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Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) admitted that he voted for a Republican budget that would cut thousands from the Medicaid rolls without lowering the "quality of care" for those who are left.

During a Thursday interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, host Mimi Geerges noted that Bacon had been critical of Medicaid cuts but voted for them anyway.

CNN political analyst Mark Preston on Thursday said that President Donald Trump appeared to be openly threatening his own cabinet officials not to get in the way of X owner Elon Musk's efforts to take a wrecking ball to the federal government.

During an interview with host Sara Sidner, Preston said that Trump's first gambit to shut down the United States Agency for International Development looks like just the opening salvo in a broader attack on the government as a whole.

According to Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick, the Washington Post is facing the possibility of an exodus of hundreds of employees who have no faith in owner Jeff Bezos after his latest controversial move.

Moments after legendary Washington Post editor Marty Baron appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to criticize the billionaire Amazon owner's ruling that the venerable paper's editorial page will only parrot his "particular point of view," Remnick, who got his big break at the Post, joined the pile-on.

While speaking with the MSNBC hosts, Remnick claimed more employees with follow editorial page editor David Shipley out the door as soon as they land jobs with the Post's competitors.

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"The thing that concerns me the most about what Bezos announced yesterday, and you mentioned the word fear, was that the fear that he must have that he obviously does have and other billionaires have it, other tech pros have it that it creeps onto the reportorial product," MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle prompted Remnick. "That is a real fear that I have. Do you share?"

"Of course, I have that fear," Remnick exclaimed. "I haven't seen it, to be honest, in the newsroom of the Washington Post, but I do know that the fear and anxiety has leached onto the newsroom floor so that, according to people at the Washington Post, not a few people have applied to flee the Post for the New York Times, but hundreds of people at the Washington Post have applied for jobs elsewhere, particularly the Times, the Post and so on."

"They know that this is just not one event in the same way that killing the endorsement of Kamala Harris was not just one event," he added.

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CNN's Kate Bolduan remarked on a commentator's "sour" reaction to a conservative's justification for Elon Musk's sweeping cuts to the federal workforce.

Republican political consultant Terry Sullivan, who helmed Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid, argued on "CNN News Central" that current levels of federal spending were unsustainable, and he celebrated the unelected tech mogul's seemingly arbitrary cuts to wide swaths of the government.

MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta called out newly installed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday morning after the Donald Trump appointee tried to downplay the alarming growth of measles cases that has now resulted in children dying.

Addressing the outbreak that is devastating counties in parts of Texas where vaccination rates are low, Kennedy, who is not a medical professional, stated, "Incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country, last year there were 16. So it’s not unusual.”

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," a visibly fuming Gupta took issue with Kennedy's glib and purportedly uninformed comments.

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"Just fact-checking RFK, it's important to realize between the years 2020 and 2023, on average we saw about anywhere from 50 to 100 cases in total in those years between 2020 and 2023," the pulmonologist stated. "So, no, this is no just business as usual, this is unusual."

"We've seen 124 cases and its February 26th," he added. "So something unusual right now is happening and let's just also put a finer point on it. His former organization that he just resigned from is actively putting out information as we speak this week, stating that somehow the vaccine itself, because quote unquote, 'it's ineffective,' to use their words, is the reason why this is happening in Texas, this outbreak versus the low vaccine rate. "

"So this is happening," he accused. "This organization is putting out this information. I don't know a single credible doctor that you would want caring for your family or for your loved one that believes or wants any of this."

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One of Donald Trump's former staffers was struck by something "highly unusual" that developed during the president's first cabinet meeting in his second term.

The president gathered his Senate-confirmed, top-ranking agency heads around a table, where they remained largely silent as Trump publicly challenged them to speak out against Elon Musk, who has been derisively described as his "co-president," and he turned the meeting over to the tech mogul standing at the opposite end of the table before taking questions from reporters.

MSNBC host Ali Vitali was at a loss for words very early Thursday morning after watching a clip of Donald Trump pitch selling citizenship visas for millions, claiming he could raise trillions of dollars to the point where the U.S. government would be sitting on excess money.

That led the host of MSNBC's "Way Too Early" to issue a puzzled, "What!?"

In a televised Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the president riffed on his proposal, and claimed he could sell millions of the high-priced $5 million "gold cards," adding they will "sell like crazy."

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Trump suggested that the new revenue generated from his proposal could be used to pay off the country’s debt and asserted "If we sell a million, that’s $5 trillion dollars,” before continuing, "If we sell 10 million, which is possible, 10 million highly productive people coming in or people that we're going to make productive. They'll be young, but they're talented, like a talented athlete. That's $50 trillion. That means our debt is totally paid off, and we have $15 trillion above that."

He then added the caveat, "Now I don't know that we're going to sell that many, maybe we won't sell many at all, but I think we're going to sell a lot."

Following showing the clip, Vitali asked for help from guest Margaret Talev, Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, for help understanding what Trump wants to do.

'What!? I mean, is this real? Can they do it? What would it look like? Just because you say it in a Cabinet meeting doesn't make it a thing," she prompted her guest.

"The president certainly knows how to make a splash," the amused Talev replied. "I think we've seen some dynamic branding over the last few weeks and this is another example of that."

"I would take anything that he says seriously as a starting point at this point, because it's either going to make a flurry of activity where something else happens or it's going to happen so either way, something's going to happen," she added. "But I think part of what you're hearing here is sort of magical math."

"We're entering an era –– an era where there could soon be another shutdown, that he wants to do a renewal of his tax cuts that could cost about the same magic amount that he just did the math on right there," she elaborated. "So I think it's pretty highly unlikely that a gold card will pay for the tax cut plan."

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House Speaker Mike Johnson was pressed on his chamber's budget, which narrowly advanced along party lines despite swirling questions that it opens the door to cuts to Medicaid.

Johnson joined "The Source" late Wednesday to discuss the budget, and faced multiple questions over whether his party's budget essentially calls for slashing funding for Medicaid, a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income Americans.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) has a warning for veterans: you'll have to "contribute" to society if you need food assistance.

As part of their many economic proposals for how to pay for President Donald Trump's tax, border, and energy agenda, Republicans have introduced a bill called the America Works Act, which would toughen work requirements on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly known as food stamps.

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn claims ex-FBI Director James Comey probably wanted to have him whacked.

"I knew that we had to fight through this, and it was not easy," Flynn told far-right webcaster Benny Johnson in an interview on Wednesday. "But we were able to stand our ground, we figured out a way out of it, my case was dismissed by the Department of Justice. And, you know, what they should have done was they should have killed me there, Jim, and I know that they considered it. And so, by not doing that, they picked the wrong family to mess with, and I'll tell you, we are so tied into the government, particularly the government right now."

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) didn’t mince words while launching into a forceful condemnation of President Donald Trump’s sudden shift on Ukraine in a CNN interview where he blasted the administration as a historic disgrace.

The criticism came Wednesday in response to remarks Trump made during the first cabinet meeting of his second term, where he ruled out offering U.S. security guarantees – or NATO membership – for Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky.

President Donald Trump's new plan to let foreigners gain citizenship if they buy a $5 million gold card was compared to a money laundering scheme by a former Obama administration official Wednesday.

Rick Stengel, who served as undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, joined MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House."

Actor and comedian Michael Ian Black has a major bone to pick with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) – and he didn't hold back his feelings Wednesday.

“Congressman Mike Lawler lied to my face,” Black wrote in a Substack post. “And when a sitting congressman comes to my ‘house’ and lies to my face, I’m not going to forget it.”