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The performance of the Department of Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin has become a Rorschach test for Donald Trump’s MAGA followers, who have already expressed widely conflicting opinions about the job he has been doing, one month after he replaced controversial Kristi Noem.

According to the Washington Post's David Nakamura, some conservative anti-immigration advocates understand the political constraints Mullin faces after Noem's controversial tenure cratered Trump's immigration approval ratings. But another faction wants immediate, aggressive action regardless of political consequences.

The Trump administration has heavily promoted the larger tax refunds expected this year as a selling point for Republicans in the midterm elections, but two conservative economists refuted that narrative on Tuesday, arguing that, in aggregate, the Trump administration’s policies were, in effect, a tax increase.

Signed into law by President Donald Trump last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act extended a number of tax cuts implemented during his first term – tax cuts that largely benefit the wealthiest Americans, and at the expense of social safety net programs like Medicaid and food assistance. The savings for “the average American,” however, were more than offset by the price hikes caused by Trump’s tariff policy, conservative economists Phil Gramm and Michael Solon argued Tuesday in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal.

Major changes could be coming to U.S. passports as part of President Donald Trump's widening effort to remake the government in his own image.

The State Department is finalizing a radical redesign of the U.S. passport that will feature the 79-year-old president's portrait, according to sources with knowledge of the project who shared images currently under consideration with The Bulwark.

Rep. Dan Webster (R-FL) announced that he would not seek another term in Congress this year.

Webster, who has served three terms, revealed his retirement in a statement on Tuesday.

Amid the widely publicized White House visit Tuesday by England’s King Charles III, one photographer captured a remarkable moment on camera, one that appeared to show President Donald Trump, as one CBS News reporter put it, patting “the first lady on the tooshie.”

“Trump patted the first lady on the tooshie during [the] arrival ceremony for king and queen,” wrote CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs in a social media post on X, alongside an image of the photograph in question, taken by Associated Press photographer Jacquelyn Martin.

An immigration officer who shot and killed Renee Good has reportedly been quietly reassigned to another job as the federal probe in her death has seemingly ground to a halt.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, 43, has been quietly relocated to a different state and allowed to resume work three months after fatally shooting Good, a 37-year-old unarmed mother, according to an exclusive report by PunchUp.

A pivotal Wednesday Supreme Court hearing on the limits of Donald Trump’s immigration policies will contain a wild card in the form of how Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett will vote due to personal considerations.

According to a report from the Washington Post, the case in question will dig deep into Donald Trump’s efforts to end temporary immigration protections for Haitians and if it holds up under constitutional scrutiny.

More than 2,000 Marines may have been the target of a suspected cyberattack linked to Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, with the U.S. service members’ personal information and data potentially being compromised.

“The Pentagon is investigating, and early indications suggest at least some of the leaked information is authentic,” the Journal reported.

Social media cringed at President Donald Trump barging ahead of King Charles in a receiving line with his top administration officials.

The 77-year-old king shook hands with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top cabinet officials before begging off halfway through the receiving line, and the 79-year-old president sauntered past and picked up shaking hands where Charles had left off.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon predicted Republicans would face a "30-seat blowout" in the midterm elections if President Donald Trump and his administration did not commit to deporting 100 million people.

During a Tuesday segment on his War Room program, Bannon complained that the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Markwayne Mullin had "no appetite" to deport 100 million, as former Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino has called for.

King Charles’ visit to the White House to meet with Donald Trump, followed by an outdoor ceremony on Tuesday, led the New York Post to employ a lip-reader to decipher what the two world leaders were saying to each other out of earshot of reporters.

Upon welcoming his guests to the White House, the Post is reporting that Trump and Charles spoke about security, likely related to the attempt on Trump’s life Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner among other topics.