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A proposed budget from the Trump administration revealed they plan to cut the budget of the State Department and USAID by nearly half, according to a report from the Washington Post.

The outlet’s review of an internal memo found an early proposal for the next fiscal year would leave a total budget of $28.4 billion for all activities carried out by the State Department and USAID.

President Donald Trump told El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele to build more prisons to hold U.S. citizens.

The U.S. president declared his willingness last week to send Americans to a notorious prison where his administration has sent alleged gang members – as well as a Maryland man who was deported by mistake – and he was caught on video urging Bukele to get ready for "homegrown criminals" to join them behind bars.

President Donald Trump confirmed that he wants his administration to deport U.S. citizens to a prison in El Salvador.

During a Monday meeting with Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, Trump was asked about the possibility of deporting citizens to the notorious Cecot prison.

President Donald Trump falsely blamed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky for starting a war with Russia in a rant from the White House.

The U.S. president met Monday with El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, and he expanded on comments he made earlier on Truth Social blaming Zelensky and former president Joe Biden for Russia's invasion.

The Maryland man whom the U.S. government admits it mistakenly deported last month to El Salvador is still alive, the Justice Department revealed in its daily update over the weekend.

However, the administration has yet to go through with a Supreme Court ruling that it must move forward with "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after his wrongful deportation.

European officials traveling to the U.S. will reportedly use burner phones and other measures over fears that they will be spied on by President Donald Trump's administration.

Four sources familiar with the situation told the Financial Times that officials traveling to the IMF and World Bank spring meetings had been given new guidance to avoid espionage.

Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks called the citizen-led town hall meetings in her district "fake," said a Monday report.

Radio Iowa said that Miller-Meeks, who represents the First District of Iowa, appears to be listening to GOP leadership suggestions that members not attend in-person district town halls.

President Donald Trump is losing support from GOP voters, according to three right-leaning pollsters flagged by Newsweek.

As the magazine notes, "a TIPP Insights poll conducted for the League of American Workers, released Sunday, showed that 50 percent of registered voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, compared with 43 percent who approve. This gives the Republican a net approval rating of minus 7 points."

A pair of right-wing podcasters trying to establish a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee have been promoting virulent anti-Semitism.

Pastor Andrew Isker and his sidekick C.Jay Engel, the hosts of what they describe as "the No. 1 Christian nationalist podcast in the world," have spread anti-Semitic claims and hosted Holocaust deniers and Nazi sympathizers on their Contra Mundum podcast, reported WTVF-TV.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, calling him "close to an unmitigated disaster" for television appearances to sell President Donald Trump's trade war.

During his Monday War Room program, Bannon suggested Lutnick was wrong to think new manufacturing in the U.S. would be automated.

President Donald Trump has surprised many with his continued tolerance of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his White House despite the fact that his Department of Government Efficiency appears to falling well short of achieving its purported goals, opined Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

Parton begins by acknowledging she didn't think that Trump would put up with Musk for long although "as it turns out, Trump has quite liked having the richest man in the world at his beck and call and he even puts up with his precocious little son X, who likes to tell the president to shut up during press conferences.”