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A Republican governor made what one insider called an "extraordinary" error this week, mistakenly vetoing his state's $35 million housing budget.

The Associated Press reported Thursday that Gov. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) took up an agency budget bill approved by the legislature. He planned to veto a couple of line items on Monday, but instead accidentally vetoed $35 million for the state’s housing budget. He had meant to ax a $150,000 grant to fund a Native American homelessness liaison position.

Democrats are already plotting to go on the offense over House Republicans' vote to pass President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."

According to Punchbowl News' Max Cohen, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already circulated a memo stating that the GOP's vote “will cost them their majority next year,” and that “No matter what happens in the Senate with respect to budget reconciliation, House Republicans have already sealed their political fate.”

MAGA world melted down Thursday over the University of Florida's newest hire — and one close Trump ally even demanded Gov. Ron DeSantis intervene.

Santa Ono was the sole finalist for the presidency of the university and is poised to be hired for the gig. His official appointment is pending confirmation by the Florida Board of Governors, but the university's Board of Trustees has unanimously recommended him for the position.

The Supreme Court's right-wing majority handed Trump a sudden "shadow docket" win on Thursday, granting him, at least temporarily, the power to fire independent agency heads at the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board.

The ruling, the majority emphasized, does not overturn the landmark 1935 Humphrey's Executor v. United States ruling that allowed Congress to bar the president from firing the heads of independent, multi-member agencies without cause — but, wrote The Economist's Supreme Court reporter Steven Mazie, the liberal dissent angrily pointed out that in practice, that's exactly what they're doing.

Mario Murillo, a host, writer, and evangelical ally of President Donald Trump, is warning that something is coming. He doesn't know what it is, but it's coming to the United States.

Hemant Mehta, also known as "The Friendly Atheist," shared a video of Murillo speaking to a crowd under a white tent in Tyler, Texas, gave props to Trump and asked for money for his ministries.

A CNN legal analyst appeared stunned Thursday as the Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump what she called a "huge" win, allowing him to fire independent agency heads at a pair of key government institutions in an order released on Thursday.

"This is huge," Paula Reid, CNN's chief legal affairs correspondent, told anchor Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon. "This is a win for Trump and his larger effort to reshape the federal government. It also suggests the Supreme Court is sympathetic to stripping away some protections for federal workers.

One Midwestern city just delivered a blow to Republicans in what The Nation's publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel, is calling a "lesson" for both sides.

Writing on Thursday, she drew attention to the municipal elections in Omaha, where the city elected its first Black mayor: John Ewing Jr.

The right flank of the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to fire independent agency heads at a pair of key government institutions intended to be shielded from executive interference in an order released on Thursday.

The 6-3 move, with all liberal justices dissenting, constitutes yet another controversial use of the so-called "shadow docket," or decisions issued on an emergency basis without hearing the merits of the case or making any real review of the matter.

A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from revoking the visas of international students, NBC News reported on Thursday, and issued a broadside at administration officials.

Oakland-based U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White further prohibited the administration from making arrests or detaining international students as courts continue to litigate the challenge to revoking their visas.

Former President Barack Obama's first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is warning President Donald Trump that his "big, beautiful bill" hands a huge gift to Democrats.

Trump demanded that his GOP majority in the House and Senate pass a single bill that contains an extension of his 2017 tax cuts, border security, funds for his mass deportation and more, all while making cuts to things like food stamps and Medicaid. While the House has approved it, the bill now faces several Republican senators who are opposed to several provisions in the bill.

The "big, beautiful bill" House Republicans just sent to the Senate is a total dud for the people who actually voted for President Donald Trump, warned GOP populist guru Oren Cass in an interview with Politico published on Thursday.

The bill cobbles together a hodgepodge of tax cuts alongside hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, environmental programs, and could ultimately trigger cuts to Medicare. It's still a long way from becoming law; Senate Republicans have signaled they intend to make changes to the bill, and Democrats are likely to make the process as painful as possible and raise as many points of order as they can to strip provisions out of it, giving the bill a rocky path that will require at least a revote in the House or more likely a conference.

House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a victory lap in a speech Thursday in which he cheered President Donald Trump for his leadership. Meanwhile, the bill he's so excited about still must pass the Senate — and things aren't looking good.

"Today wouldn't be possible without the leadership of arguably the most powerful and most successful and most respected president in the modern era of United States," Johnson gushed about Trump.