawmakers stare down a government shutdown deadline in just over three…

Vice President JD Vance told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that Donald Trump prefers the House’s one-bill approach to his legislative agenda. But Vance didn’t put a stake in the Senate’s…

(NewsNation) — After spending nearly 50 years behind bars, Native American activist Leonard Peltier is out of prison. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975 and was…