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Rev. William Barber II of North Carolina did not hold back in his criticisms of President Donald Trump's budget bill.

Barber mocked the budget bill as a "big, ugly, destructive budget" during an appearance on pastor Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's podcast called "Our Moral Moment." Barber's comments were about the budget bill's title, the "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act."

"That ought to do it."

That was Democratic Senator Ron Wyden's sardonic response Wednesday to a new proposal put forward by Senate Finance Committee Republicans whose proposed solution to the devastating impacts of the $800 billion in Medicaid cuts they want to impose is a so-called $15 billion "stabilization fund" for rural hospitals that rely on Medicaid to operate.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) questioned Senate Majority Leader John Thune's (R-SD) claim that they'll be ready to pass the budget bill by the end of the week.

The legislation, which President Donald Trump refers to as the "big, beautiful bill," has a hard deadline for July 4, according to the president, but it is growing less likely.

The Department of Justice vowed Thursday to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant who President Donald Trump’s administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year due to an “administrative error.”

“Our plan is that he will be taken into ICE custody and removal proceedings will be initiated,” said Jonathan Guynn, deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s civil division, Notus reported.

Another key provision has been struck from the GOP budget bill that President Donald Trump refers to as the "big, beautiful bill."

Republicans seek to use "budget reconciliation" for the 2026 bill to fund the government; however, the rules for doing so mean that everything in the bill must deal with the budget specifically, journalist Ari Drennen wrote on X.

President Donald Trump's administration seemed to fail to convince Senate Democrats that Iran's nuclear program had been "obliterated."

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) spoke to reporters Thursday after emerging from the briefing.

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume hit back at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday in defense of his colleague Jennifer Griffin, who was attacked earlier that morning by Hegseth during a press conference over her coverage of the U.S. strikes in Iran last week.

“Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally,” Hegseth told Griffin on Thursday morning, responding to her question about whether Iran moved its enriched uranium before the strikes.

Pro-MAGA voices, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), called for heads to roll in the Senate after some Medicaid cuts were stripped from President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill."

"Well, we got very unfortunate news today, that there are certain wins for the America First movement that were hard fought by the Trump administration and the House to get into this legislation," Gaetz told Real America's Voice host Jack Posobiec on Thursday, "that will not be considered by the full Senate if they get to the bill because of something called the Byrd Rule."

President Donald Trump is underwater with Americans who no longer trust him on the issue of immigration, which was one of his top two issues during the 2024 campaign. It comes days after polls showed that voters no longer trust him to act in the interest of national security.

In a post on X, The New Republic's Greg Sargent pointed to a newly released Quinnipiac poll, which finds a 14-point swing among Americans who want to give undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship instead of deporting them. Only 31% of Americans want to see immigrants deported. Just a few short months ago, Americans were evenly split on whether they wanted to support immigrants living in the United States.

Analysts and pundits have spent a lot of time trying to understand why President Donald Trump decided to bomb three nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend. But one Nobel Prize-winning economist thinks there is a simple explanation.

"This time, it looks as if many Americans saw this for what it was, a desperate attempt by Trump to look powerful and manly," Paul Krugman recently wrote on his eponymous Substack.