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Reacting to the fast-moving developments on Capitol Hill in real time, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said he was stunned by House Republicans pulling an expected vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint.

The scrubbed vote came Wednesday evening as Republican holdouts refused to get behind the bill – even as President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to pass the budget ahead of the delayed vote.

CNN’S Jake Tapper launched a terse take down of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting two members of his former administration he now views as his political enemies with Department of Justice investigations.

The presidential directives came Wednesday during an Oval Office signing ceremony where Trump called former Homeland Security cybersecurity director Chris Krebs “a disgrace” and “fraud.” Trump made similar statements about former DHS official Miles Taylor, who he said was “guilty of treason,” as he asked his DOJ to probe the two former Republican officials.

President Donald Trump targeted two members of his former administration with an executive order on Wednesday and then asked if the Justice Department would investigate them.

Among the targets is Miles Taylor, who published an anonymous New York Times op-ed exposing shocking details about Trump from the inside. Chris Krebs, the other Trump target, was the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He released a statement saying that 2020 "was a secure election."

President Donald Trump was forced to try to explain to reporters on Wednesday why he suddenly offered a 90-day partial reprieve from his "reciprocal tariffs" for every country except China — and how he could be trusted to keep his word in diplomatic and economic negotiations going forward.

"What is your credibility like?" CNN's Jeff Zeleny asked Trump, in a moment captured by the pro-Trump Right Side Broadcasting Network. "Because you said these tariffs would go in effect on Monday. You said no pause, today, there is a pause. So how can people believe you?"

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate Miles Taylor, a member of his first administration who wrote a New York Times op-ed under the pseudonym "Anonymous" claiming to be a member of the so-called resistance.

"What this presidential memorandum is going to do, one, it's going to strip any active clearance that he has in light of his past activities involving classified information," White House staff secretary Will Scharf explained as he handed the executive order to the president. "It's also going to order the Department of Justice to investigate his activities to see what else might come up in that context, given his egregious behavior during your previous administration."

An expert in economics wasn't impressed Wednesday with President Donald Trump's economic approach.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, University of Michigan economics and public policy professor Justin Wolfers responded to the radical 180-degree turn Trump made on his trade war.

President Donald Trump was overheard bragging about a surge in the markets after he ordered a 90-day pause in tariffs that caused a stock selloff over the past week.

During a photo op with racing champions on Wednesday, microphones caught someone praising the president.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer spent his second day on Capitol Hill Wednesday, testifying before the House as President Donald Trump made a significant announcement about his trade war.

On Truth Social, Trump announced that he would suspend many of his tariffs again for 90 days while negotiations occur, while at the same time raising tariffs on China.

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino explained that President Donald Trump paused most of his tariffs on other countries because bond markets were "imploding."

"I mean, I want to tell you right now that Donald Trump outsmarted the world, trust me," Gasparino told Fox News host Sandra Smith. "I'm an American. I support my president,.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at reporters after President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on most of his tariffs.

During an impromptu news conference outside the White House, Leavitt announced that the 90-day pause would affect almost all countries — but would not include Chinese goods, which now face 125% tariffs because she said it retaliated.

President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on most of his so-called reciprocal tariffs while his trade representative was in the middle of defending the policy on Capitol Hill.

The president reversed course from Wednesday morning, when he urged investors to "be cool" while his trade war played out, and lowered the 10-percent duties on most nations but increased tariffs on Chinese imports to 125 percent, which seemed to catch trade representative Jamieson Greer off-guard as he testified before the House Ways and Means Committee.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of being one of the worst "anti-vax conspiracy theorists" after she interrupted him at a House Oversight Committee hearing.

The clash came on Wednesday while Garcia discussed the conspiracy theories of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.