March 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM EDT
GOP senators: Trump may 'regret anointing Vance' after VP doubted his judgment in leaked texts

President Donald Trump may be viewing Vice President JD Vance in a different light following this week's leaks of highly sensitive attack plans on a group text thread, according to some Senate Republicans. Mediaite reported Thursday that the recent revelations of top Cabinet-level officials in the Trump administration communicating on a a group thread using the Signal app has been somewhat embarrassing for the vice president. While discussing airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, Vance suggested that Trump didn't fully grasp the impact the attack could have on geopolitical relations.

March 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM EDT
'Freaking out': Trump mocked for saying 'out loud' why he withdrew Stefanik's nomination

After months of stalling, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is now no longer being considered for the role of United Nations ambassador, after President Donald Trump suddenly withdrew the nomination on Thursday. Semafor reporter Burgess Everett confirmed that Stefanik's nomination was pulled, and that the White House notified Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that the New York Republican will be remaining in her House of Representatives seat. NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman tweeted that Stefanik -- who was previously the chair of the House Republican Conference -- "gave up her leadership position" after Trump nominated her, and that she will return to the House "as a rank-and-file member."

March 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM EDT
'Political protection racket': Bondi blasted for shrugging off security breach investigation

Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing sharp criticism after strongly suggesting she will not authorize a criminal investigation into a major national security breach involving 18 top national security and defense officials from the Trump administration. Critics have pointed to her recent confirmation hearing, during which she vowed to keep the U.S. Department of Justice free from political influence. Asked whether the Justice Department is investigating the Signalgate scandal, and if not, why not, the Attorney General claimed the information shared was "not classified"""in direct contradiction to the judgment of numerous national security and military experts.

March 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM EDT
Fear of 'narrow margins' -- or spectacular loss: Why Trump might pull rug from under MAGA loyalist

When Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) first entered the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 2015, she had a reputation for being a traditional business-minded Republican along the lines of 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney or then-Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona). And the congressman was an outspoken Donald Trump critic during the 2016 election. But Stefanik later gave herself a far-right MAGA makeover, becoming stridently pro-Trump and much snarkier in her criticism of Democrats. Now, during President Trump's second term, Stefanik is hoping to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN).

March 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM EDT
'Truly sick': Pastor says Kristi Noem is a 'shoo-in' for hell following 'Gestapo' video

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has sparked fierce criticism for a video she filmed on Wednesday while touring the megaprison in El Salvador that is currently holding immigrants who were deported by the Trump administration earlier in March. The administration defied a court order when deporting over 200 Venezuelans, who the White House alleges are gang members.

March 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM EDT
What Americans want and need

I've asked this question before. Now I'm SHOUTING it. Where the HELL are the Democrats?

March 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM EDT
Musk's 'hack-and-slash tactics' may 'trigger' a 'debt ceiling' crisis -- and a 'massive recession'

After winning the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump called for the United States' debt ceiling to either be paused or eliminated. But the debt ceiling, two months into Trump's second presidency, remains. And the Bipartisan Policy Center is warning that the U.S. will default on its $36 trillion national debt sometime between mid-July and early October if Congress doesn't act. In an opinion column published on March 26, MSNBC's Hayes Brown details the role that the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could play in a debt ceiling default.

March 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM EDT
'Leave Elmo alone': Dems use 'Sesame Street' characters to brutally mock 'goofy' MTG hearing

Wednesday, March 26 found the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) holding a hearing titled "Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable," which addressed the use of tax dollars for public broadcasting. The witnesses included PBS President Paula Kerger and National Public Radio (NPR) President Katherine Maher, with questioning from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky).

March 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM EDT
This Trump order lacks fundamental understanding of the Constitution -- here's why: scholar

On Tuesday, March 25, President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order -- this time, one requiring proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms. Austin Sarat, a political science professor/journalist who teaches at Amherst College in Massachusetts, criticizes the order's flaws in an article published by Salon two days later.

March 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM EDT
'Where's my First Amendment rights?' Republican doesn't want unruly town halls

WASHINGTON -- Republicans on Capitol Hill are laughing off -- publicly, at least -- the angry voters who keep storming their town hall meetings from coast to coast. "I'm not worried about it," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) told Raw Story. "It helps that Democrats are showing their colors."

March 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM EDT
Trump proves once again he's a master of the art of intimidation

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." ""Dick the Butcher, Henry VI Donald Trump's crusade against his opponent's lawyers represents a new front in his war on the rule of law. In a series of moves that seem culled from the authoritarian playbooks of Tayyip Erdo?an, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orba'n abroad, and that harken back to the dark days of McCarthyism and the second Red Scare here at home, Trump has slapped three prominent private law firms with longstanding ties to the Democratic Party with executive orders designed to impose crippling sanctions on their operations. The orders charge the law offices with "weaponizing the judicial process" against Trump, and call for terminating their federal contracts; suspending the security clearances of at least some of their attorneys; and limiting their access to federal government buildings, presumably including courtrooms.

March 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM EDT
Old culture war erupts in Georgia House as critics blast 'religious freedom' bill

Georgia is closer to a so-called religious freedom bill than it has been in nearly a decade after a House panel passed a bill Wednesday. Acworth Republican Sen. Ed Setzler's Senate Bill 36 is now teed up for a full House vote, which would send it to Gov. Brian Kemp's desk.