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Republican staffers on the House Agriculture Committee are warning industry groups to either rally behind the committee’s slashing of $300 billion in nutrition spending – or risk getting shut out entirely, according to a new report in Politico.

That was the message from the House committee’s policy director, Trevor White, who sent an email Tuesday urging agricultural lobbying groups to publicly support the GOP’s sweeping bill, or risk the possibility of receiving none of the $60 billion in farming investments tied to the legislation, Politico reported.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of attempting to “launder” a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari government through the U.S. Defense Department – a so-called gift the lawmaker said is “a clear violation of the Constitution.”

“This is a massive $400 million gift to Donald Trump,” Schiff said Wednesday during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching a bizarre crusade against Big Toothpaste — and it's left the conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal scratching their heads.

"Mr. Paxton said last week he is investigating Colgate-Palmolive Co., which makes the Colgate brand paste, and Procter & Gamble, which makes Crest," wrote the board. "Their offense? He says they’ve been 'marketing toothpaste products to parents and children in ways that are misleading, deceptive, and dangerous.'"

One of the first white South African refugees welcomed to the United States by the Trump administration this week has been tied to social media accounts that spewed antisemitic comments, according to a report.

President Donald Trump's administration welcomed a group of 59 Afrikaners to the United States this month. The move was part of a new White House policy that prioritized the resettlement of white South Africans, primarily Afrikaners, citing fears of racial discrimination and violence against them in South Africa.

Legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen kicked off this year's European tour with a fiery tirade against President Donald Trump.

According to Rolling Stone, Springsteen, performing in Manchester, England, issued the rebuke before launching into his hit song, "Land of Hope and Dreams."

The fierce back and forth between border policy adviser Tom Homan and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) saw no signs of slowing Wednesday after the progressive lawmaker accused him and other Trump administration officials of breaking the law in their border security efforts.

“If anyone’s breaking the law in this situation, it’s not the members of Congress. It’s the Department of Homeland Security. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram post. “You lay a finger on…any of the representatives that were there – you lay a finger on them – we are going to have a problem.”

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) got into a bitter, public fight on social media on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's sweeping budget bill on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security.

Lawler, like some other members of the New York delegation, is currently opposing the bill because it only includes a partial, rather than full, repeal of the cap on state and local tax deductions, or SALT. Republicans representing districts in higher-tax states like New York have demanded to eliminate this cap. While Republicans themselves passed it in 2018, thinking it would mostly raise revenue from Democratic-controlled states, it also amounted to a significant tax increase on wealthier homeowners who tend to back the Republican Party.

by Ben Simon

The start of President Donald Trump's term earned rave reviews at the world's leading crypto conference Wednesday, but top industry lawyers said digital platforms wanted regulatory clarity while the Republicans control Congress.

US President Donald Trump's Republicans moved closer Wednesday to finalizing a giant bill encompassing most of his domestic agenda, although its fate remains uncertain amid a bitter row over spending cuts to health care.

After marathon meetings that went through the night, two key House committees approved their portions of Trump's much-touted "big, beautiful" bill, led by a $5 trillion extension of his first-term tax cuts.

Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and longtime progressive activist, was removed from a Senate hearing Wednesday after confronting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and lawmakers over US support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza.

Kennedy had been reading prepared remarks about his department's 2026 budget when activists interrupted the session, chanting "RFK kills people with AIDS."

California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed eliminating free healthcare for undocumented migrants in what he said was an effort to balance a budget battered by Donald Trump's erratic governance.

The move is the latest sign of political moderation from a man believed to have White House ambitions, who is looking to soften his image among conservative voters and distance himself from a reputation as a free-spending liberal helming a state where migration is out of control.

The Texas-based rock band Lord Buffalo has been forced to cancel their tour of Europe after Customs and Border Protection agents snatched their drummer off the plane.

According to NBC News, drummer Yamal Said, a Mexican citizen with lawful permanent residency in the United States, was seized by immigration agents without any clear explanation beyond an unspecified warrant for his arrest.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) got visibly agitated during a heated CNN exchange Wednesday as he defended President Donald Trump’s decision to accept a $400 million plane from the Qatari government.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Mullin pushed back on the mounting bipartisan concerns surrounding Trump taking ownership of the plane, which was once owned by Qatar’s royal family, and transforming it into a new Air Force One.