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Trump just broadcast his next election move with abrupt housing bill cancellation: analyst

President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly cancel a bill-signing ceremony on Wednesday for a widely popular piece of legislation raised red flags for one political analyst.

Trump announced on Truth Social that he was canceling the signing event for a bipartisan housing affordability bill, and said it won't be signed until the SAVE America Act is passed, a bill that would fundamentally transform how American elections are conducted. John Heilemann, a journalist and MS NOW political analyst, warned during a segment on "Deadline: White House" that Trump used a phrase to remember in his Truth Social post announcing the cancellation, one that will become more important as the 2026 midterm elections draw near.

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GOP's 'unconscionable' omission in new farm bill has hunger experts furious

Senate Republicans unveiled annual farm legislation this week that would do nothing to address the worsening nationwide hunger crisis spurred by President Donald Trump and the GOP’s unprecedented assault on federal food aid.

The draft bill introduced Tuesday by Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, omits a Democratic proposal to delay a provision of the 2025 Republican budget law that will require states to pay a share of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the first time in the program’s history, while also increasing states’ share of administrative costs. State leaders have warned of massive budgetary impacts that could result in even deeper cuts to food aid—and potentially force states to withdraw from the SNAP program entirely

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Author reveals 'complete canard' Trump admin has been selling: 'Good at keeping secrets'

A New York Times reporter detailed how good the Trump administration is at keeping secrets.

Jonathan Swan, who co-wrote the book Regime Change with fellow NYT reporter Maggie Haberman, explained during an appearance on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" that the Trump administration even kept secrets from senior officials.

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Internet mocks Trump's UN ambassador after 'desperate' Fox News interview

Reactions were mounting after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump's Iran agreement.

Waltz claimed the Iran deal was a success, despite conflicting reports about the terms of the negotiations.

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Conservative warns Trump's 'giant miscalculation' on allies just blew up in his face

President Donald Trump's "giant miscalculation" on Europe's nationalist right just backfired, a conservative New York Times columnist warned.

David French, an Iraq War veteran and longtime conservative writer, laid out the diagnosis on MS NOW on Wednesday. Trump assumed Europe's nationalist leaders were his natural allies. French said that the numbers prove that the assumption was wrong.

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'Criminal': MAGA comes unglued as Trump DOJ suffers another big court blow

Pro-Trump influencers lit into a federal appeals court Wednesday after it refused to force Michigan to hand over the personal data of every registered voter in the state.

In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Justice Department cannot compel Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to produce the state's unredacted voter file, which includes the date of birth, driver's license number, and partial Social Security number of every registered voter. The court found the file isn't covered by Title III of the 1960 Civil Rights Act because Michigan creates and maintains the database itself, and separately ruled the DOJ never properly stated the basis and purpose for its demand.

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Court thwarts Trump election meddling scheme by nixing Michigan voter rolls demand

A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration has no legal right to demand voters' private data, dealing a fresh blow to its unlawful bid to control American elections.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the 2-1 decision Wednesday, siding with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D-MI), who refused to turn over the birthdates, partial Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers of every registered voter in the state.

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Expert sounds alarm as Supreme Court reveals 'no one left to pull it back from the brink'

A Supreme Court watcher was alarmed after a series of decisions handed down by the High Court shredded a long-standing myth about the body.

Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate, argued in a new article that four decisions the Supreme Court handed down on Tuesday were a "blunt reminder that the GOP appointees remain in total control of the court" because each of the cases was decided by a 6-3 majority. Stern also argued that the opinions show the Court's claims that it does not always rule along ideological lines is "dubious at best."

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'Lost my temper': Republican spills on his blowup with Trump

WASHINGTON — White House aides tend to shield President Donald Trump from opinions that diverge from his own worldview, but this afternoon, he got chewed out by one of his fellow Republicans at the U.S. Capitol.

After four Senate Republicans bucked the president last night and voted to limit his ability to wage war against Iran without congressional approval, the president aired his frustration with members of his own party at today’s Senate Republican Party lunch at the Capitol.

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Trump fires back after heated clash with GOP lawmakers: 'I don't like a few people'

President Donald Trump took a swing at defiant Republicans following a reported clash between himself and a scorned GOP lawmaker.

Trump was attending the Senate GOP lunch after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill and claiming he needed Republicans to back the Save America Act. During the event, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) apparently confronted Trump over the legislation and Iran war. Cassidy and Trump have had a contentious relationship, with Trump endorsing a GOP challenger who ousted Cassidy in his primary bid for re-election.

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Backlash as GOP lawmaker doubles down on using AI on bills: 'Incompetent intentionally'

A Florida Republican's defense bill amendment summary went viral after its text revealed the office had submitted AI output — complete with a chatbot label — without editing a word.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) used Anthropic's Claude to draft the amendment summary. The document that circulated contained a timestamp, garbled filler text, and the label "Claude responded:" — copied and submitted without a single edit.

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Stephen Miller's latest screed trounced as 'straight up Nazi rhetoric'

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted six words Tuesday and walked straight into accusations of Nazi rhetoric.

The post, published on X, read: "Change the voters, change the country."

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Trump and scorned Republican get into heated yelling match at GOP lunch: report

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) started yelling at President Donald Trump at a Senate GOP luncheon on Wednesday, according to reports from insiders at the event.

Trump had vowed earlier Wednesday to block a bipartisan affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, declining to sign the bill and fueling panic from lawmakers. Just hours later, Republicans were gathered together when the reported clash between the president and the longtime GOP lawmaker, who lost his re-election to a Trump-endorsed candidate, came to a head.

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