March 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM EDT
Watch: JD Vance loudly booed for 30 seconds straight by Kennedy Center crowd

Vice President JD Vance recently got an icy reception at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after attendees spotted him sitting down in a VIP box with Second Lady Usha Vance. Guardian reporter Andrew Roth tweeted a video of the second couple entering the concert hall with their Secret Service detail on Thursday night, observing that there were mostly "boos for JD Vance as he enters tonight's concert at the Kennedy Center." Attendees could be heard booing loudly after noticing Vance, with the boos increasing in intensity as more concert-goers noticed him.

March 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM EDT
'You don't get to do this!' Veteran dragged out of GOPer's town hall gets standing ovation

Just 24 hours after the House of Representatives gaveled out for recess, another House Republican was just confronted by hundreds of angry constituents at a town hall meeting. CNN reported Thursday that Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) was greeted by hundreds of constituents at a "very packed" town hall meeting, who lined up around the block hours ahead of schedule. One man who identified as a U.S. military veteran was dragged out moments after he stood up and shouted at Edwards over his support of President Donald Trump and South African centibillionaire Elon Musk's mass firings of federal workers.

March 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM EDT
'A stupid fight': Conservative blasts Trump for action 'too absurd to believe'

One conservative commentator is arguing that President Donald Trump's administration is making a major error by attempting to deport an activist who has yet to be charged with any crimes. in a recent op-ed for the far-right Daily Caller, author John Loftus tore into Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its prosecution of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Khalil played a prominent role in the 2024 protests on the Ivy League school's New York City campus. Those protests became a national story amid Israel's military campaign in Gaza following Hamas' October 7 attack.

March 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM EDT
'Discontent': Trump in big trouble with majority of voters -- here's why

Barely more than 50 days into his second term, President Donald Trump appears to be failing in the eyes of a majority of American voters on nearly every major issue -- from the economy to immigration to the war in Ukraine to trade to his handling of the federal workforce and more --according to a new poll released Thursday by the highly-respected Quinnipiac University. "A noticeable uptick of discontent can be seen over President Trump's handling of a range of issues: from Ukraine to the economy to the federal workforce," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.

March 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM EDT
'What Constitution?' Experts shred Trump for taking birthright citizenship ban to SCOTUS

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to ban birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. Even though a federal judge has blocked it, Trump is now hoping the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will intervene on his behalf. NBC News reported Thursday that Trump now wants the nine justices on the Supreme Court to limit the injunctions against his order to the individual plaintiffs challenging it -- meaning that he could continue implementing it on a grand scale. According to Economist reporter Steven Mazie, the administration's lawyers called the temporary restraining orders "a serious threat to the Executive Branch's authority."

March 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM EDT
Can the Democrats save Trump from himself? And should they?

The politics of government shutdowns used to be simple and clear. The party that refused to fund the government was the party that public opinion blamed when popular things like national parks closed. But that was before deep-state operative Elon Musk infiltrated the bureaucracy, cutting off money for things everyone likes, such as cancer research, sacking workers who do things everyone needs, like weather-forecasting and making sure planes don't fall out of the sky.

March 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM EDT
'Delusion': Trump's 'North Korea-style' advisors keep him 'sheltered in a little bubble'

During his first term as president, Donald Trump bitterly clashed with a long list of conservative Republicans who served in his administration -- including those he chose for secretary of state (Rex Tillerson), national security adviser (John Bolton) and White House chief of staff (John F. Kelly). Trump fired his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and his third White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, ended up giving Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM EDT
'Different day': GOP lawmakers 'OK with' Trump plan to 'impound' money from Congress

President Donald Trump's administration is now charging forward with a plan to make spending cuts without Congressional approval in direct defiance of a 50 year-old law -- and some Republican lawmakers are publicly endorsing the idea. Fox News reported Thursday that Trump's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) -- led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought -- is gearing up for the legal battle that will likely ensue as the administration prepares to "impound" money already appropriated by Congress. The network's sources said Trump and Vought are already working behind the scenes to refuse the disbursement of money to various agencies once Congress eventually passes a government funding package.

March 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM EDT
'Lies and gimmicks': Judge reverses Trump administration's 'sham' firing of 20,000 federal workers

A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Trump administration must "immediately [reinstate]" tens of thousands of probationary federal employees "unlawfully [terminated]" by the government, ABC News Katherine Faulders reports. U.S. District Judge William Alsup delivered what Faulders described as a "scathing rebuke of the Trump administration" and slammed the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its failure to present Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), for cross-examination. As Faulders reports, the judge accused the Trump administration of using "lies and gimmicks to unlawfully terminate" the government employees.

March 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM EDT
Red alert: Trump claims his 2018 tariffs were 'very successful' -- but that's not true

Donald Trump stood in the White House driveway with Elon Musk this week, both of them using our taxpayer dollars to have the president try to sell cars for his number one benefactor, a billionaire who put $300 million toward electing him. Musk, seeing Tesla sales plummeting as protests against him escalate, turned to Trump, a natural car salesman, who let Musk showcase various models while Trump discussed the pricing before the television cameras, and then claimed he was going to buy one. (There's no evidence that Trump, who's actually expressed revulsion about electric vehicles""saying "no one's buying them"""actually bought the car.).

March 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM EDT
'Entire world ripping us off': Trump quotes FDR in tariff war meltdown

President Donald Trump exploded in a fiery social media rant Thursday morning, defending his tariffs with rhetoric that framed them as weapons in a war""quoting WW II-era President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) to defend his controversial taxes. Trump's attack on what he called the "Globalist Wall Street Journal" followed criticism from the Murdoch-owned newspaper's editor, who argued that Trump's "haphazard" tariffs were unsettling business leaders and fostering instability.

March 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM EDT
Fox News' new message to viewers: Brace for 'economic suffering'

During the 2024 presidential race, far-right pundits at Fox News and Fox Business -- not unlike Donald Trump -- repeatedly blamed then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris for inflation. Democratic nominee Harris warned that if Trump won the election and imposed the steep tariffs he was promising, it would amount to a "sales tax on the American people." But pro-Trump pundits at Fox News and Fox Business argued that Trump was the candidate to vote for if one wanted low inflation, low taxes and high wages. And Trump's messaging on the economy worked when he narrowly defeated Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in the popular vote.