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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might not be feeling comfortable about his future after a Republican senator publicly broke ranks and said that there is growing discomfort in Congress with Hegseth's job performance.

In an interview with The Hill, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), whose threat to halt the confirmation of Donald Trump’s pick, Kevin Warsh, to head the Federal Reserve was a contributing factor leading to the DOJ to drop an investigation of current chair Jerome Powell, now seems to be turning his focus to Hegseth, a former Fox News personality.

Followers of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who contributed mightily to Donald Trump’s reelection in 2024, are fuming that the administration is blowing off their concerns as a closely-watched case heads to the Supreme Court on Monday.

According to CNBC reporting, the conservative-leaning court will hear arguments Monday to decide whether federal law preempts state-level lawsuits alleging glyphosate, the chemical in Bayer's herbicide Roundup, causes cancer. Simultaneously, the Republican-majority U.S. House is expected to take up a massive agricultural policy measure that includes new protections for the chemical.

Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) activists feel completely blindsided, according to CNBC, which is reporting the health movement that propelled RFK Jr. to influence within the administration expected Trump to challenge corporate agriculture and chemical industry protection — not become Bayer's champion.

Just months ago, Trump signed an executive order to boost the domestic production of glyphosate-based herbicides, forcing Kennedy himself to intervene and attempt damage control with his base.

Kelly Ryerson, a prominent MAHA advocate known as "the Glyphosate Girl," expressed the depth of her extreme dismay, telling CNBC, "It has been a really, really rough few months because we have an attack coming from the executive branch, the judicial branch and over in Congress."

"The combination of the executive order and going to bat for Bayer at the Supreme Court are really inexcusable," Ryerson continued. "And I think it showed a deep disconnect between what the administration thinks that MAHA cares about and what is actually true."

House Republicans are dismissing MAHA as emotional rather than principled. House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson (R-PA), leading the farm bill, attacked the movement as "emotional-driven" and claimed the bill merely ensures "labeling is done in a way with the highest level of science."

Thompson asserted that states retain the ability to alter labels through the EPA process, explaining, "If a state wants to have additional provisions for labeling, they only have to go through the EPA to make that happen, it will be on the label."

That infuriated Ryerson even more.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was expected to convene a meeting this week on protecting President Donald Trump.

In a statement on Monday, the White House confirmed the meeting to PBS NewsHour. The meeting will come just days after a gunman tried to enter the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

President Donald Trump signaled his discomfort with a particularly sensitive topic during a new interview after an alleged would-be assassin charged into an area near the White House Correspondents Dinner.

The 79-year-old president sat down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Norah O'Donnell, who read from alleged gunman Cole Thomas Allen's manifesto accusing Trump of being a "p--------, r----- and traitor," and CNN's John Berman pointed out his reaction as noteworthy.

While Donald Trump said the suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter “hates Christians,” a purported manifesto not only suggests otherwise, but indicates they “might have” even been “provoked” by a social media post the president made that drew accusations of blasphemy, journalist Ken Klippenstein argued on Monday.

“The guy is a sick guy,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday. “When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians. That's one thing for sure.”

As part of the scramble by the Donald Trump administration to deport immigrants as quickly as possible after they have been swept off the street by heavily armed ICE agents, a huge recruitment campaign is reportedly underway to pack the courts with compliant judges, many of whom have zero experience in immigration law.

According to a Washington Post investigation, the Justice Department has fired more than 100 immigration judges since Trump took office, an unprecedented purge, and a similar number have retired or resigned, and more than 140 new judges have been appointed to replace them.

The analysis by the Post reveals that two-thirds of the new judges have no immigration law experience listed in their online biographies, a break from previous years when many, if not most, candidates had experience in that area. Only 24 percent had worked for the Department of Homeland Security, ICE or the immigration courts.

Training has been slashed from five weeks to three, raising fears about the new judges who are now handling complex life-or-death cases.

Kerry Doyle, a former ICE official hired as an immigration judge under Biden and then fired before she could even begin hearing cases, explained, "They're trying to create a malleable workforce that will do what they want without question."

President Donald Trump erupted during a "60 Minutes" interview over a topic that he's clearly "sensitive" about, according to CNN's Audie Cornish.

The 79-year-old president sat down for an interview with correspondent Norah O’Donnell, who asked him about allegations about assault made by would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen in his manifesto.

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to get a landmark crypto bill passed through Congress, which currently has a Republican Party majority in both chambers, is running into a roadblock.

His own family.

According to Politico's Jasper Goodman and Declan Harty, Don Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have built crypto businesses worth hundreds of millions of dollars, prompting Democrats to demand strict ethics provisions before allowing any regulatory overhaul to move forward.

"There is no final bill — there is no final movement — unless there is a bipartisan agreement when it comes to the ethics provision," said Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a supporter of crypto legislation who has been involved in negotiations.

The Trump family's crypto holdings have become a massive leverage point for Democrats, the report notes, pointing to the Trump family's crypto businesses, which account for more than $1 billion of their wealth, which has become a talking point for balking lawmakers who are warning about Republican-led efforts to put in place laws that will allow the Trump family to continue to cash in with few restrictions.

The White House has denied any conflicts of interest, and Senate Republicans have largely defended the president's family businesses, but face the reality that their party is poised to lose one or both chambers of Congress, making a Trump-friendly bill unlikely after November.

Even some Republicans are drawing a line.

Political analysts and observers raised red flags on Sunday after a new proposal to end the war in Iran was shared with the press.

Axios reported, citing "a U.S. official and two sources with knowledge," that Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for kicking talks about the country's enriched uranium down the road. The Strait has been effectively shut down since late February, following the start of the war, sending global energy prices skyrocketing.

President Donald Trump just passed an "incredible milestone" during his second administration, and doing so could cost him dearly, according to one political analyst.

Trump's disapproval rating among Republicans rose to 31% earlier this month, according to an AP-NORC poll, which liberal political commentator David Pakman said illustrates the Republican Party's shifting attitude toward Trump. The poll was conducted about seven weeks after the war in Iran began, which is an issue that has caused significant strife between the president and his base.

There is something "more sinister" happening underneath the surface of the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, according to one analyst.

Alleged shooter Cole Allen fired multiple rounds inside the Washington Hilton, where the event was taking place. He struck a Secret Service agent in the agent's bulletproof vest, and the agent survived. No one was killed during the event, and the shooter was arrested by authorities on the scene. President Donald Trump and cabinet officials in attendance were swiftly escorted out of the building.