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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) got a tongue-lashing from The Bulwark's Joe Perticone on Thursday for going after one of the most beloved and fiercely-guarded programs in America: Social Security.

“The reason we’re in trouble is because over seventy-four percent of federal spending is on autopilot — mandatory spending, that is your entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and things like Social Security — they have to be adjusted and fixed,” Johnson said on the Moon Griffon Show. “We have a plan to do that next year, and it’s critical, because we’re at $40 trillion-plus in debt. At some point, you get into a hole so deep you can’t climb out of it, so desperate times call for desperate measures.”

New Mexico’s top environmental official warned lawmakers Tuesday the Trump administration could curtail the state’s ability to oversee federal facilities around the state — especially at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

At a Santa Fe presentation before the Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Materials interim committee, state Environment Secretary James Kenney outlined the state’s recent actions to require the U.S. Department of Energy, which oversees the nation’s nuclear mission, to address legacy waste cleanup and pollution in New Mexico.

President Donald Trump's team has reportedly planned under-the-table tactics to effectively still go through with the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay off his allies who have been charged with crimes. But this is taking a huge risk, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman told MS NOW's Erielle Reshef on Thursday.

The scheme, considered a slush fund by critics, drew bipartisan backlash, but ultimately Senate Republicans decided not to take legislative action against it after the Justice Department said it wouldn't go through with the plan. The new reporting could change the calculus, Sherman argued.

Federal investigators swarmed the National Mall Thursday after a massive "86 47" marking appeared etched into the grass near the World War II Memorial.

U.S. Park Police and members of the National Guard responded to the scene, collecting grass samples for testing. The numerals — visible only from height, such as the top of the Washington Monument — showed the numbers 8, 6, and 7 clearly; the 4 was not fully defined. How the markings were made remains unknown.

President Donald Trump won't attend the signing of his own Iran peace deal — the White House has a UFC fight scheduled for the same weekend.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump announced he had canceled planned strikes against Iran after negotiations reached the "highest level of Iranian leadership." The deal, he said on Truth Social, has been approved by the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt "and others," with a naval blockade remaining in place until the agreement is finalized. The time and place of the signing, he added, were yet to be announced.

On Thursday, outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) let Donald Trump know in no uncertain terms that his second term is about to become a nightmare, and he has no one to blame but himself.

In an interview with the New York Times, Cornyn, stung by Trump's endorsement of scandal-plagued Ken Paxton in his primary loss, predicted the November midterm elections would be a "disaster" for Republicans. He attributed the coming catastrophe to Trump's miscalculation in driving away critics within his own party.