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House Republicans have inserted anti-LGBTQ language into a $66 billion must-pass funding bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, effectively granting civil immunity under federal law to individuals and organizations that discriminate against same-sex couples—by citing a religious or moral belief that marriage should be limited to one man and one woman. It also bans the federal government from taking a range of actions against those who hold and act on anti-same-sex marriage beliefs.

Section 544 bans the use of federal funds to take any "discriminatory action" against someone who cites their "sincerely held religious belief" or "moral conviction" that marriage is only "a union of one man and one woman."

A staffer placed by Elon Musk inside the Department of Defense played a key role in the firing of three top aides that has thrown the agency into upheaval.

Justin Fulcher was installed in the Pentagon as the lead staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency, and four sources familiar with the episode say he suggested that warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) had identified the alleged leakers Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was trying to root out of the department early in his tenure, reported The Guardian.

Former acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli got defensive with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar, asking her “not to lecture him” on the differences between President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles over the weekend and when National Guard troops were called to the city in back in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush.

“There are four reasons under the Insurrection Act that the president can deploy military,” Cuccinelli said. “Under that act, insurrection is only one of the four. That's the name of the act. But that's only one of the four bases.”

Right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk linked anti-ICE protests in California to a theory that white people are being "replaced" in the United States.

"They all hate Christendom," Kirk said of protesters on his Monday podcast. "They hate Western civilization. They hate what we have built. This is a global movement of freaks."

The House and Senate Republicans are readying for a fight now that the former has passed President Donald Trump's 2026 budget, which he refers to as his "big, beautiful bill." The Senate is readying to give them a wake-up call.

According to Punchbowl News, Senate Republicans are split on what they'll do with the bill. Some think they can pull off getting it passed as is, while others don't see anything passing before Trump's deadline of July 4. The real must-pass date is in August or September, according to a March Congressional Budget Office forecast. That's when the government will run out of money.

President Donald Trump's allies made a dash to try and take over the Bar Association for Washington, D.C. — but the effort failed badly.

In March, NBC News reported that two Trump allies were running for the D.C Bar's leadership. Bradley Bondi, Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother, and Alicia Long, who was a deputy to brief interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, tried to seize control.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has access to Social Security data. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Feldman believes that is “one more substantial step in the direction of turning the U.S. into a country like China.”

The columnist claims in China, “the government has a 360-degree view of every aspect of its citizens’ lives.”

Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi has been looking closer at the May jobs report, which was released last week. The more he examines it, however, the more his concern grows.

In an X thread Monday, Zandi confessed, "The more I cogitate on the May jobs report, released last Friday by the BLS, the more uncomfortable I get about the economy’s prospects. There are a bunch of reasons why."

When Donald Trump narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the United States' 2024 election, he did so with a combination of MAGA diehards and independents. There are huge differences between the between the two: While Trump's hardcore MAGA base consists of true believers, many independents and swing voters favored Joe Biden in the 2020 election but —feeling frustrated over inflation — went with Trump four years later.

In a guest op-ed published on June 9, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild examines an area that's full of MAGA diehards: Eastern Kentucky. And he wonders if draconian cuts to safety-net programs could possibly turn MAGA voters against Trump.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon that, if he were Tom Homan, he’d arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Homan is the White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which Trump refers to as the border czar.

Vice President JD Vance signaled agreement with deporting the so-called "Menswear Guy" who frequently nitpicks his clothes.

The pseudonymous "Derek Guy" got an unexpected algorithmic boost on X not long after Elon Musk bought the company and started making changes under the hood. The fashion critic has become famous for his sometimes scathing critiques of public figures' outfits and a comprehensive understanding of the history of men's fashion.