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The Republican Party’s message to voters that the government shutdown, with no end in sight, is the fault of Democrats is being muddled by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) whose refusal to seat a newly elected Democrat is sucking up all the oxygen in the room, according to a journalist.

During an MSNBC “Morning Joe” panel discussion on the budget impasse, Politico’s Jonathan Martin claimed Johnson is handcuffing his own party’s attacks on Democrats by not swearing in Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva, who was elected to fill her late father’s seat in the House.

A CNN panelist on Tuesday night called President Donald Trump's pursuit of a $230 million payment from the Justice Department as restitution for the previous prosecutions "disgusting" and "tone-deaf."

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro joined "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" on Tuesday and discussed Trump's attempt to get the Justice Department to pay him. According to reports, the two people who would be responsible for approving the payment are both lawyers who either represented Trump or one of his allies.

Saikat Chakrabarti, the progressive organizer who is challenging US Rep. Nancy Pelosi for the House seat she has held since 1987, was met with stone-faced stares and laughter on CNN when he spoke during a panel discussion Monday about the Trump administration's national security memo that one journalist said amounts to a “declaration of war” on the president’s political opponents.

Chakrabarti was joined by author and historian Max Boot, journalist Bata Ungar-Sargon, commentator and former Clinton White House aide Keith Boykin, and former spokesperson for the George W. Bush administration Pete Seat in a panel discussion hosted by Sara Sidner.

Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) expressed his astonishment on Tuesday regarding President Donald Trump's recent demand for over $230 million from his Department of Justice over the dismissed Russiagate investigation and other cases.

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Trump may ask the Justice Department to pay him about $230 million, adding that the settlement may be approved by "senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit." Trump's former defense attorney, Todd Blanche, is currently the deputy attorney general, and other Trump defense lawyers are scattered throughout the government.

Journalist Michael Weiss said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump appears to be "getting kind of tired" of the war in Ukraine, as illustrated by the president's "no-energy" attempts to bully Ukraine into accepting Russia's terms for peace.

During the campaign trail, Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. However, the war continues nearly a year after he was sworn in.

Political observers flagged a strange revelation Vice President JD Vance made while in Israel during a news conference about the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Vance traveled to Israel to reassure Israeli leadership that the U.S. is committed to the ceasefire deal, according to reports. Some Trump administration officials have expressed concerns that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could thwart the deal because his governing coalition includes some extremist members of the Knesset, the country's Congress.

Historian and journalist Anna Applebaum told MSNBC on Tuesday that a lot of President Donald Trump's corruption might be blatant, but most Americans aren't paying attention. That isn't the case for the bulldozing of the White House, however.

In the midst of a government shutdown and an increasingly difficult economy, exacerbated by Trump's tariffs that are raising costs, the president initiated the construction of a 90,000 square foot ballroom at the White House, a project that entails demolishing parts of the existing building. Trump had previously promised that the historic structure of the White House wouldn't be touched.

Last week, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sent Speaker Mike Johnson a letter about swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ). She was ignored, so now she's filing a lawsuit.

Speaking to ABC15 on Tuesday, Mayes said she was "within minutes" of filing her lawsuit against Johnson, political reporter Rachel Louise Just posted on X.

President Donald Trump vowed to "do something nice" if the Department of Justice agreed to demands that he be paid for purported violations of his rights during investigations into Russian election interference and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

After The New York Times reported that Trump was demanding that his Justice Department pay him $230 million in a settlement, the president was asked about the claim at the White House on Tuesday.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann slammed President Donald Trump for the proposal that the Justice Department give him $230 million to make up for the investigations into the 2016 Russia matter, the classified documents case, and the investigation into Trump's role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday after the story broke from the New York Times, Weissmann said, "essentially the president of the United States is now the extortionist in chief. We saw it with ABC. We saw it with CBS. We saw it with the law firms. And now, he might as well just go ahead and rob Fort Knox and take the gold out."