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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, Republicans in Congress passed a rescissions bill—a rarely used process that claws back funding previously approved by Congress and signed into law by the president.Doing so marks a new low in the partisan weaponization by President Donald Trump of the appropriations process. It forces us to ask tough questions about the Constitution’s division of power. It may very well force us to ask even tougher questions about how we fund the government when the current funding bill runs out at the end of September.This particular bill rescinds about $9 billion, mostly...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to a question on whether he thinks the 2026 midterms will be rigged by saying that “in many of the states where there will be competitive gubernatorial elections and certainly in the overwhelming majority of the states where the House will be decided, there are Democratic governors, Democratic attorney generals, and Democratic secretaries of state” “And I’ve got trust in those leaders to make sure that there are actual free and fair elections.” But he’d “be far more concerned…if we were looking at a situation...

DHS cast the incident as being "disrespectful political theatre."Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) choked up on Tuesday while recounting his brief detention last week after interrupting a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles — a disruption that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) slammed as “disrespectful political theatre.”In remarks on the Senate floor, Padilla appeared to get emotional as he spoke about what happened from his point of view.“You’ve seen the video. I was pushed and pulled, struggled to maintain my balance. I was forced to the ground — first on my knees and...

Alex Padilla fake cries while explaining how law enforcement protected DHS Secretary Noem from a no-name Senator interrupting her press conference.