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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.

Game-changing questions revolving around how Americans save for retirement are beginning to emerge as President Donald Trump’s economic policies become a reality, according to business expert Rana Foroohar.

The glum predictions raised by Foroohar, CNN’s global economic analyst and associate editor at the Financial Times, came Wednesday as Trump’s tariff plan came into effect – albeit with a delay on auto tariffs.

Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) warned MSNBC's Symone Sanders that people need to pay more attention to what tech billionaire Elon Musk and his allies are doing under the hood to federal programs under their Department of Government Efficiency task force.

This came during a panel discussion of the Republicans forcibly removing Rep. Al Green (D-TX) from Trump's address to Congress when he loudly proclaimed Trump had no "mandate" to cut Medicaid, which House Republicans have laid out in their budget by directing hundreds of billions in cuts likely to come from the health care program.

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shared some choice words late Wednesday for fellow Republicans getting cold feet over Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cuts.

CNN's chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju said he spoke with both Elon Musk and Greene after Musk met with House lawmakers, some of whom have held combative town halls in recent days.

A Republican lawmaker in a MAGA-friendly district is calling on Elon Musk to back off the weekly rounds of mass firings and other sweeping changes inside the federal government sparked by the tech billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency that has wreaked havoc on government workers nationwide.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) – one of a handful of GOP lawmakers who found themselves at the center of hostile town halls – made the comments Wednesday as House Republicans prepared to meet with Musk.

Texas Rep. Al Green’s public showing of disapproval at President Donald Trump during his address to Congress continued to rumble on Capitol Hill Wednesday as lawmakers argued over the incident that one Republican said appeared to be a “continued, premediated attack.”

Green’s protest Tuesday night unfolded as he forcefully waved his cane, which prompted House Speaker Mike Johnson to order the sergeant-at-arms to remove Green from the chamber — and a floor debate the following day over whether to formally discipline him.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday scoffed at remarks critical of Democrats by one of their own – Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman – who took to X in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s speech to attack the party’s conduct in the House chamber.

The war of words between the two prominent Democratic leaders emerged as the 2024 vice presidential nominee responded to Fetterman’s comments in which he called the party “a sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance.”

Former Republican strategist Tim Miller, who now hosts The Bulwark podcast, called President Donald Trump's view of veterans "cruel and dismissive."

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace spoke with Miller and longtime veterans rights advocate Paul Rieckhoff, who founded the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

Vice President J.D. Vance seemed to shock reporters by hinting that the U.S. could conduct "invasions of Mexico."

At a border press conference Wednesday, NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley asked the vice president if U.S. forces had the "green light" to strike inside Mexico since some cartels had recently been designated foreign terrorist organizations.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday, where he refused to answer questions by committee members.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) informed Adams that the only acceptable thing a witness can do to not answer a question is declare his Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is advocating the use of cod liver oil as a measles remedy, but a physician revealed on Wednesday that a person infected with measles would have to take an extremely large dose for it to be effective.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Dr. Akshay Syal, M.D. said that this goes back to Kennedy's recommendation of using cod liver oil to treat the highly infectious measles virus leaves out key context.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) used profanity to criticize her Republican colleagues because she said President Donald Trump's policies "are not making this country safer again."

During a Wednesday hearing on sanctuary cities before the House Oversight Committee, Stansbury argued that the proceeding was "about intimidating state and local officials, attacking law-abiding immigrant families, and spending millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, both in the administration and in Congress, to make ads that are complete smoke and mirrors trying to say that Donald Trump has somehow secured America's safety."