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U.S. Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley revealed that President Donald Trump would be honored by the crowd singing "Happy Birthday" at a military parade that is expected to cost up to $45 million.

During a Tuesday interview on the War Room podcast, MAGA influencer Steve Bannon noted that Trump had been criticized for staging a parade on his birthday.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) admitted that President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" included Medicaid cuts that he insisted would "strengthen" the program.

During a Tuesday interview on Fox Business, host Maria Bartiromo asked Marshall if Republicans could identify enough additional cuts so that conservative senators would back the funding bill.

CNBC hosts Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed Donald Trump Jr. about the opportunity for "influence peddling" in the Trump administration through his family's cryptocurrency ventures.

"Is that okay for your dad to have a meme coin?" Kernen asked the president's son in a Monday interview.

Fox News analyst Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor, said he was "not in favor" of charging a man who allegedly attacked a pro-Israel event in Boulder, Colorado, with terrorism.

After FBI Director Kash Patel called Sunday's incident a "targeted terror attack," Gowdy was asked if Mohamed Sabry Soliman should be charged with terrorism.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell threatened to bring one of his pillows to his defamation trial to prove it wasn't "lumpy."

Over the weekend, Lindell talked to MAGA influencer Steve Bannon about the trial he was facing on Monday after being sued by Dominion Voting Systems and one of its employees. Lindell has accused the voting machine manufacturer of rigging the 2020 election against President Donald Trump.

A caller to C-SPAN's Washington Journal program accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of being a "liar" because he espouses Christianity while stripping aid from impoverished people.

During Sunday's program, an Oklahoma Democrat named Joe called in to speak to right-wing pundit Erick Erickson.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz called out billionaire DOGE administrator Elon Musk for deflecting questions about his alleged drug abuse.

"At the Oval Office Presser, Fox's Peter Doocy started to ask Musk about a detailed report on his allegedly frequent drug use, including ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, to the point where the article says it damaged his bladder," Kurtz noted on Sunday.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for complaining about the national debt and deficit instead of proposing solutions.

"From my standpoint, I want to see the president succeed," Johnson opined in a Sunday interview. "I want to take a tax increase, an automatic tax increase, off the table as soon as possible."

NBC host Kristen Welker confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) because she said President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful bill" would "add to the debt and deficit."

"Mr. Speaker, a number of Senate Republicans share Elon Musk's concerns that it will add to the debt and deficit," Welker told Johnson in a Sunday morning interview.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro snapped at a reporter for asking what he said was a "biased question" about President Donald Trump's tariff policies.

After an appeals court temporarily stayed a lower court's ruling that halted Trump's ability to impose emergency tariffs, Navarro spoke to reporters in a gaggle outside the White House on Thursday.

White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt why President Donald Trump did not ask Republicans in control of Congress to "make a new law" after a panel of judges struck down his ability to impose emergency tariffs.

"So many of the President's plans right now are being blocked by courts," Doocy noted during Thursday's White House briefing. "Does the President wish he would have just become a judge instead?"

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino complained that he "gave up everything" — including his wife — to work for President Donald Trump.

During a Thursday appearance on Fox & Friends, Bongino became emotional as he talked about the conditions of his job.

CNBC White House correspondent Megan Cassella reacted after President Donald Trump accused her of asking a "nasty question" because she noted that Wall Street analysts said he "chickens out" on tariffs.

The question arose during a White House event on Wednesday, where Cassella said traders mocked Trump with the acronym TACO, meaning "Trump always chickens out."