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After President Donald Trump suffered a major loss at the Supreme Court, he took to his Truth Social platform to blast the justices over the decision. But he wasn't satisfied with a single post.

Later on Friday, the president followed up with a far lengthier post venting his grievances.

Moody’s Ratings Service downgraded the United States’ credit rating on Friday, citing rising government debt and increased interest payments, according to media reports.

The ratings agency lowered the U.S. from Aaa to Aa1 – the first time Moody’s has issued such a downgrade in modern history. The rare and sobering distinction was quickly noticed by political observers across social media, who quickly hurled blame at President Donald Trump.

After Democratic Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar earlier this week opted not to move forward with an effort to force the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump, another lawmaker on Thursday filed a single article of impeachment against Trump, calling him a threat to democracy.

In a Thursday statement, Rep. Al Green of Texas, a Democrat, said that he "announced on the floor of the House of Representatives that I have filed H.Res.415 to impeach President Donald John Trump for condoning the flouting of federal court orders, flouting the separation of powers, undermining the independence of the federal judiciary, and flouting the constitutional mandate of due process."

Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett once again found herself the subject of a full-on MAGA meltdown on Friday as diehard supporters of President Donald Trump targeted her for siding with the Supreme Court’s liberal justices.

The ruling that triggered the MAGAverse came Friday and blocks the administration’s mass deportations of accused Venezuelan gang members. It was a sharp rebuke to Trump’s sprawling immigration crackdown, according to legal experts.

President Donald Trump reacted to his latest loss at the Supreme Court with a furious post on his Truth Social platform on Friday evening.

"THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!" Trump posted.

President Donald Trump and the House GOP suffered an embarrassing defeat Friday as multiple Republicans joined with Democrats to block what Trump calls the "big, beautiful bill" combining tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security from even clearing the House Budget Committee — sending everyone back to the drawing board and leaving some Republican strategists in doubt whether the bill as imagined is even possible.

With the Republican caucus bitterly divided over how much to cut, what types of tax breaks to give, and how far they are willing to go on Medicaid and food stamp cuts, pro-Trump voices on social media blew up with rage, but many other commenters on social media laughed at the GOP's dysfunction.

A showdown is brewing between the Department of Government Efficiency task force, and the Government Accountability Office, NOTUS reported on Friday.

Thus far, DOGE, the pet project of tech billionaire Elon Musk to downsize the federal government, has kept to targeting executive branch agencies. But the accountability office, which serves the same objective DOGE is supposed to fill, is different — it's an agency under the control of Congress. And for that reason, GAO asserts DOGE does not apply to it.

The Trump administration is being accused of "deliberately stonewalling" in a case involving a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported without being afforded due process, according to The New York Times.

Judge Paula Xinis said, "top government officials in depositions have demonstrated, 'just a willful refusal to answer the question”' as to when they will "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Multiple Republican "fiscal hawks" on Friday voted with Democrats on the U.S. House Budget Committee to block the GOP's budget reconciliation package—and while high-level negotiations are expected to continue, members were reportedly told they could go home.

"They couldn't agree on how many people to take healthcare away from in order to give billionaires a tax cut," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), a panel member, after the vote. "Embarrassing. We'll keep fighting to protect Medicaid and the American people."

In a legal blow to President Donald Trump’s sprawling immigration crackdown, the Supreme Court on Friday blocked the administration from moving forward with mass deportations of a group of accused Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.

The decision reversing a lower court order quickly spread throughout social media, with legal experts calling the high court ruling a clear message to Trump as his administration weighs suspending due process and other deportation tactics.