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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) did everything he could on Monday morning to avoid answering whether Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) should remain in his leadership position or be forced out.

Although Schumer did not join the seven Democrats and one independent who voted to assist Republicans with ending the government shutdown, he has taken a beating from progressives and members of his own party for allowing the schism, which has infuriated Democrats.

The decision by some Democrats to embrace a deal to end a government shutdown without a guarantee of extending health care subsidies shocked conservative Charlie Kirk Show host Andrew Kolvet.

"They feel like they had all this momentum in New Jersey, Virginia," Kolvet told conservative pundit Ryan Girdusky on Monday. "So why concede any points? Why give in? Why open the government back up?"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrires (D-NY) torched the eight Senate Democrats who caved to Republicans Sunday night in agreeing to support a spending bill that doesn’t include an extension to health care subsidies.

Speaking with attorney and political commentator Aaron Parnas Monday, Jeffries said that he believed the dissenting Democrats had been led by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), whose own daughter – A Democratic congressional candidate – broke with her over the issue.

CNN's Harry Enten presented new data showing that Americans aren't buying President Donald Trump's assurances about the economy.

The president insists on social media there's "almost no inflation" and that "prices are way down," and he's even floated sending out tariff rebate checks, but Enten told "CNN News Central" that polling shows the public isn't feeling great about their personal spending power.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), one of the eight moderate Senate Democrats that had agreed to cooperate with Republicans and cave in the government shutdown fight, defended her decision Monday by insisting that GOP leadership’s promise to hold a vote on extending health care subsidies was sufficient to warrant crossing her party’s leadership.

Appearing on Fox News, Shaheen was asked if she had any doubts that the Senate – which has yet to vote on a spending bill that would end the shutdown – may fail to ultimately reopen the government given the pressure on Senate Democrats to hold firm in their demands to secure funding for health care subsidies.

The white glove treatment being extended to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell at a minimum security prison in Texas should prompt an investigation into the facility’s warden, suggested MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian on Monday morning.

Reacting to an NBC report and a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) that revealed that the former associate of both pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump is being given privileges that sound more like an extended resort stay and less like criminal detention, the justice and intelligence correspondent admitted he had never seen anything like it.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new series of military strikes Monday that killed at least six people as part of the Trump administration’s purported efforts to combat drug trafficking, sparking outrage over what critics have dubbed the administration’s “extrajudicial executions.”

At the direction of President Donlad Trump, the U.S. military conducted strikes on two sea vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, vessels that Hegseth alleged were “operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.”

President Donald Trump seems to be realizing that "there is no future for him" within the Republican Party, and that could make his next "desperate play" to stay relevant his most dangerous one yet, according to one analyst.

For more than a decade, Trump has faced little dissent from within the Republican ranks in Congress, David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, argued during an episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that aired on Sunday. Now, he's facing a cadre of critics from within his party, such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and his signature tariffs.

Reacting to a deal hammered out by seven Democrats and one independent senator to hand Republicans a victory in the shutdown battle with only a promise of a vote for keeping Affordable Care Act subsidies in place and little else to show for it, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire said on Monday many of their Democratic colleagues are questioning their waving the white flag.

Speaking with the “Morning Joe” panel about the deal, fashioned by the eight lawmakers — none of whom who will face re-election in 2026 — Lemire noted it was a big turnabout for Democrats who had Republicans and Donald Trump on their heels after last week's elections.