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Trump snaps and threatens to arrest NYC's Mamdani: 'We don't need a communist'

President Donald Trump took reporters' questions while visiting what's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," the 5,000-bed migrant detention center of tents and FEMA trucks recently cobbled together near the Florida Everglades.

One reporter asked Trump what he thought about news that 33-year-old naturalized citizen Zohran Mamdani had won the Democratic nomination in the New York City mayor's race.

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Trump is already eyeing more 'Alligator Alcatraz' prisons

President Donald Trump announced to the press and attendees at his tour of the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that he has heard there will be another one built in Florida.

Trump has celebrated the temporary facility, calling it "so professional and so well done." The temporary tents feature rows of bunk beds encased in chain-link fences.

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'Excuse me?' Ex-Trump official snaps as CNN host levels false claim to his face

CNN's Brianna Keilar pushed back hard Tuesday on a former Trump official's claim that President Donald Trump had to make a new "policy call" by allowing some undocumented migrants a "temporary pass" to remain in the United States to fill certain jobs.

Keilar asked Chad Wolf, Acting Homeland Security secretary during the first Trump administration, "Is that just an admission that the American economy relies on labor from undocumented immigrants, and that they need work visas even if they're here illegally? Even if you are putting them in the same category as criminals who are here illegally?"

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'What a symbol it is!' Trump unveils plan to reopen famed Alcatraz prison

President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that he was moving forward with his plan to reopen the infamous Alcatraz federal prison in San Francisco.

"Because of the Violence and Criminality I have seen due to the Open Border Policy of Sleepy Joe Biden," Trump wrote on Truth Social, "in particular allowing millions of people into our Country who shouldn't be here, I wanted something representative to show how we fight back, and then, it happened, I saw a picture of ALCATRAZ looking so foreboding, and I said, 'We're going to look into renovating and rebuilding the famous ALCATRAZ Prison sitting high on the Bay, surrounded by sharks. What a symbol it is, and will be!'"

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'Where have you been?' GOP senator mocked for backing bill she called unfinished

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) railed against his colleague Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Tuesday after the Alaskan senator called President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation package “not there yet,” despite voting to approve it in the Senate moments earlier.

The Senate passed Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" in a razor-thin vote Tuesday, the budget reconciliation package that extends corporate tax cuts and cuts spending on social safety net programs. Murkowski, while critical of the bill, ended up voting in favor of it, telling reporters that her hope was “that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.”

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'They're not Nazis!' Tom Homan explodes over app reporting ICE agent locations

Border czar Tom Homan lashed out at CNN after the network reported on an app that allows users to tag the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

During a Tuesday interview, MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk asked Homan to react to CNN's reporting on the controversial ICEBlock app.

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'Put down the insurrection': MAGA declares war on 'no' vote Senate 'RINOs'

The decision by three Republican senators to vote "no" on the megabill on its way back to the House before Donald Trump can sign it set off a mass outpouring of anger Tuesday afternoon on his Truth Social platform.

Moments after the bill passed with Vice President JDVance's tie-breaker vote, GOP Sens. Thom Tillis (NC), Susan Collins (ME) and Rand Paul (KY) became enemies of the state in the eyes of the MAGA faithful, with one Trump fan calling them "insurrectionists."

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‘He’s dead wrong:’ Trump ally launches super PAC to take on Elon Musk

After Elon Musk pledged to support primary challengers to Republican lawmakers who voted in favor of President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation package, a key Trump ally launched a new super PAC Tuesday to combat the billionaire’s opposition to Trump’s agenda.

“There’s real frustration in our movement with Elon and his antics,” said James Fishback, former advisor to the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, speaking with Politico. “I’m a big believer in what he’s doing in the private sector, but when it comes to politics, he’s dead wrong on this.”

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'Doesn't matter': Mom of sick kid claims Republican dismissed her Medicaid fears

A mother spoke with Sen. John Curtis (R) about how Medicaid saved her son's life — and she said he didn't care.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, Alison Chandra said that she was told her unborn baby had a defect that made him "incompatible with life." She was encouraged to terminate her pregnancy.

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Critics shred JD Vance as he shrugs off millions losing Medicaid as 'minutiae'

Vice President JD Vance took heat from critics this week when he downplayed legislation that would result in millions of Americans losing Medicaid coverage as mere "minutiae."

Writing on X, Vance defended the budget megabill that's currently being pushed through the United States Senate by arguing that it will massively increase funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which he deemed to be a necessary component of carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation operation.

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‘Totally illegal!' Kristi Noem aims to prosecute CNN over ICE report

President Donald Trump and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem both floated the idea Tuesday of targeting CNN over its reporting on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.-led strikes on Iran last month, both proclaiming CNN’s coverage to be “illegal.”

On CNN’s coverage on ICE, the network was accused Monday of promoting an app that alerts users to nearby immigration enforcement activity, something Noem said constituted criminal behavior.

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'Wasn't going to make a difference': Senate leader's advice to holdout revealed

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) lamented after the Tuesday budget bill vote that his job is difficult. However, when it comes to Democrats criticizing the GOP for heavy cuts to Medicaid, he said it didn't matter.

Punchbowl News' John Bresnahan reported that Thune and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) had been going back and forth about what a horrible impact the "big, beautiful bill" would have on the midterm elections. Thune said that he tried to convey to Tillis that it wouldn't matter because once they start touching entitlement programs, Democrats will attack them regardless.

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'Abomination!' Outrage hits senators as they pass bill in razor-thin vote

After Vice President J.D. Vance cast the deciding vote to allow Donald Trump's megabill to pass the Senate Tuesday, opponents took to social media to warn the House that it was up to them to stave off impending disaster for lower-income Americans.

Call To Activism called Vance's tiebreaker, "one of the most shameful moments in American history."

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