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A self-described "MAGA junkie" from West Virginia tearfully recanted her vote for Donald Trump after her job was eliminated by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Jennifer Piggott, of Parkersburg, told CNN that she once flew a Trump flag outside her house in Wood County, where 70 percent of voters backed the president, but the DOGE team he established at billionaire backer Elon Musk's behest cut her job along with more 100 others at the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its February report about consumer behavior on Friday, which shows increases in prices on most things charted.

Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) data charged by the Bureau "is known for capturing inflation (or deflation) across a wide range of consumer expenses and reflecting changes in consumer behavior," the site explains.

Sen. Lindsey Graham's decision to run to the defense of Donald Trump's administration that finds itself under siege over allowing journalist Jeffrey Goldberg access to planning an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen led to laughter on MSNBC on Friday morning.

With the Senate leaning toward an investigation about the military security breach among high-ranking Trump officials with bi-partisan support, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire noted that the South Carolina Republican who is normally a strong supporter of U.S. military stated no one should be fired.

Addressing national security adviser Mike Waltz adding Goldberg to the chat, Graham said he still had faith in him and then told reporters, "We dodged a bullet. I hope we understand what happened and never do it again.”

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That, in turn, led to a shout-out from Donald Trump on Truth Social which was panned by the MSNBC panel.

On Wednesday night, Trump wrote: "Senator Lindsey Graham is working incredibly hard for the Great People of South Carolina, a State I love and WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024!"

With Lemire pointing out the comment was a sign that the president is "keeping score" over who has his back as the Signal scandal lingers, co-host Joe Scarborough laughed at the endorsement pledge.

"An endorsement for what?" Scarborough asked. "You mean just like whenever it's Lindsey's next run?"

As Lemire explained, Graham is "... up in 2026," Scarborough continued and smirked, "If Lindsey like slices a ball into the woods and like hits a bird or something, I mean, what good does an endorsement a year and a half off do for any Republican?"

"Well Donald Trump is happy to give it for Graham," Lemire replied.

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Two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA director John Ratcliffe in the now-infamous group chat involving high-level government officials may have done long-term damage to intelligence gathering against Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to current former U.S. officials.

Those sources told CNN that Ratcliffe exposed the intel operation against the Houthis, which they said was bad enough, but also hinted how the agency was going about it, and they said Waltz then revealed the targets of those efforts in a follow-up message in the chat to which he had inadvertently added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pushing doctors to treat measles-infected children with cod-liver oil despite the fact that medical experts believe that this is an unproven remedy that is not as effective at preventing the illness.

The Atlantic's Nicholas Florko reports that doctors in Texas, which is the center of the measles outbreak in the United States, have not been filing requests for vitamin A, budesonide, clarithromycin, or cod-liver oil, all of which have been recommended by Kennedy, who prior to becoming the nation's top public health official was an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.

President Donald Trump's latest attack on the working class was delivered in the form of an executive order late Thursday that seeks to strip the collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal government workers, a move that labor rights advocates said is not only unlawful but once again exposes Trump's deep antagonism toward working people and their families.

The executive order by Trump says its purpose is to "enhance the national security of the United States," but critics say its clear the president is hiding behind such a claim as a way to justify a broadside against collective bargaining by the public workforce and to intimidate workers more broadly.

U.S. House members in two of Alabama’s three districts with major automotive plants Thursday criticized President Donald Trump’s plans to impose 25% tariffs on automobiles and automobile parts.

The tariffs could hit Alabama’s car plants hard. Most of Alabama’s leading imports in 2023 — including oil, engines, transmissions and ignition sets – went toward building automobiles.

An advance team knocked on doors in Greenland’s capital Nuuk seeking someone who would welcome a visit from second lady Usha Vance, but every single person said no, according to a Danish TV report.

Vice president J.D. Vance joined his wife on the trip after she got a cold shoulder from prospective hosts, according to a report by Denmark's TV 2 that was flagged by The Hill, and the couple's plans shifted from a dogsled race in Sisimiut and meetings with Nuuk locals to a visit to a remote Space Force base.

An MSNBC host claimed Friday that the Trump administration's failure to admit concern over including The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal chat where plans for an attack on Yemen were detailed is handing Democrats a major weapon.

Joe Scarborough said polling on the scandal shows a substantial amount of Republicans have major concerns — and that shrugging it off is not a good tactic.

Politico's Ankush Khardori this week spoke with several right-wing legal scholars about the prospects of President Donald Trump defying court orders and he came away with the conclusion that doing so "will backfire badly" on the president and his allies.

While Vice President J.D. Vance and other Trump allies have made noises about defying the courts, Khardori believes that doing so would undermine a decades-long conservative project to remake the judicial branch as a bulwark of right-wing legal thought.

Vice president J.D. Vance is expected to launch an attack on a U.S. ally during an unsolicited visit to Greenland with his wife.

Second lady Usha Vance had been scheduled to visit the autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark with one of the couple's young sons, but her husband decided to join her on a drastically scaled-back trip after watching outrage over her trip grow amid Donald Trump's threats to take control of the world's largest island, reported CNN.

Donald Trump's decision to pull the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to be his next ambassador to the United Nations, coming as it is at the same time he is fending off a firestorm over the security breach known as "Signalgate," is a sign that his administration is reeling.

That is the opinion of MSNBC's contributor and longtime Beltway insider Chris Matthews who claimed the president is coming close to following the same path as disgraced President Richard Nixon.

With "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough pointing to Trump's admission that Stefanik needs to remain in the House due to the GOP's thin margin, he made the point that Trump's claims of a mandate are falling apart.

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"The Republican agenda is extremely unpopular, they are crashing the economy in real-time and House Republicans are running scared. What happened to their so-called mandate? Well, Chris Matthews, they didn't have a mandate –– they won by like one and a half percentage points," the MSNBC host prompted his guest.

"You know, he's got a couple signs of weakness," Matthews replied. "Stefanik going back to the House is a big sign of weakness. He's worried about points, a couple seats in New York, especially where there's going to be some back and forth."

"But I also look at his performance," he continued. "Last night, Peter Alexander had one hell of a report last night, he pointed out in the evening news that Trump is very angry at [national security adviser] Mike Waltz, about Signal. And he has got to be angry. And the president has to be angry right now that somebody screwed up the worst week he's had."

"And why did that person do it?" he proposed. "l'd want to know who did it and why they did it. –– are they on somebody else's team? I wouldn't understand why he'd come up with a name, Jeffrey Goldberg, right in the middle of these other guys, right? Why would you do it?"