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Tech billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged Tuesday that criticism of him was "valid" after an individual called him out on his X platform over his obsession with "looking cool."

Musk posted a series of rants Monday about the 2026 budget bill, drawing responses, some of which he answered on Tuesday.

Democratic strategist Paul Begala clashed Tuesday on CNN with longtime GOP adviser and resident Donald Trump advocate Scott Jennings about the political impact of Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" that just narrowly passed the Senate, and is headed back to the House amid ongoing GOP disputes and a self-imposed deadline to get it to Trump's desk by the end of the week.

The bill cuts over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food assistance, and green energy subsidies in order to extend tax cuts for the wealthy and beef up immigration enforcement — all while adding over $2 trillion to the deficit.

A federal judge issued a stern rebuke of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to conduct mass layoffs at the agency.

Judge Melissa DuBose of Rhode Island issued a ruling on Monday that blocked the agency from laying off more than 10,000 workers. In it, DuBose ruled that the executive branch "does not have the authority to order, organize, or implement wholesale changes to the structure and function of the agencies created by Congress."

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described Democratic socialist who won the New York City mayoral Democratic primary election in a surprising upset, fired back at President Donald Trump Tuesday following his threat to have him arrested, and potentially deported.

“The president of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported, not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city,” Mamdani said in a statement.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) was pressed Tuesday by CNN on his support for President Donald Trump’s costly budget reconciliation bill, estimated to add trillions of dollars to the deficit, given that he previously campaigned on lowering the nation’s debt.

Trump’s bill, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is projected to add $3.3 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, per the Congressional Budget Office, and was estimated to add $2.4 trillion in the House version before it was amended in the Senate, a version Fine voted in support of.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) thinks she knows why Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted to support the GOP's 2026 budget legislation.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, McCaskill said Murkowski likely told GOP leadership that she opposed the bill, so they asked what she wanted to get to "yes."

President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he’s likely to impose tariffs on Japanese imports as high as 35% following a breakdown in trade talks, particularly about rice.

“What I’m going to do is I’ll write them a letter, say we thank you very much, we know you can’t do the kind of things that we need, and therefore, you’ll pay a 30%, 35% or whatever the numbers we determine,” Trump said, shortly after his trip to Florida’s new migrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” “It’s very unfair to the American people.”

Senate Republicans managed to narrowly pass President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to extend tax cuts for the wealthy, beef up immigration enforcement, and slash Medicaid, food assistance, and green energy credits — sending it to the House where it faces yet another round of hurdles and scrutiny as GOP leaders try to rush it through with as little dissent as possible.

But in doing so, GOP leaders reinvented how Senate budget procedures work in a way that makes no sense, wrote Catherine Rampell in a scathing analysis for The Washington Post.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) took to X to talk about how difficult it has been to support the 2026 Republican budget bill. Murkowski was effectively a deciding swing vote that got the GOP to 50 votes, allowing Vice President JD Vance to cast the tie-breaking vote.

In her Tuesday afternoon post, Murkowski wrote, "This was one of the hardest votes I have taken during my time in the Senate. My goal throughout the reconciliation process has been to make a bad bill better for Alaska, and in many ways, we have done that."

President Donald Trump has been promoting his Trump-branded merchandise since the moment he came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower. However, his fragrance isn't getting good reviews.

Victory 47 for Men pitches itself as having “rich, masculine notes with a refined finish." WIRED wrote Tuesday that the details don't list any ingredients, much less a scent profile. Scent enthusiasts at the fragrance forum Parfumo are leaving reviews that it doesn't pass their smell test.

President Donald Trump says he is aware of and supports proposed legislation that would require the federal government to perform a new U.S. Census, by excluding non-citizens. The revised count would be used to immediately reapportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, presumably also for the 2026 election, despite constitutional decennial requirements and the constitutional mandate that all “persons” be counted.

During his first term, Trump tried to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, but courts struck down that effort. The Constitution is clear: it states the “whole number of persons in each state” must be counted. Courts have ruled this includes non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stared down a reporter for over 10 seconds without speaking after he asked her to respond to criticism over her support for President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill."

"Senator [Rand] Paul said that this was, that your vote was a bailout for Alaska at the expense of the rest of the country," NBC's Ryan Nobles told Murkowski as he caught up with her in a Senate hallway.