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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) put Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the hot seat Wednesday over President Donald Trump's unprecedented stock trading, demanding to know whether the White House should face the same scrutiny Bessent himself once said Congress deserved.

The exchange, at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Trump's FY2027 budget, turned combative fast.

A tense exchange at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday turned into a dramatic public confrontation over President Donald Trump's health, as Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) played three videos he said showed Trump sleeping at official events — then accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio of lying to Congress when Rubio denied ever witnessing it.

Rubio was testifying on the FY2027 State Department budget request when Lieu announced he would show footage from the December 2, 2025, Cabinet meeting — a session where Trump appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open during extended stretches while Cabinet officials gave updates, including Rubio himself.

A seemingly innocuous remark from President Donald Trump raised alarm bells for renowned international security expert Robert Pape on Wednesday, who went on to warn that the president’s comments were a likely precursor to an imminent military escalation in the Middle East.

In a video interview with the New York Post published on Wednesday, Trump was asked whether he believed the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would persist into September.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the State Department's FY 2027 budget turned into a shouting match Wednesday when Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) unloaded on Secretary of State Marco Rubio over a string of Trump administration national security appointments — and refused to let Rubio laugh it off.

Keating opened by putting Rubio on the spot, asking whether — in all his years vice-chairing the Senate Intelligence Committee — he had ever heard of Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump's newly named acting director of national intelligence.

President Trump's decision to nominate Bill Pulte as director of national intelligence caught many of his closest advisors off guard and dealt a significant blow to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with whom the Federal Housing Finance Agency head has engaged in an ongoing power struggle.

According to reporting from the Wall Street Journal, Pulte, who leads the agency overseeing the country's mortgage market, personally approached Trump with an audacious proposal: ascending to the position of director of national intelligence following Tulsi Gabbard's departure.

The nomination appears rooted not in foreign policy expertise—Pulte has none—but in what Trump prizes most: unwavering loyalty, the Journal is reporting before adding that, in pitching himself to the president, Pulte promised to become an "unyielding advocate" for Trump's foreign policy agenda and signaled support for the administration's Iran war, according to sources familiar with the conversations.

The move represents a major victory for Pulte in his internal administration battles. The Federal Housing Finance Agency director has become a deeply polarizing figure, clashing repeatedly with Trump advisers who have grown frustrated with his aggressive approach and willingness to bypass the chain of command to access the president directly.

Trump has reportedly resisted efforts by administration officials to remove Pulte, telling confidants he values the FHFA chief's loyalty above all else.

Trump "first raised the idea of appointing Pulte as intelligence director to aides over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter," the Journal is reporting before adding that the fact that president actually pulled the trigger on Pulte's nomination, "caught them by surprise."

As for Bessent, one of the president's closest allies in the Cabinet, he was reportedly kept out of the loop, the Journal is reporting.

President Donald Trump has not appeared at a single public event in eight days — and the White House isn't saying when that will change.

Trump's last confirmed live public appearance was May 27, when he presided over a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Since then, his schedule has been a wall of closed-press policy meetings, Executive Time, and private dinners. The only glimpse of the president came via a pre-taped Fox News interview with his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump — not a public event.

President Donald Trump has faced a rare wave of bi-partisan scrutiny over his pick to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and on Wednesday, a raunchy video resurfaced that may pose even more problems for the Trump nominee.

Recorded in 2023 in Florida at a mock-stock event, Bill Pulte – the current Federal Housing Finance Agency director and Trump’s pick to become DNI – is seen on video receiving a trophy with the inscription “Bill Pulte f----.”

A rare loss by a Republican who waltzed into Tuesday's primary with a high-profile endorsement from Donald Trump has raised concerns that a change is in the air for November’s general election.

According to a report from MS NOW, authored by Hunter Woodall and Alex Tabet, the fact that Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) lost the GOP primary for Iowa governor nomination to rival Zach Lann has Republicans “anxious” about what voters want, with the added threat that Lann’s Democratic opponent might be the next governor.

The Justice Department's No. 3 official briefly admitted on X that the agency was moving to revive a controversial fund to compensate Jan. 6 defendants — then deleted the post on Wednesday.

Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. responded to a post from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a terse three-word reply — "We're on it." — before quietly scrubbing it. Politico's Josh Gerstein flagged the deletion.

President Donald Trump was pressed in an interview published on Wednesday about the soaring inflation caused by his deeply unpopular war against Iran and its impact on Americans, a line of questioning the president responded to by blurting out a blatant falsehood – one that coincided with reports that directly contradicted his claim.

“In your first term, I think that was one of the hallmarks, that peoples' wages – especially working peoples' wages – were rising much faster than inflation,” said The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in a video interview recorded in the White House.