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White House adviser Alina Habba lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he blasted President Donald Trump's freeze on federal grant programs.

"This decision is lawless, dangerous, destructive, cruel," Schumer said during a Tuesday press conference. "It's illegal. It's unconstitutional. I spoke to my [New York] attorney general this morning... They're going to court right away."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to say whether President Donald Trump's order freezing federal grant funds would withhold health care benefits from Medicaid recipients.

During her first White House briefing, ABC's Peter Alexander asked Leavitt about the funding freeze.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt promised never to lie during her first briefing on Monday,

In the second question to Leavitt, Associated Press correspondent Zeke Miller asked the press secretary if she would vow to "tell the unvarnished truth, that is, not to lie, not to obfuscate to the American people."

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon announced that his War Room had been granted official access to the White House briefing room.

On his Tuesday broadcast, Bannon said that co-host Natalie Winters would fill the White House correspondent role.

Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) threw cold water on President Donald Trump's call to pass "one big beautiful bill" to fund the government and mass deportations at the same time.

During a Monday interview on Steve Bannon's War Room, Crane sounded the alarm on funding for border czar Tom Homan, tasked with carrying out Trump's mass deportation scheme.

MAGA TV host David Brody, who was raised Jewish but became an evangelical Christian, criticized billionaire DOGE Chair Elon Musk for a series of Nazi jokes.

During a Monday segment on Real America's Voice, Brody noted that many people had condemned Musk for appearing to give a Nazi salute during President Donald Trump's Inaugural Parade.

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher mocked former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) about reports that he paid young women for sex.

During a discussion on the Club Random with Bill Maher podcast, the HBO host sparred with Gaetz over President Donald Trump's plan to acquire Greenland.

Christian TV host Rick Green called on President Donald Trump to award the Medal of Freedom to a former deputy sheriff who was convicted of assaulting an officer with brass knuckles while rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

During a recent interview on the Flashpoint program, Green spoke to Colton McAbee after he received a pardon from Trump for crimes committed during the Jan. 6 riot.

Three Fox News hosts clashed on Sunday after one called Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) a "smart Democrat."

During a segment on Fox & Friends, host Charlie Hurt complimented the political awareness of Ocasio-Cortez.

CBS News host Margaret Brennan grilled Vice President J.D. Vance after President Donald Trump broke a promise to pardon Jan. 6 rioters on a case-by-case basis.

During an interview that aired on Sunday, Brennan noted that Vance had promised in a Fox News interview that violent offenders would not be pardoned.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo told Rep. James Comer (R-KY) that her audience was "disappointed" that his failed congressional hearings did not lead to prosecutions of former President Joe Biden and his family.

On her Sunday Fox News program, Bartiromo noted that Biden had pardoned his family members as President Donald Trump was sworn into office.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested Republican lawmakers would do nothing after admitting that President Donald Trump violated the law when he fired over a dozen inspectors general.

In the late-night purge, the White House declined to give Congress 30 days' notice as required by law when firing the departmental watchdogs.

CBS host Margaret Brennan challenged J.D. Vance on President Donald Trump's failure to lower prices despite making scores of executive actions during his first days in office.

"You campaigned on lowering prices for consumers," Brennan noted in a Sunday interview on Face the Nation. "We've seen all of these executive orders. Which one lowers prices?"