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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) escalated her feud with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over his refusal to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy, NBC News reported — and she threatened to stall all business in the House until he compromises on the issue.

"The proxy vote bill is authored by Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., who gave birth to a son in January and has brought him to the floor during votes in recent weeks to highlight the need for remote voting, especially for female lawmakers who have recently given birth," said the report. "The bill, co-sponsored by Luna, and Reps. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., would allow proxy voting for new parents up to 12 weeks, as well as before birth if medical issues arise."

House and Senate Republicans are still "nowhere near" agreement on how to craft the sweeping budget bill to pass President Donald Trump's agenda, reported Politico — and the Senate leaders are considering "big changes" to what the House already passed, yet another complication in a process already full of hurdles.

"GOP senators made clear Tuesday they intend to revamp the House-approved framework for the sweeping domestic policy bill — most crucially, by likely tweaking the amount of spending cuts congressional committees would need to achieve to finance the package of tax cuts, border security enhancements and energy provisions," said the report.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) strongly condemned the Trump administration officials who openly discussed top secret war plans in a free messaging app that included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

“It’s not okay,” Cramer said Tuesday. “And any member of Congress, particularly ones that are on important committees or sensitive committees like armed services or intelligence or foreign relations, knows that it's not okay.”

A top national security adviser for President Donald Trump took to Fox News on Tuesday to float a baseless conspiracy theory that a reporter inadvertently invited into a Signal group chat where officials mulled over war plans may have used nefarious means to smear the president.

President Donald Trump defended Mike Waltz as a "very good man" earlier Tuesday and said he does not need to apologize for the incident. Trump acknowledged his top officials made a mistake by using Signal to discuss war plans but downplayed its significance and insisted the information shared was not classified. He also suggested that Waltz would likely avoid using such platforms in the future.

Former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, now 70, has been a prominent figure in the conservative legal movement for decades. After serving as an associate White House counsel for Reagan Administration, Luttig was appointed to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George H.W. Bush appointed in 1991 and stayed there until 2006.

But Luttig is a scathing critic of Donald Trump. And he endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, making it clear that he would rather support a liberal who agrees with the rule of law than a Republican who doesn't.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon made clear what path he thinks Trump administration officials caught up in the Signal group chat controversy should take as he vilified Democratic lawmakers for trying to get to the bottom of the colossal national security error.

“They want a scalp,” Bannon proclaimed of Democrats. “This is the deep state rising up and coming after President Trump publicly, with the fangs bared.”

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) was completely unimpressed by the Trump administration's answers on the growing scandal surrounding a highly classified war plan being leaked by top administration officials in an unsecured group Signal chat to a reporter — and he expressed ongoing anger over the issue to CNN's Kasie Hunt on Tuesday.

This followed a heated intelligence hearing in the Senate, where top officials on the chat were pressed by lawmakers on the details of how this happened and what the policies in place are — and got no consistent or meaningful answers on who would take responsibility for the incident.

The Trump administration's dismantling of the federal government is coming for yet another federal department.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury plans to lay off a "substantial number" of workers as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency continues to overhaul the federal government, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has a solution to help President Donald Trump circumvent a federal judge striking down his executive actions — getting rid of the court altogether.

That's according to a Tuesday article in NBC News, which reports the speaker floated the proposal in response to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruling against Trump's invoking of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants without due process. Speaker Johnson reminded reporters that Congress has the ability to legislate new district courts into existence — and the power to abolish them.

House Republican Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) said he will introduce a censure resolution against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) after she called Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), who uses a wheelchair, “hot wheels."

Crockett was speaking before the Human Rights Campaign banquet in Los Angeles when she knocked the far-right governor.

Right-wing firebrand Laura Loomer is going all in on allegations that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) “physically attacked and assaulted” a reporter working for her as he shouted questions at the lawmaker inside the Capitol.

“Do NOT put your hands on my staff,” Loomer said Tuesday after she told her social media followers that a police report had been filed against Crockett. “We are pressing charges against her.”

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to deport a 21-year-old Columbia University undergraduate who took part in student protests against Israel's invasion of Gaza, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

"The administration has been seeking to arrest the student, Yunseo Chung, since earlier this month, according to a lawsuit filed by Ms. Chung’s lawyers," and to return her to South Korea, according to the report. However, "The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during a hearing on Tuesday that 'nothing in the record' indicated that Ms. Chung posed a danger to the community or a 'foreign-policy risk' or had communicated with terrorist organizations."

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) clashed with Fox News host Will Cain on Tuesday over a bombshell report that top Donald Trump administration officials used a Signal group chat to discuss war plans in the presence of a reporter.

The explosive report in The Atlantic revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared classified information in a Signal chat that included the outlet's editor-in-chief among its membership. The Signal chat included top officials in President Donald Trump's Cabinet who discussed classified military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.