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A Democratic strategist poked her Republican counterpart Thursday night on CNN, leading to a verbal dust-up.

The moment came between Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky and Republican strategist Scott Jennings on "NewsNight" during a discussion on the implosion of the GOP-led spending bill.

A CNN host’s persistent interjections during an interview with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) caused the exasperated lawmaker to ask if she wanted an answer – or a debate.

The moment happened Thursday night on CNN’s “The Source” when host Kaitlan Collins refused to let Lawler get by on his outrage that Democrats sunk a revised temporary spending bill that collapsed in the House amid a looming government shutdown.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is already acting like he's in charge of America rather than President-elect Donald Trump, wrote Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes for The Atlantic — and incredibly, MAGA Republicans seem to be going along with it.

This comes after Musk blew up a bipartisan government funding deal, using the threat of a primary challenge to force Republicans to strip out tons of programs from the deal including new deepfake AI regulations and funding for children's cancer research — only for a faction of Republicans to revolt against the bill for not cutting enough and killing it anyway.

Far-right Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday unveiled a grim new billboard campaign that he hopes will encourage migrants to think twice before crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in his state.

Abbott has spent $100,000 on the conservative state’s latest attempt to deter illegal border crossings – this time in the form of a set of Spanish billboards translated into messages including: “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped? Many girls are raped by the coyotes you hire,” the San Antonio Current reported.

A frustrated Vice President-elect J.D. Vance gave a curt message to Democrats on Thursday after the GOP-led House funding bill imploded: Be careful what you wish for.

Republicans fell well short of the required 290 "yes" votes to pass the bill, securing just 174. Thirty-eight Republicans voted against the deal, setting the federal government up to shut down at midnight Friday.

While House Republicans feud over the massive government spending bill that failed to pass on Thursday, another group of Republicans are facing a different kind of feud.

According to a new Politico report, MAGA allies are fighting "over the leadership of top Senate campaign groups" following Senator Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) exit from his role as the GOP's leader.

President-elect Donald Trump is demanding as part of the spending package the GOP is trying to force through that the debt ceiling be extended — or possibly abolished altogether, which Democrats have broadly rejected as a ploy to allow new tax breaks for billionaires.

But not so fast, columnist Heather Long wrote for The Washington Post — Trump's proposal is more "enticing" than it appears at first glance, and Democrats would be wise to take it in anticipation of when they eventually return to power.

The spectacular implosion of the Donald Trump-backed temporary spending bill sent Washington insiders and political observers into a mad dash to explain their position – and in some cases criticize their own party.

The last-minute proposal hastily assembled by House Republicans to avert a holiday shutdown failed to pass Thursday evening with the GOP able to scramble together just 174 “yes” votes within the party out of the 290 needed.

Chris Wilson, a prominent Republican pollster was fired earlier this month amid allegations of financial misconduct, Politico reported.

Wilson, the CEO of the GOP polling firm WPA Intelligence who worked for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), was an occasional guest on MSNBC, where he heaped praise on Donald Trump.

A defiant Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) doubled down on his opposition to the GOP's revised spending bill, which was shot down during a Thursday evening House vote.

The 11th-hour spending bill would have averted a holiday shutdown of the federal government just a day before the current funding bill is set to expire.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) went after his GOP colleagues in the House while delivering heated remarks on Thursday targeting the now-failed Donald Trump-backed spending bill as the federal government faces a looming government shutdown.

Roy didn’t shy away from admonishing his own party in his floor speech that exposed party rifts weeks before Trump returned to the White House with a Republican trifecta. The MAGA lawmaker was especially fired up by Trump’s demand that lawmakers increase the debt ceiling.

An 11th-hour spending bill that would avert a holiday shutdown of the federal government failed to pass Thursday evening, a day before the current funding bill is set to expire.

The GOP, which needed 290 "yes" votes to pass the bill, secured just 174, according to a live tally. Thirty-eight Republicans voted against funding the deal.