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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is showing no signs of backing down from his opposition to President Donald Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the package that extends tax cuts for the wealthy while also cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy subsidies, all to the tune of $2.4 trillion added to the federal deficit.

On Wednesday, Paul, who has repeatedly attacked the bill in recent weeks, posted a segment of himself on Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight show explaining his stance.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) mocked the "family spat" that has been brewing between former DOGE administrator Elon Musk and President Donald Trump over a government spending bill.

At a DOGE subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Crockett noted that Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had called the hearing to address non-governmental organizations "bypassing Congress."

President Donald Trump and his administration officials promised Americans he would have 90 tariff deals done within 90 days. It's been 63 days since "Liberation Day," which Trump declared on April 2. He has a little under four weeks left to meet the goal — and MSNBC host Katy Tur remarked there are thus far zero deals.

There's a possibility of counting a deal with the U.K., Tur said, but it's only a framework and, "technically, isn't set in stone."

NBC News reporter Ryan Nobles noted that House Republicans once spent considerable time complaining that they were unable to read legislation from Democrats and the administration of former President Joe Biden. Now that they've been caught not reading President Donald Trump's budget bill before voting for it — and it's causing them problems.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made news on Tuesday when she confessed in an X post that she had no idea that the House budget bill had a provision in it "that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years."

Former DOGE administrator Elon Musk called to "kill" the "One Big Beautiful" spending bill in an escalating war with President Donald Trump.

Writing on X Wednesday, Musk encouraged his followers to contact their members of Congress.

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Education, former wrestling mogul Linda McMahon, was unable to give a proper answer when Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) pressed her during a hearing Wednesday on just how much she personally stands to benefit from Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The bill being debated in Congress just narrowly passed the House on a strictly partisan basis, and gives massive tax cuts to the wealthy.

New York City mayoral candidate and state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani responded forcefully on Tuesday to comments from a Republican New York City councilmember, who the day prior took issue with Mamdani's politics and called for him to be deported.

Late Monday, New York City Councilmember Vickie Paladino, who represents a section of Queens, wrote from her nongovernmental X account: "Let's just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn't even been a U.S. citizen for 10 years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we've ever been about."

Estimates released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show that the House-passed GOP reconciliation package would add a staggering $2.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, even after accounting for the legislation's unprecedented cuts to Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance.

According to the CBO, the Republican budget legislation would slash taxes by $3.75 trillion—with the benefits disproportionately flowing to the rich. The massive debt impact of the tax cuts would be partially—but not even close to fully—offset by the bill's attacks on Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and green energy programs.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell continued posting on social media about his defamation trial after U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang warmed him not to.

Earlier this week, attorneys for former voting machine executive Eric Coomer notified Wang that Lindell had flouted court orders by posting on X and giving television interviews about the trial.

An Army Captain went after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for being "immature" after his recent decision to change the name of a ship honoring civil rights leader Harvey Milk.

Former Missouri Secretary of State and U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander spoke to MSNBC on Wednesday about the Pentagon's decision to "rebrand" the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler that is named for the slain Navy veteran and San Francisco Board of Supervisors member who was the first openly gay man elected to office in California.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon indicated that she was unaware of the Tulsa Race Massacre under questioning about President Donald Trump's "illegal" restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in U.S. schools.

During a Wednesday hearing before the House Committee on Education & Workforce, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) said that the Trump administration had "undoubtedly revived the culture of racism."