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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) won't be running in next year's Republican U.S. Senate primary in the battleground state of Georgia. And President Donald Trump's own team played a significant role in her coming to that decision. That's according to a Thursday article in the Wall Street Journal , which reported that Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio commissioned the poll showing Greene losing by 18 points in a hypothetical general election matchup against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.). The paper reported that Trump was "determined to keep Greene out of the race" out of fears that she "wouldn't be competitive" in what the GOP is viewing as a must-win race . In a statement to the Journal , Greene said that Fabrizio "refused to work for me because he says he has a conflict, which means he’s working for someone against me." She also slammed consultants who worked for Trump without criticizing the president directly. READ MORE: (Opinion) The ...

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has called out her fellow Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) over his opposition to President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill." According to Lawler, the issue of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap has not been duly addressed during negotiations regarding the bill. He told CNN Wednesday he would vote no if the bill is not amended. Several Republicans from New York have opposed a provision in the bill related to state and local taxes. READ MORE: 'Be quiet!' Inside the 5 most explosive moments from Kristi Noem's 'laughable' testimony In a post on the social platform X Wednesday rejecting these concerns, Greene said: "Mike Lawler usually isn’t the guy in the conference with the best ideas, after all we lost a Republican held seat to a Democrat the last time Republicans voted for one of his 'great' strategy." "Now Mike Lawler is a NO on Trump’s big beautiful bill because he won...

One retired federal judge is now making a dark prediction about President Donald Trump's second term based on his relationship with the federal courts and the Constitution. During a Wednesday segment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," former U.S. Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig — an appointee of Republican President George H.W. Bush — told host Nicolle Wallace that Trump's threats to due process rights should be taken seriously. Wallace began the segment by pointing out that Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was "looking at withholding habeas rights from immigrants" and that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the same during her Wednesday hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee. "I wonder what your thoughts are for how everyday people, how all of us stand up for this right before the Trump administration sort of socializes it with Trump's base, socializes it with right-wing media and then takes away a...

President Donald Trump was hoping to use a jet from Qatar's royal family as a replacement for Air Force One until its upgrades are finished. But a new estimate suggests that he may have to consider a different plan altogether. NBC News reported Tuesday that the 13 year-old 747 jet — which is valued at roughly $400 million — would have to undergo significant and costly upgrades before it will be deemed suitable for presidential travel. The outlet cited multiple aviation experts who said that the total price tag could end up exceeding $1 billion and that the upgrade process may not be complete until 2029, when Trump's second and final term in office ends. "You’re taking a 747, disassembling it, reassembling it, and then jacking it up to a very high level," commercial and military aviation consultant Richard Aboulafia told NBC. He also pointed out that because the royal jet would need to be fully deconstructed to ensure the safety of the president, the contract wou...

One conservative journalist now believes that it's up to the American people to decide how much of President Donald Trump's "corrupt" behavior they're willing to tolerate. During an appearance on Tuesday's episode of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," commentator Charlie Sykes said that Trump's acceptance of a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar's royal family should represent a major turning point for the American public. When responding to host Nicolle Wallace's point that Trump was trying to assert that it was okay for "real men" to "cheat," "lie" and "grift" to achieve their goals Sykes said that American voters should view that as a sharp reversal of everything they've been told about right and wrong. "This is not about Donald Trump. It's about us, because it is so flagrant," Sykes said. "What Donald Trump is saying is, yeah, this is corrupt. I am accepting bribes....

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Even if the slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives manages to pass President Donald Trump's " big, beautiful bill, " it may run into a brick wall in the Senate unless it undergoes a major overhaul. CNN reporter Manu Raju tweeted Monday that the bill already has two Republican opponents in the form of Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who both expressed concerns about the legislation's increasing of the federal deficit and its raising of the debt ceiling, respectively. Raju observed that if two more moderate members of the Senate Republican Conference, like Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) also come out against the bill, that would effectively kill Trump's hopes of passing the legislation in its current form. Typically, no bill can pass the Senate without 60 votes if a member threatens a filibuster. But under the Senate's budget reconciliation rules, legislation that strictly pertains to budgeta...

The signs of a contracting economy are hitting small businesses hard, even as President Donald Trump announces, and then delays , another massive 145 percent tariff on a U.S. trading partner. The Wall Street Journal reports the owner of a San Francisco card-game company was recently driven to cash in his money-market funds, while the founder of a Colorado tent-making company is having to seek investors. Another Colorado company that makes watches and jewelry is delaying signing a new office lease, and a New Hampshire company, 5 Star North, had to reduce it’s 12-person staff to five—with three of those already seeking new employment. “Nobody in power seems to care about small business,” said 5 Star North owner Scott Anderson, who assembles various products from Chinese parts importers. “At this point the only option I see is selling out the rest of what we have and shutting our doors.” READ MORE : 'Under cover of night,' Republicans unveil plan to kick over 8 million off h...

The senior U.S. senator from one of the reddest states in the U.S. is now questioning whether President Donald Trump's acceptance of a new jet from a foreign government is legal under the Constitution. CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju tweeted Monday that Trump's new $400 million jet from the Qatari royal family has now provoked concern from Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) — both in terms of his legal authority to accept the gift and how secure the plane really is. She suggested that the administration "need[s] to look at the Constitutionality" of the royal jet before officially using it. "I’d be checking for bugs is what I’d be checking for," she added. READ MORE: It can happen here: How Trump could use the military to stay in office well past his 2nd term Capito Moore's concern is likely a reference to the "Emoluments Clause" found in Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution . That section explicitly prohibits presiden...

