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The House Republican budget bill cuts Medicaid, and some deficit hawks want further cuts. But on Tuesday, President Donald Trump told them in no uncertain terms that they had better not do it.

Trump was on Capitol Hill to meet with the caucus after the GOP held legislative votes and meetings under the cloak of darkness to discuss controversial budget cuts.

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) grilled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over misconceptions about habeas corpus, the legal right to challenge detentions in court.

During Tuesday's Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Hassan asked Noem to explain habeas corpus rights.

Elon Musk’s political spending days are over.

A Wall Street Journal report claimed Musk, who is the world's richest person, no longer sees the need to keep donating money to the party. He's gave millions during President Donald Trump's election campaign, as well as financially supporting races since.

President Donald Trump casually did a 180-degree swerve on a hotly contentious issue standing in the way of the House GOP consensus on the "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security, an analyst said Tuesday.

And he did it in a way that hung some of the swing-district Republicans out to dry.

President Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.

"We're going to make a couple of tweaks," Trump said of his "one big beautiful bill" during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. "I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don't know what they're doing."

President Donald Trump addressed reporters Tuesday before a closed door meeting at which he was expected to pressure Republican members of Congress in an attempt to pass through his ‘big, beautiful bill.”

Some congressional Republicans are balking at passing the budget, claiming 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.

As Republican lawmakers fight to lower the United States' deficit, CNN’s Harry Enten claims Americans just don’t care about the country’s deficit as much as they do about tax breaks.

“All right, as we speak, President Trump is getting ready to head up to Capitol Hill to try to salvage his multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending cut program,” anchor John Berman said.

President Donald Trump will take money out of accounts intended for foreign aid as part of his plan to pay immigrants to leave the country, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday morning.

This plan, devised in secret, "was in development before a related May 5 announcement from the Department of Homeland Security declaring that immigrants who volunteer to 'self-deport' to their home countries would be eligible for $1,000 stipends from the U.S. government," reported Adam Taylor and Martine Powers for the newspaper.

Elon Musk is accused of sidestepping environmental protections in the city of Memphis, and Bloomberg opinion columnist Mary Ellen Klas claims it is “everyone's problem.”

A Musk supercomputer plant, dubbed Colossus, is powered by methane gas-burning turbines and which dumps its air waste into Southwest Memphis, home of Boxtown, according to the report.

Some federal employees have reported traumatic experiences since President Donald Trump slurred them as “crooked” and “dishonest" and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency slashed their jobs from the payroll, according to a new report.

The federal government employed 2.4 million workers when Trump returned to office Jan. 20, but Trump and his chainsaw-wielding sidekick Musk have chopped off entire chunks of that workforce. More than 30 of those current and former employees told the Washington Post they have experienced insomnia, panic attacks and suicidal thoughts.

Virginia Republicans are bracing for a loss this November in the Virginia Governor's race, according to a new Politico report.

Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears is not kicking off her campaign in the best way.