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As the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted along party lines to advance legislation that includes a measure which seeks to cut Medicaid funding for the abortion and healthcare provider Planned Parenthood, reproductive rights defenders are sounding the alarm on the impacts that such a move would have.

"This provision is about punishing Planned Parenthood health centers for providing abortion care, and threatening access to affordable birth control, wellness checkups, and cancer screenings for millions of people across the country in the process," said Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, in a statement on Wednesday.

MAGA allies melted down Thursday afternoon over former FBI Director Jim Comey's beach photo referencing President Donald Trump.

Comey posted on Instagram a photo of shells on a sandy beach that spell out "86 47." He captioned the photo, "Cool shell formation on my beach walk."

In addition to showering rich Americans and large corporations with more tax breaks, legislation that Republicans advanced out of committee on Wednesday would officially eliminate the Internal Revenue Service's popular and free Direct File program, which allowed eligible taxpayers to sidestep private prep companies that have lobbied relentlessly against government-offered alternatives for decades.

The tax legislation that the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee approved in a party-line vote contains an underlooked provision that requires the U.S. Treasury Department to "ensure that the Internal Revenue Service Direct File program has been terminated."

A clash broke out on CNN after a Republican strategist compared a luxurious gift offered by Qatar's royal family to president Donald Trump to foreign aid provided by the U.S. to other countries.

U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi signed off on the $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, for whom she had previously worked as a lobbyist, but Atlantic staff writer Jerusalem Demsas told "CNN This Morning" on Thursday that the gift looks improper from a number of angles.

U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez has led calls for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign for weeks, condemning her prominent role in overseeing the Trump administration's virulently anti-immigrant agenda—but on Wednesday she took a rare in-person opportunity to once again call on the far-right Republican to step down.

"For weeks and weeks we've been waiting for Secretary Noem to come before our committee," said Ramirez (D-Ill.) in a video she posted online ahead of the House Homeland Security Committee hearing. "I'm not going to sit there and just let her lie under oath about all the horrifying things that she's doing... I say enough is enough, and in just a few minutes, I'm going to say that to her face, because it's about damn time that person, that secretary, resigns."

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) grilled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about whether President Donald Trump had lied when he claimed "MS-13" gang symbols were on a deported man's hand.

During a Wednesday House Homeland Security hearing, Swalwell pointed out that Trump had displayed a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand with "MS13" on it.

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez railed against her Republican colleagues for making a “terribly disrespectful comment” in a late-night Medicaid debate, according to a report from Politico.

The incident happened around 3am Wednesday as the House Energy and Commerce panel began marking up their portion of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

A Democratic legislative candidate from Virginia revealed that she and her husband are swingers.

Yvonne Rorrer, who's running for the House of Delegates in a deep-red district along the North Carolina border, posted on X over the weekend that she didn't want her lifestyle arrangement to be used against her, so she explained that she and her husband of 22 years "are ethically non-monogamous," reported The Daily Beast.

The Florida House and Senate have made no progress toward a budget deal during the past three weeks, House Speaker Daniel Perez acknowledged Tuesday, saying budget negotiations have to “start all over again.”

The House voted Tuesday to further extend the already-extended session, from June 6 to June 30. Although, since the Senate did not meet, the House-desired extension is not solid.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan on charges that she tried to conceal a man from arrest and obstruction of a proceeding, according to The New York Times.

Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, was arrested last month after authorities said she helped an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents waiting outside her courtroom. The indictment is a “significant step” in the Trump Justice Department’s case against her, the Times wrote.