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'Don’t need anything they have': Trump insults Canada's PM seconds before Oval Office meet

President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney just seconds before he was set to arrive at the White House for a highly anticipated meeting.

Ahead of the Oval Office get together on Tuesday, Trump used his Truth Social platform to attack Canada.

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'Got it — you're in charge': Ex-general blames Hegseth's insecurity for top brass firings

Retired Major General James Spider Marks slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to "flex his muscles" by announcing he's slashing top generals and admirals from the Pentagon.

CNN's John Berman played a clip of Hegseth claiming his new "DOD reforms" will include "less generals, more G.I.s."

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'Loony lies': NY Times writer slams Trump for packing Cabinet with 'outlandish' thinkers

President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by the rise of conspiracy theorists into a level of political power they have not enjoyed for generations, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Even bizarre and fanciful ideas like the government concealing the Earth being flat are no longer disqualifiers for office in today's Republican Party, reported Tiffany Hsu, as "they’re running local Republican parties in Georgia and Minnesota and seeking public office in Alabama."

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'This is my time': Kristi Noem scolded as she stonewalls on withholding federal grants

Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about her agency's decision to withhold federal grant money without permission from Congress.

"Let's start with Article 1 [of the Constitution], which gives Congress and only Congress the power of the purse," Underwood told Noem at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday. "But this administration is freezing, terminating, and even clawing back federal grants and awards that were already signed into law."

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'Crisis': US farm exports collapse to pandemic-era levels as Trump's tariffs ramp up

The U.S. farming sector is on the brink of crisis as President Donald Trump's trade war implodes America's ability to ship crops abroad, reported CNBC on Tuesday morning.

This follows warnings from lawmakers in Trump's own party who represent agricultural areas, fearing the negative impact on the mounting taxes and retaliatory taxes from other countries.

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Trump faces major hurdle as lawyers throw away huge advantage with judges: analyst

President Donald Trump is quickly running into a problem in court, Politico reported on Tuesday — federal judges have lost patience and trust with the Justice Department attorneys defending his policies.

The long string of cases in which DOJ attorneys under Pam Bondi have either been caught lying to judges, or the Trump administration has simply misrepresented judges' own rulings or tried to ignore them outright, are starting to work against them, wrote Ankush Khardori.

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'Wildly overstated': Trump's favorite attacks blown up as he readies to meet Canada's PM

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale made clear Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump is “wildly overstating” when he bashes Canada.

The comments came ahead of Trump’s meeting Tuesday with the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney.

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'Words of war': Analyst warns Trump is bending the law to make America a battlefield

President Donald Trump is only pretending not to understand the Constitution, wrote Jesselyn Radack for Salon in an analysis published Tuesday — so that he can twist and reinterpret our laws to make political opponents and disfavored groups into a military enemy of the state.

The president has drawn fire for a recent interview in which he claimed he doesn't know whether he is required to uphold the Constitution. But his words aren't an accident, Radack argued — he's been laying the groundwork to reshape our rights with "words of war" since day one.

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MAGA Republicans take unlikely stance in rebellion against House bill: columnist

MAGA Republicans led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took a surprising turn as they denounced a House bill meant to protect Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel from boycotts.

The bipartisan bill, HR 867, "would have amended the Anti-Boycott Act of 2018 by criminalizing compliance with boycotts called for by international government organizations, such as the United Nations — with potential penalties including prison time," according to a new article on MSNBC.com.

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Trump's latest scheme is scramble to cover up core policy's failure: MSNBC host

The Trump administration has offered $1,000 to undocumented migrants who agree to deport themselves — and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire claimed that reveals the failure of the president's immigration policies.

The policy would offer cash stipend and a flight home for each immigrant who agrees to leave, which President Donald Trump insisted was necessary to achieve the administration's goals, but the "Morning Joe" co-host told panelists that the payouts were an admission that his campaign promises on the issue had so far fallen flat.

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Trump budget could devastate red states by shutting 'loophole' used to boost Medicaid cash

Republicans in Congress are considering a new way to stealthily cut Medicaid to fund President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security, reported The New York Times on Tuesday — and it would turn off a "loophole" that is heavily used by Republican-controlled states to game the system into getting extra funding.

Specifically, the process involves states levying taxes on hospitals and nursing homes, then giving the money right back to them and counting it twice for the purposes of the government giving matching funds to Medicaid.

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'It's working': CNN expert pinpoints Trump tactic to exploit rare win

CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten gave President Donald Trump a rare win Tuesday after weeks of bashing his horrendous approval ratings.

The expert broke down the latest polls on how Americans feel about Trump's handling of crime — and what he saw was a bright spot for the president.

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Trump revamps furious Stephen Miller 'monsters' rant to justify new plan

President Donald Trump amplified inflammatory claims by his chief aide Stephen Miller to justify his plan to reopen the Alcatraz prison.

Miller, the White House chief of staff and rumored candidate for national security adviser, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the president's plan, which he admitted came from watching a movie about the long-shuttered prison, would be necessary to handle some of the nation's worst criminals.

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