March 29, 2026 at 11:54 AM EDT
Trump's tax plan fails for a number of reasons: nonpartisan expert

President Donald Trump's tax policies are failing for a number of reasons, an expert argued on Sunday -- and this expert, like so many others slamming Trump's tax policies, is nonpartisan. "President Trump has spent much of his time in office boasting about new carveouts he's enacted, like new deductions for tips, overtime, auto loans and seniors," wrote Garrett Watson, director of Policy Analysis at the Tax Foundation, for The Hill on Sunday. Wilson conceded that these benefit some Americans, but argued those benefits are offset by how the same policies "narrow the tax base in arbitrary ways and worsen the deficit."

March 29, 2026 at 11:37 AM EDT
Trump just launched a breathtaking attack on the Constitution: legal experts

President Donald Trump's proposed law to "crack down on rogue judges" and his rhetoric toward judges who rule against him -- such as calling them "criminals" and "a disgrace to our nation" -- is a "breathtaking" danger to the Constitution, according to an expert. "Demanding that the legislative branch enact laws that punish the judiciary is a breathtaking breach of the president's oath to support and defend the Constitution, which creates our three separate -- and coequal -- branches of government," lawyer and former US attorney Barbara McQuade wrote in a recent editorial for Bloomberg. "Trump's recent attacks came after the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs, which he has used to wield economic power against foreign governments, last month. By a 6-3 majority, the Court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not authorize the president to impose tariffs, a power otherwise reserved for Congress. Among the justices joining the majority were two of Trump's own appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett."

March 29, 2026 at 10:06 AM EDT
White House is an 'asylum' -- and Trump is 'deranged': DC insider

President Donald Trump is "crashing out" in the polls, as well as in his willingness to accept their verdict, according to a former Republican strategist who advised President George W. Bush. "Donald Trump's approval rating is crashing out," Steve Schmidt posted on the social media platform X on Sunday morning. The post included a video in which Schmidt analyzed news reports showing Trump's popularity plummeting in the polls.

March 29, 2026 at 9:55 AM EDT
MAGA age divide over Trump on full display at CPAC: 'It's Biblical'

For the first time in a decade, President Donald Trump did not attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), his absence apparently consumed by the ongoing war in Iran. Without the president to provide closing arguments, the annual gathering of MAGA faithful in Grapevine, Texas, became a stage for airing deep anxieties about the conflict and exposed significant fractures within Trump's movement. The central tension dominating CPAC discussions was how a president who campaigned on ending wars could find himself considering a ground invasion of Iran, according to a new report in The Guardian. The debate revealed sharp disagreements among prominent figures about the war's trajectory and wisdom.

March 29, 2026 at 8:51 AM EDT
Trump's a secret fan of a popular young Democrat: biographer

President Donald Trump is reportedly a big fan of Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy -- even though Schlossberg is a staunchly anti-Trump Democrat. "He's kinda enamored with this kid," journalist Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast regarding his inside sources' information about the Republican president's attitudes toward the Democratic dynastic scion. "I'm sure the poor guy does not want a Trump endorsement, but it really sounds like Trump is tickled by this."

March 28, 2026 at 2:33 PM EDT
Stephen Miller pushing Southern lawmakers behind closed doors: report

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie says White House advisor Stephen Miller is cruising to create "subordinate class" by ending public education funding for undocumented children in red states. But this is about more than keeping some kids less learned than others. Miller spirited Texas lawmakers away to a closed-door meeting in Washington last week, according to two sources in the meeting, where he commenced to challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent. That case, Plyler v. Doe, holds that it was a violation of the equal protection clause for states to deny undocumented children the same free public education state leaders provide to legal immigrants' children -- who are themselves citizens.

March 28, 2026 at 1:43 PM EDT
Desperate passengers now paying $65 an hour for airport 'line standers'

The Washington Post reports the partial government shutdown under President Donald Trump is driving airline passengers to dig even further into their pockets to grab a plane. "I've seen parts of the airport now that I didn't even know existed," said Steven Dial, a Houston resident who accepts payment for standing for hours in notorious airport lines resulting from unpaid YSA workers quitting or staying home for lack of pay.

March 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM EDT
Right-wing bishop rebukes his own as MAGA civil war engulfs the Catholic Church

For a time, MAGA had its own "Catholic Coalition" manned by right-wing stalwarts over issues like abortion and similar traditional values," said Letters from Leo writer Christopher Hale. But President Donald Trump's self-imposed war in Iran is now blasting even that MAGA alliance to pieces. "For years, Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester has been the Catholic right's most careful diplomat -- a man who built a media empire by threading the needle between orthodoxy and the MAGA movement, rarely picking fights he didn't have to pick," said Hale.

March 28, 2026 at 11:18 AM EDT
'There's going to be pain': Even skeptics say Republicans' wheels 'are off'

Former George Bush speechwriter Tim Miller is not an optimist. When the Bulwark podcaster steps in as a visiting panelist on cable news shows he is not the one spouting gold and rainbows and skewing optimist in every scenario involving Democrats. "I'm not that guy," insisted Miller. "There's other YouTubers out there where people have been like, 'the walls are closing in on Trump every day. Trump's going to be in jail.' That was never me. I've been negative. I'm still negative. I'm still worried. I'm still concerned. But as a political analyst, I think that people are slow to recognize what is happening. And that's that the wheels are really coming off of MAGA."

March 28, 2026 at 10:56 AM EDT
Erika Kirk went from sympathetic widow to subject of 100-million-view mockery

Public sympathy for Erika Kirk, the widow of assassinated MAGA mega-influencer Charlie Kirk, appears to have spun off into something quite different. "In recent days, Erika Kirk has become the subject of viral jokes and commentary -- from a segment on Joe Rogan's podcast to a skit by comedian Druski that has been viewed more than 100 million times," said Newsweek writer Marni Rose McFall.

March 28, 2026 at 8:54 AM EDT
'We'll all be investigated and indicted': Trump official fears the worst

Trump officials say they are confident their behavior and deeds will bring down a firestorm of indictments and investigations after Democrats take the House (and possibly the Senate) in November -- and later the White House. "Everybody's afraid that the next administration -- if we don't win, we're all going to be investigated and indicted," said Deputy AG Todd Blanche at Friday's CPAC event in Texas. "Think about that."

March 28, 2026 at 7:43 AM EDT
We 'will lose': MAGA enters the 'acceptance' stage of death

As poll after miserable GOP poll continues to rack Republicans the MAGAsphere has entered a phase of existential dread, tempered with bitterness. "MAGA will lose the midterms. MAGA will lose 2028," wailed Bryce M. Lipscomb, a defender of President Donald Trump's policies, on X. But not without also dropping a parting barb of contempt at his fellow opportunistic MAGA influencers he helped push Trump to victory in 2024.