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A MAGA lawmaker got snippy with a CNN anchor during a live broadcast Friday, complaining, "You interrupted me!"

Assistant Whip Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) joined CNN's Brianna Keilar to discuss the ground stop at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport due to staffing shortages as the government shutdown drags on, and how FAA staffing problems have ended previous stalemates and forced the government to reopen.

Keilar moved the conversation to the subject of food stamp benefits, which two federal judges ruled Friday must be continued to be funded by the Trump administration and the U.S.Department of Agriculture, as the deadline for funding the program was slated to run out Saturday. ...

CNN anchor Boris Sanchez tried to keep the reins on a Friday interview with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) as the two repeatedly talked over one another regarding the House spending bill and her concerns over Medicaid fraud.

"If you're not eligible, you should not be receiving benefits. It's as simple as that," Malliotakis said. "That makes you a fraudster."

The pair clashed over interpretations of who the GOP wants to kick off Medicaid — and how the decision would be made. Sanchez pointed out that institutionalized people would be able to meet work requirements, but still need to support....

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar took issue Wednesday with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) for touting tax cuts and "minimizing" the financial effects tariffs will have on average Americans.

"Would voters appreciate a tax cut more if they weren't taking it in the shorts on tariffs?" Keilar asked.

Malliotakis began, "Look, I think people want to save money and keep more money in their pocket regardless of how it happens. I think that's the Republican principle, is to let people keep more of their hard-earned tax dollars. And we want to try to bring down prices. If we don't want to see the tariffs that are going to impact the price of goods, but as I said, when they did it in China, it didn't necessarily affect those prices —"...

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) spoke of Elon Musk as a rogue actor when confronted by the confusing and contradictory emails sent to government employees telling them to justify their jobs or be fired.

CNN's John Berman hit the congresswoman with a timeline of the events of the past few days, that began on Saturday when Musk's team emailed two million federal employees asking them what they've done in the last week and claiming a non-answer qualified as a resignation.

By Monday, however, the Trump administration claimed a response was "voluntary." ...

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

ALSO READ: 8 ways convicted felon Donald Trump doesn't become president...

WASHINGTON — In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict, America’s about to see GOP unity like never before.

Only this time, Republicans will be unifying around a convicted felon, which should terrify us all, a former Republican congressman tells Raw Story.

“He's a coward. And the guy doesn't like to defend himself. He wants other people to do it for him, just like we saw on January 6,” former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) told Raw Story. “The base instinct of Donald Trump is to hide behind the walls of Mar-a-Lago or wherever his homes are and let the sycophants go out there and actually do the battle. So he's scared. He's a bit of a little boy right now.” ...