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Donald Trump's meeting with House Republicans in a basement room where the budget reconciliation bill is being hammered out did not go as smoothly as the president told reporters later in the day with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) at his side.

After the meeting, Trump told reporters, "I think it was a really great; that was a meeting of love. Let me tell you, that was love in that room. There was no shouting. I think it was a meeting of love," before calling anyone who had a contrary opinion about what had ensued a "liar."

Ahead of a "Hands Off Medicaid" rally planned in Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' district in Iowa, the economic justice group Social Security Works on Tuesday wanted to see if the congresswoman had a message for her constituents about the vote she cast in favor of advancing massive cuts to Medicaid.

"Rep. Miller-Meeks, I'm wondering if you have any comment on the healthcare that 67,000 people in your district are going to lose?" asked Alex Lawson, executive director of the group, following the congresswoman down a hallway on Capitol Hill as she made her way to an elevator reserved for lawmakers.

Donald Trump Jr. hinted that he has an eye on the presidency after his father left office.

At an event on Wednesday, Bloomberg's Joumanna Nasr Bercetche asked the president's son about a possible run for the presidency.

Farmers, who voted for President Donald Trump, are now feeling "helpless, frustrated, and angry" after the administration made cuts to services they rely on, according to the Washington Post.

Vegetable farmers Jacob and Jennifer Thomas have taken more than a 10 percent hit to their bottom line after Trump “abruptly cut $1 billion from two programs that supplied local produce and meat to schools and food banks across the country.”

Elon Musk announced that he's leaving politics because he's "done enough," but CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that shows he's become "kryptonite" to the Republicans who took his cash and gave him vast influence.

The tech mogul slashed thousands of government jobs as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and appeared at White House events alongside president Donald Trump, but Enten told "CNN News Central" that he has become persona non grata in recent weeks.

Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) and CNN anchor Kate Bolduan got into a heated 10-minute debate over President Donald Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ Wednesday morning.

Some congressional Republicans are balking at passing the budget. They feel it does not go far enough to cut "waste, fraud, and abuse." Other members of the party claim the cuts go too far and will have a negative impact on their constituents.

An analyst cast doubt on president Donald Trump's pledge to build a massive and expensive national missile defense system before the end of his term.

The president on Tuesday announced the so-called "Golden Dome" defense system missiles, satellites and sensors similar to to Israel's "Iron Dome," and he tasked Space Force vice chief of operations Gen. Michael Guetlein with leading the ambitious project, but CNN's global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier expressed skepticism about its success.

Vice President JD Vance hammered Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts about the role of the Supreme Court and claimed Roberts was ‘profoundly wrong’, in a New York Times interview.

“Interesting Times” podcast host Ross Douthat spoke with the Vance while in Rome. Their conversation got heated when speaking on immigration.

Already decimated honeybee colonies are the latest victims of President Donald Trump’s policies, a new report revealed Wednesday.

Since June last year, the U.S.’s honeybee industry has seen its worst period ever, The Atlantic reported. More than 60 percent of the insects mysteriously perished.

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem was instantly fact-checked and then widely criticized for misstating the definition of the foundational constitutional right to habeas corpus, but a "Morning Joe" panelist isn't buying that she actually misunderstood the concept.

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asked her to define the constitutional right to due process after White House adviser Stephen Miller warned the administration was looking at suspending the right to challenge an arrest or imprisonment, and MSNBC's Katty Kay said there's no way that Noem was unprepared to explain the bedrock civil right, which she claimed was "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

The GOP-majority House leadership's attempt to force through a budget bill that would gut support and protections for the poor, coming on the heels of billionaire Elon Musk boasting about government cuts, is handing the Democratic party a major gift.

That is the opinion on MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough who admitted he is stunned, as a former GOP House member himself, at how tone-deaf the party has become.

Discussing the battle between GOP hardliners who want to slash and burn and their colleagues who are concerned about next year's midterms, Scarborough claimed the optics are horrific for the party in power.

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"I mean, this is, it's ghastly," he told his panel. "You have the richest billionaire in the world, a chainsaw-wielding South African immigrant coming to America wielding a chainsaw, doesn't understand our government, doesn't understand how it works, obviously from a lot of things he tweets he doesn't understand the constitution and the richest man in the world decides he's going to show fiscal prudence by taking food out of the mouths of the poorest starving children on the planet."

"I mean, it's just what's happening," he added. "I mean, the idea, the idea that they're going after USAID to cut the budget, 'The money's just not there, rounding error.' And they're desperate to figure out how to give tax cuts to the richest people, billionaires, multinational corporations like people who run tech monopolies."

"I mean, you couldn't make this up!" he exclaimed. "Like a Democrat who would say this, nobody would believe that this would happen. It is happening and Republicans are setting themselves up like dominoes to be knocked down."

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Donald Trump is toxic to everything, including a former close adviser and friend who is now "MAGA roadkill," a conservative strategist said.

Rick Wilson, who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, which is consistently filled with current and former Republicans who oppose the President, commented Wednesday on the "humiliating exile" of richest man Elon Musk.