Marjorie Taylor Greene

UPDATE: CNN reporter Alayna Treene later said the news outlet had confirmed Trump hadn’t gone through with the purchase of the firearm. Former Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung has since deleted a social media post in which he said Trump had bought the Glock.

If Donald Trump just bought the gun his former spokesperson claims he did, he broke federal law.

UPDATE: CNN reporter Alayna Treene later said the news outlet had confirmed Trump hadn’t gone through with the purchase of the firearm. Former Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung has since deleted a social media post in which he said Trump had bought the Glock.

Former President Donald Trump said he wanted to buy a Glock handgun, according to his former spokesperson.

The nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization on Monday released a 30-second TV ad attacking House Republicans for their “politics of hate” and for bringing the federal government to the edge of a shutdown. The government will shut down unless the House can pass legislation to keep it open, legislation the Senate would have to vote on and pass, and President Joe Biden would have to sign, all before midnight on September 30.

“You sent your representative to Washington to work on behalf of everyday Americans, like you. But House Republicans spent the summer trying to divide us and failing to pass essential spending bills,” says the voiceover on the Human Rights Campaign‘s ad, expected to air nationwide according to The Hill.

Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday condemned her Republican colleagues for proposing a budget resolution that includes massive cuts to key aid programs while backing an extension of giveaways for the wealthy and large corporations.

"We are in the midst of a shutdown crisis because Republicans can't even organize their own caucus to pass funding levels that were already agreed to," Omar (D-Minn.) said during the House Budget Committee's markup of the new resolution. "And now they launch some of the most radical cuts to healthcare, to housing assistance, to food assistance, to the postal office, and nearly every program under the sun—all while doing nothing to rein in our nearly trillion-dollar Pentagon budget or the trillions they've handed out to millionaires and billionaires through the Trump tax cuts."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blasted members of the Freedom Caucus on Wednesday for infighting.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, Greene argued House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) should have suspended the August recess to pass a budget.

The House GOP is in a state of chaos at exactly the moment that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) needs them to come together and vote on keeping the government open, lamented political analyst Stephen Collinson for CNN on Wednesday.

"Days of recriminations between far-right hardliners, moderates, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his nihilistic tormentors reached a new peak on Tuesday in extraordinary scenes of inter-party infighting on the south side of the US Capitol," wrote Collinson. "The legislative train wreck made clear that more is now at stake than McCarthy’s loosening grip on a job he craved for years and the capacity of the GOP to fulfill the chamber’s most basic function – setting a budget to run the country."

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is striking back amid attacks on his iconically casual attire led by Republican lawmakers and Fox News.

Senator Fetterman, who often wears sweatshirts instead of suits, found himself once again targeted in the past few days.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy told his caucus on Monday that they run the risk of alienating Americans with their budget battle if a government shutdown unfolds.

"If you shut down [the government], you really cede the power to the government," McCarthy said, referring to President Joe Biden as the government while speaking on “The Truth with Lisa Boothe."

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy its being attacked by far-right House Republicans and being mocked as their "victim" as he openly admits to the press that he doesn't "quite know what" they want just days before what appears to be an increasingly-likely federal government shutdown that will lay at the feet of his members including U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

"It's a good thing I love a challenge," Speaker McCarthy told reporters Monday morning (video below) as he slammed extremist members of the House Republican Conference. "Because every day is gonna be a challenge."