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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) clashed with voters back home in a town hall meeting Tuesday. Among the questions from constituents was what he's doing for the Maryland father who the U.S. government admits was wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said she was shocked to see Grassley be attacked by "his own people."

President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services slashed staffing at a key agency overseeing child care, sparking worries that an already strained system keeping American children safe could be further jeopardized, reported Semafor on Tuesday.

"The Administration of Children and Families — which funnels federal funds to state governments and community organizations for things like child care, early education, foster care, and child protection services — has lost an estimated 40 percent of its employees in the last four months, according to a tracker compiled by former staff and shared with Semafor," reported Eleanor Mueller. Specifically, the personnel at ACF "fell from about 2,400 in January to about 1,500 following this month’s latest most recent round of layoffs, per the informal tracker."

A judge ordered an "intense" two-week investigation into the Trump administration's refusal to try to return a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The Justice Department clashed with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in a Tuesday hearing over what the U.S. government acknowledged was an accidental deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

CNN conservative Scott Jennings led a spirited defense of the Trump administration’s refusal to make any efforts to return the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador– before bashing a Democratic effort to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia themselves.

Jennings, during a CNN panel discussion on Tuesday, insisted that Garcia received appropriate due process and that there was “no future where he, as an illegal immigrant with an existing deportation order, finishes out living a happy life in the United States.”

Laurence Tribe, constitutional law scholar and professor emeritus at Harvard University, thinks Americans understand the seriousness of President Donald Trump's administration defying an order from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Last week, the high court ruled 9-0 that the United States must "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland apprentice who came to the United States as a teenager 15 years ago.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) became the latest Republican lawmaker to face furious questioning from his constituents over President Donald Trump's economic policies during a town hall held at the Calvary Church in Jupiter — and only inflamed their wrath as he tried to justify Trump's tariff regime.

"As a retiree, I just saw 20 percent of my net worth fall as a result of tariff-on, tariff-off, tariff-on, tariff off," said the man. "You know, stocks go up and down, that's fine, we deal with that, but these huge takes on things are driving all of us crazy. All of the experts are struggling with knowing where is this going? We know that tariffs generally bring more costs to us ... so please, can Congress do someting about the volatility?"

President Donald Trump revealed that Walt Nauta, a former co-defendant in a classified documents case, could run to be the next governor of Guam.

At an event with the Navy football team on Tuesday, Trump noted that Nauta and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had been appointed to the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors.

Two MAGA lawmakers are asking FBI Director Kash Patel to launch a formal investigation into an alleged "coverup" they say was orchestrated by former President Joe Biden's administration, whom conservatives have long faulted for failing to take action in a case stemming from five aborted fetuses found in Washington, D.C.

Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) called on Patel to confirm a probe would be forthcoming by April 29, and also asked that FBI officials provide a “staff level briefing” related to the agency's review and potential investigation into the case – which they refer to as the “D.C. Five.”

The Justice Department clashed with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in a Tuesday hearing over what the U.S. government acknowledged was an accidental deportation of a Maryland father.

Kilmar Ábrego García was shipped to a prison in El Salvador despite a judge ruling that García could not be deported there. The U.S. government has claimed that García is an MS-13 gang member, but one legal analyst wrote Tuesday there's reason to question this.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked several portions of President Donald Trump's executive order punishing Susman Godfrey, the law firm that represented the elections equipment company Dominion Voting Systems in their defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

Judge Loren AliKhan slammed the Trump administration's actions from the bench, per MSNBC legal commentator Adam Klasfeld, saying, "Frankly, I think the Framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power."

Investors are abandoning the dollar, according to Washington Post financial reporter David J. Lynch.

The dollar has lost nearly 10 percent of its value since President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Tuesday report said. About half of that decline came this month as Trump proceeded with his tariff plan.