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Fox News host Shannon Bream confronted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to take a "victory lap" because the Kremlin believes President Donald Trump "abandoned Ukraine."

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream told Hegseth, "Russia apparently is planning to declare victory tomorrow."

Republican Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) went on CNN comedy show “Have I Got News For You” Saturday — and found himself in enemy territory.

The frequent supporter of Donald Trump was the recipient of multiple barbs as the panel discussed the president’s first month in office and Elon Musk-led slashing of the government workforce.

A CNN data expert took a fresh look at Donald Trump’s first month in office Saturday — and came to the conclusion that ”it ain’t good.”

And the bad news wasn’t just for the president.

President Donald Trump shut down the Conservative Political Action Committee Saturday with a meandering speech that roasted his predecessor, Joe Biden — and bragged of liberating the United States.

The official White House Twitter account followed up by posting video celebrating that Trump performed his “iconic” dance.

Elon Musk issued a confusing order to all federal workers Saturday — and told them failure to comply will result in their immediate firing.

The message sent on his social media network X came amid weeks of massive culls that have seen thousands of government staffers lose their jobs — and Musk proudly waving around a chainsaw at the Conservative Political Action Conference as he apparently relished the cuts that the Department of Government Efficiency, which he heads, has overseen.

A prominent member of "Black Americans for Trump" organization parted ways with the president on CNN Saturday morning over the slash-and-burn methods of Elon Musk's DOGE that is devastating the families of fired federal workers.

According to GOP strategist Melik Abdul, an acquaintance of his lost his federal job in a rural community as part of the purge after only being on the job for six months.

After CNN's "Table for Five" Abby Philip shared clips of Jesse Watters of Fox News "freaking out" about the federal worker purge after a veteran getting "DOGE'd," as the Fox host put it, after previously gleefully calling the mass firings "a blessing from heaven above," Abdul chimed in with a similar story.

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"It seems like that Jesse Watters agrees with me that Republicans should stop demonizing federal workers," he told the panel.

"To his point, I know a guy down in Alabama, first time getting a government job. He had, you know, fresh out of college, had been trying to get a job for a couple of years now, finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he's laid off now," he reported. "So his kid, his wife, all of that promise, it's totally gone."

"And I think your point is right," he elaborated. "Once people start seeing –– because when we think of federal government, for many anti-government people, they think DMV, meaning D.C., Maryland and Virginia, they don't see federal government as someone working, living in a rural area of Mississippi, commuting to a job at the Department of Agriculture. They don't see them as federal workers, which is why it's always easy to just say, 'Shut them down, they'll get paid.' That's not how it works."

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Normally mild-mannered CNN host Michael Smeroconish shut down an investment firm CEO on Saturday morning who has been pitching what he calls a "DOGE dividend" where government savings would be refunded to taxpayers.

Simply put, the CNN host dismissed the proposal as an attempted fraudulent scheme being used to sway the public to support for Donald Trump-appointed Elon Musk's highly controversial gutting of the U.S. government.

During an appearance on Smerconish's Saturday show, Azoria CEO James Fishback attempted to explain his proposal, which he claims would result in taxpayers getting a rebate of $5,000 per household if Musk hits his goal of $2 trillion in savings.

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As he told the CNN host, "President Trump brought up on Air Force One is that these DOGE dividends will incentivize Americans to report waste, fraud and abuse in their own community. Why? Because the more that DOGE saves, the bigger their DOGE dividend check will be. Remember in economics, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome we're giving every American."

Smercoinish wasn't buying it, once equating the plan to a Ponzi scheme, before starting to wrap up the segment with, "There's so much fallacy in what you just offered, please."

"I have a very simple premise here: we're $36 trillion in debt –– it's a fraud," he told his guest. "As much as I want to see us cut waste, fraud and abuse, it is an absolute fraud to say to the American people because of what Musk is doing, we have five grand to give each of you."

"The only way we have five grand is if we're borrowing it, because we're that far in debt," he continued before offering, "I'm trying to meet you halfway, which is simply to say, what a good thing that finally we're going to look at waste, fraud and abuse, albeit it shouldn't be in this haphazard fashion. But let's at least be honest with the American people that whatever we quote unquote 'save,' we already owe."

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Former Donald Trump administration adviser and Fox News economic commentator Larry Kudlow delivered some ominous words for the president in a segment Friday, warning that key economic indicators signal stagflation could be brewing.

"There could be some short-term, one-off price hikes," said Kudlow on Fox Business. "But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good."

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) made a floor speech in the Senate this week after President Donald Trump alleged that Ukraine started the war with Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine starting in 2014 and continued with a full-scale invasion in 2022.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) was scheduled to appear on CNN Friday to discuss his disastrous town hall the day before.

But according to CNN anchor Jake Tapper, he bailed at the last minute.

President Donald Trump took it upon himself Friday afternoon to call out a White House reporter on live TV for having the gall to ask him a prepared question.

The moment came Friday during a question and answer segment when Trump stopped a reporter mid-sentence to deliver a presidential scolding over how she was asking her question.