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Former GOP analyst Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," threw Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) own words back at her on Wednesday after she made a series of statements on social media about her support for gay marriage.

On Tuesday, Mace tweeted, "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," a popular refrain from the religious right that belittles gay marriage. Her post earned a Community Note on X, which provided examples of when Mace previously voted in favor of protecting gay marriage.

One of President Donald Trump's nominees to lead the U.S. Export-Import Bank withdrew from consideration on Wednesday after Democrats raised concerns about his ties to Russian businesses, according to a new report.

Politico reported that Bryce McFerran, whom Trump nominated to serve as the first vice president of the bank, previously worked at a Russian-owned steel company, and his wife has relatives who work in the Kremlin. Even though he withdrew, McFerran will still serve in an acting role as EXIM’s chief banking officer “until a permanent replacement is named in the coming weeks,” an administration spokesperson told the outlet.

President Donald Trump's polling has fallen into the 30s amid a series of government crises and unpopular decisions, hitting a new low for his second term — but there is still a key factor he has that many other presidents with similar popularity crashes did not, former GOP speechwriter Tim Miller told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Wednesday.

This comes despite constant GOP taunts of Trump possibly running for an illegal third term, something that Miller argued is far from a sign of strength.

A retired professor at the U.S. Naval War College on Wednesday night immediately smacked down President Donald Trump's stunning explanation for why he has ordered the Defense Department to restart nuclear bomb testing after a nearly three-decade hiatus.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to claim the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country, warning that its adversaries are catching up.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has extended deployment orders for the National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. through at least February 2026, according to a new report from CNN.

The initial deployment orders were scheduled to expire at the end of November, according to the report. It was issued at a time when the Trump administration is squabbling with DC's attorney general in court over removing roughly 2,000 troops from the District's streets.

President Donald Trump uncorked another startling social media post on Wednesday night, alerting the globe that he has ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's department to ramp up testing of nuclear weapons.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to note that the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country, but warned that its adversaries are catching up.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) issued a statement on Wednesday evening, tearing into the Trump administration for holding a briefing with the Senate on the recent military strikes on suspected narcotics smuggling boats in the Caribbean — but only inviting Republican senators.

"Shutting Democrats out of a briefing on U.S. military strikes and withholding the legal justification for those strikes from half the Senate is indefensible and dangerous," stated Warner. "Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party. For any administration to treat them that way erodes our national security and flies in the face of Congress' constitutional obligation to oversee matters of war and peace."

Vice President JD Vance hinted that a student's girlfriend ought to be deported unless she meets certain criteria during a speaking engagement at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday.

Vance spoke at a Turning Point USA rally on Ole Miss' campus. During a question-and-answer segment, one student asked about Vance's views on legal immigration and a merit-based immigration system. The student also mentioned that his girlfriend is a legal immigrant studying at the school who wants a green card.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to intervene in a case concerning President Donald Trump's efforts to deploy federal troops to Portland, Oregon, stunned one legal analyst on Wednesday.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, discussed the court's decision to review the case en banc with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen during a podcast interview on Wednesday. The decision effectively halts the troop deployment because the litigation remains ongoing.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton received a brutal smackdown by the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday evening over his lawsuit against the manufacturer of Tylenol over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s unsubstantiated claims it causes autism when taken during pregnancy.

Paxton, the board argued, is doing everything that the conservative movement hates and resents about liberal trial lawyers, soaking businesses under "dubious" pretenses to make a political statement.

MAGA influencer Candace Owens called out President Donald Trump on Wednesday because of the president's seeming disinterest in keeping the public informed about the investigation into conservative activist Charlie Kirk's killing in September.

Owens discussed the administration's "silence" about the investigation during a new episode of her podcast, "Candace." She blamed the influence of the "pro-Israel lobby" for keeping the investigation under wraps.

A new investigation by The Washington Post reveals that many of the promotional clips the Department of Homeland Security posts on social media to boast about its operations quelling lawlessness and protests are, in fact, from months ago or in completely different cities than the actions they mention.

In an egregious example, Drew Harwell and Joyce Sohyun Lee noted, "The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a 'battle for the soul of our nation' and working 'day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital'" — but in fact, the footage was from totally unrelated operations from Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Florida.

Vice President JD Vance raised a few eyebrows on Wednesday with remarks in a new podcast interview proclaiming himself a big believer in UFOs and unexplained phenomena.

The comments were made during an interview with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine on a Pod Force One podcast.