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In a massive blow to President Donald Trump's redistricting ambitions, Indiana Republicans have rejected a mid-decade gerrymander that would have erased the two Democratic-favoring districts in the state and given them to the GOP.

According to NBC News, 31 lawmakers in the state Senate voted to reject the redraw, with just 19 in favor — meaning even a majority of the 40-member Senate Republican caucus itself was opposed.

Indiana Senate Majority Leader Chris Garten (R) yelled at his Republican colleagues for opposing President Donald Trump's effort to redistrict the state before the midterms.

"Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear. You're damn right they are!" Garten shouted in a fiery floor speech on Thursday. "Political policy is political. Safe streets are political. Look at Indianapolis. Affordable electricity is political. A drug-free Indiana is political. Peace in the Middle East is political."

A new poll shows US voters’ approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy has hit an all-time low, even as the president and his officials insist the economy is the best in the world.

The latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that only 31% of voters approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, the lowest figure in that survey throughout either of his two terms in office. Overall, 68% of voters said that the current state of the economy was “poor.”

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) delivered a dire warning for his party in conversation with CNN's Manu Raju on Thursday: if they can't do anything to fix the impending health care cliff, they're going to get slaughtered in the midterms.

Bacon, a relatively moderate GOP member who is retiring from his Democratic-leaning Omaha district, gave this warning as the Senate failed to advance both the Democratic and Republican health care proposals, all but guaranteeing millions of people will see their health insurance premiums spike when the Affordable Care Act expanded subsidies expire at the end of the year.

A top FBI official struggled on Thursday to answer basic questions about antifa, a loosely organized collective of anti-fascist activists that he labeled the top terrorist threat facing the US.

Michael Glasheen, operations director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, testified before the US House Committee on Homeland Security that antifa was “the most immediate violent threat” facing Americans today when it comes to domestic terrorism.

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino declared that he would "love the honor" of handcuffing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

In a video posted on Thursday, Bovino appeared to play along as conservative influencer Nick Sortor noted that White House border czar Tom Homan said he was investigating Omar for immigration fraud.

The Senate failed to pass either of the competing plans to fix the looming health care crisis, setting up the expiration of the Affordable Care Act's extended subsidies at the end of the year with no clear plan to help people whose premiums will spike.

According to ABC News, the Democrats' plan, which was a clean three-year extension of ACA subsidies, was broadly rejected by the GOP. Four Republican senators — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Josh Hawley (R-MO), crossed over to back the Democratic plan, giving it 51 votes, but falling short of the 60 votes needed.

In a post to Truth Social, the president accused Rupert Murdoch's newspaper of writing "another ridiculous story."

According to the Journal, "U.S. investors are plowing money into Chinese companies involved in artificial intelligence, despite growing competition between Washington and Beijing over the technology."