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A CNN anchor expressed astonishment Tuesday evening as a volunteer search and rescuer said he believes Texas officials are undercounting the number of flood victims by hundreds.

Ryan Logue, deputy incident commander for the United Cajun Navy, told Erin Burnett on her show "OutFront" that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was likely way off when he said 170 people were missing, 161 in Kerr County alone. That number skyrocketed from an earlier estimate of just 18.

Several provisions of President Donald Trump's mega-budget bill that were cut for parliamentary reasons could resurface in future legislation, Politico reported Tuesday.

House Budget Chair Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) told the outlet during a news conference that Republican lawmakers are formulating a plan to include parts of the bill that violated the Byrd Rule in future legislation. The Byrd Rule requires that all aspects of a budget bill must have direct impacts on spending or revenue, and cannot include extraneous matters like domestic or foreign policy.

CNN's Jake Tapper was taken aback as he reported on the rapidly growing toll from the flash floods in central Texas on Tuesday afternoon.

"Republican Greg Abbott said there are at least 161 people known to be missing in Kerr County alone," said Tapper. "We previously had been told that the number was closer to 20 for Texas as a whole, but now we're being told 161 missing. The governor vowed that each person missing will be found."

A quartet of Democratic lawmakers are warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to build a "Golden Dome" missile defense system could open the door to a corrupt boondoggle.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Reps. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.) made the case that the proposed missile defense system goes well beyond what is actually needed to defend the nation against foreign missile attacks.

President Donald Trump is claiming he does not know who ordered last week’s halt in critical U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine—a statement that immediately sparked backlash and renewed questions by critics over whether the commander-in-chief is in control of the U.S. military.

“Last week, the Pentagon paused some shipments of weapons to Ukraine,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told President Trump (video below) after Tuesday’s White House Cabinet meeting. “Did you approve of that pause?”

CNN's Jake Tapper issued a forceful rebuke of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's assertion that questions about who is to blame for the deadly flood in Texas are the "language of losers."

During a press conference on Tuesday, Abbott told a reporter that their question about who is to blame for the flood that has killed over 100 people in Kerr County is the "language of losers." Abbott then went on to describe how a championship football team never asks who is to blame, even though he said, "Every football team makes mistakes."

Russian President Vladimir Putin is laughing at President Donald Trump, said one MSNBC host on Tuesday.

Trump has been asked about Putin and the state of the war against Ukraine after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused a weapons shipment to the war-torn country.

A group of House Democrats is demanding answers from the Justice Department over their recent proclamation that the fabled Jeffrey Epstein "client list" doesn't exist, reported The Guardian — accusing them of burying information about the case to protect President Donald Trump.

"The House Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, together with 15 other Democrats sent a six-page letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, accusing her of withholding some Epstein files to protect the president from any damaging disclosures," said the report.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a stern response to a reporter who asked him who is to blame for the deadly floods in central Texas that have killed at least 110 people.

Abbott took questions from reporters during a news conference where he updated the public on the devastation from the flood in Kerr County. As of Tuesday, 109 people were dead and another 161 were considered missing, Abbott said. CNN later reported the death toll had climbed to 110.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace started her Tuesday episode of "Deadline: White House" with angry MAGA supporters demanding more information about the "files" around Jeffrey Epstein's charges, any evidence, and questions around his death.

She showed a clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi responding to a Fox News question about the "client list" of Epstein's. She said, "It's sitting on my desk right now to review." The FBI then released information saying the list didn't exist.

In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration could move forward with purging thousands of government employees, something that experts say bodes well for President Donald Trump as the case moves forward on its merits.

“All the rulings on the case to date have taken place on a preliminary or emergency basis, meaning it still must be argued on the merits,” wrote Eric Katz with Government Executive.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her colleagues over their summary decision on Tuesday to lift lower court orders that blocked President Donald Trump from conducting mass firings of the federal workforce.

"Historical practice ... confirms that, while Presidents possess some discretion to reduce federal employment, they may not fundamentally restructure the Federal Government all on their own," wrote Jackson, who frequently spars with the court's right-wing majority on rulings that hand new powers to the Trump administration.