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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin turned his first House budget hearing into a shouting match Wednesday, repeatedly interrupting a Democratic congressman grilling him over his use of what the lawmaker called an $80 million luxury jet — forcing the Republican chairman to threaten to shut the whole thing down.

Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) came loaded for bear, confronting Mullin over flight logs showing the secretary regularly uses a Gulfstream G700 — one of two luxury jets purchased by his predecessor, Kristi Noem, for up to $200 million during a government shutdown — to make near-weekly trips home to Oklahoma.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) put Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the hot seat Wednesday over President Donald Trump's unprecedented stock trading, demanding to know whether the White House should face the same scrutiny Bessent himself once said Congress deserved.

The exchange, at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Trump's FY2027 budget, turned combative fast.

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) appeared to storm out of a congressional hearing on Wednesday following a tense exchange with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whom she accused of concealing lucrative private contracts over Venezuelan oil revenue that remains under Trump administration control.

Following the Trump administration’s military operation in January to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – which was succeeded by a U.S. takeover of the country – Rubio revealed that the United States would “retain control” of Venezuela’s oil revenue. Since then, Democrats have called for an audit of what they described as the Trump administration’s “secretive financial arrangement using offshore accounts to disperse Venezuelan oil revenue.”

A tense exchange at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday turned into a dramatic public confrontation over President Donald Trump's health, as Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) played three videos he said showed Trump sleeping at official events — then accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio of lying to Congress when Rubio denied ever witnessing it.

Rubio was testifying on the FY2027 State Department budget request when Lieu announced he would show footage from the December 2, 2025, Cabinet meeting — a session where Trump appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open during extended stretches while Cabinet officials gave updates, including Rubio himself.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the State Department's FY 2027 budget turned into a shouting match Wednesday when Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) unloaded on Secretary of State Marco Rubio over a string of Trump administration national security appointments — and refused to let Rubio laugh it off.

Keating opened by putting Rubio on the spot, asking whether — in all his years vice-chairing the Senate Intelligence Committee — he had ever heard of Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump's newly named acting director of national intelligence.

Mike Pence faced some pushback on CNN in his defense of President Donald Trump's policy priorities.

Trump's former vice president appeared Wednesday morning on "CNN News Central" to promote his new book, "What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience," and he justified some of the president's policies, including tariffs, that he personally did not support.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on Fox News Wednesday to defend the Trump administration against Democratic criticism over gasoline prices spiking amid the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, and provided a stunning explanation for the record-setting price surges.

Fox News’ Bill Hemmer cued a compilation clip of Democratic lawmakers criticizing the Trump administration for its war against Iran, placing the blame for rising energy costs squarely on the decision to launch the war. And yet, Wright insisted that the blame lay elsewhere.

President Donald Trump has faced a rare wave of bi-partisan scrutiny over his pick to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and on Wednesday, a raunchy video resurfaced that may pose even more problems for the Trump nominee.

Recorded in 2023 in Florida at a mock-stock event, Bill Pulte – the current Federal Housing Finance Agency director and Trump’s pick to become DNI – is seen on video receiving a trophy with the inscription “Bill Pulte f----.”

President Donald Trump was pressed in an interview published on Wednesday about the soaring inflation caused by his deeply unpopular war against Iran and its impact on Americans, a line of questioning the president responded to by blurting out a blatant falsehood – one that coincided with reports that directly contradicted his claim.

“In your first term, I think that was one of the hallmarks, that peoples' wages – especially working peoples' wages – were rising much faster than inflation,” said The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in a video interview recorded in the White House.

President Donald Trump admitted in an interview published Wednesday that he lobbed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an explosive phone call on Monday, citing his growing frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt its invasion and bombardment of Lebanon as the cause for his outburst.

Details of the supposed call were first reported on by Axios, which claimed Trump had called Netanyahu “f------ crazy,” and said that “everybody hates you” and “hates Israel.” Trump also reportedly told the prime minister that he’d “be in prison if it weren’t for me,” with Netanyahu having been indicted on corruption charges by the Israeli government, and for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.