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Sen. Josh Hawley exploded with rage at a Senate hearing as he accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of "fraud."

Hawley began his questioning of Ellison on Thursday by asking an obvious question: "Are you the chief law enforcement officer of Minnesota?"

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison fired back at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) after he blamed the state official for the deaths of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were killed by Department of Homeland Security agents.

During a Senate Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Johnson grilled Ellison on the use of First Amendment rights in Minnesota.

With a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security looming, the White House is growing frantic as it "scrambles," caught between needing to placate Democrats enraged at the abuses of federal immigration agents, and not wanting to agree to most of their concessions.

According to the Walter Bloomberg newsfeed account, "The White House made a last-minute push to prevent a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, sending legislative text to Democrats ahead of the funding deadline. Democrats are expected to reject the proposal, calling earlier offers 'incomplete and insufficient.' Senate Democrats say talks have stalled and insist they won’t back another stopgap measure without agreement on a 10-point plan to reform ICE and CBP."

CNN's Kevin Liptak revealed the White House was unimpressed with Attorney General Pam Bondi's fiery performance before the House Judiciary Committee.

President Donald Trump's attorney general lashed out at Democrats, hurling insults and highlighting various crimes back in their home districts that she pulled from a tabbed binder, and refused to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, but CNN's senior White House correspondent revealed what he's hearing about her from insiders.

The controversial Department of Government Efficiency is no longer operating as a centralized agency, but some Republicans are still trying to carry out its budget-slashing work in the face of some resistance from party leadership.

DOGE efforts have stalled out dramatically since Elon Musk left his perch in the White House, leaving some conservative budget hawks frustrated as Republicans have passed only one bill enacting $9 billion in cuts – a fraction of the $2 trillion promised by the tech billionaire and Donald Trump donor, reported CNN.

Border Czar Tom Homan announced that President Donald Trump had agreed to end the Department of Homeland Security's anti-immigration surge in Minnesota following the deaths of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

"I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude," Homan said in a speech on Thursday. "A significant drawdown has already been underway this week, and we'll continue to the next week."