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The founder and CEO of a clothing company made a direct appeal to Donald Trump during a CNN interview Monday, where the MAGA supporter urged the president to reconsider his sweeping tariff policy that he said is threatening small businesses like his own.

Steven Borrelli of Cuts Clothing, who said he voted for Trump three times, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that his e-commerce company has been hit hard by the 145% tariff on goods coming from China. Cuts, a California-based menswear brand, relied on a workaround known as the “3-2-1 loophole” – importing items from China through Mexico and bringing them across the U.S. border on a daily basis.

More than a dozen former employees of the powerful data-mining firm Palantir Technologies shredded their former employer in a letter obtained exclusively by NPR, in which they seek to trigger a "domino effect" that will spread throughout Silicon Valley.

The thirteen ex-workers slammed their former workplace — which was co-founded by Trump ally billionaire Peter Thiel — over revelations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached a deal to pay Palantir $30 million to develop "ImmigrationOS," a tracking system designed to help ICE agents identify migrants for deportation, track self-deportation cases, and share data with other agencies like Customs and Border Protection.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) warned Monday afternoon on CNN that immigrants should hear alarm bells over the Trump administration's new offer to give $1,000 to unauthorized immigrants who "self-deport" to their country of origin rather than let themselves be arrested by immigration enforcement — an arrangement some legal experts have warned is a trap.

"So President Trump says his administration's latest self-deportation policy will allow some migrants a potential path back to the U.S.," said anchor Jake Tapper, playing a clip of Trump's longtime far-right immigration adviser Stephen Miller, discussing the new plan.

Former Vice President Mike Pence took a subtle jab at his ex-boss, President Donald Trump, over tariffs and their impact on American families in an exclusive CNN interview.

The moment came Monday when CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins previewed her interview set to air in its entirety during her show, “The Source.” During one exchange, Collins pressed Pence about Trump administration arguments downplaying the impact of rising prices on consumer goods in the face of the MAGA leader’s aggressive tariff policy.

Conservative former Judge Michael Luttig pointed to the recent interview President Donald Trump did and called it possibly the "most important" statement made by a U.S. president.

The comment was part of Trump's interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker that aired Sunday. The questions involved the deported migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador and whether they received the due process required under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

Americans are experiencing what it’s like to have a president who believes he can act without limits and appears unafraid of facing any consequences, according to a new analysis from CNN.

“In a blitz of recent policy moves, legal challenges, comments and interviews, [President] Donald Trump is showing that he’s shedding the last limitations of custom and the public’s long understanding of how a president should behave,” author Stephen Collinson wrote Monday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal app for sensitive military discussions was far more extensive than previously known, according to a new report Monday afternoon in The Wall Street Journal.

The "Signalgate" controversy, which has seen military attack plans leaked through Signal chats to a journalist and the secretary's family members, is just the tip of the iceberg, as Hegseth has reportedly preferred the private channel for his day-to-day operations over the Pentagon's secure systems.

President Donald Trump has no grasp of his responsibilities in office and of the rights of the people, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday.

This follows a wide-spanning interview in which Trump called Crockett a "low-IQ person." Shortly after that line broke, Crockett fired back on X, saying, "Imagine being busy getting another honorary doctorate & delivering the commencement address to encourage & empower the leaders of 'Today,' and right before boarding your flight to depart, learning that diabolical delusional demented dumb Don was busy trying to challenge your IQ, again."

A new Federal Emergency Management Agency policy will end a program with staff going door to door in disaster areas to help survivors obtain the aid they're entitled to.

Wired on Monday said it obtained a memo dated May 2 addressing the regional leadership of FEMA instructing program offices to "take steps to implement" what the authors called five "key reforms" amid tornado, hurricane and wildfire season.

An exchange on CNN turned tense Monday when anchor Kasie Hunt pushed a State Department spokesperson for details on high-level talks between U.S. officials and El Salvador’s president, a question which the Trump administration official attributed to “gossip.”

The moment unfolded on CNN’s “The Arena” when Hunt pressed State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce on whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio had recently communicated with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. When she refused to confirm “what world leaders the secretary speaks to,” Hunt asked her question more directly.

Chinese exporters have already found a workaround to President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs by shipping their goods through third-party countries to conceal their true origin.

The economic giant has responded to Trump's 145 percent tariffs on Chinese imports by slapping 125 percent duties on U.S. goods, but Chinese social media platforms are filled with ads offering “place-of-origin washing” to get around those steep levies, reported the Financial Times.

The powers of President Donald Trump are being placed into question because of his use of unitary executive theory, according to a new analysis from Mother Jones.

Unitary executive theory claims the president has sole authority over the executive branch. The constitutional law theory is typically brought up in the context of whether a president can oust government officials who don't implement their policies.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that judges who ruled against President Donald Trump were guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death.

In a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, host Eric Bolling asked Greene why Republicans weren't impeaching "Democrat activist judges" after they prevented Trump from deporting migrants without due process.