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Vice President JD Vance led a barrage of MAGA-inspired attacks against Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday in a rare public rebuke of the former Republican leader over his refusal to support a key Pentagon nominee.

The war of words ignited shortly after McConnell found himself the lone Republican vote against Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s selection to be the Defense Department’s top policy strategist.

The White House has stopped posting any of its spending moves, which dodges a law passed during President Donald Trump's first term.

Writing for The Washington Post, law professor Samuel R. Bagenstos said the second Trump administration is dismissing the legislative powers outlined in federal law, giving Congress the power to decide how taxpayer dollars are spent.

President Donald Trump told Republican senators he is open to major tax changes — raising tax rates on high-earning Americans, according to Semafor.

The comments came last week during a sitdown on his agenda with Senate Budget Committee Republicans.

Two republicans and four-star General Christopher Cavoli are breaking with the Trump administration and doubling down on their efforts to keep troop levels within Europe as they are, according to Politico.

The comments are a stark contrast to the Trump administration's potential plan to withdraw troops from the area. Cavoli, who is the Commander of the United States European Command, wants to keep the same level of troops in eastern Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) questioned U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during a Tuesday hearing about the tariffs, which will go into effect on Wednesday.

Greer explained that despite requests for negotiations, all tariffs will be implemented this week — and there is no way of knowing when they will be paused.

A former Republican congressman revealed how he received a near-apology from Donald Trump for possibly costing him and the Republican Party a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Mo Brooks published an op-ed Tuesday for AL.com describing how he overcame his distaste for Trump and his "character flaws," made plain in his "dishonest" personal attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his family during the 2016 campaign, to seek his endorsement in a special election the following year to fill the Senate vacated by Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general.

The U.S. Supreme Court put a pause on rehiring federal probationary workers in a ruling on Tuesday — but legal experts don't see the decision as being straightforward,.

"I obviously disagree with the Roberts Court decision that the groups in the probationary employees case don’t 'presently' have standing," said lawyer Norm Eisen, who has been representing many unions and federal workers facing termination. "But the door isn’t closed—& we’ll be back in trial court tomorrow with other groups developing more grounds for relief. We will keep going!"

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sought to downplay "public sparring" between DOGE administrator Elon Musk and trade adviser Peter Navarro.

During Tuesday's White House briefing, Leavitt was asked about the spat after Musk referred to Navarro as a "moron" and other slurs on his X social media platform.

A man who was recently charged with murdering a priest in Seneca, Kansas, has a long history of writing letters to his local newspaper in which he expressed support for President Donald Trump.

Local news station KSNT reported that 66-year-old Oklahoma man Gary Hermesch, who was arrested by police last week for the alleged fatal shooting of 57-year-old Seneca-based Father Arul Carasala, regularly wrote letters referencing Trump to the local Courier-Tribune newspaper.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) mocked the way President Donald Trump calculated his so-called reciprocal tariffs by noting that trade deficits were not necessarily evidence of one side losing.

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Paul told conservative host Joe Kernen that Trump's tariff policy was "backwards and upside down."

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) asked an official from President Donald Trump's administration whose "throat do I get to choke" if the controversial tariff trade war fails.

Tillis grilled U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during a Tuesday Senate Finance Committee hearing.