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The Wall Street Journal editorial page this week expressed bewilderment that Republicans appear eager to torpedo a bipartisan immigration deal that is far more conservative than anything they imagined possible just months ago.

The bill, which was hammered out by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT), completely forgoes a longtime demand from Democratic lawmakers for a pathway to citizenship to undocumented immigrants who were brought to America as children and who have spent the vast majority of their lives in the United States.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) this week brought the hammer down on her party for blowing up a bipartisan compromise on immigration that would have also provided aide to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian military aggression.

Writing on Twitter, Cheney accused the GOP of sabotaging America's national security interests simply to help former President Donald Trump politically.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough predicted that Republicans would pay a political price for blocking a border security deal that gives them almost everything they've wanted.

The bipartisan bill appears on track to fail in the Senate, while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declared it dead on arrival in the lower chamber, and the "Morning Joe" host called them out for following Donald Trump's orders to block the bill so he could run on border security as a campaign issue.

Two legal experts this week said that actions by special counsel Jack Smith's office have exposed the incompetence of one of the lawyers representing a Trump codefendant in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

At one point, the attorney representing co-defendant Carlos de Oliveira confessed that, over the course of the past several months, he's had serious trouble viewing the exhibits, including the videos from Mar-a-Lago's security cameras, because he doesn't own a computer.

Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farrah Griffin said during an appearance on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins on Monday that getting convicted of a felony would do serious damage to former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

"What's interesting to me is... the number of Republicans that wouldn't support Trump if he was convicted is astonishingly high," she said. "It ends up being about a third of the Republican Party who said they couldn't vote for a convicted felon.

Seth Meyers tried to decipher Donald Trump's social media pulse-taking of the public to determine whether or not he resembles the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, or the Batman super-villain "Two-Face."

“For so many years, people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike," the 45th president wrote on TruthSocial over the weekend. "Now this pic has been going all over the place. What do you think?”

President Joe Biden threw a little shade Monday at the Republican frontrunner ousted from the White House four years ago.

Biden cracked a smile and chuckled when he heard former President Donald Trump wanted to debate him “immediately,” video posted to X by The Recount shows.

Tears of joy are falling by Colorado constituents after learning Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) wouldn't seek reelection for her 3rd District seat in 2024, and instead attempt to replace outgoing Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.

"It is the right decision for me personally, and it is the right decision for those who support our conservative movement. This is the right decision for Colorado, for us," she said in an almost 5-minute-long video.

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agreed to kill the GOP's own border security bill on Monday evening, just three hours after coming out with emphatic support for it.

McConnell spoke to the press in support, but when speaking to his caucus, he caved in to pressure from the MAGA wing of the GOP to stop the bill, so Joe Biden wouldn't have a "win" on the issue. It's the closest the Senate has come to an actual deal on immigration in nearly two decades.

As the future of the bipartisan border deal looks bleak, former President Donald Trump — who was instrumental in getting Republicans to turn against the plan — is now claiming that he never even supported the election of the senator who helped write it.

Just one problem, according to The Daily Beast: He did.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) traded barbs with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) on the social media site "X" Monday — and got more than she bargained for.

The far-right lawmaker, who is best known for having embraced QAnon conspiracy theories before being elected and getting expelled from the far-right Freedom Caucus, took a shot at McGovern after he lambasted her in a House Rules Committee meeting, where he sits as ranking member.

In a stunning reversal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is urging the Senate G.O.P. caucus to vote against the bipartisan border security and foreign defense aid package. It comes after spending weeks helping a bipartisan group of senators craft it, and just hours after he spoke in favor of the legislation.

The development was reported by Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman, who said McConnell's announcement came in a closed-door Republican strategy session with his colleagues.

The right-wing "guerrilla journalist" James O'Keefe announced he and his former organization Project Veritas settled a lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania postmaster for propping up claims from a mail carrier that he overheard election fraud statements, according to NBC News.

On Monday, O'Keefe, who parted ways as head of Project Veritas in February 2023, officially acknowledged Hopkins' gaping holes in his story.