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The Supreme Court extended its order blocking Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food assistance payments until at least Thursday as lawmakers in Congress debate a bill that could reopen the government, according to a new report.

The order was not unanimous, with liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filing a dissent, according to a report by Kate Buehler, Supreme Court reporter for Law360. It comes at a time when Democrats have agreed to vote for a series of short-term spending bills in exchange for a vote on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies in December.

President Donald Trump is furious about Kansas Republicans' failure to follow his orders and pass a mid-decade gerrymander to eliminate the state's single Democratic congressional district — but the Republicans who refused are unbowed and defiant, The New York Times reported.

Around the country, Trump has demanded such redistricting projects, with controversial new maps passing in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri to grant Republicans extra seats — but elsewhere, many of his efforts have stalled, the report said.

A prominent political analyst was riled by President Donald Trump's latest gift to Democrats, which he argued has been misconstrued by the mainstream media.

Democrats swept several high-profile races, including the governor's offices in New Jersey and Virginia, during last week's elections, largely by centering affordability in their policy and messaging platforms. Some analysts have argued that the results show Democrats "figured out" how to discuss affordability, a claim that MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes argued misconstrues the state of the economy as a "symmetrical issue" between Republicans and Democrats.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday applauded a top Texas Republican's decision to quit politics in a new post on Truth Social.

"Fortunately for the Great State of Texas, their Former Speaker, who is no longer Speaker, Dade Phelan, is quitting Politics," Trump wrote. "He was the one responsible for killing every Bill having to do with Voter Integrity and School Choice. Good luck in your next life, Dade!"

A CNN reporter revealed on Tuesday that the Republican Party appears to be "grappling" with its messaging after receiving a "warning sign" from Americans during last week's election.

Alayna Treene, a White House reporter for CNN, discussed the impact of last week's election on Republicans during a new broadcast of "The Arena" with host Kasie Hunt. Democrats swept several high-profile races during last week's election, including the governor's offices in New Jersey and Virginia.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani insisted that he was surprised after learning that President Donald Trump had pardoned him for crimes related to trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"When I woke up this morning and someone told me I was pardoned, I said, 'For what?'" Giuliani explained on his Monday night Lindell TV program. "I thought I insulted somebody last night."

Bill Pulte, the director of President Donald Trump's Federal Housing Finance Agency, was under investigation by ethics watchdogs shortly before the ethics office overseeing the agency was cleaned out by layoffs, reported The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

According to the report, the ethics office for Fannie Mae "had received internal complaints alleging senior officials had improperly directed staff to access ... mortgage documents" for officials who have criticized or legally fought Trump, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. "The Fannie investigators were probing to find out who had made the orders, whether Pulte had the authority to seek the documents and whether or not they had followed proper procedure, the people said."

President Donald Trump's Justice Department admitted to a federal judge on Tuesday that the agency's social media accounts have taken down several controversial posts that politicized the actions of a member of Congress they indicted, according to CBS News' Scott MacFarlane.

The issue stems from a visit made by several New Jersey politicians, including multiple members of Congress, to Delaney Hall, a private, for-profit immigrant detention facility in Newark. After clashes with law enforcement that briefly saw the arrest and release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Trump-installed New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver for forcibly impeding federal officers.

President Donald Trump has appointed 27 judges to federal courts so far in his second term, and in addition to their right-wing interpretation of the law, an analysis of the judges’ comments to senators during the confirmation process reveals a key commonality between the president’s appointees: All were willing to evade direct questions about whether Trump lost the 2020 election and whether the US Capitol was attacked by a violent pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

Demand Justice examined the Questions for the Record (QFRs) that were submitted by the Senate to the 27 judicial nominees regarding the election and Jan. 6, and found that their answers to those two specific questions were nearly uniform in many cases—repeating certain phrases verbatim and “overall, using unusual and evasive language that’s almost entirely outside the normal, historical, and common lexicon used to describe such events.”