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Reacting to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team digging through troves of U.S. citizens' private information at the Social Security Administration, MSNBC host and former RNC chair Michael Steele had a meltdown on Sunday morning.

While noting that the Department of Government Efficiency staffers are also looking at information on child support payments, and Republicans are seeking to gut Medicare, the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend," finally had enough.

"Just real quick on that point about the savings," he told co-host Alicia Mendez, "having, you know, managed the affairs of my mother before she passed away on Medicaid and my dad now on on Medicare. There are no savings there! I mean, you know, why are there no savings, folks? Because the government won't allow you to save! You can't accumulate income, there's a cap in how much you can have in your bank account, and that's roughly $6,000 if you're married. If you're not, it's half that."

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"So you know, if you're only allowed a certain amount of money to accumulate in your bank account or in order to be on Medicaid, for example, where do you save?" he elaborated.

"And now you're putting these incompetent buffoons in charge of managing the system which they have no clue about, number one," he continued with his voice rising. "And number two, [they] are sitting there making judgments over getting your private personal information and what are you going to do with that, Elon!?"

"Exactly why do you need my parents' information? Why do you need their –– and then, of course, this little ditty," he added. "You've got DOGE now going out trying to access sensitive child support information. Why do you need to know who's paying child support? Why?"

"Why are Republicans allowing him to have that kind of access?" he then exclaimed.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem insisted Sunday that the United States of America was "President Donald Trump's country."

During an interview on CBS, host Margaret Brennan noted that border crossings were at a 25-year low.

Reacting to a New York Times report that billionaire and Donald Trump confidante Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio engaged in a shouting match at the White House, former RNC chair Michael Steele urged the former Florida senator to stand his ground.

On Friday the Times reported the two argued after Musk complained that Rubio hadn't fired enough State Department staffers, with the Times' Maggie Haberman reporting Trump seemed to enjoy the squabble.

On Sunday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend" laughed at the behind-the-scenes White House drama.

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Co-host Steele took it a step further after colleague Alicia Menedez humorously compared the fight to a scene out of the teen comedy "Mean Girls."

With Symone Sanders Townsend proclaiming " What is really going on here, Marco Rubio? Stand on business, sir. I will back you up on that," co-host Steele jumped in.

"I back you up too, Marco. You're my man, do your thing, bro," Steele interjected. "Just, you know, don't let this fool punk you. You know, you stand your ground. You're the secretary of state and he is no one in this government –– period. He has a made-up title in a 180-day position –– period. And so the fact that, you know, he tries to call you out in the Cabinet meeting, you were right to push back."

"And other cabinet members should do the same," he continued. "Y'all can't do this in silence. You have to make sure that you are the one running your department. Donald Trump even came out and said as much, but, you know, this truth social tweet that, you know, 'we're all good here.'"

"No, you're not all good, no, you're not all good," he repeated. "And the fact that you love the fight, it's your whole game, because when they're fighting you feel more powerful, Trump. That is your aphrodisiac among other things that are stupid."

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President Donald Trump downplayed a stock market selloff that began immediately after he announced 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

During an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump about his admission that there would be economic "disruption" because of his presidency.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded after Saturday Night Live mocked a reported confrontation between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, the billionaire face of DOGE.

During SNL's cold open Saturday Night, Mike Myers returned as Elon Musk to lampoon a heated exchange with Rubio that had been reported in the media over who controlled government firings.

During an appearance on MSNBC early Sunday morning, the former campaign manager for Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) lashed out at where the Republican party has gone under Donald Trump with billionaire Elon Musk apparently calling the shots.

She then turned her ire on House Majority Leader Mike Johnson (R-LA) when asked about his budget proposal that may be voted on this week with an eye on keeping the government open until September.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Lucy Caldwell stated, "It's an important first test culturally around how these Republicans are going to do business. I continue to think that Democrats are engaged in an asymmetrical warfare with these Republicans, where they are still trying to make the case that in a paradigm that would require us to believe that Republicans are reasonable and rational and coming to the table, and that we there are good Republicans who are out there who are just going to come policy-make."

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"Newsflash, Sen., Mitch McConnell is basically one of our leading Republican members of the resistance –– so that's where we are," she added. "So I think that it's really going to become incumbent on Democrats this week as we go to the Hill and start hearing arguments for and against, that they really get out there loudly and aggressively."

She continued, "I think that people like [Hawaii Democratic Senator] Brian Schatz are doing a fantastic job of doing this, but we need to channel more of those voices. We need to channel more of these voices to show exactly what's going on with people like Mike Johnson, with Elon Musk, that this is just chaos."

"There is no unifying plan, and they will burn the country into the ground, you know, out of service to dear leader, Elon and Donald, so buckle up," she accused.

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Fox News host Lara Trump insisted that President Donald Trump "does not take any days off" as he was expected to play golf in Florida for the second day in a row.

During a Sunday interview on Fox & Friends Weekend, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked if she had "a single day off" since the administration began.

Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, of California, on Saturday released a video in which he explains how he believes Donald Trump and Elon Musk are "already" going after Social Security.

Schiff, a frequent target of Trump, said, "If you thought Donald Trump and Elon Musk weren't going to go after your Social Security – you thought wrong."

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow let the insults spew Friday night as she sounded off on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress over the wild – and false – claim that the government supposedly spent millions to make “mice transgender.”

The network host opened her primetime show by ripping into Trump’s whopper of a claim during his Tuesday address to Congress, which she couldn't help but poke fun at over the weak viewer ratings the spectacle attracted.

Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising executive order authorizing the United States to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrency is the “ultimate celebrity endorsement” that sent Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman into a stinging rebuke of the president's "scam."

“It’s truly amazing because, again, nobody has any idea what you do with, you know – a crypto reserve is just strings of ones and zeros on servers somewhere,” Krugman said. “What does that do for the United States?”

A vulnerable House Republican in a New York swing district was met with anger and heckling when he met with a crowd of roughly 3,000 constituents for the "Rally in the Valley" at Clover Stadium in Rockland County, according to a report.

Constituents expressed fury over his vote to ratify a GOP budget resolution that directs "savings" that ostensibly have to come out of hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, Lohud reported Friday.

Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly shaky on support for President Donald Trump's tariffs as the economic bill comes due, CNN Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian told anchor Jake Tapper on Friday afternoon.

Trump himself appears to be aware of his, he noted. He continues to announce new tariffs, today declaring a 250 percent tax on dairy products from Canada — but for the second time since taking office, instituted a monthlong partial pause on tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

A Canadian New York Times investigative reporter said that Canadians she's spoken to don't expect the trade war from President Donald Trump to be the end game.

Trump has been all over the map with his proposed tariffs against Mexico and Canada.