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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a stern response to a reporter who asked him who is to blame for the deadly floods in central Texas that have killed at least 110 people.

Abbott took questions from reporters during a news conference where he updated the public on the devastation from the flood in Kerr County. As of Tuesday, 109 people were dead and another 161 were considered missing, Abbott said. CNN later reported the death toll had climbed to 110.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace started her Tuesday episode of "Deadline: White House" with angry MAGA supporters demanding more information about the "files" around Jeffrey Epstein's charges, any evidence, and questions around his death.

She showed a clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi responding to a Fox News question about the "client list" of Epstein's. She said, "It's sitting on my desk right now to review." The FBI then released information saying the list didn't exist.

In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration could move forward with purging thousands of government employees, something that experts say bodes well for President Donald Trump as the case moves forward on its merits.

“All the rulings on the case to date have taken place on a preliminary or emergency basis, meaning it still must be argued on the merits,” wrote Eric Katz with Government Executive.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her colleagues over their summary decision on Tuesday to lift lower court orders that blocked President Donald Trump from conducting mass firings of the federal workforce.

"Historical practice ... confirms that, while Presidents possess some discretion to reduce federal employment, they may not fundamentally restructure the Federal Government all on their own," wrote Jackson, who frequently spars with the court's right-wing majority on rulings that hand new powers to the Trump administration.

Pediatrician Fred Rivara surprised Newsmax hosts Katrina Szish and Bob Brooks after he said President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill would "make everything worse."

Rivara made the remarks Tuesday after the network invited him to discuss his study, which found that children's health outcomes in the U.S. have deteriorated since 2007.

High-ranking Catholic clergy are beginning to speak out against President Donald Trump's agenda, denouncing it as a threat to the vulnerable in America, reported The Bulwark on Tuesday.

In particular, Trump has drawn ire from prominent bishops over his "big, beautiful bill" of tax breaks, for cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid and food assistance. The Trump administration, which previously denied the bill included cuts to Medicaid at all, is now speculating about forcing tens of millions of lower-income Medicaid recipients into farm labor to replace deported agricultural workers.

The progressive watchdog group Right Wing Watch took aim at Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith on Tuesday for his comments last week pushing a Christian nationalist falsehood regarding the Founding Fathers.

Appearing on the Christian nationalist radio program “The Truth & Liberty Show,” Beckwith said that the writing of the US Constitution was precipitated by a three-hour prayer service at the behest of Ben Franklin, an anecdote often shared by those who reject the separation of church and state.

The Supreme Court was not in session, as it was on summer break, but it issued a ruling on Tuesday afternoon regarding President Donald Trump's cuts to the federal workforce.

The high court lifted an order from a lower court that blocked layoffs for federal workers in nearly two dozen agencies.

Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. told MSNBC that he's grieving after his town was hit with feet of rain in a short period. But he's also speaking out about the town's efforts to prevent such a large loss of life.

Host Katy Tur cited Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R-TX), who claimed that the state would fund a flood alert system along the Guadalupe River. Her comments came as news to Herring.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has declared that the Trump administration’s massive deportation plans will continue without any amnesty for migrant farm workers, and insisted that “able-bodied” American adults who access Medicaid for health care insurance should be the ones to replace deported migrant farm workers. Critics have pushed back.

“I can’t underscore enough,” Secretary Rollins said at a press conference at the USDA on Tuesday, ahead of a White House Cabinet meeting. “There will be no amnesty, the mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation.