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Two top aides to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer were reportedly put on leave after a complaint said they helped their boss carry out an affair with a subordinate staffer.

On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Chief of Staff Jihun Han and Deputy Chief of Staff Rebecca Wright were told not to report to work. At the same time, the Labor Department inspector general was investigating the affair.

The Department of Justice's decision to pursue criminal charges against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has derailed White House plans for an affordability-focused speech scheduled this week, as the administration grapples with mounting controversies.

According to Politico's Playbook, Trump planned a major speech on factories and trade in Detroit on Tuesday as part of his "affordability tour." The Powell prosecution announcement has mired the White House in a "Fed crisis" as some Republicans and Wall Street executives express concern, and stock markets showed signs of increased volatility.

The report notes that this latest development — joining recent headlines including the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, Trump's threats toward Greenland, and the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota — will again distract from White House messaging focused on cost-of-living concerns.

Politico reporters Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns questioned the timing of the prosecution. Powell's term expires in May, raising the question: "So why not wait?"

The journalists joked that the already embattled White House Chief of Staff Wiles "must be thrilled,” that this week’s messaging has a new crisis that will "hang over it all.”

David Faris, a professor at Roosevelt University, took issue with Democratic Party leadership Monday over what he called its “timid” resistance to the Trump administration, but argued in an analysis that they’d still likely secure a landslide election victory in November regardless, and thanks in large part to President Donald Trump himself.

“The country’s notional opposition party remains content to issue press releases and fundraising pitches that seem composed in some kind of alternate universe where the United States hasn’t suddenly become a dysfunctional gangster state. But the Democrats are a good bet to win anyway,” Faris wrote in an analysis published in The Nation.

Robert McBride, a prosecutor assigned to assist illegally-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, has reportedly been fired after refusing to participate in the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.

On Monday, MS NOW reported that McBride, 64, had been dismissed from his role as the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he was threatened with demotion and a loss of retirement pay.

Last year, Hegseth threatened to court-martial Kelly after he participated in a video encouraging service members not to follow illegal orders. President Donald Trump responded to the video, suggesting Kelly's words were treasonous and could be punished by death.

President Donald Trump erupted on social media Monday in a panicked rant over the impending Supreme Court decision on his tariffs, which, based on initial arguments, may end up being ruled unlawful.

“The actual numbers that we would have to pay back if, for any reason, the Supreme Court were to rule against the United States of America on Tariffs, would be many Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

A fundraiser for Jonathan Ross, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer responsible for the death of Renee Good, highlighted the Jewish ancestry of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey without explaining why.

According to Alpha News, a GiveSendGo fundraiser run by a person identified as Tom Hennessey was designated as the "preferred method to donate to the ICE agent."

Conservative commentator KT McFarland, an alumni of both the Reagan and Trump administrations, took to Fox Business Monday to support the Trump administration’s alleged use of a secret “sonic weapon” in Venezuela, and laughed as she described its victims “bleeding from the nose [and] ears.”

The claim comes from pro-Trump radio host Mike Netter, who shared an alleged transcript of a Venezuelan security guard who claims to have fallen victim to the sonic weapon attack carried out by the United States on Jan. 3. According to the transcript, the security guard described a “very intense sound wave” that made them feel like their “head was exploding from the inside,” and caused bleeding and vomiting.