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Several House Democrats have been subjected to bomb threats and swatting in recent days, and the threats all reportedly included President-elect Donald Trump's catchphrase.

On Friday, the Washington Post reported that three lawmakers — Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Jahana Hayes (D-CT) and Jim Himes (D-CT) — were "targeted with bomb threats." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the threats ranged from “detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting," the latter of which is the term used for an anonymous caller alerting police to a situation at an address that requires an immediate armed response. Jeffries noted that the threats were "all signed with 'MAGA' at the conclusion of the message."

President-elect Donald Trump’s social media flex this week involving questionable claims that Mexico agreed to close the U.S.-Mexico border is a preview of how the White House will operate in the next four years, according to a former Republican congressman.

The episode is also a clear example of Trump’s penchant for storytelling that became a hallmark of his first term.

On Friday, Politico wrote that Republicans are gearing up for a fight over Trump's new $4.6 trillion tax cut.

Politico reported in 2018 that their analysis put Trump's tax cuts at a $2.3 trillion addition to the deficit.

A panel on MSNBC chucked at the idea that Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress tend not to learn from previous failures.

Congress returns to Washington next week, where it faces a government funding bill and a number of nominations that still need to be approved in the U.S. Senate.

Donald Trump's plan to impose gigantic new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China could theoretically draw the ire of Congress or the Supreme Court — but there's a lesser-known group that might have the power to force Trump to back down, wrote Ryan Teague Beckwith for MSNBC on Friday: the holders of U.S. Treasury bonds.

This was highlighted recently, Beckwith noted, by Wall Street analyst Ed Yardeni, who "cautioned that investors in U.S. bonds could play a critical role in forcing the incoming Trump administration to back down from its plans for an all-out trade war with everyone from China to Mexico and Canada. Reviving a term he first coined in the 1980s, Yardeni warned that 'bond vigilantes' could take action if Trump's plans go too far."

Despite distancing himself for months from the highly controversial Project 2025, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selections show his stance on the ‘right-wing manifesto’ giving Democrats worries is shifting.

And that means Trump’s vision for America when he returns to the White House could soon include many of the plans spelled out in the 900-page policy blueprint known as Project 2025, according to a New York Times report. The publication cited his recruitment of at least half a dozen “architects and supporters of the plan to oversee key issues, including the federal budget, intelligence gathering and his promised plans for mass deportations.”

Donald Trump's inauguration is approaching, and outgoing President Joe Biden is at work trying to protect some of his flagship policies that have been passed in the last four years.

Among them, the Wall Street Journal pointed to the CHIPS and Science Act, which helped increase domestic manufacturing for memory chips built in the United States. One economic expert even warned that if Trump were to kill the Biden program it could cost the U.S. up to $1 trillion.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could do a massive amount of harm as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, warned Dan Diamond of The Washington Post in a lengthy thread posted to Bluesky on Friday.

This comes as Trump is making other conspiracy theorist picks to head up major government departments, including another antivaxxer to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Businesses are employing a new tactic to boost sales, reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday: warn consumers that Donald Trump's tariffs could make them lose out on deals unless they act fast.

This comes after Trump publicly vowed to slap drastic new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China ranging from 25 percent to 60 percent — a policy economists warn could lead to massive price increases on energy and consumer goods.

Donald Trump's appointee to head the Department of Defense came under criticism from retired Naval War College professor Tom Nichols, as his limited experience in the military and inexperience in leading anything but a weekend Fox News show is causing backlash.

Nichols spoke on Friday in a podcast with The Atlantic about Pete Hegseth's appointment as nothing more than "pure provocation."