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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent interview with Aaron Ross Sorkin raised red flags for a pair of analysts on Wednesday.

Sorkin interviewed Bessent at The New York Times' DealBook Summit, an annual gathering of business leaders, where the Treasury secretary made a series of questionable claims, according to Jonathan V. Last and Tim Miller of The Bulwark. Among them: Bessent's defense of Trump's appearance at Tuesday's cabinet meeting — where he appeared to fall asleep — and suggestion that he doesn't read the news.

A Tennessee Republican is sounding the alarm after Democrats overperformed in a deep-red district during a special election on Tuesday, according to a new report.

On Tuesday, Republican Matt Van Epps, a Trump-endorsed military veteran, beat Democrat Aftyn Behn in the special election for the Tennessee 7th Congressional District seat. Van Epps won the election by 9 points in a district that President Donald Trump carried by more than 20 points during the 2024 election. Some election experts have said that the result is a sign of the momentum Democrats have as the 2026 midterm elections approach.

A victim of a fraudster that President Donald Trump recently let out of jail spoke out on Wednesday, railing that the president's move "makes no sense."

Carolann Tutera, who was defrauded by David Gentile, the former CEO of GPB Holdings, discussed the impact of Gentile's fraud on her family during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Lead" with Jake Tapper. Gentile was convicted in May of leading a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme and sentenced to seven years in federal prison. He served just 12 days before Trump commuted his sentence.

Republicans appear ready to "shoot themselves in the foot" on a key issue for voters after they voted to cut Medicaid funding in President Donald Trump's domestic spending bill, according to one analyst.

A key provision of Trump's domestic spending bill prohibits Medicaid from funding abortion care, which UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler argued in a new column for Slate is "the anti-abortion movement’s most significant win in Trump’s second term." The provision was swiftly challenged in court by Planned Parenthood and 22 states.

A group of Democratic Senators sent a scathing letter to the heads of the General Services Administration and the Office of Presidential Personnel, arguing that President Donald Trump's latest appointee "betrays the trust of every American."

The Democrats, all of whom serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said in the letter that they were "deeply disturbed" that Trump appointed Paul Ingrassia as the deputy general counsel for the GSA, according to a report by The Hill. The appointment followed Ingrassia's failed confirmation to lead the Special Counsel's Office in September.

Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen.

In a video captured by David Goodhue of The Miami Herald on Wednesday, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol, and U.S Border Patrol could be seen forcing the woman to the ground, where she was handcuffed. The incident reportedly occurred in Key Largo.

Officials at Turning Point USA invited MAGA influencer Candace Owens to participate in a live-streamed event debunking her conspiracy theories about the murder of the group's founder, Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff read a lengthy statement on Wednesday after Owens accused Turning Point leadership of betraying their former boss.