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President Donald Trump has permanently banned a subcontractor from working on the White House grounds after video surveillance captured workers damaging a sidewalk in the White House’s Rose Garden, the president shared in a detailed story and video on social media.

“Three days ago, while admiring the stonework, I happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extended more than 25 yards long,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

President Donald Trump privately pitched a controversial idea for Ukraine following the end of the Russo-Ukraine War, a proposal fiercely opposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to four insiders that spoke with the Financial Times.

According to the Financial Times’ report, four “people briefed on discussions” told the outlet that Trump had asked Chinese officials to provide “peacekeepers” to patrol and monitor a hypothetical “neutral zone” in Ukraine along its current front line in a postwar scenario. Trump made the suggestion last week during his meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders, according to the insiders.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made it crystal clear during a press conference on Saturday that Donald Trump and his appointees should not expect any help from the local police and city workers if the president makes good on his threat to send in the National Guard to back up masked-ICE agents snatching immigrants off the streets.

Stating he had “no time to waste,” Johnson signed his own executive order, mirroring Trump’s favorite pastime besides golf, instructing city officials on how to deal with the coming militarization of their hometown.

Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 Captal riot, is now set to receive full military funeral honors, a decision that has left one retired general livid, and condemning the move as “obscene.”

“I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt,” wrote Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling in an op-ed published Saturday in The Bulwark. “She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”

The decision by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) not to run for reelection despite reported pressure from the White House to remain in the race, has Iowa Republicans on their heels coming right after Democrat Catelin Drey won a key race in the state this past week that altered the balance of power in the state legislature.

According to a report from Politico’s Liz Crampton and Holly Otterbein, Democrats see a chance to make major inroads in the reliably red state where the GOP is faced with not only coming up with a suitable candidate for the Senate seat, but also face a challenge holding onto the governorship.

Conservative political scientist Norman Ornstein condemned the Trump administration Saturday for its “outrageous” policies he says will “damage lives,” while at the same time he handed Democrats a roadmap as to how they could make a serious dent in President Donald Trump’s plans to consolidate power.

Speaking on MSNBC, Ornstein first painted a picture for why he thought Democrats have struggled to adequately oppose the Trump administration, a characterization supported by the party’s tanking poll numbers.

The former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease raised a “red flag” on Saturday morning, accusing Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoting eugenics.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest over the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, hammered at RFK Jr’s purge of scientists at the CDC, which has plunged the department into chaos.

Media personality Van Jones pushed back on GOP strategist Pete Seat Saturday over accusations that Democrats don’t “talk about” crime, during a CNN panel discussing the ongoing federal takeover of Washington, D.C.

“I don't like crime, I'm not a part of some pro-crime lobby, but there's a smart way and a dumb way to do anything,” Jones said, speaking to President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of federal officers and National Guard members to the streets of the nation’s capital.

The dozen or so high-ranking Department of Justice attorneys who were reassigned to the DOJ's Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group have all quit, the Washington Post is reporting on Saturday.

According to the report from Post’s Perry Stein, a the time of the reassignment they were told to either accept the move or resign and, as of this week, the last attorney who accepted the move has now quit.

Reacting to the purge of high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who are refusing to bend to the will and demands of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., conservative attorney George Conway accused the Donald Trump administration of attempting to plunge the U.S. back into the “dark ages.”

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Conway brought up Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he disagreed with the job numbers coming out of the department, which he claims were made-up without any presenting evidence.

Amid the stalled peace talks kicked off by President Donald Trump to end the Russo-Ukraine War, a number of Trump officials are now casting blame elsewhere in a move that has left some of America’s allies “puzzled,” Axios reported Saturday.

"The Europeans don't get to prolong this war and backdoor unreasonable expectations, while also expecting America to bear the cost," said a top Trump official, speaking with Axios on the condition of anonymity. "If Europe wants to escalate this war, that will be up to them. But they will be hopelessly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."