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MAGA world was displeased Monday after learning that President Donald Trump’s first in-person fundraiser for the 2026 midterm campaign cycle will be in support of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who’s drawn scrutiny from the more anti-interventionist wing of the president's base.

Trump is expected to join Graham in South Carolina for a golf tournament in November, according to an insider who spoke with Politico on the condition of anonymity, an event dubbed the “Trump-Graham Classic” golf tournament, with donations helping fund Graham’s re-election campaign.

The $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement operations that the Republican Party included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year led some to warn that the Trump administration was ramping up spending at anti-immigration agencies not just to fund its attacks on migrants, but to deploy federal forces against anyone it wanted to across U.S. communities.

New reporting on Monday detailed just how much U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has spent on weaponry since President Donald Trump took office—weapons that have been purchased as the administration has turned federal agents on US cities such as Chicago and Portland, illustrating how the president is treating increasingly armed ICE officers as his “private military,” as one progressive critic said.

When President Donald Trump mass pardoned nearly all of the Jan. 6 defendants, he set in motion further legal questions about the restitution some judges ordered to be paid. But it's a little all over the place when it comes to the former defendants having their restitution dismissed.

CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane provided a Monday update about former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) having nearly $400,000 in restitution dismissed.

Veteran Rich Osthoff was defrauded by ex-Rep. George Santos who, he claimed, set up a GoFundMe for his dying dog — and then pocketed the cash. Watching President Donald Trump free the disgraced congressman Friday has left him furious.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Osthoff said he was "sick to my stomach" after hearing about Santos' commutation. "For the president of the United States to stick me in the gut with a knife, and every other veteran and every other military member gets a knife to the gut."

The Republican response to this weekend's massive No Kings demonstrations showed they're ready to crown President Donald Trump as absolute ruler, an analyst wrote Monday.

The president dismissed the protests, which drew an estimated 7 million people at 2,600 events nationwide, as "very small, very ineffective," posted AI-generated video of himself dumping feces on attendees' heads and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act.

The junior U.S. senator representing a state with one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the country has been slapped with an $8 million IRS tax lien, Politico reported Monday.

Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), the former governor who assumed former Sen. Joe Manchin's seat, is tardy on making good on assessments dating back to 2009 -- debt that has followed him long before he was elected as governor in 2016.

New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba is in court Monday to appeal a lower-court decision that she she's in the position illegitimately as she has never been confirmed by the Senate.

Politico reported last month that there are a number of examples of U.S. attorneys who have not been confirmed, besides Habba.

President Donald Trump insulted Australian Ambassador to the U.S. Kevin Rudd to his face during a meeting with the country's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

During a Monday appearance with Albanese at the White House, a reporter asked Trump if he was concerned with "things the ambassador said about you in the past."

While meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Monday at the White House, President Donald Trump chided a reporter for apparently bumping into a mirror with a camera.

“You gotta watch that! You're not allowed to break that, that mirror is 400 years old!” Trump said as the White House reporters crammed into the room ahead of the president’s meeting with Albanese.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended answering a reporter's serious question about why President Donald Trump chose Budapest to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin by saying, "Your mom did."

In a Monday post to X, Leavitt confirmed that she had the interaction with HuffPo's S.V. Date after he pointed out that Budapest was a controversial choice because it was the country where Russia promised in 1994 not to attack Ukraine.

A hit-and-run driver remains at large after injuring a woman taking part in a No Kings protest in Ohio.

Witnesses say the driver of a white pickup truck deliberately drove into a group of demonstrators shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday in Jackson Township and struck a woman who was seated in the grass, reported The Repository.