This piece contains spoilers. Marvel’s men are sad. And that’s a good thing. Thor’s depressed in Avengers: Endgame. Tony Stark has panic attacks in Iron Man 3. Peter grieves in Spider-Man: No Way Home . In Marvel’s latest release Thunderbolts* (or The New Avengers ), we finally see a male superhero seek advice on how to deal with mental illness. The only problem? His impromptu therapist is a woman he’s only just met. A blanket of darkness Bob Reynolds (Lewis Pullman) is a new and damaged superhero experiment. Bob believes the world might be better off without him – foreshadowing that he’s not entirely wrong. Bob turns to Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) for help. Yelena understands, saying “that darkness gets pretty enticing”. As she struggles to describe the feeling, Bob supplies the word: a void. Yelena offers a survival tactic: push the darkness deep down and carry on. It’s terrible advice and they both know it. But in that moment, it’s honest, and it connects them. Thund...

On April 9, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, blandly titled “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy.” Behind that bureaucratic name is a sweeping directive: Dismantle a century of environmental protections. Every regulation related to the environment, natural resources, or energy, whether it safeguards air, water, species, or public lands, must be rewritten to serve polluters or vanish by default. Some will claim this is just about efficiency. But no standard review process sets a mass expiration date for protections, regardless of science, impact, or legal mandate. This is not streamlining. It is a countdown to erasure. While courts deliberate, rules will expire. Enforcement will be suspended. Polluters will act as if the rules are already gone. The deadline is September 30, 2026. Any rule not revised and reauthorized by then will expire automatically. What will remain will not be protection. It will not be science. It will n...

U.S. President Donald Trump—no stranger to allegations of blatant corruption—faced an onslaught of criticism on Sunday in response to ABC News reporting that his administration is preparing to accept "what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government." Ahead of Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia , Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, sources told ABC that the administration "is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar—a gift that is to be available for use by... Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation." The unnamed sources also explained that "lawyers for the White House counsel's office and the Department of Justice drafted an analysis for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that is legal for the Department of Defense to ac...

Since Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday evening released tax-related legislative language and announced a markup for President Donald Trump's " One, Big, Beautiful Bill, " economic justice advocates have sounded the alarm. House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) scheduled a Tuesday afternoon hearing, shared 28 pages of legislative proposals for the reconciliation package, and positively framed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that congressional Republicans passed and Trump signed in 2017. The tax reform push comes just months away from parts of that law—which critics call the "GOP tax scam"—expiring. "So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us," said Amy Hanauer, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), in a Saturday statement. "What's more, many ...

President Donald Trump's stranglehold on the Republican Party is so strong that countless GOP lawmakers and governors are in constantly fear of saying or doing anything that might offend him. Yet there is plenty of infighting within the MAGA movement and among Trump's supporters. "War Room" host Steve Bannon and SpaceX/Tesla/X.com leader Elon Musk are both major Trump allies, but there is considerable bad blood between them. Meanwhile, far-right Fox News host Mark R. Levin and Steve Witkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy, are bitterly attacking one another and having what Mediaite's Isaac Schorr describes as an "online war of words." READ MORE: Statue depicting Trump assassination attempt 'spotted in' Oval Office Levin took offence to Witkoff's commen t, "The neocon element believes that war is the only way to solve things." In a May 9 post on X, formerly Twitter , Levin wrote, "The envoy talks like the fifth column isol...

At least six United States Agency for International Development (USAID) employees, who believed they had been dismissed by the Trump administration, have now been notified by the agency's internal human resources department that they are under investigation for speaking with journalists, CBS News reported Friday. These employees, whose official termination dates were postponed due to bureaucratic delays, were accused by the agency of having "engaged with the press/media without authorization." They received an email warning them of potential "disciplinary action," which could include "removal from the U.S. Agency for International Development," per the report. The warning is said to have been issued by Employment Labor Relations, a division within USAID's internal HR team that handles disciplinary and performance-related complaints. READ MORE: 'Absolutely alarming': Critics say Trump building 'surveillance weapon' for poor Amer...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was detained Friday afternoon at a newly reopened immigrant detention center in Newark. Baraka was visiting Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group, alongside three of the state’s congressional Democrats in New Jersey's largest city. The facility is the first immigrant detention center to open since President Donald Trump took office again in January. It began accepting detainees on May 1 amid ongoing legal disputes over its operation. READ MORE: 'Rotted his brain': White House official melts down at MSNBC host over Trump insult The mayor, who is running to be the state's governor, had a heated exchange with security personnel, following which he was taken into custody by men dressed in blue jackets marked "police." Baraka's arrest has been condemned by Democrats and other critics of the administration. Rep. Josh Gotheimer (D-N.J.) wrote on the...

Since his second term began in January, President Donald Trump's actions have already been struck down more than 200 times by federal judges in over 128 cases. And some of the judges behind those rulings have experienced a rash of direct threats. On Friday, Duke University law professor Paul Grimm joined MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace's "Deadline: White House" to go into detail about the increased pattern of threats against judges who have ruled against the Trump administration. Grimm argued that judges feeling intimidated by politically motivated threats undermines a core element of the Constitution, which is the duty of Article III judges to conduct "judicial review" of decisions made by Congress and the president. "The way in which you make sure that courts rule in a way that protects the Constitutional guardrails is that they have to be independent. They have to rule without fear or favor," Grimm said. "And anything that is done which is...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is naming Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro's appointment comes following significant opposition from Republicans on Capitol Hill to his initial candidate, Ed Martin. “I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. READ MORE: 'Vile broken man': Trump buried over 'horrible' remarks about former official The president referred to her as the “powerful crusader for victims of crime.” “In addition to her Legal career, Jeanine previously hosted her own Fox News Show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, for ten years, and is currently Co-Host of The Five, one of the Highest Rated Shows on Television,” Trump said. Political commentators and journalists criticized the decision, saying that Pirro is unqualified for the role. Lawyer Tri...