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Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) caused a stir Tuesday when she amplified her vocal opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration with a profanity-laced rallying cry.

The moment came at the American Federation of Government Employees, orAFGE, protest on Capitol Hill when the freshman Oregon lawmaker took the stage surrounded by cheering demonstrators.

CNN's top fact checker flagged what he called "big, startling claims" uttered Tuesday by President Donald Trump and his so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" right-hand man Elon Musk.

Trump and Musk took questions from reporters in the Oval Office as they continued to defend slapdash efforts to purge the federal workforce and root out "fraud" from the government — which federal judges have already put the brakes on, and Musk is threatening to force a constitutional crisis over.

Republican lawmakers are getting an earful from constituents back home who are angry by the swift — and sweeping — cuts Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making to the federal government, but they're reluctant to speak out too loudly against the constitutionally problematic moves.

They've so far projected agreement with efforts to pare the federal workforce to the bone, but have grown concerned about the president and his unelected adviser usurping their power of the purse. Now, they're looking ahead to the government funding deadline next month as an opportunity to push for programs they want funded while backing cuts they support, reported CNN.

There's no shortage of conflicts of interest in the new Donald Trump administration, said MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, speaking to former Republican Tim Miller of "The Bulwark."

The Office of Government Ethics has a leader appointed to five-year terms approved by the U.S. Senate, but Trump fired him late last night anyway.

President Donald Trump’s effort to undo a block of his government-wide spending freeze was dealt a blow Tuesday after a federal appeals court threw out his emergency appeal.

In a short ruling Tuesday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump’s request for the court to block an order that required agencies to lift the federal spending pause. The ruling from a three-judge panel leaves in place a federal judge’s block of Trump’s executive order stopping all government funding.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and his so-called "Department of Government Efficiency," having gained access to several different federal departments, suspended thousands of employees, and interfered with critical IT systems before being reprimanded by federal judges, are now training their sights on the Federal Reserve.

Musk has proclaimed that the central bank is "overstaffed" — and Fed Chair Jerome Powell, himself originally appointed to that role by President Donald Trump, has hit back.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace cut into Elon Musk's rambling press conference on Tuesday afternoon to say that watching Musk take over Donald Trump's event prompted her to question who is in charge of the White House.

"One: Irony died while he was talking," said Wallace at the start of a fact check.

CNN senior justice reporter Evan Perez laughed his way through a news segment on Tuesday moments after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) told reporters she believes two shooters were involved in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

“I mean, look, so to be clear we've seen no evidence to indicate that there is anything to this,” Perez said.

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.

Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba was on the White House lawn Tuesday claiming that the "separation of powers" means the president has the "ultimate authority."

However, the opposite is true, as children in civics classes are taught. The Founding Fathers sought to create a government with no supreme head like the king in England.

President Donald Trump's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is almost certainly illegal under the separation of powers — but, wrote former Labor Secretary Robert Reich in a lengthy post to Facebook, even beyond that, the timing of the move raises suspicions.

The bureau is the only federal agency solely tasked with policing financial misconduct against banks and other monetary institutions against small-time consumers.