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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten examined fresh polling that showed the record-long government shutdown significantly weakened President Donald Trump's political position and lessened the Republican Party's chances of maintaining their congressional majorities.

The 43-day shutdown ended nearly two weeks ago, but Enten said the damage has already been done to the GOP's standing less than a year before the 2026 midterm elections.

Despite a brutal courtroom loss in which a judge called her a “former White House aide” instead of "counsel," defiant Donald Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan is insisting she still be referred to as “U.S. attorney” in all filings and documents.

The former insurance attorney was memorialized in Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie's opinion, where the judge wrote, “On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will reportedly result in the Pentagon turning its back on Scouting America, once known as the Boy Scouts or Scouting

According to a leaked proposal obtained by NPR, Hegseth is unhappy with the organization and wants his Department of War to end a 100-year relationship, which would leave officials running the annual National Jamboree scrambling to fill the void.

Design experts puzzled over new signage added to the White House by President Donald Trump.

Visitors were greeted earlier this month by a makeshift sign – appearing to be plain white paper with ornate gold typeface – announcing the location of the Oval Office on an exterior entrance, which drew widespread mockery online and on late night talk shows, and the Washington Post asked experts to comment on the display.

After President Donald Trump threatened to execute several Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to defy illegal orders, one conservative commentator is pushing back on the administration for what he labeled as “one of the dumbest controversies” he’d seen.

“I really wish both sides would take it down a notch,” said Andy McCarthy, a conservative commentator and former assistant U.S. attorney, appearing on Fox News Tuesday.

As Congress readies to tackle a looming deadline to avoid health care cost spikes for tens of millions of Americans, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is actively warning President Donald Trump against extending Affordable Care Act subsidies — directly contradicting a proposal from the White House, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

“Johnson cautioned the White House that most House Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, according to people familiar with the matter, showing how hard it will be politically to stave off sharp increases in healthcare costs next year for many Americans,” wrote Journal reporter Olivia Beavers.

A decision by Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth to threaten to court-martial Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a Navy pilot and astronaut, while Kelly’s GOP colleagues stand by and watch will haunt Republicans forever.

That's the thinking of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, who used the Hegseth threat as an example of how GOP lawmakers and the president's inner circle are trapped in a doom-loop of what he called ‘Trump derangement idiocy” as they cater to his worst impulses.

The White House reneged on its expected announcement for a policy framework to guide Republican lawmakers on a possible replacement for the Affordable Care Act — and that failure has roiled the conservative caucus.

President Donald Trump was expected to announce as soon as Monday — at the White House alongside Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — a broadly sketched plan to prevent premium spikes when ACA subsidies set to expire at year’s end.