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Television host Stephanie Ruhle warned Wall Street and Main Street sources are fully reacting with “paralysis, anger and devastation” at what Trump is doing to the economy.

Recent numbers predict the U.S. economy will be shrinking for the first time since a major pandemic, in complete contrast to the last presidency. Now, Wall Street leaders and business owners who supported Trump in 2024 are horrified at their vote.

Rattled by declining profits and sinking stock prices, Tesla’s board has begun quietly seeking out a successor to CEO Elon Musk, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

The move, which began about a month ago, comes amid investor frustration over Musk’s increasing focus on his job as head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is tasked with slashing trillions from the federal budget.

White House special envoy Steve Witkoff has drawn criticism from foreign policy and national security experts for his unorthodox negotiating style with Russia – and now former Trump administration insiders are even calling out the real estate billionaire’s approach.

Witkoff, a longtime Donald Trump friend and golfing buddy, has reportedly met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at least four times while entirely unaccompanied by the usual set of advisers that traditionally accompany officials in such high-level talks. He has also stepped into negotiations in the Middle East involving the complex situation with Israel and Hamas, the Daily Beast reported.

President Donald Trump is "profoundly wary" of the Medicaid cuts being debated under House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Politico reported on Wednesday.

The cuts are part of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" combining tax cuts with border security and energy changes. GOP lawmakers have repeatedly denied they would cut Medicaid as part of the necessary $800 billion health cost savings they set in their budget framework, but left room for themselves to institute limits on the growth or federal cost sharing for the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion — which could still end in millions of people thrown off their coverage.

President Donald Trump "absolutely" complicated his administration's efforts to defy a Supreme Court order to "facilitate" the return of a Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, a CNN legal analyst said Wednesday.

Elie Honig joined Anderson Cooper on Cooper's eponymous show and was asked whether Trump's comments in an exclusive ABC News interview "complicate[d] things for the administration."

El Salvador’s top anti-gang official has joined others who are skeptical over President Donald Trump’s claims that tattoos prove a Maryland father wrongly deported in March is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, according to media reports.

Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Security Gustavo Villatoro confirmed Wednesday in an interview with the Telegraph that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been moved to a low-security prison after the Trump White House failed to present any “evidence” linking him to the gang.

The Senate narrowly shot down a resolution to block President Donald Trump's global scheme of "reciprocal tariffs" on Wednesday evening, NBC News reported.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the resolution's cosponsors, alongside Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), joined with Democrats on the measure, which needed a simple majority to pass. However, the bill came up short because two senators expected to support the resolution were absent.

The United States and Ukraine unveiled a new reconstruction and investment fund that gives the U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth mineral reserves, formalizing a months-long economic agreement between the Trump White House and Ukraine, according to the New York Times.

The deal announced Wednesday ends tense negotiations over whether the United States will continue to back Ukraine with economic and military support as peace negotiations for the Russia-Ukraine conflict continue, the Times reported. It is aimed at satisfying President Donald Trump’s claims that the U.S. has handed Kyiv “a blank check,” according to the report, while providing the war-torn country with a security arrangement.

Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recently interviewed President Donald Trump at the White House, where they discussed everything from the Signal scandal to the economy and foreign policy. But Goldberg said the "most interesting" part of the conversation was about his retribution efforts against his political enemies.

CNN host Jake Tapper asked Goldberg during a Wednesday segment about what stood out the most in his conversation with the president. Goldberg — who was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive attack plans — that their conversation about the so-called "Signalgate" was notable in that Trump continued to stand by Hegseth despite the error. Goldberg said Trump was optimistic that Hegseth would be "just fine" despite another separate Signal leak and the Navy recently losing a $60 million jet.

A Trump administration effort to inquire about the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia with officials in El Salvador was reportedly slapped down by the authoritarian government, according to a new report in The New York Times.

The Salvadoran government, led by President Nayib Bukele, said no in response to a diplomatic note sent by White House officials, the Times reported Wednesday. The Bukele administration reportedly claimed Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father whom U.S. officials have admitted was sent to the country in error, should remain there because he is a Salvadoran citizen, according to the publication.

One of President Donald Trump's Cabinet officials bought into a conspiracy theory that his agency helped enslave children.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told his colleagues that he had shut down the connection between the government and a child trafficking ring that doesn't exist, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday.

The Supreme Court’s supermajority appeared ready to hand the religious right a sweeping legal victory that could dramatically increase religion’s influence in American public schools.

That’s according to Vox’s Ian Millhiser, who flagged for readers Wednesday what real-world implications the case could carry.

Even conservative firebrand Ann Coulter is fed up with the shameless groveling at President Donald Trump’s Cabinet meetings.

The president on Wednesday opened his latest televised meeting with complaints about the judiciary blocking some of his administration's deportations, before calling on embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other agency heads, who took turns praising Trump's actions – almost “to the point of parody,” as The Daily Beast pointed out.