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Sen. Ron Wyden questioned Rodney Scott, President Donald Trump's nominee for commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, over an alleged "rape threat" he made to a government employee.

During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, Wyden noted that a Scott had "tweeted what a judge referred to as a classic rape threat to a former Border Patrol agent who was critical of your leadership."

Attorneys are going after the Trump administration for "forcibly" deporting mothers and their U.S.-born children, while putting their families at risk of being publicly identified, Rolling Stone reported Wednesday.

The article comes after "three U.S. citizen children" — one of whom has metastatic cancer — "were illegally removed from Louisiana and flown to Honduras last Friday," along with their mothers.

House Republicans have long insisted they won't include Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, energy, and border security — despite Democrats' repeated warning their budget framework only balances with such cuts. Soon, the rubber will meet the road, Jim Newell wrote for Slate on Wednesday, and Republicans will have to tip their hand on how they're actually going to squeeze savings out of Medicaid.

In short, he wrote, there will indeed be cuts coming that they can't easily defend to voters.

President Donald Trump lost another case, this time in a vote from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Democracy Docket chief Marc Elias called it a "BIG win" for their ongoing lawsuits against the administration.

President Donald Trump made a damning admission during this week's sit-down interview with ABC News' Terry Moran about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia immigration case, that could land his administration in further trouble with the judge overseeing the matter, Andrew McCarthy wrote for the National Review on Wednesday.

Abrego Garcia, a Maryland family man who immigrated to the United States illegally, was disappeared to the infamous Salvadoran CECOT megaprison despite having never been convicted of a crime and despite having a protective court order barring his removal to that country. The case has become a flashpoint that helped sour voters on Trump's mass deportation policy, and multiple courts have now ordered him to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) insisted that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) was "out of order" during a hearing about government spending.

"Mr. Chairman, I just want to say our federal budget reflects our values," Lynch explained at Wednesday's hearing. "When we fund the VA, so it's not just about numbers, it's about the mission and the purpose of our budget."

FBI agents who supported the Black Lives Matter movement by kneeling for a photo in support of George Floyd, who was killed in 2020 by an officer in Minneapolis, are being reassigned, according to a report.

Those in the photo are next on President Donald Trump's retribution list after conservatives said the photo proves the FBI has a "liberal agenda," The Washington Post reported.

President Donald Trump celebrated his first 100 days in Michigan on Tuesday, but the state's top automakers remain stuck in "quicksand" while Tesla benefits, according to a Wednesday report.

Matt Sledge wrote for The Intercept that a leading analyst warned that Detroit's so-called "big three" automakers are suffering under Trump's trade war.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) on Wednesday criticized Senate Republicans looking to curb President Donald Trump’s tariff moves.

“I wonder if this bill passes in the Senate. Should the resolution get a vote or at least debate in the House?” asked anchor Boris Sanchez.

President Donald Trump has been handed a golden opportunity to exact revenge on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if he so chooses, the Miami Herald reported on Wednesday.

Once steadfast allies, with Trump having interceded in the 2018 Florida primary to get DeSantis elected in the first place, the two fell out when DeSantis launched a bid for president competing with Trump's own, which led to a bruising fight that left DeSantis estranged from the Trump orbit and broadly diminished in power within his own state.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that her jaw dropped when she heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio response when asked whether the United States has been in touch with El Salvador about the Maryland father wrongfully deported there.

"I'd never tell you that," Rubio said about facilitating the return of Kilmar Ábrego García. "And you know who else? I would never tell a judge, because foreign policy belongs to the president and the executive branch. Not some judge. We'll conduct foreign policy appropriately if we need to, but we won't discuss it, and no one can make us discuss it because that's how foreign policy works."