The marathon House Rules Committee on Tuesday night erupted after a Democratic lawmaker accused Republicans of using the eight-week government shutdown to take a vacation.

The committee met to debate a legislative package that would keep the government open through January 2026. Part of the package includes policy proposals like allowing Republican lawmakers to sue former special counsel Jack Smith because he subpoenaed their phone records as part of his investigation into the January 6 insurrection.

During the hearing, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) got into a shouting match after Ansari accused Republicans of taking a vacation during the government shutdown.

"Welcome back from your eight weeks of taxpayer-funded vacation," Ansari's opening statement began. "It's good to see you and I hope that you..."

Foxx interrupted Ansari before she could continue.

"I'm so sick and tired of hearing you all say we had an eight-week vacation," Foxx said sternly.

"That's exactly what happened!" Ansari shot back.

"I worked every day!" Foxx replied. "I don't know about you. I don't want to hear another soul say that!"

"I worked every day as well!" Ansari said. "We all worked every single day."

A high-profile economist was befuddled by a series of claims President Donald Trump made on Tuesday during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Trump joined Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday, where the two discussed topics ranging from his future successors in the Trump family, the White House ballroom renovation project, and the impact of Trump's tariffs on the U.S. economy. At one point, Trump claimed that beef prices are elevated because "farmers are doing well." He also claimed that coffee prices would soon come down because "we're going to be removing some tariffs."

Justin Wolfers, economics professor at the University of Michigan, reacted to Trump's interview on CNN's "The Source" with host Kaitlan Collins.

"Look, every word the president just said is a lie, and worse than that, it's such a lie that I worry that there's literally a break with reality inside the man's mind," Wolfers said. "I can tell you that because I'm a statistics nerd, and you can go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They've got people in supermarkets all across the country, and almost every category of goods or services sees the prices rising."

"There's a reasonable argument to be had: Is inflation too high? Is inflation too low? But we have inflation. It's positive," he continued. "And it's not just the nerds at the BLS who see it when companies are giving their earnings reports; they're telling us they're raising their prices in every single viewer on the other side of this television set knows exactly what's happening, which is that prices are rising."

"I don't understand the logic of looking us in the eye and telling us an outright falsehood," he added.

FBI Director Kash Patel is catching heat from frustrated Trump administration officials over his use of the bureau's jet, and a new report revealed he used the airliner to travel to a posh private hunting resort.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night on Patel's trips using the FBI's jet, noting the plane itself has made dozens of trips since Patel became director. In that time, Patel has "drawn flak from his bosses" in the DOJ and from his "underlings" at the FBI, according to the report.

"Patel hit the news for taking an FBI plane to attend a wrestling event where his girlfriend, a country western singer, performed, and then to her home in Nashville. A former FBI agent, Kyle Seraphin, publicized the trip and called the taxpayer funded travel in the middle of a shutdown 'pathetic," the Journal noted.

That was in late October. A day after he arrived in State College, Pennsylvania, to attend the wrestling event, he traveled to Nashville. The report then unveiled a previously undisclosed trip Patel made — a stop in San Angelo, Texas, at a hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch.

The private ranch, which bills itself as a "scenic hunting resort," is owned by the family of a Republican donor and friend of Patel’s, C.R. “Bubba” Saulsbury Jr. The plane remained in town from Sunday until Wednesday during the government shutdown.

Patel's travels haven't gone unnoticed.

"Patel’s travel has frustrated both Justice Department officials, who complained to the White House about it, and the White House itself, which had told cabinet officials months ago in writing to limit their travel, particularly if it was overseas or unrelated to Trump’s agenda, according to an administration official. Details about Patel’s trips to visit his girlfriend and an August trip to Scotland have been passed around the White House in recent days, officials said," according to the report.

The Journal added that Patel’s jet-setting has become a "source of gossip within the bureau," and Trump himself has "occasionally expressed irritation in private with his FBI director," even as he continues to support him, the report added.

Trump's FBI chief issued a stern response to the Journal, downplaying the report.

“Thankfully, Americans can see through WSJ hot garbage—this FBI has never been stronger,” he said.

Meanwhile, the White House publicly supported Patel as well.

Trump is “very proud of the work the FBI is doing under Director Patel’s leadership,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told the newspaper, adding that Trump sees Patel as a “key player on his law-and-order team.”