Rep. Elise Stefanik, a key Republican ally of President Donald Trump, is considering a run for governor of New York, a source familiar with her thinking told ABC News. Stefanik’s office didn’t immediately comment. Gov. Kathy Hochul is running for reelection in 2026 in the Empire State and is vying for her second full term…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he expects President Donald Trump’s tariffs policy to cause higher inflation and slower economic growth, complicating potential central bank efforts to ease the fallout. “The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated. The same is likely to be true of the…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., is in El Salvador to get answers about the wrongful deportation of a Maryland man by the Trump administration, he said in a video ahead of boarding a flight on Wednesday. Van Hollen said he had been planning the trip for the last few days and that he hopes to…
The Justice Department has filed suit against Maine in an effort to challenge the state’s policy regarding transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges Maine’s policy violates Title IX and stems from a broader effort by the Trump administration to spotlight an issue that they…
A representative of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country has taken “completely reasonable and legal” steps to protect itself against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “There is no winner in the tariff war and trade war,” ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday. “China is unwilling to fight, but it…
International students pursuing degrees at Michigan public universities sought relief from detention and deportation during a federal court hearing on Tuesday, after their student immigration status was terminated this month, jeopardizing their legal status in the U.S. The students — two citizens of China, one of Nepal and another from India — filed a lawsuit…
In the nearly three months since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, lawyers challenging his actions in court have alleged that his administration has violated court orders on a half dozen occasions, according to court records reviewed by ABC News. From unilaterally freezing federal funding to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport noncitizens, the…
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants it alleges are MS-13 gang members — calling them “terrorists” — to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison. Could American citizens convicted of violent crimes be next? “If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem,” President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday during…
“Why won’t you do your job, Senator?” It was standing room-only in a small city hall building in Fort Madison, Iowa, where constituents overflowed out onto the sidewalk for a chance to talk with Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, pressing him on their concerns with the Trump administration’s deportation operation, the administration’s tariff policy, and…
A day after a highly anticipated Oval Office meeting in which the president of El Salvador said he would not return a wrongly deported Maryland man being held in his country, the federal judge who ordered his return will hear from Trump administration attorneys at a court hearing Tuesday afternoon. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is entering…
