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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) forced a vote on adjourning a Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee hearing because it focused on transgender women in sports instead of government spending.

During Wednesday's DOGE hearing, Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused "mentally ill biological men" of competing in women's sports, "stealing their competitions, stealing their medals, and stealing their national championships."

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) shared a lighthearted moment during a congressional hearing.

President Donald Trump's treasury secretary appeared Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee to discuss the international financial system, and Waters started off her questions by asking whether they had met before.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) scolded Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after he declined to provide details about an effort to place Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

During a Wednesday House Financial Services Committee hearing, Beatty repeatedly shouted at Bessent for talking over her.

Attorney General Pam Bondi offered another excuse this week for the delay in releasing files related to wealthy sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Over two months after Bondi initially claimed she was releasing the Epstein documents, the attorney general was asked about the delay on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump sparked guffaws and chuckles from panelists on "CNN This Morning" with his plans to rename another body of water.

The U.S. president plans to announce on his upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia that he will direct the government to refer to the Persian Gulf as the Gulf of Arabia, but some Republicans – especially Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who has emerged as a GOP Trump critic – intend to vote against legislation renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) took the side of her colleague across the aisle, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), when questioned by CNN's Jake Tapper about predatory law firms targeting veterans who were sickened by toxic water on the Camp Lejeune military base.

"I also wanted to ask you about a tense moment from today's hearing involving your Republican colleague," said Tapper. "Here he is talking about capping contingency fees for Camp Lejeune attorneys who represented sick Marines and others."

House Committee Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Tuesday escalated his criticism of the Trump Justice Department in a new interview where he questioned whether government officials are deliberately blocking the release of the long-awaited Epstein files – and whether the files even still exist.

“Hopefully, someone has a copy of that, and I hope we find out because our task force has done everything,” he said.

As Raw Story reported Monday, the toy company Mattel announced it scrapped its financial forecast for the year, explaining that President Donald Trump's tariffs "make it hard to predict consumer spending," The Wall Street Journal reported.

It prompted a reporter to comment that this is the worst possible outcome for President Donald Trump's trade war. Among the tariffs he issued is a 145% tariff on China. While Mattel has been shifting manufacturing out of China, it still makes about 40% of its toys there.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Tuesday episode of "Deadline: White House" discussing President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with Canada and particularly with China.

Speaking to The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, Wallace noted, "America just elected a felon for the first time in her history because eggs were too expensive and other stuff. And now that person who ran for office, the highest office in our country's politics, isn't just saying that things are going to be more expensive. He's saying you don't need those things. You don't need 34 of one thing. You only need two. That thing is a doll."

CNN host Kasie Hunt began her Tuesday show citing "one flashing red economic warning sign arriving on American soil."

At the top of her show, Hunt described the first shipping container vessel containing Chinese goods that floated into the Port of Los Angeles as only "half full."

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed that he asked President Donald Trump to stop calling Canada the "51st state."

Carney spoke about his conversation with Trump following a meeting at the White House.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) is not on anyone's radar as a foe of the Trump agenda — he even came under controversy for being present at the Jan. 6 attack, though he was never charged with any crimes.

But he poses a threat to President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," consolidating tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security — and he doesn't seem overly concerned about how hard that makes his GOP colleagues' jobs.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) attacked a former staffer for leaking information for what he called a "hit piece" in New York Magazine that raised questions about his mental health.

The piece published Friday cited staffers "past and present [who] say they no longer recognize the man they once knew."