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MAGA Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) expanded on eyebrow-raising allegations made against Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) floated early Tuesday morning by Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

Musk, in a post to his X platform just before 1 a.m., wrote in a reply to Schumer: “Chuck, I’m starting to think you’re getting a piece of the action with the government fraud. But no, that couldn’t possibly be the reason, could it?”

Former Republican strategist Tim Miller, who now runs The Bulwark podcast, does not pity those who endorsed President Donald Trump and are now losing huge investments.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace showed a clip of Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy, who raged that he lost $7 million on the first day of the market crash. By Monday, he estimated he'd lost $20 million, calling it "Orange Monday" instead of "Black Monday."

President Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" could become "the defining failure of his second term," according to The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait.

Many have criticized House Democrats for their "oddly sedate, almost academic in its nuance" video response to Trump, the staff writer said. However, he surmised that most of the party has enacted a "decade-old strategy designed to co-opt Trump’s appeal to working-class voters by backing away from the party’s general support for free trade under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama."

A far-right Christian nationalist who previously served in the Trump administration says people who follow Christ are all in on Trump's plans for mass deportation.

William Wolfe, who recently met with White House faith adviser Paula White and joined several other Christian nationalists praying over Trump in the Oval Office, made the comments in an interview shared on X by Right Wing Watch.

Vice President JD Vance led a barrage of MAGA-inspired attacks against Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday in a rare public rebuke of the former Republican leader over his refusal to support a key Pentagon nominee.

The war of words ignited shortly after McConnell found himself the lone Republican vote against Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s selection to be the Defense Department’s top policy strategist.

The White House has stopped posting any of its spending moves, which dodges a law passed during President Donald Trump's first term.

Writing for The Washington Post, law professor Samuel R. Bagenstos said the second Trump administration is dismissing the legislative powers outlined in federal law, giving Congress the power to decide how taxpayer dollars are spent.

President Donald Trump told Republican senators he is open to major tax changes — raising tax rates on high-earning Americans, according to Semafor.

The comments came last week during a sitdown on his agenda with Senate Budget Committee Republicans.

Two republicans and four-star General Christopher Cavoli are breaking with the Trump administration and doubling down on their efforts to keep troop levels within Europe as they are, according to Politico.

The comments are a stark contrast to the Trump administration's potential plan to withdraw troops from the area. Cavoli, who is the Commander of the United States European Command, wants to keep the same level of troops in eastern Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Vice President JD Vance got a brutal fact check from the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler Tuesday over his latest claim about Social Security benefit fraud being tackled by tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force.

“You look at people who are 150 years old who are fraudulently collecting Social Security payments," said Vance in a Fox News interview last week, quoting a debunked claim Musk makes about dead people getting benefits.

A group of Christian nationalist venture capitalists are constructing a "techno-libertarian" theocratic community in Tennessee, reported Mother Jones on Tuesday — in perhaps the latest sign of a new breed of right-wing politics establishing a physical presence where before it had mostly been confined to online and talk radio.

The establishment of right-wing Christian nationalist communities is far from a new phenomenon — in 2021, a fringe gun-worshiping church known as the Rod of Iron Ministries purchased a compound in Texas in preparation for a war with the government.

As Elon Musk's days in federal government dwindle, he's leaving behind a cadre of his allies from the private sector to continue his work in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and elsewhere in the government.

Donald Trump reportedly told administration insiders that Musk will be leaving his position soon, likely in May.