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A plan by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to shed more federal workers by using the government shutdown as cover is falling apart as department heads are ignoring his proposed cuts.

According to a report from Politico, a leaked document reveals that Vought, who has made it his life’s mission to pare down government functions to a bare minimum, pressed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to do a mass layoff with a target of close to 8,000 jobs eliminated and they have yet to come close.

Donald Trump was called out on MSNBC on Saturday morning for his attack on America’s cattle ranchers with one firing back that he has no idea what he is talking about.

Brought on by the hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Craig Bieber, the vice president of the South Dakota Cattleman’s Beef Association, was asked about a post the president wrote on Truth Social.

A shakeup is looming at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because Donald Trump’s White House has become increasingly frustrated with the pace of arrests of undocumented immigrants -- and now jobs are on the line.

According to a report from the New York Times, regional ICE officials are being asked to explain why arrest numbers are down which led former senior ICE official Claire Trickler-McNulty to explain, “They are under constant threat; people are ground down; it’s a culture of fear.”

As President Donald Trump continues to wield near-unchallenged influence over House Republicans, he’s reportedly joked behind the scenes about effectively holding the position of president and House speaker, two insiders revealed to The New York Times in its report Saturday.

“I’m the speaker and the president,” Trump said jokingly, according to two insiders who spoke with the Times on the condition of anonymity.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Keller Jr. openly admitted at the arraignment of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday that the prosecution in her federal case is still sorting through what evidence it has.

“I am going through the discovery right now,” he told U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker (an appointee of former President Joe Biden), per a report published in NOTUS.

President Donald Trump called for the prosecution of several former Justice Department officials late Friday night over allegations that Republican lawmakers’ communications were monitored as part of the DOJ’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Earlier this month, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shared a report that revealed that eight Senate Republicans had their communications monitored by the DOJ under the Biden administration.

The conservative editorial board for the National Review delivered choice words regarding President Donald Trump’s strategy to charge U.S. taxpayers $230 million over his prosecution for alleged criminal behavior.

“Donald Trump is in the odd position, by his own admission, of ‘suing myself,’” the Board notes. “It’s a case he should drop. … Trump reached for whatever legal levers he could grasp to fight back."

Economist Paul Krugman said President Donald Trump’s removal of a whole White House wing is typical Trumpian style: an “act of vandalism" being paid for by large corporate donors — mostly tech and crypto companies — seeking to buy Trump’s favor.

“I am sure there will be a Trump meme-coin dispenser installed on every table,” Krugman said.

Ten former leaders of Caribbean nations on Friday called on the current governments across the region to unite in a diplomatic effort to counter President Donald Trump’s unprovoked escalation, in which the US has struck at least 10 vessels in less than two months, claiming without evidence that the Trump administration is fighting “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela.

Former prime ministers of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Lucia signed a joint statement titled “Caribbean Space: A Zone of Peace on Land, Sea and Airspace Where the Rule of Law Prevails,” and called on current leaders to recall the 1972 regional meeting at Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago.

President Donald Trump deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford to the Caribbean as part of his ongoing war with what he calls "narco-terrorists" in the country. The bombing of unidentified boats in the waters off the coast of North and South America is entering "war crimes territory," one Pentagon reporter said on Friday.

There have been 10 "known" bombings of boats killing nearly four dozen people, The New York Times reported Friday.

President Donald Trump's favorability with Hispanics has nosedived by 19 percentage points over the past 10 months, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center poll results released Friday, The Hill reported.

A whopping 73 percent of Hispanic voters disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job — compared to just 27 percent who approve, the poll found. The Hill noted that "the results come as the Hispanic population has been targeted by some immigration enforcement officials for stops."

President Donald Trump's ramped-up hostilities with Venezuela drew a stern warning Friday from an unlikely source — the staunchly conservative National Review.

"It would be a colossal mistake for the president to glide listlessly into a war in South America for which he sought no public support or congressional buy-in," Noah Rothman, senior writer for the magazine, admonished Trump. "There is no legal basis for such an operation in the absence of an attack on U.S. assets or personnel.

President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff didn't discount the idea of sending American soldiers to fight on the ground in Venezuela.

Speaking to the press on Friday, Stephen Miller was asked, "Would the administration consider putting troops on the ground in any capacity in Venezuela?"