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Political analysts and observers slammed President Donald Trump's administration on Monday for its latest attempt to dismantle a government agency.

On Monday, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration made significant strides toward dismantling the Department of Education by assigning some of the agency's grant portfolio to other departments. Some of those programs include a $28 billion program that supports K-12 education, and a $3.1 billion grant that helps students complete college, according to the report.

Meghan McCain — the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — recently singled out a popular MAGA-aligned commentator over her attempt to soften deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that on the newest episode of her podcast, McCain took SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly to task for her implication that Epstein's sex crimes against minors were not as monstrous as the media made them out to be. The former Fox News host argued earlier this month that she agreed with an unnamed source who told her that Epstein's preying on teenage girls was nuanced, saying: "There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old."

CNN host Jake Tapper slammed President Donald Trump on Monday for his comments about a slain journalist while hosting a foreign leader whom American intelligence agencies concluded ordered the journalist's killing.

Trump hosted Saudi Arabian Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud at the White House on Monday. During a press conference, a reporter asked MBS about the murder of former Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Khashoggi was assassinated and his body was dismembered in October 2018 in Turkey by a Saudi hit squad that American intelligence agencies say conducted the operation with MBS's approval.

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Tuesday to slam state-level regulation of artificial intelligence, bizarrely claiming that tech companies were being forced to deliver "woke" and pro-"diversity" messages with their language models.

"Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the 'HOTTEST' in the World — But overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Growth Engine," wrote Trump. "Some States are even trying to embed DEI ideology into AI models, producing 'Woke AI' (Remember Black George Washington?)."

The FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are struggling to quash conspiracies that their current leaders used to espouse, according to a Tuesday report in CNN.

The first of these involves the ongoing saga surrounding deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, whose recently published emails link President Donald Trump directly to him.

One analyst was stunned by President Donald Trump's comments about a slain journalist during a press conference on Monday with Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia.

MBS was asked about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during the press conference. Trump jumped in to answer the question and said Khashoggi was a "controversial figure" and that "a lot of people didn't like him." Khashoggi was a prominent critic of the Crown Prince, and America's intelligence community concluded that MBS likely ordered Khashoggi's killing in 2018.

Rep. Jesus "Chuy" García (D-IL), a prominent progressive lawmaker from the Chicago area, triggered a firestorm of controversy when he announced his retirement at precisely the filing deadline to run for his district, a move that meant the only candidate who declared for the Democratic primary was his own chief of staff, Patty Garcia.

The congressman, who has said he is retiring due to health concerns and his adoption of a grandchild after the death of his daughter, has faced accusations that he effectively rigged the primary to hand-pick his successor, but denies the accusation. However, paperwork obtained by Politico seems to provide evidence that he was fully aware of and supported the effort by his chief of staff to get on the ballot immediately before his retirement.

The White House blamed Bloomberg News correspondent Catherine Lucey after President Donald Trump referred to her as "piggy."

On Friday, Lucey had asked Trump about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.

The House voted on an overwhelming bipartisan basis to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and in the end, even most heavily pro-Trump lawmakers backed the bill, as President Donald Trump, who spent months trying to keep a lid on this legislation and quell a GOP revolt against him, relented and proclaimed Republicans should vote for it and he would sign it.

But one GOP lawmaker voted against the bill: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA).