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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg unleashed a tirade against President Donald Trump and the GOP on Thursday following the passage of their "big, beautiful bill."

The package extends tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy while slashing over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food assistance, and energy credits, massively increasing the budget for immigration detention and deportation, and adding over $2 trillion to the federal deficit.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration can deport eight migrants to South Sudan, a country that the migrants have no ties to and that is embroiled in a conflict that has displaced 13 million people since 2023.

The order was issued after the Trump administration appealed a lower court order preventing them from removing "any alien" to a country "not explicitly provided for on the alien’s order of removal."

A House Republican from Wisconsin cheered in a since-deleted post on X after Republicans managed to pass President Donald Trump's mega-spending bill, which takes away health care benefits for millions of Americans and leaves millions more with fewer public benefits they need to make ends meet.

Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), a former Navy Seal, retweeted a post from an account called Logical Luminary that claimed "17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance. And $3.5 trillion was added to the deficit. All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors."

The Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest Thursday of Julio César Chávez Jr., a prominent Mexican boxer who was in the United States legally, but was arrested last year for unlawful possession of an assault weapon.

Chávez's latest arrest comes just days after he lost a high-stakes fight with social media influencer and professional boxer Jake Paul, with a DHS spokesperson alleging the boxer had close ties with the Sinaloa Cartel, designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization.

The Washington Post fired back at Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday following her attack on one of its reporters, whom the nation’s top intelligence and security official accused of harassment and stalking.

Gabbard said earlier Thursday that Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter for the newspaper, had called staff of hers using a “burner phone,” that she refused to identify herself, and lied about her affiliation with the Post. Former colleagues of Nakashima quickly called into doubt Gabbard’s claims, noting she failed to provide any evidence.

House GOP holdouts were persuaded to vote in favor of President Donald Trump's spending bill after getting a sneak peek at coming executive orders, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday, according to Politico.

Johnson gave himself a pat on the back Thursday afternoon as GOP lawmakers voted to pass the megabill a "day early," meaning ahead of Trump's Fourth of July deadline. Politico noted that the getting GOP holdouts over the hump took some help from Trump's administration, who gave the lawmakers a "better 'understanding' [of] how the Trump administration will carry out the soon-to-be law — not future promises."

Experts are thrashing the Environmental Protection Agency and Secretary Lee Zeldin for retaliating against a group of workers who signed a public letter calling out the "misinformation" coming from the agency.

The EPA placed 139 employees on administrative leave because they signed the letter, dubbed a "declaration of dissent" against President Donald Trump's policies, Axios reported Thursday. The letter says that Zeldin has used his official capacity as EPA Secretary to "promote misinformation and overtly partisan rhetoric."

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Thursday he was "amazed" at President Donald Trump's "ability to comprehend the issue and know the facts" about the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill."

Burchett told Fox News that he flipped from opposing the bill to supporting it in part because Trump "never cussed" him during negotiations.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) was forced to face the reality that one family will face as a result of his vote to pass the 2026 budget bill that slashes Medicaid, among other things.

CNN anchor Boris Sanchez cited a recent interview that reporter Jeff Zeleny did with a mom about how changes to Medicaid could impact her 9-year-old daughter with brain damage.

With President Donald Trump's megabill of tax cuts, health care cuts, and deportation funding passed and headed to his desk, a fresh wave of anger and mockery has been directed at Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the key undecided vote who ultimately helped the bill clear the Senate.

At the time, Murkowski called it one of the hardest votes she had ever made, and emphasized that the House should fix key problems in the bill and send it back to the Senate for another round of voting.

A Fox News reporter questioned Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (NY) about the positives he sees in the 2026 budget bill that will sunset after a few years.

He touted the "child tax credit, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime." However, the Fox reporter cut him off, asking, "Those will expire in 2028, correct? Those provisions —"