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News that big box wholesaler Costco is taking Donald Trump’s administration to court over his tariff war — while demanding a refund — landed with a thud with the president’s most ardent defenders.

On Monday, Costco Wholesale lawyers filed a lawsuit that states, in part, “Because IEEPA does not clearly authorize the President to set tariffs ... the Challenged Tariff Orders cannot stand and the defendants are not authorized to implement and collect them.”

With the Pentagon mired in a major crisis amid accusations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth committed a war crime, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius reported there is one missing voice in all the hubbub.

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough shared a clip of former Pentagon head Leon Panetta raising concerns about a deadly strike that reportedly killed two survivors of an earlier attack as they clung to the damaged vessel.

A Republican strategist expressed surprise about President Donald Trump's relative lack of involvement in a key congressional race.

Republican Matt Van Epps is facing a surprisingly strong challenge from Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn in Tennessee's seventh congressional district, which is holding a special election Tuesday. The president won by more than 20 points last year, and GOP strategist Doug Heye told "CNN News Central" that Trump could have done more for the candidate he endorsed.

President Donald Trump has been slapped with a $310 million lawsuit alleging that the president engaged in a “trafficking venture” that was “identical in every material respect” to the sex-trafficking operation allegedly spearheaded by Jeffrey Epstein.

Filed on Nov. 24 in Palm Beach County, the lawsuit names Trump in both his individual and official capacity as president, alongside Tesla founder and Trump ally Elon Musk and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, both of whom have spent time inside Epstein’s home, according to reports and, in Musk’s case, his own admission.

The conservative National Review is urging Donald Trump to pump the brakes on a possible invasion of Venezuela.

In an opinion piece from the editors published Tuesday, they wrote that they agree that the regime of Nicolás Maduro needs to be ended — but it has to be done the right way and with the support of American voters and Congress.

The Trump administration is reportedly looking to dramatically reduce the number of people who visit Social Security field offices across the United States, a plan that Democratic lawmakers warned is yet another scheme to disrupt and ultimately cut benefits.

Nextgov/FCW viewed internal Social Security Administration (SSA) planning documents showing that the agency is aiming for “no more than 15 million total” in-person visits to field offices in fiscal year 2026—half the level of the prior fiscal year.“Under Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano, the agency is aiming to push people to interact with Social Security online instead of going to a field office or calling the agency, although Bisignano told lawmakers in June that, even with his focus on technology, the agency is not ‘getting rid of field offices,’ despite reports of planned closures,” Nextgov/FCW reported Monday.

Comments made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a highly-publicized — and criticized — gathering at Quantico at the end of September may come back to haunt him as lawmakers announce hearings into possible war crimes by Donald Trump’s appointee to head up the Pentagon.

During Hegseth’s appearance, that was notable about his complaining about “fat” military personnel, he also made it clear he did not feel soldiers should be constrained from doing their jobs as he saw them.

CNN's Audie Cornish compared the unfolding Pentagon scandal to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has consumed much of President Donald Trump's second term so far.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has found himself in the crosshairs after the Washington Post reported that he ordered a follow-on attack against two survivors of a missile strike of an alleged drug smuggling boat, and the Trump administration has been scrambling to shield him from accountability for what has been described as a war crime or even murder.

Republicans are admittedly "nervous" about Tuesday's special election in Tennessee's seventh congressional district, and that's reason enough to put them on edge about next year's midterms.

President Donald Trump won that district by more than 20 percentage points just over a year ago, but polling shows Republican Matt Van Epps with a single-digit lead over Democrat Aftyn Behn, who has centered her campaign around affordability as Republicans bash her as too far left and called her "the AOC of Tennessee," reported the Washington Post.

Any hope Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might have that Navy Admiral Frank Bradley will absorb all the blame for what is being called a “war crime” was disabused by an MS NOW panel on Tuesday morning.

Reacting to both Hegseth and the White House singling out the admiral for having the final say on the attack that killed two alleged "narcoterrorists" who were hanging onto a burning vessel in the Caribbean in September, the “Morning Joe” co-hosts claimed the embattled Pentagon chief is facing a reckoning.