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'I'm mad as hell!' Republicans get earful as Dem loses it over massive budget cut

A Florida Democrat snapped during a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting Friday, declaring the Republican fiscal year 2027 spending bill "a war on women and girls" after it moved to eliminate family planning funding for millions of Americans.

"I'm mad as hell! I cannot believe what I see!" Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) shouted during the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee markup. "This is a war on women and girls!"

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Trump official proclaims America is in 'economic golden age' — and gets slammed

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, told Fox News on Friday that the economy under President Donald Trump was booming — and hilarity ensued.

Hassett claimed "the Trump boom" wouldn't be reported by "the fake news," and that the One Big Beautiful Bill has massively helped to improve the economy — dismissing affordability concerns among Americans.

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'Whoo!' Data guru warns 'rural revolt' is turning 'field of dreams' into Trump nightmare

President Donald Trump is facing a "rural revolt" as a result of his policies, according to a new data analysis.

The soon-to-be-80-year-old president was re-elected in 2024 on his promise to improve the economy, but voters aren't happy with the job he's done so far, and many of his policies are directly hurting farmers and voters in the rural areas that have backed him in all three elections.

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Todd Blanche brags he's rigging DOJ with 'roadblocks' to protect Trump from prosecution

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche boasted Thursday that he is installing "roadblocks" inside the Justice Department to prevent Democrats from prosecuting President Donald Trump after his term ends — the latest in a string of moves critics say have turned the DOJ into a personal protection service for the president.

"We can just keep on exposing it and putting roadblocks in place so it never happens again," Blanche told NewsNation host Katie Pavlich in an exclusive interview, first surfaced by journalist Aaron Rupar, adding that he worries about "some Democrats coming out and actually already forecasting what they're gonna try to do if they get leadership again."

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'Ugh!' Fox News host rips Trump's 'dead end' as he rejects own show's talking point

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade couldn't hide his disgust Thursday morning when his own network flashed an "Iran Deal Soon?" graphic on screen — audibly groaning and declaring the talks a "dead end" just seconds after reading the optimistic chyron off a teleprompter.

"Ugh!" Kilmeade blurted before pivoting sharply from the network's framing. "The problem is there are no talks. Hezbollah's backed out of it. I see that as a dead end."

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Trump just reached a 'moment of demarcation' that signals the end is near: biographer

President Donald Trump has reached a "moment of demarcation" that signals the end of his presidency is near, according to one of the president's biographers.

Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, noted during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, that Trump has had a "rough couple of weeks" as his losses continue to pile up. Wolff pointed to issues such as Congress curtailing his war powers in Iran, and his seeming inability to escape the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

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Trump stuns analyst during 'pathetic moment' in the Oval Office: 'All completely untrue'

President Donald Trump stunned a political analyst on Thursday during a "pathetic moment" in the Oval Office.

Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday, where he announced a new $700 billion initiative to boost coal production using the Defense Production Act. One reporter asked Trump about communism during the press conference, a topic that Trump seemed excited to discuss because he had just written a Truth Social post about it, according to David Pakman, host of the liberal political commentary show "The David Pakman Show."

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Trump's DOJ staring down another loss in a high-profile case against foe: expert

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice may be staring down another loss in a high-profile case against one of his political foes, according to one expert.

On Thursday, CNN reported that John Bolton, the first Trump administration's national security advisor, had entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors over a case stemming from classified information that was contained in his memoir. Tom Dupree, a former deputy assistant attorney general, told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that the Trump DOJ will likely see the case as a loss because Bolton will likely avoid serving time and may only be punished with probation.

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Gretchen Carlson claims 'no way in hell' Todd Blanche becomes AG — unless he does this

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has almost "no way" of securing the permanent AG job, according to a former Fox News anchor.

On CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," Gretchen Carlson weighed in on the idea of Blanche continuing in his post at the head of the Department of Justice after his confirmation hearing.

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Pam Bondi created a headache for Todd Blanche that he 'can't run and hide from': analyst

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi created a headache for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that he may not be able to run and hide from, according to one legal analyst.

Last week, Bondi told House lawmakers that Blanche was the one in control of how the Jeffrey Epstein files were being released, according to newly released transcripts. Elie Honig, CNN's senior legal analyst, said on "Anderson Cooper 360" that the statement could prove problematic for Blanche as he seeks Senate confirmation for the full role of Attorney General.

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'Give me a break!' Lawmaker busts out laughing on MS NOW over Pam Bondi's scapegoat tactic

House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) was completely unimpressed with former Attorney General Pam Bondi's efforts to pin all the flaws in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on her erstwhile deputy Todd Blanche, and told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez that members of Congress ought to call her bluff.

Menendez confronted Garcia with Bondi's testimony this week, in which she claimed it's "100 percent incorrect' to say she's blaming Blanche for shortcomings in the Epstein probe, but then turned around and said "he managed this investigation. And it was a Herculean task with very little error."

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Ex-Trump official derides president's pet project on CNN: 'Couldn't be more tone deaf'

One of the pet projects that President Donald Trump likes to tout the most was mocked as 'tone deaf' on CNN.

GOP analyst Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House deputy press secretary, spoke about the president's obsession with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after a montage of him calling the landmark "a swimming pool on steroids" and saying about its controversial renovation, "nobody's ever seen anything like it."

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'It's disastrous': Expert warns Pam Bondi just put Todd Blanche in legal jeopardy

The Epstein files and Pam Bondi's testimony released on Thursday could come back to haunt Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as he approaches his Senate confirmation hearing process, a legal expert said.

During a live broadcast with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig noted that Bondi, who served as the former attorney general until she was fired by President Donald Trump in April, told lawmakers that Blanche was overseeing the release of the Epstein files and could come under further scrutiny because of her comments.

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