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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) launched his new podcast this week by asking MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk to help craft a strategy for Democrats.

On the first episode of This is Gavin Newsom, the California governor discussed issues such as transgender athletes in sports with Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA.

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was caught off guard on Thursday when CNBC host Sara Eisen fact checked his claims about a supposedly dire crisis of fentanyl being imported from Canada.

During the interview, Lutnick said that tariffs on Canada would only be lowered when there was a sustained drop in the number of fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon expressed opposition to extending President Donald Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefit the highest income earners.

During a Thursday rant on his War Room program, Bannon said he supported specific policies like no tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security.

Elon Musk expressed support for a presidential pardon for Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd.

The killing sparked nationwide "Black Lives Matter" protests in summer 2020 and Chauvin got concurrent sentences to decades behind bars on state and federal convictions, but conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro urged Donald Trump to pardon the former officer – to which Musk replied “something to think about" on his X social media platform.

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton on Thursday ripped his one-time boss for causing international chaos both when it comes to the war in Ukraine and the American economy.

During an interview with CNN's John Berman, Bolton said that Trump had disrupted decades' worth of American foreign policy and diplomacy by waging economic warfare against the country's two biggest trading partners.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo lost her cool with Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) after he refused to say he would cut Medicaid and other social safety net programs.

During an interview on Thursday, Gill suggested Congress could pay for over $4 trillion in tax cuts being pushed by President Donald Trump by deploying billionaire Elon Musk to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.

Brian Glenn, the pro-MAGA White House correspondent dating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), argued that House Republicans should not censure Rep. Al Greene (D-TX) for his outburst at President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress.

Glenn opposed censuring Greene in a Thursday interview on Real America's Voice despite his girlfriend's vote against tabling the motion on Wednesday.

Donald Trump was outright accused of trying to sabotage not only the U.S. government but also the economy by MSNBC contributor and Bulwark editor Sam Stein on Thursday morning.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski who listed off several new moves made by the Trump administration with an able assist from Elon Musk's un-official Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), characterized what she has witnessing as "self-sabotage," Stein to piled on.

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With co-host Brzezinski suggesting Trump's plans seem to "sort of tank the economy and increase unemployment," Stein replied, "Well, it's definitely sabotage and you read the setbacks that the administration has suffered and people might say, 'Well that's good, right?' Like some of these cuts are being reversed, these people are going to get jobs."

"But the idea that this hasn't had a profound destabilizing impact is just not true," he continued. "So let's just take the NIH indirect costs cap. Yes, it's been put on hold by courts but I've talked to people across multiple universities who are not hiring graduate assistants or faculty members in anticipation or just because of being prudent that that cap might be reinstated, right?"

"If you're looking, if you're a university and you say, 'Oh my god, yeah, it's fine for now, but in a month I may have to give up tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in direct cost support from the government. I can't hire people right now,'" he reported.

"End even if they were to rehire people, there are other contractors that depend on to do their work who are still fired. So all this is haphazard, messy, whatever adjective you want to apply to it," he added. "It is a terribly inefficient way to run the government."

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A former Donald Trump adviser downplayed the massive job losses announced Thursday, saying that Americans were getting exactly what they voted for in November.

Job cuts soared 245 percent last month to more than 172,000 – the highest level since the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020 and the highest for February since the Great Recession 16 years ago – and the government made up most of those layoffs, with more than 62,000 job cuts across 17 federal agencies, but former Trump adviser Matt Mowers told CNN that voters must be satisfied.

Sweeping changes to the federal budget being pushed through by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency flared tempers Wednesday night as two CNN guests clashed over potential cuts to fundamental government programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The moment happened on CNN’s “NewsNight” when GOP operative Shermichael Singleton accused Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky of using “scare tactics.”

Rachel Maddow ripped into the latest cost-cutting effort President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency ally Elon Musk have taken on: the unloading of government properties.

“They tried to sell the CIA,” the MSNBC host declared Wednesday during her show’s opening monologue. “The president had his top campaign donor try to sell the CIA.

A House Republican found himself under fire late Wednesday on CNN courtesy of anchor Kaitlan Collins, who pressed him on why Elon Musk — not Congress — is rooting out fraud.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) joined "The Source" to talk about the tech billionaire's private discussion with Republicans, who pushed for answers as they face combative town halls from angry constituents over the Department of Government Efficiency's mass purge of the federal government.