Hegseth, Congress and Pentagon
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Trump’s Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth struck a defiant tone while Democrats took aim at his polarizing stewardship of the military thus far.
Sens. Mike Lee and Josh Hawley are introducing a resolution condemning James Comey's "inexcusable" threat against President Donald Trump.
Democratic lawmakers will submit a bill in the Senate on Tuesday that would reverse the Pentagon's new ban on transgender military service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria who now face being forced out if they had not previously self-identified as transgender.
President Donald Trump’s administration insists that the nearly 225-year-old entity across the street from the Capitol is under his direction.
In Illinois, former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the 2017 TRUST Act, which keeps local law enforcement from coordinating with ICE. The act bars law enforcement from stopping, arresting, searching or detaining a person solely due to immigration status.
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By: Ashley Murray Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic WASHINGTON — Clean energy manufacturers and advocates say they’re perplexed how the repeal of tax credits in President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” will keep their domestic production lines humming across the United States,
WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / June 6, 2025 / As U.S. debt soars and foreign central banks stockpile gold, four members of Congress today introduced a bill to require the first comprehensive audit of America’s gold reserves in decades.
A proposed budget cut that could dramatically curtail funding for medical research in the United States is expected to be central to a Senate hearing Tuesday with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health,