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With the federal government all but certain to shut down at midnight Tuesday, White House aides and one senior official sounded the alarm on what they say is a golden opportunity for the Trump administration to complete what it started in hollowing out the federal government.

Among the defining sagas early in Trump’s second term was his effort to cut government spending, an effort spearheaded by Elon Musk, whom he tapped to head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Armando Iannucci, the Scottish writer and producer behind the hit HBO series "Veep," is working on a project that takes on President Donald Trump — but there's a snag, Deadline reported on Tuesday: potential backers of the project fear becoming targets of MAGA hate.

Iannucci confessed as much at a Creative U.K. event in Liverpool, the article stated, as he "revealed that he was developing a screen project based on Trump’s speeches, but was warned that he would not be able to pull together finance in America."

Comments made by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt after a supporter of Donald Trump attacked a Mormon temple on Sunday alarmed an expert on Christian nationalism who spoke with The New Republic’s Greg Sargent.

In an interview published Tuesday morning, Sargent singled out Leavitt for doubling down on Donald Trump’s knee-jerk response that it was an attack on Christianity, that led her to tell reporters a day earlier, “And as the president rightfully put, in his Truth Social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians and the Trump administration is fully committed to not only investigating these crimes, but prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law.”

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is displaying a disclaimer attacking "the radical left" and blaming the shutdown on them.

"The radical left is going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people," the message on the HUD website reads.

President Donald Trump unveiled a new peace plan Monday to end Israel’s siege on Gaza and, while the plan had initially received buy-in from top Arab leaders, last-minute changes made just moments before its unveiling have infuriated Arab officials, according to a report Tuesday from Axios.

Trump’s 20-point peace plan was developed over several weeks, and in conjunction with top Arab leaders such as those from Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. However, during Trump’s meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, last-minute changes were introduced to the plan, and at the behest of Netanyahu, changes that very well could compromise its initial support among Arab leaders.

U.S. District Judge William Young found that the Trump administration wrongly ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian students to "strike fear" and deny free speech rights.

Young began his blistering 161-page ruling on Tuesday by sharing a threat he received in his chambers.

While unveiling a new initiative aimed at lowering drug prices during a press conference Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke to how the announcement could impact his ongoing discussions with two key Democratic Party leaders, and in the process, appeared to forget the name of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

Trump held a meeting Monday with congressional leaders of both parties – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House and Senate minority leaders Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Jeffries – all in the hopes of averting a government shutdown. The meeting yielded no results, however, with most lawmakers all expecting the government to shut down Tuesday at midnight.

A former immigration official, who previously served under Donald Trump’s ”border czar” Tom Homan, cut off a reporter from MSNBC when asked about his part in telling undercover DOJ officials that his former boss could help them cash in on federal contracts if Donald Trump became president again.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, as all the networks were focused on Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking to the top military leadership at a Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, reporter Ken Dilanian was asked about the new revelations.

President Donald Trump's son Eric bizarrely claimed in a meltdown on the right-wing Newsmax channel that the Biden administration schemed behind the scenes to destroy his dad's marriage.

The claim, made on the Rob Schmitt Tonight show and flagged by The Daily Beast on Tuesday, was part of a long string of grievances, many of them misleading or outright imagined, that the younger Trump made as purported examples of the former president's administration trying to exact political retribution on their family.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered more than 800 top military leaders to Virginia, where he gave a speech that could have been done over Zoom or in an email, quipped the co-hosts of "The View."

It cost a fortune — hours before a government shutdown looms and Republicans demand sweeping budget cuts.

Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives erupted as Republicans gaveled into recess on Tuesday despite a looming government shutdown.

According to CBS, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) was seeking unanimous consent to pass a Democratic resolution that would have prevented the shutdown.

Vice President JD Vance is using his apparent abundance of free time to forge a path to eventually taking over from President Donald Trump, according to MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire.

Jimmy Kimmel fired back at Vance – whom he mocked as “Vice President Maybelline” – in his monologue Monday night, showing a clip of him downplaying the administration's role in getting his talk show briefly suspended, and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough wondered about the vice president's actual job duties.