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Vice President JD Vance's religious faith and his political future are being publicly tested by the Iran war – a conflict he spent years warning against.

The 41-year-old vice president's predicament crystallized during a recent University of Georgia speech when a heckler shouted, "Jesus Christ does not support genocide," highlighting the tension between his stated principles and his support for military operations he previously opposed, wrote The Guardian's Robert Tait.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s attempt to gain membership to one of the Beltway's most elite private clubs is reportedly meeting a wave of resistance from more than a few members.

According to Politico's Daniel Lippman, at least six members have written to the Metropolitan Club's board of directors to object to Blanche's joining, saying he's too polarizing, citing the damage he is inflicting upon the Department of Justice. As Politico puts it, "Some members of one of Washington’s most exclusive clubs have a message for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: We don’t want you."

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was confronted with a “multifront picture of chaos” Tuesday after House Republicans failed to advance a key priority during what Punchbowl News has described as an “absolutely brutal week.”

“This week is already unraveling for House Republicans. And it’s only Tuesday,” the outlet wrote Tuesday in its morning newsletter.

Donald Trump’s fresh attack on late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made about the age disparity between the 79-year-old president and his 56-year-old wife Melania did not get a sympathetic ear on “Morning Joe.”

During a roast last Thursday, Kimmel joked about the first lady, calling her an "expectant widow,” which the White House has been trying to link to the assassination attempt on Saturday –– leading to new calls to fire the comedian.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson are locked in an escalating dispute over a stalled Homeland Security funding bill, with Saturday's assassination attempt against President Trump at the Washington Hilton adding new pressure to resolve the impasse.

GOP senators are urging the House to immediately pass a bill the Senate unanimously approved on March 27 that would fund most of DHS, including the Secret Service, whose officers stopped an armed assailant within feet of Trump during the attack, but House members are balking, reported The Hill.

A prominent advocate for the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative expressed outrage Tuesday over what they called the president’s “enormous political misstep,” an executive order that they warned “might cost the midterms for the Republican Party.”

“This was an enormous political misstep in terms of what the administration did... a real slap in the face to MAHA,” said Kelly Ryerson, a prominent MAHA advocate, during an appearance on Fox News.

“There’s a day of reckoning coming.”

That is the opinion of a prominent oil industry executive who is predicting a major surge in prices at the gas pump as Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and the accompanying closure of the Strait of Hormuz, drags on.

A dozen voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024 expressed disillusionment with his second term as part of a focus group convened by the New York Times.

The 79-year-old president still enjoys 80 percent approval among Republicans, but his standing with independents has cratered, and many of his own voters – like those who spoke to the Times – say they regret their choice.

Political analysts and observers roasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday after he announced he took a "joyride" with MAGA music star Kid Rock.

"Joined my friend @KidRock — and some of our great @USArmy Apache pilots — for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!)" Hegseth wrote in a post on X. "Kid Rock is a patriot and huge supporter of our troops. The War Department is wasting no time celebrating America’s 250th — home of the free because of the brave."

A political columnist warned President Donald Trump on Monday that his administration's ghosts will soon come back to haunt him after the "momentary grace" following the White House Correspondents' Dinner fades.

David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that Trump will soon have to face issues like his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, his disastrous handling of the war in Iran, and the stagnant economy as memory of the shooting fades.

CNN's Abby Phillip brutally fact-checked a MAGA pundit during Monday's broadcast of her show "NewsNight" over the White House's claim that left-wing rhetoric inspired the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.

Ben Ferguson, who co-hosts the "Verdict" podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined the panel to discuss the shooting, and defended the White House's claim that Democrats inspired the shooter to attack the event. He pointed to recent statements from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and language the shooter included in his alleged manifesto as evidence that the rhetoric inspired the attack.

Right-wing podcaster Katie Miller was brutally mocked on Monday after she made a strange claim about her husband during a Fox News interview.

Katie Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, said during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham that her husband took some heroic actions while she was being evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday after a shooting. Video of the couple showed Stephen Miller standing behind his pregnant wife as they were rushed out of the event.

On Monday, the Trump White House appeared to float a trial balloon to rebrand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the acronym so that instead of "ICE," it would be "NICE."

"ICE -> NICE AGENTS. 'National Immigration and Customs Enforcement.' DO IT!" said the official White House X account, posting an AI-generated image of an agent wearing "NICE" gear bent down to comfort a child, accompanied by the words "NICE AGENTS — DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY."