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President Donald Trump has failed in his promises to deliver lower grocery costs, MSNBC's Chris Hayes said on Thursday's edition of "All In" — whatever he might say to the contrary.

This comes as Trump, who has put pressure on prices with a series of draconian tariffs, moves forward with a plan to import large amounts of beef from Argentina to try to control prices, which has proven highly controversial among Republican lawmakers representing areas dependent on ranching, which would suffer from the competition.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) ignited a firestorm of outrage after a recent tweet in which he blamed the 42 million Americans set to lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits this weekend for their own plight.

On Thursday, Higgins posted to his official X account: "There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average. Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries. Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack."

Former Vice President Kamala Harris furiously bashed President Donald Trump during a new podcast interview, according to a report.

HuffPost reported on Thursday that Harris discussed the Trump administration's use of food stamps as political leverage on a new episode of comedian Jon Stewart's "The Weekly Show" podcast. She described his tactics as a "grand gesture" of destruction.

A Trump-appointed federal district judge in Washington, D.C., went out of his way on Thursday to praise a pair of Justice Department prosecutors who were put on leave shortly after writing a harsh sentencing memo against a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and described that event as a "mob of rioters," Politico reported.

The rioter in question, Taylor Taranto, was separately convicted in a bench trial for livestreaming himself near former President Barack Obama's house with a huge cache of illegal weapons, and issuing a fake threat to bomb a government building.

President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly considering airstrikes on Venezuelan military facilities, including naval facilities and airstrips that officials believe are used to smuggle drugs, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night that while no official decision has been made, such strikes would send a "clear message" that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro must step down.

Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration Frank Bisignano may have saved millions in stock losses by joining President Donald Trump's administration, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that Bisignano was forced to sell his stock holdings in Fiserv, a financial services company that he ran before moving to Washington, D.C. His family netted around $560 million, according to the report.

The Republican-controlled US Senate voted Thursday to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling, even as the government shutdown continued with no end in sight.

The final vote on the resolution, led by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), was 52-45, almost entirely along party lines. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the only Democrat to join Republicans in voting for the measure, which aims to use the Congressional Review Act to revoke a 2022 Biden administration decision protecting swaths of the Western Arctic.

President Donald Trump’s surprise order to resume nuclear weapons testing has set off concerns about a potential global arms race, but one Democratic senator is working to stop it from happening.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Thursday introduced emergency legislation to prevent the president from resuming nuclear weapons tests, which experts have warned could undermine global geopolitical stability as more nations could respond by ramping up weapons tests of their own.

President Donald Trump's administration faced fierce backlash Thursday after announcing a new regulation that potentially limits who qualifies for public service loan forgiveness, the flagship program that allows people to have student loans wiped out if they work in certain public service jobs for a required amount of time.

The new rule, as outlined by the Department of Education and set to take effect next year, "amends the definition of a 'qualifying employer' to 'exclude organizations that engage in unlawful activities such that they have a substantial illegal purpose, including supporting terrorism and aiding and abetting illegal immigration,'" according to Newsweek — and grants authority to the Secretary of Education to determine which employers fail this criteria.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts found himself buried in criticism on Thursday after he posted a video telling conservatives that attempts to cancel a prominent neo-Nazi were "not the answer" the party needs to defeat their "political adversaries on the left."

Roberts posted the video after several conservative commentators bashed prominent media personality Tucker Carlson for interviewing avid antisemite Nick Fuentes on "The Tucker Carlson Show." Roberts argued in the video that many of the people criticizing Carlson for interviewing Fuentes are "bad actors who serve someone else's agenda."

Republican Party officials are now using their “connections” to the Trump administration to threaten journalists into dropping critical coverage.

That’s what Doug Bock Clark, a reporter for ProPublica, recently discovered as he worked on a feature-length story on the rise of Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, who has become one of the most quietly influential jurists in the nation.

Russia delivered an ominous response Thursday after President Donald Trump unloaded a startling announcement that the United States would resume testing nuclear weapons, ending a more than three-decade hiatus.

"The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country," Trump wrote late Wednesday. "This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office. Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Investigative political reporter Tara Palmeri sparked an uproar on Thursday after a Democratic congressional candidate abruptly ended an interview with her over questions on her indictment.

Palmeri briefly interviewed Kat Abughazaleh on her podcast, "The Tara Palmeri Show." The interview occurred a day after Abughazaleh found out President Donald Trump's administration had indicted her on one count of "forcibly" impeding an officer on duty and one count of conspiracy.