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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell took a shot at Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) after she refused to ban voting machines.

During a Wednesday appearance on his Lindell TV network, the pillow executive blamed "computers" for Zohran Mamdani's primary win in the New York City mayoral race.

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden (WI) snapped at the press on Wednesday, saying he knows the 2026 budget bill is bad, but that they must all compromise. As one MSNBC host pointed out, however, there was nothing to compromise. The bill wasn't changed.

"So this bill will pass. Am I happy about everything? No, but there's a difference between compromise and capitulation. We're not capitulating. We're compromising," said Van Orden.

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) delivered a blunt warning to Republican holdouts Wednesday as doubts mounted over President Donald Trump’s sprawling spending bill.

Chaffetz, now a Fox News contributor and host of the “Jason in the House” podcast on Fox News Radio, didn’t mince words as he scolded Republican lawmakers wavering on the president’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared he is “absolutely confident” Republicans will advance President Donald Trump’s sprawling megabill even as doubts swirled late Wednesday within his party.

“We’re going to land this plane and deliver for the American people,” Johnson insisted on Fox News’ “Hannity," brushing aside concerns about GOP holdouts.

CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip erupted into a heated discussion after the show's host questioned whether President Donald Trump understands the budget bill that he's trying to force Congress to pass.

The version that the House of Representatives was asked to approve Wednesday is substantially different than the version they sent the Senate at the end of May. In all, the Senate's version of the bill increased spending by roughly $400 billion, which caused some fiscal conservatives to distance themselves from it.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was cornered by CNN's Brianna Keilar on Wednesday about his heel turn on trusting the Congressional Budget Office after it produced a dismal forecast of rising deficits and health coverage decline from President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" — but he only continued to argue in defense of the legislation, trying to talk over Keilar's questions.

"I think, again, once you, you do some things like straighten up Medicaid and Medicare and you dispute a lot of the lies that are in the media about people getting kicked off, I think America understands what we're up against in this," said Burchett, who is known for getting into shouting matches on CNN. "I think once you, you allow Americans to get out and work and, and actually force those to work and get them off the couch, that some of them are on, that are in the illegals and folks that are gaming the system, I think you're going to see that this this country will, will, will bust wide open economically. And I think that's going to be a great thing for this country."

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) was stunned when confronted by new reporting on MSNBC that President Donald Trump is unaware that his own "big, beautiful bill" he is pressing Republicans to pass contains nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.

"Representative Clark, you may be able to count among the Americans who don't understand why Republicans would do some of these things, the president himself," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "This headline absolutely stopped me in my tracks today. This is from NOTUS: 'Trump still doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp about what his signature legislative achievement does. According to three sources with direct knowledge of the comments, the president told Republicans at this meeting that there are three things Congress shouldn’t touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. 'But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,' one member responded to Trump, according to the three sources.'"

CNN's Brianna Keilar and GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) clashed on Wednesday evening over whether the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had accurately calculated the impacts of President Donald Trump's budget.

According to CBO estimates, Trump's budget will grow the federal deficit by as much as $3 trillion over the next few years. GOP members have pushed back on those estimates, saying the bill will actually reduce the federal deficit because of its spending cuts.

A U.S. citizen claims in an upcoming $1 million lawsuit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents assaulted him and threw him in lockup because he was recording their activities at a Home Depot, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

The suit, backed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) says that Job Garcia, a 37-year-old Ph.D. student and photographer, was at the big box hardware store in Hollywood while doing delivery work for an online business, and took out his phone to record agents.

CNN's Jake Tapper squared off against Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) on Wednesday over the impact of President Donald Trump's domestic spending bill on the federal deficit.

Multiple economic analyses of the bill show the bill will add between $3 trillion and $4 trillion to the debt over the next five years. However, the GOP is claiming that the bill will reduce the deficit using what's known as a "dynamic score," a method that also includes future changes to the economy or public policy.

A former Jan. 6 attacker was on trial for two felony counts and four misdemeanors when he was pardoned by President Donald Trump upon entering office. Now, that man, Jared L. Wise, is being named an adviser or counselor to Justice Department official Ed Martin.

Wise, who pleaded not guilty to his charges around Jan. 6, will be advising the so-called "weaponization working group," a program under Trump's Justice Department to target prosecutors and investigators who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

Former State Department spokesperson Ned Price and Fox News host Will Cain faced off on "The Will Cain Show" on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's decision to bomb three nuclear facilities in Iran.

Cain began the segment by recounting some of Trump's foreign policy initiatives, such as his attempts to create a ceasefire between Iran and Israel and prevent Pakistan and India from starting a war. Cain then asked Price if he thought Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.