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Secretary of State Marco Rubio feels as though he is being ignored by the Trump administration and excluded from any important foreign policy decisions, reported Gabriel Sherman in a Vanity Fair article published on Tuesday.

This state of affairs was brought to the forefront by Trump's shouting match with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that saw the latter kicked out of the White House — an incident for which Rubio himself was present and did little talking himself.

A MAGA Republican put Democrats on notice Tuesday evening to not get in his face during President Donald Trump's address to Congress.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) joined right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson for a livestream of Johnson's eponymous show ahead of Trump's highly-anticipated speech to lawmakers.

Attorney General Pam Bondi didn't give the White House a heads up before her event handing out "Epstein Files" binders to far-right influencers, reported ABC News on Tuesday.

"Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team did not inform White House officials in advance that she planned to distribute the binders, which contained almost no new information regarding convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein — and now the move has ruffled feathers among those closest to President Donald Trump, including his senior White House staff, sources tell ABC News," reported Will Steakin, Katherine Faulders, and Alexander Mallin. "White House staff moved quickly to try and contain the fallout, privately reaching out to influencers who were critical of Bondi and the move online, according to sources."

The Trump administration's reported plan to possibly halve the IRS' workforce met at least one critic Tuesday — former IRS commissioner John Koskinen.

The agency plans to drastically reduce its workforce through layoffs, attrition and buyouts, The Associated Press reported, citing two people familiar with the plans. As much as half of the IRS could get the ax.

A new White House line in defense of massive layoffs throughout the federal government that have now affected military veterans triggered former CNN anchor Jim Acosta into a passionate condemnation of Trump adviser Alina Habba’s comments – and the administration's DOGE-led cuts.

“Perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment, or are not willing to come to work” Habba told reporters Tuesday outside the White House lawn when a reporter pointed out that military veterans are among the thousands of government employees who have suddenly found themselves unemployed.

Trump administration Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was confronted by CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday about her comments that people should consider raising chickens in their backyards if they want to beat rising egg prices — an activity that is itself expensive and not available to many families in cities or in neighborhoods with rules against livestock.

The president campaigned in part on lowering the cost of groceries, saying everything was cheaper when he was last president — however, since he has taken office, egg prices have soared even further, fueled by bird flu outbreaks and the necessary measures to contain it. These shortages have become so bad that Waffle House even introduced a per-egg surcharge on its menu.

Not even a day into the new tariffs against Canada and Mexico, President Donald Trump is considering some form of compromise on them — but not a full repeal or another total delay, reported Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

“Both the Mexicans and the Canadians were on the phone with me all day today trying to show that they’ll do better, and the president’s listening, because you know he’s very, very fair and very reasonable,” Lutnick told Fox Business. “So I think he’s going to work something out with them — it’s not going to be a pause, none of that pause stuff, but I think he’s going to figure out: you do more and I’ll meet you in the middle some way and we’re going to probably announcing that tomorrow.”

Florida's top law enforcement officer has launched a criminal probe against Andrew and Tristan Tate, right-wing influencers who returned to the United States last week facing allegations including human trafficking in Romania, according to a report.

The Tate brothers have been accused of forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women. Andrew Tate faces accusations of rape in both Romania and the United Kingdom, and both are under investigation into the trafficking of minors.
Additionally, Romanian authorities say Tates laundered money.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) attacked President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk and his internet crew of "flying monkeys" willing to lash out at any perceived foes.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began the discussion Tuesday afternoon by asking about attacks on judges after the New York Times reported over the weekend that Republican lawmakers want to hit back at judges who don't support their efforts. They are now threatening impeachment, calling them judicial activists.

A new legal filing by a flurry of law and governmental ethics experts urges the judge in New York City mayor Eric Adams' corruption case to consider whether Justice Department acting deputy Attorney General Emil Bove acted unethically in his efforts to have the sprawling case dismissed.

But one telling premise put forward to U.S. District Judge Dale Ho by the group was identified Tuesday as the strongest of the arguments showing how the former Trump defense attorney's actions violated professional ethics as he tried to stop Adams’ prosecution, according to national security expert Marcy Wheeler.

Critics mocked the Trump administration's latest effort Tuesday as it looks to sell or lease federal government buildings — including those housing employees of the Department of Justice and the Department of Energy.

On Monday, CoStar reported that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency initiative "canceled about one in 10 active federal commercial real estate leases."