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A CNN fact-checker on Tuesday called out President Donald Trump's rambling speech for its 'litany of lies."

Daniel Dale described how several points that Trump made during his nearly two-hour-long press conference on the first anniversary of the inauguration of his second term were hard to keep up with — and that each topic the president attempted to hit was full of confusing comments and misinformation.

"There are just so many. I'm struggling to keep track of it," Dale said. "You know, $18 trillion in investment in the U.S., that's a fictional figure, 600% reduction in prescription drug prices. That's a fictional figure. 'I ended eight unknowable wars.' Eight is a fictional figure. 'We inherited inflation at a historic high.' No. He inherited a 3% inflation just a little bit above where it is now, although it did hit about a 40-year high in June 2022, more than two years before he returned to office."...

MAGA shamed several Republican lawmakers Thursday afternoon who broke with the party as the House of Representatives passed the first round of DOGE cuts by a vote of 214 to 212.

The measure, which slashes $9.4 billion from the United States Agency for International Development, NPR, and PBS, now heads to the Senate.

But Many MAGA fans were sure to point out the four "RINOs" who voted against the bill....

Influential Republican Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) has joined with Democrats to oppose the Trump administration's threat to cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to Politico.

The proposed cuts are part of a recissions package introduced last week by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) "to cut $9.4 billion previously greenlit by Congress, mainly for foreign aid," the report stated.

Reporter Calen Razor called Amodei's opposition "a potential problem for GOP leaders who need near-unity within their party to pass the White House’s request that Congress revoke billions of dollars it has already approved" for the funding arm of PBS and NPR....

After 56 years on PBS, Big Bird and friends are finding new life on Netflix following President Donald Trump's threat to pull the plug on publicly-funded media, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"The streaming giant has reached an agreement to broadcast new episodes of 'Sesame Street,' giving the beloved children’s show a home after Warner Bros. Discovery said it was stepping away from the program," the report said.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in shade...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exploded at a reporter with the UK's Sky News who tried to ask a question about the Signal messaging chat leak that has caused much consternation within the Trump administration and its MAGA acolytes.

At a press conference Wednesday, reporter Martha Kelner approached Greene, who immediately asked, "Wait, what country are you from?"

When Kelner answered she was from the UK, Greene became enraged. ...

The young journalist looked a bit tired in his tan sport coat and striped bow tie.

It was early on a Saturday, after all — the 8 a.m. hour on New Year's Eve eve of 1995 — and he spoke in soft, sometimes halting tones about trimming government and encouraging tax cuts. He praised the Washington Post's watchdog reporting. He waxed philosophical about legislative processes in a fashion fit for a history professor.

"The founders didn't want, and I don't think we want, any bill or law or idea to breeze through Congress without a vigorous, and for that reason, grubby, debate," then-Weekly Standard staff writer Tucker Carlson told C-SPAN's "Saturday Journal" host Lew Ketcham. "That is the way the system should, and does work."...