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'Out of control': White House slammed for using official website for anti-Dem message

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is displaying a disclaimer attacking "the radical left" and blaming the shutdown on them.

"The radical left is going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people," the message on the HUD website reads.

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Arab leaders 'furious' over last-minute changes to Trump’s peace plan: report

President Donald Trump unveiled a new peace plan Monday to end Israel’s siege on Gaza and, while the plan had initially received buy-in from top Arab leaders, last-minute changes made just moments before its unveiling have infuriated Arab officials, according to a report Tuesday from Axios.

Trump’s 20-point peace plan was developed over several weeks, and in conjunction with top Arab leaders such as those from Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. However, during Trump’s meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, last-minute changes were introduced to the plan, and at the behest of Netanyahu, changes that very well could compromise its initial support among Arab leaders.

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'Trump has tanks': Judge begins blistering ruling against admin by sharing MAGA threat

U.S. District Judge William Young found that the Trump administration wrongly ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian students to "strike fear" and deny free speech rights.

Young began his blistering 161-page ruling on Tuesday by sharing a threat he received in his chambers.

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Trump appears to forget Dem leader's name hours after meeting: 'The nice gentleman'

While unveiling a new initiative aimed at lowering drug prices during a press conference Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke to how the announcement could impact his ongoing discussions with two key Democratic Party leaders, and in the process, appeared to forget the name of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

Trump held a meeting Monday with congressional leaders of both parties – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House and Senate minority leaders Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Jeffries – all in the hopes of averting a government shutdown. The meeting yielded no results, however, with most lawmakers all expecting the government to shut down Tuesday at midnight.

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'I have to contact my lawyer': Former Homan aide cuts off questions about bribes

A former immigration official, who previously served under Donald Trump’s ”border czar” Tom Homan, cut off a reporter from MSNBC when asked about his part in telling undercover DOJ officials that his former boss could help them cash in on federal contracts if Donald Trump became president again.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, as all the networks were focused on Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking to the top military leadership at a Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, reporter Ken Dilanian was asked about the new revelations.

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'Tried to get him divorced!' Eric Trump claims Biden officials targeted his dad's marriage

President Donald Trump's son Eric bizarrely claimed in a meltdown on the right-wing Newsmax channel that the Biden administration schemed behind the scenes to destroy his dad's marriage.

The claim, made on the Rob Schmitt Tonight show and flagged by The Daily Beast on Tuesday, was part of a long string of grievances, many of them misleading or outright imagined, that the younger Trump made as purported examples of the former president's administration trying to exact political retribution on their family.

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Massive cost of Trump's military meeting shocks The View hosts: 'Can do it all on Zoom'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered more than 800 top military leaders to Virginia, where he gave a speech that could have been done over Zoom or in an email, quipped the co-hosts of "The View."

It cost a fortune — hours before a government shutdown looms and Republicans demand sweeping budget cuts.

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JD Vance sees 'picking fights with random people' as path to replace Trump: MSNBC host

Vice President JD Vance is using his apparent abundance of free time to forge a path to eventually taking over from President Donald Trump, according to MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire.

Jimmy Kimmel fired back at Vance – whom he mocked as “Vice President Maybelline” – in his monologue Monday night, showing a clip of him downplaying the administration's role in getting his talk show briefly suspended, and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough wondered about the vice president's actual job duties.

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Trump regales military brass with song-and-dance about walking down stairs: 'Da-da, bop'

President Donald Trump veered off topic during a speech to military commanders with a brief song-and-dance about walking carefully down stairs.

The president joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who ordered hundreds of top U.S. military leaders to leave their posts around the world for an unprecedented gathering at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, where Trump spoke for nearly an hour and 15 minutes about a variety of topics – including launching several attacks against former President Joe Biden.

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Trump follows bizarre speech with vow to cut drug prices by '300% or more'

President Donald Trump claimed that he had cut deals that would reduce drug prices by "300% or more."

After speaking to military leaders on Tuesday, reporters asked Trump about an upcoming announcement about an agreement with pharmaceutical maker Pfizer.

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'I found my mouth open': Retired general lays waste to 'insulting' Trump military speech

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling had nothing good to say about Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speeches before the Pentagon’s senior leadership on Tuesday — and hammered them both for talking down to the troops.

Hertling, who serves as a military analyst for MSNBC, has been a critic of Hegseth’s unusual Quantico gathering since it was announced last week, and he apparently saw nothing that changed his mind.

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Female fighter pilot buries Trump speech as 'bonkers': 'Everybody in that room knows it'

Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath blasted the speeches from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump on Tuesday to a room full of the top U.S. military leaders.

Among the things McGrath schooled Hegseth on was his claim that there were no female and male standards for combat soldiers. There are combat standards of everybody, she said — in her case it was being able to fly a fighter plane.

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Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war

President Donald Trump revealed that he had told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use inner cities as "training grounds" for war.

In an unprecedented speech to top military brass on Tuesday, Trump said that American inner cities were "a big part of war now."

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