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"The View's" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin believes that President Donald Trump's staff either isn't sharing the reality with him or isn't telling him the truth.

Trump spoke to ABC News in an interview for the first 100 days, and made statements that concerned his former White House communications director.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) blasted Republicans for a plan to partially pay for tax cuts for the wealthy by forcing federal workers to either receive less generous retirement benefits or lose their civil service protections.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, members considered the proposal that would create a new pension surcharge for workers who did not choose to serve on an at-will basis.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan Tuesday due to the federal charges that allege she tried to help a man in her courtroom avoid arrest by federal immigration agents.

Dugan was arrested Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Milwaukee County courthouse and has been charged with two federal criminal offenses, felony obstruction of a federal agency and a misdemeanor for concealing a person to help them avoid arrest.

President Donald Trump faced ridicule for disavowing bad economic news 101 days into his second term after claiming credit for good news more than a year before returning to office.

The president cast blame on his predecessor Joe Biden after the stock market tanked in response to a Commerce Department report showing the U.S. economy contracted 0.3% in the first quarter for the first time since 2022, which economists blamed on sluggish growth as as businesses rushed to import goods ahead of the president's tariffs.

An appearance by House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) fell flat on MSNBC Wednesday as she stuck to talking points and failed to answer questions from "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist.

Given an opportunity to paint a vision for voters that contrasts with Donald Trump's comments at a rally in Michigan on Tuesday night, Clark was asked, "We talk about Donald Trump a lot. We recognize that many of his policies are very unpopular, as new polling has shown, marking his first 100 days. But in a Washington Post/ABC News poll, Donald Trump's approval rating was at 37 percent –– extraordinarily low about handling the country's main problems. Democrats, though even farther down at 30 percent. How do you explain that number, and what do Democrats need to do better?"

Clark answered, in part, "What Democrats are doing is we are standing strong in saying come back and focus on the American people. Put them in the center of the work you are doing, make sure that you are doing everything you can to fight for them. And that's what we're doing. We'll reach across the aisle when we can but what we have been met with in the House GOP is absolute resistance. They are loyal to one person and that is Donald Trump."

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The "Morning Joe" co-host pressed, "With all that said, and understanding your opposition to Donald Trump, much of the public's opposition, my question was why do you believe Democrats are rating lower even than President Trump right now if everything you just said is true? "

"Well, you know, we are going to continue our focus," she countered, "Listen, we lost an election, We're very clear eyed about that and we know that we have to show the American people that we are in it for them but that is where we are. That is the roots of the Democratic party and that is what we're going to work, we're going to do every single day."

Following her interview Geist sat with co-host Jonathan Lemire and commented, "Respectfully, I'm not sure the locker room speech we just heard is going to fire up Democrats to get off the bench and go play hard. But I will say in defense, there have been people out there, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Sanders. We've heard [Illionis Gov. J.B.] Pritzker of late articulating a more aggressive message about where Donald Trump has fallen short, but also their vision for the future at the same."

"I'll tell you," MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle commented. "It was stunning listening to Congresswoman Clark fail to answer your question twice when in front of her is Social Security is a real issue. People in her district, how many of them are in her district who are having trouble getting connections to Social Security because an office might be closed, or they don't answer the phone?"

"Why more Democrats don't talk about actual human beings and the human being issues that surround them," he continued. "The most important room going forward in this coming election year next year is the kitchen. How much it has cost to feed a family of 4 or 5? Why don't they ever talk specifically about things like that instead of blah, blah, blah, blah?"

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A financial analyst highlighted a "weird number" he expected to see in a new Commerce Department report.

The report showed the U.S. economy had contracted at an annualized 0.3% rate in the first quarter, as businesses rushed to import goods ahead of president Donald Trump's tariffs, and Yahoo Finance senior columnist Rick Newman told "CNN News Central" how the trade wars were only going to make things worse.

A Palestinian college student has been released on a judge's order after weeks of detention by immigration authorities.

Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was released from federal custody on Wednesday morning after a Vermont judge ruled that he should be released under certain conditions, reported WPTZ-TV.

The pro-environment group Greenpeace has targeted President Donald Trump's golf course south of Glasgow, Scotland.

Trump Turnberry dealt with protesters on Wednesday morning from the sandy beach, a few hundred yards from the green. Protesters used rakes to create a portrait of the U.S. leader along with a message targeting Trump and other global oligarchs, Reuters reported.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro spun the country's shrinking gross domestic product by arguing that the economy actually improved when President Donald Trump's tariffs and DOGE policies were not included.

Navarro spoke about the poor GDP numbers during a Wednesday interview on CNBC.

As President Trump celebrates his first 100 days in office, national polls are showing Americans might not be happy about it because Trump's approval ratings are on the decline.

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten broke down the numbers, claiming those who argue the polls are off, “quote, unquote, ‘you can't trust the polls.’ Now, that is a line of B.S. That is a scientific term for it is B.S. What am I talking about here? Well, let's just talk about Trump's average net approval rating. I average across five recent national polls among registered voters. So we're talking voters here, not adults. Currently he's averaging, get this, -12 points way underwater,” Enten said.