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CNN's Wolf Blitzer was stunned by a Democratic lawmaker's blistering criticism of a House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) was the first Democrat to join the Department of Government Efficiency caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he trashed the Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee headed by Greene during an appearance Thursday morning on "The Situation Room."

Donald Trump's complaint that former President Joe Biden is to blame for the terrible first quarter GDP report -- then adding that the second quarter report will also be his fault –– did not get a sympathetic ear from former GOP lawmaker John Kasich on Thursday.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ana Cabrera, Kasich –– who normally finds fault with both parties when invited on cable TV shows -- focused entirely on the embattled Trump.

After watching a clip of Trump stating, "This is Biden. And you could even say the next quarter is sort of Biden because it doesn’t just happen on a daily or an hourly basis," before adding, "The stock market in this case is, it says how bad the situation we inherited. This is a quarter that we looked at today, and I, we took, all of us, together, we came in on January 20th," Kasich begged to differ.

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Kasich first indicated that he can't understand why Trump is still sticking to his tariff plan that has been panned on both sides of the aisle, explaining, "I have a hard time as I sit here thinking about this on why do they keep hanging with this stuff. I mean, this is not working."

Noting he had similar battles when he was governor of Ohio, he added, "I mean, I got beaten to a pulp over my views and at some point I said, 'You know, I guess I'm not right'."

Turning to Trump's Biden-blaming, he continued, "You can't blame Biden. I mean, what, are you kidding me? That's like the dog stole my, you know, ate my homework. I mean, it doesn't work, nobody's going to believe that."

"I mean, the core supporters of Trump might or they'll say, give them more time, is what they normally say, but I don't think that blaming it on Biden –– that's such an old song," he told the MSNBC host.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell used a National Day of Prayer event to promote his bed sheets and crosses from the White House lawn.

Ahead of President Donald Trump's speech at the White House prayer event, Lindell spoke to MAGA influencer Steve Bannon from outside the West Wing.

Criticism of Donald Trump's first 100 days was not limited to Democrats and cable TV hosts as the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" illustrated on Thursday morning.

While the president's Cabinet gave him fawning praise in a press availability on Wednesday, the president was taking a beating from three conservative podcasters on the conspiracy-minded PBD podcast.

On Thursday, co-host Mika Brzezisnki introduced a supercut from the podcast and commentators Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnik and host Patrick Ben-David took turns poking the president over tariffs and the faltering economy.

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Brzezisnki introduced the clip by explaining, "Some supporters of the president are expressing disappointment in his first 100 days in office. Here's a listen at some remarks from one popular pro-Trump podcast."

The clip began with a grim Tom Ellsworth telling his audience, "Overall, first 100 days? I give it a C-plus and I get there this way," he explained. "An A -minus on the plan, but a C-minus on the execution. I thought he had too many things going at once picking on the the Fed [Jerome] Powell. But I gave the plan an A, but the execution got messy and so overall I give it a C-plus."

A more animated Adam Sosnick complained, "I thought that the first, I don't know, month was awesome. He was signing all these executive orders, he's doing his thing and then April 2nd Liberation Day, where he liberated America of, like $5 trillion worth of wealth and nobody saw it coming."

"So I don't understand the methodology for what he was doing with liberation?" he pointed out before joking, "I would have been better if he just dressed up as Liberace day and started doing a samba dance or something like that. But Liberation Day has backfired."

Host Bet-David added, "But results at C minus, first 100 days when you go purely with results. We were told day one there's going to be peace with Russia and Ukraine. It's day 100, there's no peace there, it's worse."

"I thought there was going to be a deal being done there," he complained. "It's a C-minus and I voted for this guy in '16, in '20 and '24 gladly, happy I did, and it's a C-minus today."

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Mark Halperin, the first journalist to report that President Joe Biden was dropping out of the 2024 race, believes that President Donald Trump has given Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "one more chance" before firing him.

During a report on Thursday, Halperin revealed that U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and other members of his team were on the chopping block, with firings expected to come before next week.

Mark Halperin reported Thursday morning that the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, is about to leave his job along with his deputy, Alex Wong, and others on the national security team.

Posting on X, Halperin, who founded the interactive media platform 2WAY, reported that there is "unhappiness throughout the national security establishment" as well as the White House, State Department, Treasury Department and elsewhere.

Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, singled out his first moments speaking with Donald Trump for an interview that appeared in the magazine this week that he found notable for explaining the president's state of mind.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, Goldberg –– who is at the center of the "Signalgate" scandal that has rocked the White House and put Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under further scrutiny –– claimed the current president seemed overly eager to talk about his predecessor in the Oval Office, Joe Biden.

If Donald Trump tuned into MSNBC's "Morning Joe," on Thursday he likely was not happy that financial expert Steve Rattner had nothing good to say about the Trump economy based on the latest economic news –– and then predicted things are about to get a lot worse.

Standing before an array of charts, the "Morning Joe" regular pointed to indicators that consumer confidence is in collapse and Wall Street is in turmoil because of the president's tariff trade war.

After noting Trump was not the president for the entire 90 days of the recently concluded quarter, Rattner told co-host Joe Scarborough, "When you strip it all apart, it does appear that the economy grew by a couple percent in the first quarter; that I would put on Biden when Biden was the president for a month of that, plus, it was his economy that Trump inherited."

"So I'd give Biden credit for what was actually not a bad GDP number," he added. "We got to look ahead, there was a jobs number yesterday from ADP, we're going to get another jobs number this Friday, but the ADP number that came out yesterday showed roughly half as many jobs being created last month as the month before so you may start to see some effects of Trump."

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"But, but, I –– but looking ahead it's all bad, there's nothing but gloom out there in the business and the investor community," he admitted.

Host Scarborough then contributed the "next 100 days would be telling."

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Tariffs have emerged as Americans' top economic concern, and CNN's Allison Morrow said president Donald Trump's trade wars may have already tipped the U.S. economy into a recession.

The Commerce Department issued a report Wednesday showing the gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter, the first drop since 2022, and consumer confidence has fallen for five straight months, all of which has sparked fears of a recession.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning joe," noted financial journalist Steve Ratner suggested Elon Musk got a lesson in humility during his time in Washington after seeing his creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under-perform at the same time he damaged the reputation of his Tesla auto company.

On Thursday morning the co-hosts on the MSNBC morning show first addressed Donald Trump trying to blame the latest terrible economic news on President Joe Biden –– and also preemptively blaming the next quarter on Biden too –– with Mika Brzezinski observing, "The future is not looking bright because he's already trying to blame it on Joe Biden, which is what he does with bad news."

Discussing the tariffs having a deleterious effect on the economy, Rattner made a leap to talking about billionaire Musk.

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"This is another example of a businessman who's never set foot in Washington going to Washington and thinking they can fix things and finding out that this is not –– the federal government does not run like a private company," Rattner stated. "And he ran into his own chainsaw, in effect, and it's just another example of that on steroids, of course, because we've never seen anything quite like it."

Returning to the original topic, he added, "Look, on the economy, the first quarter GDP number was a little bit illusory. It was very messed up by some tariff stuff and things like that, but the fundamental point is that Trump inherited an economy that was firing on all cylinders. It was growing at about 2.5 percent a year. We had low unemployment, we had low inflation. Business was operating, they were making investments, they were going about their affairs and now we have chaos."

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Recently-elected Democratic National Convention Vice Chair David Hogg and veteran Democratic strategist James Carville vented their feud with a heated debate on the Tara Palmeri Show on Wednesday, in which Carville blasted Hogg's plans to encourage primary challenges to certain long-time Democratic incumbents.

Hogg, a Gen Z student activist and school shooting survivor who was elected to the DNC at the start of the year, has pushed people to donate to his PAC, Leaders We Deserve, to elect more young people and to mount contests in districts where he believes Democratic incumbents are complacent and not representing their voters.

Television host Stephanie Ruhle warned Wall Street and Main Street sources are fully reacting with “paralysis, anger and devastation” at what Trump is doing to the economy.

Recent numbers predict the U.S. economy will be shrinking for the first time since a major pandemic, in complete contrast to the last presidency. Now, Wall Street leaders and business owners who supported Trump in 2024 are horrified at their vote.

President Donald Trump "absolutely" complicated his administration's efforts to defy a Supreme Court order to "facilitate" the return of a Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, a CNN legal analyst said Wednesday.

Elie Honig joined Anderson Cooper on Cooper's eponymous show and was asked whether Trump's comments in an exclusive ABC News interview "complicate[d] things for the administration."