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The Manhattan Institute’s Jessica Riedl set her sights on congressional Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of promoting “fake” budget savings and pushing what she called the most expensive legislation in decades.

In a series of fiery posts on X, Riedl, a prominent fiscal conservative, tore apart GOP claims that their latest tax package is fiscally responsible, citing new estimates that show the bill would add $6.2 trillion to the national debt – “$5.3 trillion in ten-year tax cuts plus $900 billion more in debt interest.”

Democratic strategist James Carville has a simple assignment for his longtime party: focus on the latest Trump scandal, and pursue it with single-minded relentlessness.

Specifically, Carville told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo in a segment spotlighted by the Huffington Post, they need to hammer President Donald Trump's planned acceptance of a $400 million luxury jumbo jet from the government of Qatar right as he is touring the Middle East trying to make diplomatic and financial deals.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is arguing that President Donald Trump's broad tariffs on most of the world, which are already resulting in higher prices for many consumer goods, are based on his "disdain" for the vast bulk of the American public.

On Tuesday, Wallace hosted a panel with Bloomberg News anchor David Gura and Bulwark managing editor Sam Stein in which she discussed a "scathing" Wall Street Journal editorial slamming Trump's sudden rollback of tariffs.

President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid director, former talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz, faced an intense grilling by MSNBC's Ari Melber over the House GOP's new plan to cut hundreds of millions from Medicaid funding, and particularly the imposition of work requirements that could throw millions of people off insurance.

Republicans tried the idea during the first Trump administration, which failed to improve either the Medicaid system or recipients' employment.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan on charges that she tried to conceal a man from arrest and obstruction of a proceeding, according to The New York Times.

Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, was arrested last month after authorities said she helped an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents waiting outside her courtroom. The indictment is a “significant step” in the Trump Justice Department’s case against her, the Times wrote.

Family of Lyle and Erik Menendez urged a judge Tuesday to let them out of prison, more than three decades after the brothers shot their parents to death.

The pair, who are serving life terms for the notorious double murder, have spent two years trying to get their sentences reduced so they can be released on parole.

House Democrats are expressing outrage behind closed doors after Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) forced a vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump – a move that many in his own party slammed as self-serving and “utterly selfish.”

That’s according to Axios, which reported Tuesday that Thanedar’s seven articles of impeachment against the MAGA leader sparked profanity-laced fury among his colleagues.

Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is moving to a new Justice Department effort named the "Weaponization Working Group," and he's already issuing threats, NBC News reported on Tuesday. However, legal experts have their own comments, and one has citations.

Martin, a defense attorney who represented several Jan. 6 defendants, could not garner support from a top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee for the U.S. attorney post. So, he has been shifted to the Justice Department for the working group that aims to investigate anyone involved in the probes into President Donald Trump and his allies, NBC said.

House Republicans, intent on increasing work requirements for assistance programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and promoting marriage, have devised a new definition for “dependent child.” Currently, an adult has a dependent child if that child is under 18 years of age. Under the new proposed House definition for SNAP, once that child turns 7 — usually someone in second grade — they could no longer be considered a dependent, with one exception.

The new House proposal also adds 10 years to the time when the adult needs to continue working to receive SNAP benefits, from 54 to 64 years of age. However, it removes the work requirement if the adult with the dependent child is married and lives with someone who already complies with the new regulations. Unmarried couples with a child would not qualify for the exemption.

A prominent immigration attorney tore into the rationale from a Trump-appointed judge who on Tuesday became the first jurist to explicitly endorse President Donald Trump's plan to remove Venezuelans accused of being affiliated with the Tren de Aragua cartel based on a 1798 law intended to suppress military invasions.

Judge Stephanie Haines' reasoning was shallow and flimsy, argued American Immigration Center attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick in a lengthy thread on X deconstructing the ruling. To begin with, Reichlin-Melnick noted, even Haines' ruling, which contradicts the opinion of several other judges finding the act doesn't apply in this situation, had some limits.

Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning writer and director of "Kramer vs Kramer," has died in his US home, his representative said Tuesday. He was 92.

Benton was also known for the 1984 film "Places in the Heart" and had extensive writing and directing credits for influential movies throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan urged Democrats to take a stand against what he called President Donald Trump’s “private militia” – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“If Democrats are serious about stopping fascism, then they have to do everything in their power to prevent the ongoing expansion and further empowerment of Homan and his army of masked ICE thugs,” Hasan wrote Tuesday about Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.

Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is moving from his temporary post overseeing prosecutors in Washington, D.C., to the new Justice Department "Weaponization Working Group" that NBC News described as part of an effort to "investigate [President Donald] Trump's investigators."

Speaking out about the matter on Tuesday, Martin said he would change the long-standing protocol and "name" and "shame" individuals even if the Justice Department is unable to charge them with crimes, according to the report.