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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Trump administration retaliated against The Associated Press because the news agency declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America despite President Donald Trump's executive order on the body of water.

During Wednesday's White House briefing, CNN's Kaitlan Collins noted that officials refused to allow the AP's reporter to cover an event on Tuesday.

A Fox News segment admitted this week that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi was biased toward his agenda, which was "quite the 180" from Attorney General Merrick Garland under President Joe Biden.

During a Wednesday report, Fox News host Bill Hemmer noted that Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche, had been tapped as the Justice Department's second-highest-ranking official.

So-called Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk responded to what critics have called a "hostile takeover" of government by saying Americans got "what they voted for."

The billionaire was asked about his agency during Oval Office remarks on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump insisted that the United States would own the Gaza Strip without paying for it.

During a Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah, Trump was asked where he would find the money to buy Gaza after vowing the U.S. would own it.

MAGA activist Steve Bannon pressed President Donald Trump to have the so-called J6 Choir of formerly imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters perform at the Kennedy Center after the commander-in-chief installed himself as chairman of the performing arts institution.

"That's the high church of the administrative state deep state," Bannon opined during his Monday War Room broadcast. "He's appointed himself chairman. The J6 Choir should come and have it. We should have a special program there."

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) demanded work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid even though the majority of recipients are children, older adults, or people with disabilities.

During a Monday interview on Fox Business, host Maria Bartiromo asked Harris how Republicans could slash the budget if over 70 percent of spending was mandatory.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) first order of business in a Monday interview was to warn that future Democrats would "wipe out" President Donald Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America if Congress did not act quickly.

During an interview on the right-wing Real America's Voice network, Greene was asked about her agenda as chair of the House DOGE subcommittee and Trump's decision to revoke dozens of security clearances.

A Republican cited White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to claim that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave money to the terrorist group Hamas "for sex change operations.

During an angry Sunday morning rant on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, a Republican caller from Texas named Steve spoke out in support of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Mike Huckabee, President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, predicted that the commander-in-chief would do "something of biblical proportion" with the Gaza Strip after he said the U.S. would take "ownership" of the Palestinian's homeland.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Huckabee if he believed "we could see the United States have an ownership piece of Gaza."

Political strategist Lucy Caldwell clashed with conservative pundit Caroline Downey after she described former Vice President Kamala Harris as "vapid."

During a Sunday panel segment on Fox News, Caldwell revealed that she was "not happy" that corporations like ABC News and Meta decided to cave to President Donald Trump by settling lawsuits.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller lashed out at "radical left" judges who have blocked Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department's federal payments system.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Miller to respond to "efforts by some of these liberal judges to stop President Trump from allowing Elon Musk access to these issues."

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem refused to rule out detaining shoplifters at Guantanamo Bay with other migrants.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, host Dana Bash asked Noem about the possibility of detaining people who committed low-level crimes at the offshore detention center.

Fox News host Shannon Bream grilled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after he pushed claims that USAID was a waste of taxpayer money, noting that many of the claims from conservatives had been "debunked."

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Johnson suggested he was "comforted" by the way President Donald Trump and DOGE Chair Elon Musk were dismantling the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).