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Anti-Trump GOP pollster Sarah Longwell warned on MS NOW that Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to deny an affordability crisis — including his bizarre Pennsylvania speech at which he told Americans they “don’t need dolls or pencils” — are backfiring spectacularly. Voters across parties, she said, now overwhelmingly blame Trump’s own tariffs and economic choices for rising prices, with even his supporters expressing frustration that costs keep climbing under a president who promised relief on “day one.” Longwell argued mounting “buyer’s remorse” has become Trump’s most dangerous vulnerability, as Americans watch him focus on billionaires, ballrooms and excuses while their grocery bills skyrocket — and conclude he owns the mess entirely.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson barely muscled the annual defense bill through the chamber after caving to GOP hardliners — and now they’re openly warning they’ll blow up the next government funding measure if he wavers. Axios reports Johnson promised votes on banning congressional stock trades, blocking a Federal Reserve digital currency, and advancing a far-right bill restricting gender-affirming care, along with a separate pledge from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to target NGO funds in Afghanistan. With another shutdown threat looming and a pivotal vote on ACA subsidies coming soon, Johnson’s shaky deal has only deepened the GOP’s own internal chaos, according to the report.

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Federal data released Thursday shows that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits surged last week, another indication of growing instability in President Donald Trump’s economy as corporations lay off workers en masse and prices continue to rise.

For the week ending December 6, new unemployment claims jumped to 236,000—an increase of 44,000 from the previous week, according to figures from the US Labor Department.

A blistering new column argues the president’s latest 500-word Truth Social meltdown — meant to defend his health and mental sharpness — instead exposes how deeply he's slipping into a world of his own making. The Daily Beast’s Michael Ian Black says the rambling post should be “Exhibit A” in any push to invoke the 25th Amendment, blasting the president’s boastful claims about cognitive tests and describing his mental state as detached from reality. As GOP unrest grows over policy failures and sinking polls, the piece portrays a White House in denial and a president unraveling in real time.

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Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL) threatened to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after accusing her of lying at a congressional hearing.

"I want to be very clear," Ramirez told Noem at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on Thursday. "You have misused resources appropriated by Congress. You've engaged in unethical behavior. You have repeatedly made false and misleading statements to Congress and to the press, and you've undermined the separation of powers and disregarded the role of Congress on the courts."

Rep. Jim Jordan set off alarms inside the House GOP this week after reportedly warning colleagues that Republicans still lack a coherent health care plan — and risk watching moderates force a vote that preserves Affordable Care Act subsidies without any conservative reforms. According to Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman, Jordan’s blunt admission sparked “ears perking up” across the room as he urged the party to craft a plan before they lose control of the issue. Speaker Mike Johnson has promised at least one health care vote this year, but the internal scramble underscores how divided Republicans remain on a policy they’ve spent a decade trying — and failing — to replace.

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