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President Donald Trump’s hand-picked border czar, Tom Homan, is facing backlash from legal and political experts after asserting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents do not need “probable cause” to detain individuals, and can do so based on factors like “personal appearance.”

“Look, people need to understand,” Homan told Fox News on Friday. ICE officers “don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain and question them.”

A former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers says Republicans and President Donald Trump have set the nation up for the kind of snag that plagues developing and low-revenue nations like Tunisia and Egypt.

Jared Bernstein, a distinguished policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, tells The New York Times that he used to oppose budget hawks fretting “about America’s deficits and debt.”

Ever since his legal troubles began in 2023, President Donald Trump has reaped great financial and political benefit from convincing his base of supporters that he's about to be victimized by vengeful governments. One scholar may have come up with a new term that could serve as a catch-all way of describing this phenomenon.

Psychology-focused news outlet PsyPost reported Monday on a recently published study by Kathryn Claire Higgins of Goldsmiths, University of London entitled "From Victimhood to Victimcould: Hypothetical injury and the 'criminalization' of Donald Trump." The study delved into Trump's pattern of constantly messaging to his supporters that he was – as PsyPost founder Eric W. Dolan wrote — "perpetually on the brink of harm, casting himself as a target of state overreach and moral persecution."

President Donald Trump seemed to stumble when responding to a reporter’s question during a press conference in Florida on Tuesday, where he had traveled for the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial detention facility designed to accommodate migrants.

When asked how long detainees are expected to remain at the detention center, the president replied, "I'm gonna spend a lot. This is my home state. I love it. I'll spend a lot of time here," sidestepping the actual question.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo is facing criticism for calling President Donald Trump’s latest reversal on undocumented immigrant workers “big news,” after the President floated creating “temporary passes.”

Earlier this month, Trump announced ICE would back off from detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants working on farms and in hotels, only to announce just days later an apparent reversal to that policy, by declaring he would enact “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

President Donald Trump's mercurial nature could be best explained by one question he constantly asks everyone in his orbit. And how he governs over the remainder of his second term may very well be up to how his favorite question gets answered at any given time.

The New York Times' Carlos Lozada wrote Friday on Trump's propensity to gauge feedback from those in his inner circle by asking: "How's it playing?" According to Lozada, that was the first question Trump asked deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino while being treated at a Pennsylvania hospital following an attempt on his life in July of 2024. And it was the top question after Israel carried out its first strikes on Iranian nuclear sites earlier this month.

New York City's 2025 Democratic mayoral primary experienced a major upset when, on Tuesday night, June 24, progressive New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — a self-described "democratic socialist" endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) — defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other candidates.

Now the official Democratic nominee, Mamdani enters the general election, where the current mayor, Eric Adams, is seeking reelection as an independent.

H.R. 1, President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," contains one provision that may prove to be both financially and politically costly for Republicans — particularly those from the reddest states in the U.S.

Politico reported Friday that the legislation contains a provision that would end up forcing all states to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is something Republican-run states have been hesitant to do since the ACA became law in 2010. South Carolina Hospital Association chief executive Thornton Kirby warned that the legislation "affects the viability of the whole [healthcare] system" in the Palmetto State.

After stalling on a decision in the escalating Middle East crisis and delaying action—some say potentially in defiance of federal law—on the congressionally mandated TikTok ban, President Donald Trump, facing sliding poll numbers, a widely criticized budget bill on the brink of collapse, a looming debt ceiling showdown, and apparent tensions with his Director of National Intelligence, is heading to his Bedminster golf resort for a MAGA dinner and an early weekend likely to include several rounds of golf.

The decision to leave the White House early on Friday comes after he left the G7 early this week, reportedly to make a decision on whether or how to help Israel attack Iran. His former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, jokingly said Trump exited the conference with top world leaders because he was “bored,” The Hill reported.

A CBS News investigation found two-thirds of counties losing funding from a pivotal FEMA program supported President Trump in the 2024 election.

The president's administration announced plans to claw back about $3.6 million that has already been awarded to local storm damage-mitigation projects. The move empties out Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) projects and sends that money back to the U.S. Treasury, but it stalls projects to elevate buildings in new flood zones in small communities like Pollocksville, North Carolina.

Although President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is deporting people at a slower pace than President Joe Biden did last year, ICE, under the direction of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is reportedly $1 billion over budget—even as Trump on Sunday issued a new order directing the agency to carry out “the largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

Even before that order, Trump’s “immigration crackdown” has been “burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month,” Axios reported on Monday. ICE “is already $1 billion over budget by one estimate, with more than three months left in the fiscal year.”