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Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) got animated during an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday night over President Donald Trump's latest threat to withhold federal funding from New York City.

Sanders joined Collins to discuss the looming government shutdown. He expressed concern that the Trump administration could use the shutdown to continue advancing its authoritarian agenda, citing previous examples like firing workers that "they don't like" from the Veterans Administration and making significant cuts to Medicaid.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) bristled during an intense interview with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday night in the hours leading up to a federal government shutdown.

As Johnson repeatedly accused Democrats during the tense back-and-forth of deciding not to keep the government open, Collins pressed him on whether his position is that he won't negotiate with the opposing party unless the government remains open.

As the federal government barrels toward a shutdown, with Democrats demanding an extension of critical health care subsidies as the price of their vote for funding, and the Trump administration preparing for mass layoffs of workers to make the standoff as painful as possible, Republicans have sought to push a narrative that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the architect of the standoff.

Ocasio-Cortez, however, had a simple proposition for these lawmakers on Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "All In": if they really feel she's the problem, say it to her face.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pushed back on House Speaker Mike Johnson's claims that Democrats are attempting to provide "free health care" for immigrants in the latest government funding bill, which has been a primary Republican talking point heading into the imminent government shutdown.

Collins spoke with Johnson during the Tuesday night broadcast of her show, "The Source." At the time of the interview, the government was just hours away from shutting down because Congress had not yet passed a continuing resolution to fund federal agencies until the end of the year.

A federal judge in Nevada has ruled that President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. attorney in that state is not serving in that position legally, disqualifying her from overseeing four felony indictments of defendants who sued over their cases.

Sigal Chattah, an Israeli-born lawyer who defended churches' right to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic and ran for Nevada attorney general before being derailed by leaked comments in which she said the incumbent Democrat, a Black man, should be hanged, was appointed to serve as Trump's interim U.S. attorney, but faced a dead end to permanent confirmation as both of the state's Democratic senators refused to return their "blue slips" consenting to her nomination.

A federal government shutdown was all but certain Tuesday night as the White House's budget chief ordered federal agencies to begin implementing plans for exactly that after Democrats in the Senate blocked a GOP plan to fund the government past midnight, according to a report.

White House budget director Russell Vought sent a memo to leaders of executive branch departments and agencies to "execute their plans for an orderly shutdown,” Politico reported. The result will be the first federal shutdown since Trump’s first term.

Insiders at the Department of Justice described President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutor in a high-profile case as a "lamb sent to slaughter," according to a new report.

The Department of Justice and the FBI have denied Lindsey Halligan's requests for additional resources to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, CNN reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Last week, a grand jury returned an indictment against Comey for two counts of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. Comey has denied all charges against him.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday offered a strong public defense of the Trump administration’s support for farmers, downplaying concerns about its foreign‑policy decisions — just a day after a scathing private text message surfaced in which she criticized U.S. aid to Argentina for undermining American farmers.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that in an interview with Fox News, Rollins praised the administration by saying “President Trump has been the most pro-farmer president perhaps in our lifetimes, perhaps in history.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was scolded Tuesday by a Fox News host who said the Pentagon chief's televised speech reminded him of "something that might happen in China or North Korea."

Harold Ford, Jr., a former Democratic congressman from Tennessee and co-host of the Fox News show "The Five," talked about Hegseth's speech to the American military's top brass on Tuesday morning. During the meeting, Hegseth told military leaders that there would no longer be any "woke" policies and that the military would return to male-oriented standards.

New video of a top Justice Department official ordering the arrest of a Democratic mayor during a protest at an immigration detention facility could create serious problems for top brass, a former New York prosecutor said Tuesday.

In the video, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche orders Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka arrested — a directive previously only alleged in court documents.

The federal government is almost certainly headed for a shutdown at midnight Wednesday as congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement on a bill to keep government agencies funded.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the current Republican-written funding bill would keep the government funded through Nov. 21, and is awaiting action in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to reach President Donald Trump's desk. Because Republicans only have 53 seats, the bill would need seven Democrats to break ranks to pass. And because Republicans have not allowed Democrats to have input on the current legislation, the bill's passage is unlikely.

MAGA-aligned influencers are rage-quitting Netflix after the company released advertisements for an upcoming kids' show that features a transgender character.

The moves to leave the popular streaming platform come after Netflix announced a new show called "Dead End Paranormal Park," an animated series about a group of friends who fight off demons at a haunted theme park. One of the characters in the show identifies as transgender, which was called out by the popular LibsofTikTok account on X.

A federal judge in Massachusetts stunned observers on Tuesday with a scathing 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump's administration for terrorizing noncitizen students for exercising their free speech rights to protest the Israeli occupation of Gaza. At various points, he criticized the administration's assault on basic constitutional rights and even addressed someone who sent his court a threatening message to deter a ruling against Trump.

But Judge Bill Young, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, did something more than that, noted CBS justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane: he went out of his way to compare Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the infamous white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan, noting both groups use masks to hide their identities and spread fear more effectively.