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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) accused President Donald Trump of following former President George W. Bush's playbook by lying to the country to start a war.

"The framers understood a simple truth. To the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves," Massie said during a Wednesday speech on the House floor. "If the president believes military action against Venezuela is justified and needed, he should make the case, and Congress should vote before American lives and treasure are spent on regime change in South America."

A former U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and Green Beret who has become a far-right political operative and activist recorded himself heckling former special counsel Jack Smith on Capitol Hill, following Smith and shouting derogatory names.

Ivan Raiklin, who previously billed himself as Donald Trump's “secretary of retribution” during the campaign, recorded himself hassling Jack Smith for targeting him with a subpoena.

President Donald Trump's so-called "Presidential Walk of Fame" now includes text that labels former President Barack Obama as the "most divisive political figure" and calls former President Joe Biden "by far, the worst."

Images circulated on social media on Wednesday showed text on new plaques added under the portrait of each president. Biden's "portrait" continued to be represented by a photo of an autopen.

Chaos broke out Wednesday on the House floor after Republicans shut down a vote on discharge petition to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Four moderate Republicans signed on to the discharge petition Wednesday circulated by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to force a vote on on the measure, which would extend the tax credits for three years, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ended the voting before it was completed.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted he had not lost control over the House after Republicans signed onto a Democratic discharge petition to force a vote on extending health care subsidies.

"Look, we're working through very complex issues as we do here all the time," Johnson told reporters on Wednesday, downplaying the discharge petition. "Everybody's working towards ideas. We're keeping the conversation going. That's what happened."

Residents of a Texas town that's home to a now-famous women’s prison camp are openly airing their concerns that President Donald Trump could pardon the most notorious inmate housed there.

Chatter has picked up as the traditional Christmas pardoning season nears that Trump could extend a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell, accomplice of the late Jeffrey Epstein, for her sex trafficking crimes and free her from Federal Prison Camp Bryan, where she was controversially transferred over the summer as controversy around their sex trafficking network rose to fever pitch, reported HuffPost.