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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appears to have "completely made up" a claim in her attack against the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for forecasting President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add significantly to the federal deficit, immigration attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted on X Tuesday.

The CBO's preliminary report projects that OBBBA will add $2.3 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, while leaving spending noticeably lower than today — something CNN's Kaitlan Collins brought up to Leavitt at a press briefing this week.

CNN political commentator Van Jones blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday after she admitted she hadn’t read a key provision in President Donald Trump’s sweeping “one, big, beautiful bill” before voting for it.

Greene took to social media to express outrage over a clause that bars states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years, saying, “Full transparency, I did not know about this… I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there."

Chief Justice John Roberts spoke Monday night to the Historical Society’s annual dinner, and he gave a toast with the exact seven words a chief justice has delivered since the beginning of the society's dinners. This time, however, it left some attendees shocked.

As the Washington Post explained Tuesday, the toast goes: “To the president of the United States."

Left-leaning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has a new idea for a Pledge of Allegiance in the era of Donald Trump — and a new standard for how Americans should involve themselves in politics.

Moore, who himself was blindsided by the re-election of the president, laid out what he thinks this modernized pledge should look like on his website.

Among those who have faced President Donald Trump's revenge campaign is Miles Taylor, the former Homeland Security chief of staff who penned an anonymous column and book.

Taylor spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday's episode of "Deadline White House," where he stated that he was told Trump had an obsession with him during the first term — and it's clearly continued for the past seven years.

President Donald Trump is teaching Democrats a lesson on “how to make a comeback,” according to a column from author and commentator Paul Waldman.

In the piece, which was published on MSNBC, Waldman slammed Trump for broken promises that he’s made.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) of repeating "utter nonsense" a day before a DOGE hearing that the Georgia congressmember promised would be "explosive."

On Tuesday, Greene told Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling that she would hold a DOGE hearing on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) the following day at 2 p.m.

A coalition of 12 press freedom groups warned the FBI Wednesday that, contrary to claims by deputy director and former right-wing prosecutor Dan Bongino, a new probe into the leaked 2022 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in a landmark reproductive rights case appears aimed not at confronting "potential public corruption," but threatening constitutionally protected newsgathering activities.

Defending Rights and Dissent led a coalition including Fight for the Future and the Freedom of the Press Foundation in writing to FBI Director Kash Patel about Bongino's recent announcement that he is receiving weekly briefings on a probe into Politico's May 2, 2022 publication of the Supreme Court's draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization nearly two months before the ruling was officially handed down and ended the constitutional right to abortion care.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is escalating his attacks on President Donald Trump's agenda with a threat to oust Republicans who don't agree with him.

Musk, who formally left his White House advisory role last week but whose aides still effectively control the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force, has already staked out a position adamantly opposed to Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which extends and deepens tax cuts for the wealthy while raising taxes on lower-income earners and slashing Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy subsidies — mainly because he sees it as failing to control government spending.

Democrats are quietly forming a think tank to help them win in 2028, according to a Politico exclusive report.

“At a private meeting last month, a top Democratic strategist pitched party leaders and donors: We need to break down ideological lanes and reject interest group agendas if we plan to win again,” the report claimed.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) caused a stir on Capitol Hill on Tuesday when she publicly admitted, in a lengthy screed posted to X, that she had not read Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act before voting for it — and she is "adamantly opposed" to the provision barring states from regulating artificial intelligence technology for 10 years.

"Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279," said Greene, adding that she would have voted down the bill if she were aware of it. "We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states' hands is potentially dangerous. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate."