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President Donald Trump has had one clear economic statistic he could brag about — but the new inflation data shows even that is gone now.

Specifically, inflation-adjusted wage gains, which were relatively strong even into Trump's term as inflation worsened, have been essentially wiped out with the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, according to Axios.

The entire panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” burst into laughter after watching a clip of Donald Trump blithely telling reporters, “I love the inflation” on Wednesday — a phrase that may come back to haunt Republicans in the November midterms, they pointed out.

Thursday’s show began with the clip, where the president made the admission, followed by comments about the war in Iran, leading co-host Mika Brzezinski to state, “President Trump, uhhhh, not fazed by the latest economic data, telling reporters ‘I love the inflation. It comes as the —.”

After Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation from the Trump administration, she got an unexpected call on Tuesday from her planned successor, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte, telling her she was essentially being fired effective immediately, catching her completely off guard.

According to Axios, Gabbard, who had announced she would be leaving at the end of the month, was instead told by Pulte, "Today is your last day."

A group of 10 Democratic senators and the party's top election lawyers quietly convened to game out responses to what they fear could be an unprecedented attempt to disrupt or overturn the results of this fall's midterm elections.

The closed-door session, first reported by Politico, brought together a roster of high-profile legal and political strategists, including former Attorney General Eric Holder and prominent Democratic election attorney Marc Elias, to walk senators through a series of extreme yet increasingly plausible scenarios. Among them: armed federal agents stationed at polling locations, the Justice Department seizing ballots in competitive races and a foreign-backed disinformation campaign powered by AI-generated deepfakes.

Two of the Senate GOP's most senior figures are openly questioning President Donald Trump's massive new Pentagon funding push, throwing fresh doubt on his ambitious $1.5 trillion military budget goal, according to Punchbowl News.

Trump launched his latest funding blitz on Truth Social Wednesday night, demanding Republicans "IMMEDIATELY advance and pass" a $350 billion reconciliation package, which he called "Recon 3.0," that he said is the only way to reach a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. He framed the request as building the "ARSENAL OF FREEDOM" and demanded "no games, no delays, and no weak compromises."

An international crime expert was floored by President Donald Trump's "quantum" trail of slush funds that he's set up during his second administration.

Jonathan Winer, a former State Department official who investigated international money laundering cases, said during a new episode of the "Court of History" podcast on Wednesday that Trump's slush funds appear quantum in nature because "you never know where [they're] going to end." He referred to the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund," the U.S.-controlled fund in Qatar established to hold money from Venezuelan oil sales, the so-called Board of Peace, and the America 250 celebration, which is being organized with private donations, and Trump's ballroom.

Vance Boelter, the suspected assassin who killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

According to The New York Times, "The Justice Department’s letter to the judge described 'a proposed plea agreement' and asked for a hearing in which Mr. Boelter could change his not guilty plea." While the letter did not give details on the nature of the agreement, the letter "said that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty."