The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board was enraged Friday that the Utah Republican Party backed down from its war on public sector unions, and on Friday, the editors made their thoughts clear.

This comes after the Utah GOP, having passed a law to outlaw public sector bargaining earlier this year, capitulated as unions gathered enough signatures to place the policy up for a vote next November.

"Government unions negotiate rich salaries and benefits. Then lawmakers invariably have to raise taxes to pay for them. Rinse and repeat," wrote the board. "Government unions, unlike those in the private sector, don’t have to worry about driving their employers out of business if they make excessive demands. Public officials also have an incentive to roll over to government unions to win their support in the next election. This is why Wisconsin Republicans in 2011 limited collective bargaining" — a controversial policy that is currently under litigation.

"The reforms didn’t prevent unions from advocating for anything," the board raged. "They simply couldn’t negotiate labor agreements that bound all employees, including those who don’t want to be part of the union. In this way, the reforms ensured that public workers could advocate for themselves in negotiations with employers — and that unions couldn’t impede the success of teachers and students."

Yet "rather than defend their reforms, Republicans folded," the board wrote. "Unions turned up the heat and peddled falsehoods. Surrender tells union leaders they can bully Republicans the next time."

The board took a swipe at Utah Gov. Spencer Cox for trying to strike a conciliatory tone with the unions, saying his main goal is “to refocus this conversation to ensure government is doing its best to support our first responders, educators, and all those who serve our state.”

"Mr. Cox’s pleas for civility in public discourse have been welcome. But repealing the reforms is a show of political weakness, not civility," wrote the board. "Public unions don’t want to sing kumbaya with Republicans. They want to dominate the state’s politics. The teachers union has sued to block the state’s education savings accounts. Now that unions know they have Republicans on the run, what other salutary state policies will they try to undo?"

The Kennedy Center is reportedly in turmoil following the Trump-led board's controversial decision to rebrand the storied arts institution as The Trump Kennedy Center.

Notus reported Friday that the move ignited a firestorm among performers in addition to sparking concerns about the legality of the rename.

Musician Kristy Lee, who was scheduled to perform Jan. 14 on the Millennium Stage, told the outlet she was "in the process of canceling her scheduled performance."

And her decision reflected broader outrage within the arts community.

“I feel really badly for performers, not just for performers but for the people who work there,” one person scheduled to perform at the center told Notus, who was granted anonymity due to fears of retribution. “Kennedy Center is supposed to be a memorial, focusing on being nonpartisan. A place where people, it doesn’t matter what party they believe in, should be performing and experiencing the arts together regardless of what their party is. And it has not become that.”

The performer added: “It’s no longer a focus on the arts, and it’s very sad. And I know a lot of the people that I perform with are very sad.”

Another artist who said they planned to keep their performance date told the outlet: “Reality show personality and con artist aren’t the type of artist the center showcases.”

And yet another said Trump's name was a "stain" on the center.

Signage was installed on Friday, displaying "The Donald J. Trump and" above the original Kennedy Center nameplate.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has said the move reflected “the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out Friday after a viral video showed him leaving a Washington, D.C. restaurant following a public heckling, insisting in a Fox News interview that the confrontation was set up and blaming not only the “deranged” activist, but also the restaurant itself.

And he had a few choice words for both.

Appearing on “The Ingraham Angle,” Bessent downplayed the incident while unleashing a string of insults at the woman who confronted him and those he believes were involved.

“First of all, I’m not going to be a coward,” Bessent said. He claimed diners were actually booing the protester, not him.

“They were booing that deranged woman, who clearly, her dad didn’t pat her on the head enough when she was younger,” he said. “So now the rest of us have to live with this.” The top Trump administration official went on to say that the woman “interrupted everyone’s dinner,” and suggested he really wasn't that upset about leaving early.

“I wasn’t that sad to be interrupted because the food wasn’t very good at the restaurant,” he said, adding, “and it was also clear that the restaurant owner was in on it with her. It was a setup.”

Bessent concluded the interview by suggesting the administration would respond with a “MAGA night” in the near future.

“So don't worry,” Bessent said in the Friday night Fox News interview. “We will be having MAGA night there sometime in the next month. We hope everyone will show up for that.”