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Republican strategist Lindy Li compared the 16 million children poised to lose food assistance on Saturday to “socialist beasts” during an appearance on Newsmax on Friday.

The ongoing government shutdown – sparked by a disagreement over the extension of government health care subsidies – has disrupted a number of federal programs, among them the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides food assistance to around 42 million Americans, including 16 million children.

An accusation by a member of the House that Donald Trump “took advantage of young girls” brought an MSNBC panel discussing the government shutdown to a screeching halt on Friday morning.

Invited on “Morning Joe” to discuss the prospect of the shutdown coming to an end, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) managed to bring up the prospect of the House reconvening, which would set in motion a vote on releasing the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files.

President Donald Trump has failed in his promises to deliver lower grocery costs, MSNBC's Chris Hayes said on Thursday's edition of "All In" — whatever he might say to the contrary.

This comes as Trump, who has put pressure on prices with a series of draconian tariffs, moves forward with a plan to import large amounts of beef from Argentina to try to control prices, which has proven highly controversial among Republican lawmakers representing areas dependent on ranching, which would suffer from the competition.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts found himself buried in criticism on Thursday after he posted a video telling conservatives that attempts to cancel a prominent neo-Nazi were "not the answer" the party needs to defeat their "political adversaries on the left."

Roberts posted the video after several conservative commentators bashed prominent media personality Tucker Carlson for interviewing avid antisemite Nick Fuentes on "The Tucker Carlson Show." Roberts argued in the video that many of the people criticizing Carlson for interviewing Fuentes are "bad actors who serve someone else's agenda."

Progressive Democrat Kat Abughazaleh, who is running for a Congressional seat in Illinois' 9th District in 2026, abruptly ended an interview with a journalist after being asked about a federal indictment she faces.

Abughazaleh was charged with one count of "forcibly" impeding an officer on duty and one count of conspiracy after she was arrested during a protest of an immigration raid in Broadview, Illinois. Abughazaleh has said she will plead not guilty and plans to surrender to authorities next week.

Progressive Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh spoke out against President Donald Trump's administration for prosecuting her after she participated in a protest against an immigration raid in her home state of Illinois.

The indictment, which was filed on Oct. 23, accuses Abughazaleh of one count of conspiracy and one count of forcibly impeding an officer. Abughazaleh told NBC News that she plans to self-surrender to authorities next Wednesday and described the incident as "political prosecution."

Former Republican Tim Miller, who hosts a podcast for the conservative anti-Trump news outlet The Bulwark, discussed with MSNBC host and former Republican Nicolle Wallace that the GOP is stiffing its own voters with slashes to food stamp benefits.

"I know food stamps is like a 90s era right-wing racist smear, but SNAP, which is sort of the new EBT — this is food assistance. [It] knows no partisan affiliation. If anything, it disproportionately benefits households in Trump voting counties and districts," said Wallace. "And it feeds a whole lot of kids who don't have any responsibility for any of the political decisions that adults make."

A panel on MSNBC shamed a few former officials who refused to speak out publicly against President Donald Trump.

National security analyst Michael Feinberg, a fired FBI agent who was pushed out for his friendship with Peter Strzok, spoke to host Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, specifically name-checking former Justice Department official Lisa Monico and ex-FBI Director Christopher Wray.

President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will resume testing its nuclear weapons, stating that the move is necessary because America's adversaries have done so.

While the U.S. has the top military equipment in the world, spending several times more than other countries, Trump wants the U.S. to start blowing things up again. The problem, however, is that the government shutdown means the people who deal specifically with nuclear issues are furloughed.

Officials from the Pentagon reportedly admitted that they were unable to verify who was on alleged drug boats before launching strikes killing everyone aboard the vessels.

After carrying out strikes on more than a dozen boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, the Pentagon gave lawmakers from both parties a limited briefing on Thursday.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied the indisputable fact that U.S. Citizens had been "arrested or detained" as part of President Donald Trump's deportation operations.

During a Thursday press conference in Indiana, Noem insisted that ICE agents carrying out deportations would "continue to operate and will continue to do this work until there is no longer anybody out on our roads and in our communities that's here illegally."

Democratic governors are quietly sharing worries that President Donald Trump intends to disrupt next year's congressional elections, according to a political insider.

The president told U.S. troops this week that he was prepared to send "more than the National Guard" into American cities as he escalates a confrontation with Democratic-led local governments, and MSNBC's John Heilemann told "Morning Joe" that high-ranking officials are growing concerned about whether free and fair elections would take place in 2026.