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The Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg wrote Thursday that President Donald Trump's voters are starting to notice that his promises during the 2024 election aren't manifesting.

" Trump never meant to keep his promises. His voters are starting to notice," wrote Rosenberg after Trump announced that families must make do with less.

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said he is “heart sick” to know Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump still have no idea “Putin is playing them.”

The comments came on MSNBC’s Morning Joe in reaction to comments made by Vance and Trump.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is shoring up the MAGA base while firing warning shots at the Trump administration for its foreign policy decisions that she believes are distracting from the conservative movement's top priority at the border.

The Georgia Republican has been urging president Donald Trump to keep his focus on border security as she weighs a possible run for U.S. Senate or governor of her home state, and she sat down for an exclusive interview with The Telegraph to explain her stand against the establishment Republicans and war hawks she believes are risking GOP control of Congress.

A conservative Christian MAGA lawmaker has revealed he was married by a radical Islamist investigated for fundraising ties to Hamas.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) married his wife Rana Al Saadi, who is originally from Iraq, in 2014. Blaze News reported that the marriage was officiated by Mohammed Al-Hanooti.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) grilled FBI Director Kash Patel after his agency purportedly violated the law by failing to provide a timely budget.

"As ranking member Van Hollen noted earlier, this hearing is being held without the FBI's fiscal year 2025 spend plan and a full budget request for fiscal year 2026," Murray told Patel at a Thursday hearing. "The spend plan is required by law. It was due to Congress over a week ago. We have not yet seen it. That is really absurd."

CNN's Sara Sidner reacted to the "strong words" her colleague and former Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo had for transportation secretary Sean Duffy about the air traffic control crisis.

Duffy has pledged to transform and remodel the outdated air traffic control system after a major failure last week at Newark Liberty International Airport left thousands of travelers stranded for days, and Schiavo said president Donald Trump's transportation secretary faced a major test where failure is not an option.

“Republican politicians face threats of violence if they oppose [President Donald Trump],” but a New York Times guest essay, published Thursday morning, claims that shouldn’t stop them from trying.

Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt are the three political scientists who wrote the essay. They study how democracies come to an end.

Donald Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has been all over television in recent weeks defending the president's trade wars, but a new fact check of his claims found that "much of what he says is economically incoherent and contradictory."

The billionaire former Wall Street executive claims that Trump's tariffs don't do much to "change virtually any price" on most goods and products, including iPhones, but Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler examined the accuracy of those comments.

Republican congresspersons are fighting over a key tax program that disproportionately affects swing districts. If they don't come to an agreement, it might stop President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill.’

“My party needs my vote in order to extend the tax cuts that didn’t get the votes from members in districts like mine eight years ago,” Congressman LaLota (R-NY) said to the Washington Post. “So there can’t be the same cap there was eight years ago. That reality doesn’t exist. There’s a new reality.”

MSNBC finance expert Steven Rattner slammed President Donald Trump’s belief that democrats want a 68% tax increase, saying the numbers just don't add up.

In an interview, Trump was asked about economic uncertainty being on the rise, and then doubled down on his plan to pass another tax cut.

Ivanka Trump will return to public life for the first time during her father's second term in the White House.

President Donald Trump's elder daughter on Thursday will announce an initiative focused on access to fresh produce and healthy food, and Axios reported that she hopes to leverage her celebrity to highlight "the role of nutrition in chronic disease and overall well-being" through a new for-profit venture.

President Donald Trump has been hyping a "major" trade deal with the United Kingdom, but officials and experts alike have been cautioning that it will fall well short of the "full and comprehensive" pact he's teasing.

The president invited reporters to an Oval Office announcement Thursday morning, and hours ahead of that event he teased new details about the deal, but British officials told the Wall Street Journal they were surprised by his plans and say the deal is not comprehensive, which was also confirmed by CNN's Alayna Treene.

A rift is widening between the White House and Republican lawmakers over the government funding bills they're writing, and which president Donald Trump has signaled he might ignore.

Congressional Republicans have generally hesitated to speak out against the president's funding freezes – known as "impoundment" – but defense hawks and other GOP lawmakers are gearing up for a showdown ahead of a fiscal cliff looming this fall and stoking fears of a government shutdown, reported Politico.