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CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed deep skepticism that a simple "bug" caused Apple iPhones to briefly display "Trump" when users dictated "racist," calling it a "fishy glitch."

Tapper made the comment Wednesday afternoon on his show, "The Lead."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) suggested that private citizens – which he referred to as “privateers” – should be allowed to chase down Mexican drug cartels and receive a profit for their bounty as a way of easing risk to United States military personnel.

Lee floated the idea of the United States sanctioning state-sponsored piracy – a throwback to the American Revolution – Wednesday in a Fox News interview on the “Will Cain Show.”

Longtime Republican Party pollster Sarah Longwell is conducting focus groups with voters of President Donald Trump — and she's beginning to see some "buyer remorse."

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace introduced the segment, playing the comments from a participant who voted for Trump.

A Newsmax pundit argued that members of President Donald Trump's cabinet were feigning support of billionaire Elon Musk when the group applauded him at their first official White House meeting on Wednesday.

During the cabinet meeting, Trump asked the agency heads if they had any complaints about Musk or his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). However, the group applauded Musk instead of speaking up.

Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her ignorance of basic government functionality.

Greene presides over a subcommittee created to handle the Donald Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The initiative was then handed over to billionaire Elon Musk to cut as much as $2 trillion from government spending. The result has been a massive purge of government staff outside Washington.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) falsely claimed this week that the recent wildfires near Los Angeles would still be burning if President Donald Trump had not ordered the military to release water from California dams.

Boebert made the remark during a Republican press conference about government spending on Tuesday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) admonished Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) for "threats" against President Donald Trump after she vowed to "fight" his agenda.

At a Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing about USAID on Wednesday, ranking member Stansbury appeared outraged after a Republican accused Democrats of "wild and sloppy" behavior.

President Donald Trump suggested he could fire up to a million government workers who didn't respond to Elon Musk's request for an email justifying their jobs.

At the first Cabinet meeting of the second Trump administration, Musk was asked what would happen to employees who didn't respond to his request.

President Donald Trump called his Cabinet together on Wednesday morning, and he asked Elon Musk to discuss his work with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency.

An executive order established DOGE, which has taken a hatchet to government programs without any guidance or mandate from the United States Congress. The goal of the Trump administration's program is to cut $2 trillion, but it expects to cut at least $1 trillion.

CNN's Harry Enten pointed out new polling data that shows Americans increasingly mistrust Elon Musk's role in Donald Trump's administration.

The tech billionaire spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of his own money on Trump's re-election and then gained a prominent perch in his presidency, from which he's made sweeping cuts across the federal government and its workforce, and polls show that his recommendations are deeply unpopular.

The budget deal that was passed late Tuesday by the GOP-controlled House with the slimmest of margins could be the beginning of the end for the Republican party, an analyst told MSNBC Wednesday.

Speaking with host Joe Scarborough, Puck's John Heilemann said the combination of budget cuts, in addition to Elon Musk's DOGE efforts to destroy government programs, will push voters — including Republicans — over the edge.

"They're walking into a political buzzsaw here where if they think that the pushback they've seen so far at these town halls has been problematic, and it has been so bad that they're shutting them down, you can't imagine what they're about to hit," he told the "Morning Joe" host.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) disagreed with C-SPAN host Mimi Geerges after she repeated campaign promises from President Donald Trump, who the lawmaker called "a convicted felon and a liar."

During a Wednesday interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, Watson Coleman argued that Republicans paved the way to slash America's social safety net.