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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested that a sudden wave of resignations inside the IRS is an obvious sign that massive turmoil is brewing within the agency.

Maddow drew the stark conclusion during her Wednesday night show, where she highlighted the startling number of high-level officials at the IRS leaving the agency over its deal with the MAGA administration to hand over sensitive tax data to immigration officials.

Tensions flared on CNN late Wednesday when a former MSNBC host accused a Republican strategist of hurling "personal insults" at her during a heated discussion over whether the Trump administration has a "colonizer's attitude."

Tiffany Cross, host of "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC for two years ending in 2022, sparred with conservative Scott Jennings on "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took a shot at CNN during a Wednesday night televised town hall on the same network, blasting news networks for failing to cover what he called "critical issues" and leading to people "losing faith in the American system."

During the hour-long town hall, Sanders was asked by a civil rights attorney about why people are turning away from the Democratic party.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow delivered a stark warning to her viewers on Wednesday night as she ripped into President Donald Trump for “his panicked U-turn on tariffs.”

“For all his famed and supposed attention to the stock market, I got to tell you, Donald Trump has been very happy to preside over huge off-the-cliff plunges in the stock market repeatedly,” Maddow said. “In fact, in history, if you look at the Dow Jones, if you look at the 10 largest single-day point drops in the Dow in history, of the 10 worst point drops ever on the Dow, Donald Trump was the president for nine of those 10 days.”

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President Donald Trump accidentally called his estranged former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster — and then cursed him out when he realized what had happened, according to CBS News on Wednesday night.

"McMaster, who had served as national security adviser during President Trump's first term and was ousted after 13 months, was surprised to hear from Mr. Trump at all," said the report. "Just a day earlier, on March 2, Mr. Trump had lobbed his latest insult at McMaster, blasting him on social media as a 'weak and totally ineffective loser.' McMaster had also just appeared on CBS' '60 Minutes,' where he voiced skepticism about Mr. Trump's overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Putin's willingness to end the war in Ukraine."

President Donald Trump is rapidly losing support on the economy as a result of the chaos surrounding his tariff policy, political polling analyst Harry Enten told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday evening.

Trump's tariffs, which imposed 10 to 49 percent import duties on countries based on their trade deficit with the United States, were temporarily scaled back on Thursday, with the rate being set at a flat 10 percent for everyone for 90 days except China, which will see even larger increases.

The top Democrat in the House called it "extraordinary" Wednesday night as he slammed his Republican colleagues in the moments after they pulled a vote on the Senate's budget plan.

After news broke that House Republicans were forced to pull the highly anticipated vote, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told Raw Story that "deals are always being cut" at Capitol Hill.

Reacting to the fast-moving developments on Capitol Hill in real time, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said he was stunned by House Republicans pulling an expected vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint.

The scrubbed vote came Wednesday evening as Republican holdouts refused to get behind the bill – even as President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to pass the budget ahead of the delayed vote.

MAGA ally Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) acknowledged Wednesday night that his party may not have deployed the best strategy to pass his party's contentious budget plan.

As news broke that House Republicans were forced to pull a much anticipated vote on the Senate's bill, Donalds told Raw Story that "deals are always being cut" at Capitol Hill.

The conservative Wall Street Journal's editorial board, long one of the harshest critics of President Donald Trump's tariff regime, breathed a sigh of relief after Trump announced on Wednesday that he would be reducing the "reciprocal tariff rate" to 10 percent for all countries except China for a period of three months, still imposing a draconian tax on imports but one substantially less — for now, at least — than the one prompting observers to forecast a likely recession within the year.

Trump's initial plan had been to impose variable rates ranging from 10 to 49 percent, depending on how large the U.S. trade deficit was with the country in question. He is now claiming that this pause will give countries breathing room to negotiate with him.

Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV) vented his frustrations about the growing protests to President Donald Trump’s administration – including the crop of “Hands Off” rallies popping in throughout Nevada – which he told Republicans he was troubled by.

“The other thing I want to talk about is the little protest that was taking place in front of the Capitol over there,” Lombardo said, according to an audio clip of a GOP fundraising event this week that began making its rounds across social media on Wednesday.

The House of Representatives pulled an expected vote Wednesday night on the Senate's budget blueprint as Republicans faced resistance from their own party — which several GOP lawmakers warned would happen.

Trump openly leaned on his party to pass the budget ahead of the highly anticipated — and now delayed —vote. Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News wrote on X that the House waited 80 minutes and now heads "back to the drawing board."