Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story The debt limit drama is over — for now The Senate’s Thursday night passage of a bill to raise the...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has changed her position on the public release of the tapes documenting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, warning Friday that their release could “put the security of the Capitol at risk.” Greene said in...
About half of all Republicans oppose banning books in schools, even as many GOP lawmakers throughout the country have implemented laws restricting materials being taught in the classroom, according to a poll released Friday. The...
A day before the Pentagon celebrated the June 1 start of Pride Month, top defense leaders were quietly enforcing a militarywide ban on drag performances. The move became public after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of...
Former President Trump is calling for the New York judge overseeing his hush money criminal case to recuse himself, arguing the judge cannot be impartial. Trump’s lawyers noted in a new filing apparent political donations Judge Juan...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) shouted down a heckler who called him a “fascist” at a presidential campaign rally in South Carolina on Friday. As DeSantis talked about parents’ rights in education, a woman in the crowd in Lexington, S.C.,...
YouTube announced Friday it is reversing prior policy and will now allow for content denying the validity of the 2020 presidential election and other elections and spreading false claims about voter fraud. The platform said in a blog...
The White House on Friday pushed back on bipartisan votes in the House and Senate to block President Biden's student debt relief plan, arguing the program is popular with Americans. A measure to block the plan passed the Senate this week...
Story at a glance A group of Arkansas librarians, booksellers and readers filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a state law restricting what books can be given to minors. Democracy Forward, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed...
Last term, the two centrist senators publicly shaped nearly every piece of major legislation. They revived the act on the debt limit — but this time, they stayed behind the scenes.
The agreement secures some GOP priorities on spending, permits and the safety net, but left the heart of President Joe Biden's agenda intact — at least until the next fight.
A string of legal challenges against the West Virginia governor shows that the coal baron’s sprawling business enterprise is struggling to pay its bills.
Once conservative Rep. Thomas Massie announced that he would vote in favor of the rule, the conservative effort to tank the measure in committee lost steam.
Sen. Joe Manchin would get the gas pipeline he wants. The IRS would get a steeper than expected cut. And future executive actions would face new (but easily waived) fiscal handcuffs.
The policy provisions of the agreement between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared to fall far short of conservatives’ demands.
Drawn-out talks to avoid a catastrophic default are causing a temporary pileup on lawmakers' other priorities, including spending bills, a trillion-dollar farm package and mammoth defense policy legislation.