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Democratic strategist Michael Hardaway railed into the Trump administration Saturday over its plan to deploy Justice Department officials to monitor elections in California and New Jersey, calling it blatant “voter intimidation.”

“To my view, this voter suppression is problematic,” Hardaway said, appearing on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports.”

Australian economist Justin Wolfers issued a dire warning Saturday on the direction of the economy under President Donald Trump, equating the administration’s freeze on releasing key economic data to steering a ship through fog wearing “blindfolds.”

“It becomes very hard to know how to steer the ship when you don't have a lot of data,” Wolfers said, appearing on MSNBC’s “Velshi.”

As the national debt hit a record $38 trillion this week – rising by $1 trillion faster than ever outside the pandemic – many Republican lawmakers who once decried spending stayed silent, something the progressive news outlet The Tennessee Holler promptly mocked them over.

“At least the rich got their tax cuts, right Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)? With Inequality at gilded age levels,” the outlet wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.

Conservative gadfly Steve Bannon’s suggestion that Donald Trump will not be departing the Oval Office at the end of his second term should not be taken as as “trolling” but as a statement of fact.

That is the opinion of former Republican Party campaign advisor Rick Wilson, who wrote on Friday that Bannon's comments to The Economist are aimed at paving the way to normalize the idea that the president and his people don’t feel constrained by the Constitution and no one should believe that they will and should accept it.

The identity of the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the Trump administration to pay troops amid the ongoing government shutdown has been revealed to be reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon, a donation that, according to a report from The New York Times, would likely violate federal law.

Mellon has made significant contributions over the years to Trump’s campaigns, donating $50 million last year to Trump’s super PAC, just one day after the president was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The previous year, Mellon donated $50 million between both Trump and then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who since went on to be tapped by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made her “strongest suggestion to date” that she was considering a third run for the White House in an interview with BBC published Saturday, sparking an attack from the White House over her failed past attempts to win the presidency.

Harris was asked by BBC if she would make another bid for president following her past two attempts, to which she said “possibly,” BBC reported. She also noted that her grandnieces would love to see a female president “in their lifetime, for sure.”

A plan by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to shed more federal workers by using the government shutdown as cover is falling apart as department heads are ignoring his proposed cuts.

According to a report from Politico, a leaked document reveals that Vought, who has made it his life’s mission to pare down government functions to a bare minimum, pressed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to do a mass layoff with a target of close to 8,000 jobs eliminated and they have yet to come close.

Donald Trump was called out on MSNBC on Saturday morning for his attack on America’s cattle ranchers with one firing back that he has no idea what he is talking about.

Brought on by the hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Craig Bieber, the vice president of the South Dakota Cattleman’s Beef Association, was asked about a post the president wrote on Truth Social.

Just over nine months after President Donald Trump returned to office and pardoned his supporters who stormed the US Capitol, one of the Republican’s top aides suggested that federal law enforcement may arrest Democrats standing up to the White House’s anti-migrant agenda, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Asked about the administration’s willingness and federal authority to arrest the Illinois leader on Fox News Friday, Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, responded: “Well, the answer I’m about to give doesn’t only apply to Gov. Pritzker, it applies to any state official, any local official, anybody who’s operating in an official capacity who conspires or engages in activity that unlawfully impedes federal law enforcement conducting their duties.”

President Donald Trump’s plans to construct a 90,000 square-foot ballroom where the White House’s East Wing once stood appear to be ever-changing and done in “a hurried process,” with one design document showing the project to have a staircase leading to nowhere, according to a report Saturday from the New York Times.

“Architects and historians say that it is not unusual for designs to change during a project like this, but that Mr. Trump has not followed the typical process for White House renovations, which normally involve reviews by organizations like the National Capital Planning Commission,” the report reads. “And the various plans Mr. Trump has shared have suggested a hurried process.”

A shakeup is looming at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because Donald Trump’s White House has become increasingly frustrated with the pace of arrests of undocumented immigrants -- and now jobs are on the line.

According to a report from the New York Times, regional ICE officials are being asked to explain why arrest numbers are down which led former senior ICE official Claire Trickler-McNulty to explain, “They are under constant threat; people are ground down; it’s a culture of fear.”