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The marathon House Rules Committee on Tuesday night erupted after a Democratic lawmaker accused Republicans of using the eight-week government shutdown to take a vacation.

The committee met to debate a legislative package that would keep the government open through January 2026. Part of the package includes policy proposals like allowing Republican lawmakers to sue former special counsel Jack Smith because he subpoenaed their phone records as part of his investigation into the January 6 insurrection.

A high-profile economist was befuddled by a series of claims President Donald Trump made on Tuesday during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Trump joined Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday, where the two discussed topics ranging from his future successors in the Trump family, the White House ballroom renovation project, and the impact of Trump's tariffs on the U.S. economy. At one point, Trump claimed that beef prices are elevated because "farmers are doing well." He also claimed that coffee prices would soon come down because "we're going to be removing some tariffs."

President Donald Trump and Republicans may think they won the government shutdown, but they may be on their way to signing "a ticking time bomb" of a deal, one analyst warned Tuesday.

On Sunday, eight Democrats voted with Republicans to pass a series of short-term spending bills to keep the government open through January 2026. The legislation is expected to be passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, which would end the longest shutdown in American history.

President Donald Trump's support is crumbling, former Trump administration communications chief Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday — and he doesn't even see it because he has fallen into the same "trap" former President Joe Biden did when he ignored souring consumer sentiment.

This came amid a discussion of how Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is increasingly moving away from Trump, attacking her own party, and pivoting for a potential run for higher office in a post-Trump world — a sign that longtime party loyalists are seeing the writing on the wall.

Political analysts and observers mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he made a stunning claim about immigration during an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham.

Trump has repeatedly said he wants to reduce the number of immigrants coming to the United States to "protect" American workers. However, when Ingraham asked him about a particular visa program during the interview, Trump said it was necessary to bring in "talent" because there aren't enough talented workers in the country.

A prominent political analyst was riled by President Donald Trump's latest gift to Democrats, which he argued has been misconstrued by the mainstream media.

Democrats swept several high-profile races, including the governor's offices in New Jersey and Virginia, during last week's elections, largely by centering affordability in their policy and messaging platforms. Some analysts have argued that the results show Democrats "figured out" how to discuss affordability, a claim that MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes argued misconstrues the state of the economy as a "symmetrical issue" between Republicans and Democrats.

A CNN reporter revealed on Tuesday that the Republican Party appears to be "grappling" with its messaging after receiving a "warning sign" from Americans during last week's election.

Alayna Treene, a White House reporter for CNN, discussed the impact of last week's election on Republicans during a new broadcast of "The Arena" with host Kasie Hunt. Democrats swept several high-profile races during last week's election, including the governor's offices in New Jersey and Virginia.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani insisted that he was surprised after learning that President Donald Trump had pardoned him for crimes related to trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"When I woke up this morning and someone told me I was pardoned, I said, 'For what?'" Giuliani explained on his Monday night Lindell TV program. "I thought I insulted somebody last night."

President Donald Trump has appointed 27 judges to federal courts so far in his second term, and in addition to their right-wing interpretation of the law, an analysis of the judges’ comments to senators during the confirmation process reveals a key commonality between the president’s appointees: All were willing to evade direct questions about whether Trump lost the 2020 election and whether the US Capitol was attacked by a violent pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

Demand Justice examined the Questions for the Record (QFRs) that were submitted by the Senate to the 27 judicial nominees regarding the election and Jan. 6, and found that their answers to those two specific questions were nearly uniform in many cases—repeating certain phrases verbatim and “overall, using unusual and evasive language that’s almost entirely outside the normal, historical, and common lexicon used to describe such events.”

CNN's Brianna Keilar got into a heated exchange with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who is one of the few Republicans in Congress who has said he is open to a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, but just as a temporary measure to allow time for Congress to create longer-term reform for health insurance.

When pressed, however, Lawler dodged what those longer-term reforms might look like, asserting the employer health insurance sector should be strengthened, and repeating a number of longtime GOP talking points like selling insurance "across state lines" — which has already been tried and failed.