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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Wednesday that he reaches out to Fox News frequently, asking if they'd have him on to discuss many issues, including President Donald Trump's accidental deportation of a Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador.

Instead, they snub him.

by Beiyi SEOW

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday played up prospects of a "fair deal" on trade with China, but his top officials offered few details of how Washington might de-escalate its damaging tariff war with Beijing.

President Donald Trump proved successful in the 2024 election by convincing young men he was their guy. But that has changed less than 100 days into his second term, recent polls show.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her second hour by citing Peter Tuchman, known as the "Einstein of Wall Street," who spoke to New York Magazine, stating that Trump has lost trust among the financial world.

Disclosures filed this week show that lobbying firms with close ties to U.S. President Donald Trump's White House have seen business surge at the start of 2025, with one group that used to employ Trump's chief of staff and attorney general more than doubling its first-quarter revenue compared to last year.

Ballard Partners, a firm led by a Trump donor, reported $14 million in lobbying revenue in the first three months of this year, up from $6.2 million during the same time in 2024.

The White House on Wednesday didn’t deny reports that a debate between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the IRS commissioner erupted into a shouting match.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed the Oval Office explosion between two of President Donald Trump’s top MAGA allies in brief comments to reporters without taking any questions.

President Donald Trump has vehemently denied any plans to get rid of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — but that resolve already appears to be cracking, former NBC anchor Chuck Todd told a CNN panel on Wednesday evening, as the scandals continue to mount and his position becomes less and less tenable.

Hegseth faced a fresh wave of pressure to step down this week following the revelation of a second "Signalgate" chat leaking highly sensitive military battle plans, as well as reports that his senior staff are in complete chaos and uncontrollable.

The White House appears to have altered its messaging around the trade war with China, and it seems China views it as a "win" for them.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, saying that there should be a "de-escalation" of the tit-for-tat tariff increases.

Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders — who was once President Donald Trump's White House press secretary — is now urging him to reverse his administration's denial of her disaster relief request.

Rolling Stone reported Wednesday that Sanders' initial request for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following severe storms in her state was denied. She's since written a separate letter begging her former boss to intervene and reverse the denial.

President Donald Trump blinked in his trade war with China, a CNN reporter said in a blunt assessment Wednesday.

The financial markets are showing optimism after Trump indicated a possible "U-turn on messaging" around trade with China, said Jeff Zeleny, the network's chief national affairs correspondent.

The Trump Administration, with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), continues to target a wide range of federal government agencies for mass layoffs — from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Critics of the layoffs, including some conservatives and libertarians, fear that public safety will be jeopardized.

Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pennsylvania) considers the layoffs reckless and haphazard, warning that the U.S. is in trouble when air traffic controllers are losing their jobs and the SSA is losing workers who help seniors receive their Social Security payments. And former SSA Commissioner Martin O'Malley fears the SSA will have difficulty functioning in the months ahead.

President Donald Trump's key advantage with voters has eroded in new surveys, as the whole nation begins to fret about the economic path he has put the nation on, Aaron Blake wrote for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Wednesday.

Trump's numbers have been in steady decline ever since he took office — but, Blake wrote, it's his performance on the economy that is a real flashing red light for the Republican Party.

Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must "submit" to men.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump's second term in office.