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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) didn’t hold back in his condemnation of President Donald Trump for choosing to appear at a golf tournament in Florida instead of at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania.

Kelly reacted on Friday to the uproar caused by Trump’s snub of the fallen soldiers during an appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Show,” where he not only threw barbs at Trump but also at his allies – both inside and outside his MAGAfied administration.

CNN unloaded a devastating supercut of clips of Donald Trump declaring on the campaign trail he'd never golf because he'd be so busy — as the president once again leaves Washington, D.C., to hit the links.

As markets continued nosediving due to his steep tariffs, Trump departed the nation's capital and arrived at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday morning. The president planned to attend a $1 million-a-plate fundraising dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate Friday evening and host a LIV Golf tournament at his Doral property over the weekend.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow walked her viewers on Friday through the origin story of how President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, joined the MAGA team during his first presidential run – and brought a phantom source with him to Washington, D.C.

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that's not how it's working out,” the primetime host told viewers during her show’s opening monologue. “Turns out, it doesn't take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, insisted this week that reinstating some employees and programs mistakenly cut during recent mass layoffs was "always the plan."

Not so, Politico reported Friday evening.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board, after months of warning, has had enough of Trump's tariff scheme — and is putting out a clear message to the administration: You're now making China great again.

Trump’s tariffs are poised to "change the world order in many ways," the board said. And "one winner is already emerging" — Xi Jinping, the autocratic ruler of China, who had an "excellent week."

A convicted drug dealer whose sentence President Donald Trump commuted is back behind bars after he was charged with assaulting a 3-year-old child and violating his supervised release, The New York Times reported Friday.

It was the fifth time Jonathan Braun has been arrested since Trump commuted his 10-year sentence as he left office in 2021, according to the report. The decision came as a “last-minute” clemency request that made its way to the president through Braun’s family connection with Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner, the Times added.

Federal prosecutors are pursuing a prison sentence of just over seven years for disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), reported CBS News' Scott MacFarlane on Friday evening, in a motion describing him as a "pathological liar and fraudster."

"Prosecutors argue George Santos engaged in a 'craven' attempt to leverage his lawbreaking to gain celebrity and riches — including by musing about book deal while on courthouse steps," noted MacFarlane on X.

Some Ukrainians living in the United States after fleeing Russia's invasion mistakenly received "terse and threatening" email notices this week informing them to leave, according to a report.

The notices told the Ukrainians their provisional legal status were being terminated in a week, The Washington post reported Friday night. They were told to to leave the United States “immediately."

Legislation is being introduced in the House to curb President Donald Trump's tariff power — and a Republican is introducing it.

According to Politico, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), a representative from a competitive Omaha-based district who is known for occasionally criticizing the president, "said he plans to introduce a companion bill to the bipartisan Senate legislation aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs, becoming the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers President Donald Trump is using to launch a massive global trade war."

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board delivered a one-two punch over President Donald Trump’s “tariff blunder” – and the White House’s creative spin of the fallout – as Friday brought the second straight day of steep market losses.

The stinging criticism came hours after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt continued to insist that “the economy is starting to roar” as she touted a better-than-expected March jobs report.

Democratic AGs sue National Institutes of Health over disrupted medical research grants

by Jacob Fischler, Daily Montanan
April 4, 2025

A federal judge in Rhode Island accused the Trump administration of "covertly" withholding funds for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief programs from states that didn't vote for him, Courthouse News reported on Friday.

"In March, U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction in favor of 23 states that sued the government over its plan to implement a broad pause to state aid," noted the report.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) delivered a dire warning to American consumers still digesting the effects of President Donald Trump’s massive set of tariffs as he painted a doomsday scenario he said the country is at “a very real risk of.”

The bleak outlook from the Republican senator came Friday on an episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” where he turned the tables on Trump and threw a veiled shot at his fellow Republicans.