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President Donald Trump confirmed he would continue to punish The Associated Press if the news organization continued using "certain phrases" including the "Gulf of Mexico."

During a Tuesday news conference, Trump was asked if there was anything the AP could do to be allowed to report from the Oval Office and Air Force One again.

On Tuesday, an NBC News reporter mentioned that sensitive Social Security data is being accessed by staff tasked with making significant cuts to the government workforce. It's a solution in search of a problem, he said.

President Donald Trump's pledge to slash the government workforce has targeted the Social Security Administration, leading to the resignation of the acting commissioner, Michelle King.

Fox News host Sandra Smith pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about whether or not billionaire Elon Musk was an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency, despite President Donald Trump repeatedly claiming his ally heads up the agency.

In a court filing on Monday, the White House said that Musk was not legally connected to DOGE in any way. Instead, he was described as a "Senior Advisor to the President."

With near-daily plane crashes, rising grocery bills, and massive infectious disease outbreaks erupting throughout the United States, CNN's John Berman on Tuesday questioned the wisdom of Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) proposing to make President Donald Trump's birthday a federal holiday.

While interviewing Republican strategist Joseph Pinion, Berman asked if crafting such proposals was really the best use of the congresswoman's time.

Pro-MAGA television host Trish Regan criticized the White House after it claimed that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) allegedly discovered that "tens of millions" of dead people were receiving Social Security checks.

"I've been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington, D.C. swamp who are trying to fear-monger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned Social Security checks," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump's former military leaders for remaining silent against the now-president's autocratic moves.

The "Morning Joe" host echoed comments from his colleague Nicolle Wallace, who said "no one's coming to save anybody" after seeing Presidents' Day demonstrations against the administration and its cuts to the government, and realizing that few prominent people have been willing to speak out against the president.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) insisted that Pete Buttigieg "has no right to say anything" about plane crashes — despite his experience as the nation's former secretary of transportation.

Mullin lashed out at the former transportation secretary in a Tuesday Fox News interview after Buttigieg demanded to know how many FAA personnel President Donald Trump had fired before a plane crash on Monday.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pummeled Elon Musk's claims about the federal budget and the sweeping cuts imposed by his Department of Government Efficiency.

Donald Trump's billionaire benefactor and his DOGE workforce have gained access to Social Security databases and other government financial systems, where they claim to have found widespread evidence of fraud.

Republican operative Brad Todd on Tuesday tried to pass off false information on CNN about Social Security payments — but was quickly shot down by fellow panelist Elliot Williams.

While discussing Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency gaining access to highly sensitive data at the Social Security Administration, Todd justified them gaining access to it by mischaracterizing a 2023 inspector general report related to fraudulent Social Security payments.

Donald Trump's administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-ranking Department of Homeland Security employees as part of a government-wide purge of anyone believed to be standing in the way of the MAGA agenda — and MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was astonished by the reasons workers could be pushed out.

The administration compiled a list of individuals to be targeted across every component of the department, and NBC News homeland security correspondent Julia Ainsley described how agency employees were looking over their shoulders.